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

Terminal

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

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

config.json

{
  "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

Code

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

config.json

{
  "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

bash

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). The same data is published in several places:

Resource	Link
Dataset source and docs	Tarotoo-com/tarotoo-tarot-dataset
Dataset homepage	tarotoo.com/open-data
Hugging Face	Tarotoo/tarotoo-tarot-card-meanings
Kaggle	tarotoo/tarotoo-tarot-card-meanings
npm package	`tarotoo-tarot`
PyPI package	`tarotoo-tarot`
Citable DOI, dataset and paper	10.5281/zenodo.21285777
Citable DOI, whole repository	10.5281/zenodo.21268290
This server's own DOI	10.5281/zenodo.21298382

Both dataset DOIs are concept DOIs and always resolve to the newest version.

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.