Tarotoo Tarot MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server that gives AI assistants — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any other MCP client — live access to the Tarotoo tarot card meanings dataset: all 78 cards in the Rider–Waite–Smith tradition, with upright and reversed meanings and keywords, upright and reversed love, career, mood and spiritual contexts, planet and zodiac associations, and upright and reversed yes/no values.

Published by Tarotoo: these are the same card meanings that ground the AI readings on Tarotoo.com.

Quick start

Requires Node.js ≥ 18. No installation needed — clients run it via npx.

Claude Code

claude mcp add tarotoo-tarot -- npx -y tarotoo-mcp-server

Claude Desktop — add to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tarotoo-tarot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "tarotoo-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor / Windsurf / other MCP clients — same command/args pair in the client's MCP settings.

MCP registry — listed as io.github.Tarotoo-com/tarotoo-mcp-server, so registry-aware clients can discover and install it directly.

Then ask your assistant things like "what does the Three of Swords mean for my career?" or "draw three cards for me" — it will call the tools below.

Tools

Tool	Arguments	Returns
get_card_meaning	name (string)	Full record for one card — meanings, keywords, love/career/mood/spiritual (upright and reversed), planet, zodiac, yes/no. Name matching is forgiving ("fool" → The Fool)
list_cards	arcana? (major/minor), suit? (wands/cups/swords/pentacles)	Card names, optionally filtered
search_cards	query (string), limit? (1–78, default 10)	Cards matching a theme or keyword, best match first — e.g. "heartbreak" → Three of Swords
yes_no_answer	name (string)	The card's yes/no/maybe value with its upright meaning as justification
draw_cards	count? (1–10, default 1), allow_reversed? (boolean)	Random distinct cards with orientation-appropriate meanings — for generating spreads

Example

tools/call get_card_meaning {"name": "the star"}

{
  "name": "The Star",
  "arcana": "major",
  "element": "Air",
  "planet": "Saturn",
  "zodiac": "Aquarius",
  "yes_no": "yes",
  "yes_no_reversed": "no",
  "keywords_upright": ["hope", "renewal", "healing", "inspiration", "faith"],
  "meaning_upright": "Hope, renewal, healing, inspiration, faith.",
  "love": "hope in love, emotional healing, renewed trust, an inspiring connection",
  "love_reversed": "lost faith, discouragement, disconnection, dimmed hope"
}

Each card carries both upright and reversed values for keywords, meaning, love, career, mood, spiritual, and yes/no. The example above is abbreviated.

Run from source

git clone https://github.com/Tarotoo-com/tarotoo-mcp-server.git
cd tarotoo-mcp-server
npm install
npm test        # 8-check smoke test: full MCP session over stdio
node server.js  # stdio transport

Dataset

The embedded data/cards.json is built from tarotoo-tarot-dataset (MIT), which is also available on Hugging Face, Kaggle, npm, and PyPI, with citable DOIs: 10.5281/zenodo.21285777 (dataset + dataset paper; concept DOI, always latest) and 10.5281/zenodo.21268290 (full repository/archive: dataset, source files, build scripts, automated validation, software packages, documentation; concept DOI, always latest).

Interpretations were created by Tarotoo within the Rider–Waite–Smith tradition, drawing on established sources (A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911; attributions per the Golden Dawn's Book T).

License

Code and dataset: MIT. Attribution to Tarotoo (tarotoo.com) is appreciated.

Intended Use

This dataset is intended for educational, research, creative, entertainment, and self-reflection purposes. It should not be used as a substitute for medical, legal, financial, mental-health, or other professional advice.