Rider Waite Tarot Works

Rider-Waite TarotWorks Deck 1.3 is a deck plug-in by Simon Poisson for the freeware TarotWorks program (2001), distributed alongside it on Info-Mac and Macintosh Garden. It is not a stand-alone application: it drops gorgeous, full-sized scans of the canonical Rider-Waite tarot deck into TarotWorks so readings display and print real card art instead of the base program's generic icons.

What the plug-in adds

Once installed, the deck takes over the reading view: every spread, single-card draw, and Tree of Life overlay shows the actual Rider-Waite illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. You can also browse the deck on its own, exploring any of the 78 cards outside of an active reading for study or reference.

One-click installation

The package is built around a one-click installer that places the card images into TarotWorks' Tarot Plug-Ins folder. No configuration is required; the next time you open TarotWorks, the Rider-Waite imagery is the default deck. Interactive on-screen assistance walks first-time users through it.

Requirements and pairing

The plug-in requires TarotWorks 1.3 (the host application is a separate, required download) and the same baseline: Mac OS 7.0 through 9.1, 8 MB RAM, 6 MB free disk, 68030 or faster processor, color monitor. Like its host, the deck is free of charge but explicitly not public domain.