Where do you guys get your spells from?

No hidden grimoire here — and no spell-casting, either. Tarot in this practice is a picture deck, not a magic system.

Where the cards come from

• The deck is Rider–Waite–Smith, the standard 78-card one: 22 trumps (Major Arcana) plus four suits of 14. Those 78 are the entire list; nothing gets added per reading.
• The art is Pamela Colman Smith's, painted in 1909 for Arthur Edward Waite's *The Pictorial Key to the Tarot*. The *Pictorial Key* is where most of the standard meanings live — Waite wrote them out because the pictures were deliberately ambiguous, so a beginner would need a book to read them rather than just "feeling" the card.
• The deck's actual origin is 15th-century Italy, where tarot was a card game. RWS is a 1909 London branch of that line, closer to Marseille than to the older Italian decks.
• Mechanically, this skill has exactly one deck list and one random-number script. The script picks from those 78 names and flips each one upright or reversed. The card meanings are in a fixed text file — the same file for every person, every day, every question.

What that means for a "spell"

There's no formula that turns a card into an effect, and nothing here predicts or guarantees an outcome. What a spread does is put a few pictures next to your question so the wording gets more precise than a general worry. The picture on the card is doing the work — the reader's job is to name what it shows, not to perform it.

If you want to see it rather than read about it: ask me a question you actually have this week, and I'll draw three cards and read them.