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Who publishes the site

Arcanes (arcanes.io) is a website published on a non-professional basis by Tony Legrand, a private individual, who is also its director of publication.

As French law allows a non-professional publisher to do (Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, article 1-1, II), his home address is not displayed: it is known to the host below.

To write to us: contact@arcanes.io.

Who hosts the site

Hetzner Online GmbH

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The site, its database and its backups are on a server in Nuremberg, Germany; one more copy is kept in Falkenstein, Germany.

Cards and images

The old decks are in the public domain. What we made of them (retraced lines, colours, titles, layout) is the work of Arcanes.

• Tarot of Marseille (Arcanes edition, 2026): after the copy by Bernardin Suzanne, Marseille, 1839. Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France (ark:/12148/btv1b10520090c).
• Arcanes Tarot of Marseille (illustrated edition, 2026): after the same 1839 copy; the drawing is a present-day illustration. Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France (ark:/12148/btv1b10520090c).
• Tarot of Marseille, 1839: the library's scan, Romain Merlin collection. Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France (ark:/12148/btv1b10520090c).
• Rider-Waite-Smith: Pamela Colman Smith's drawings (1909), in the public domain in Europe; scans of the 1909 edition uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
• Petit Lenormand (Arcanes edition, 2026): after « Das Spiel der Hofnung », Johann Kaspar Hechtel, Nuremberg, 1799, sheet held at the British Museum, public domain.
• The Moon in relief: the map from the CGI Moon Kit by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, public domain.
• Portraits: Nostradamus, by his son César de Nostredame (c. 1610-1614, Bibliothèque Méjanes, Aix-en-Provence), public domain; Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta, the children of Fátima, photo attributed to Joshua Benoliel (1917), public domain; Carl Gustav Jung by Comet Photo AG (1955) and Wolfgang Pauli by Bettina Katzenstein (c. 1946), ETH-Bibliothek Zurich, CC BY-SA 4.0; Alexander Chizhevsky (1915), Moscow Main Archive, CC BY 4.0; Rupert Sheldrake by Reason4Reason (2013), CC BY-SA 3.0; Donald Hoffman by Themindoftheuniverse, retouched by AurélienPierre (2015), CC BY-SA 4.0. All via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and framed by Arcanes; each one's source is written under the image.

The other images (skies, sign medallions, Chinese zodiac animals, the Arcanes edition decks, article illustrations, except the portraits above) were created for Arcanes. So were the texts, the calculations and the code: please don't reuse them without asking us, except the texts quoted from Wiktionary and Wikipedia, which remain under their CC BY-SA licence.

Data we borrow

Planet positions are calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris. Time zone rules come from the IANA database, and their borders from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, via timezone-boundary-builder, ODbL licence).

• Places: search by Open-Meteo (OpenMeteo GmbH, Switzerland), from GeoNames data, under the CC BY 4.0 licence.
• First-name popularity: INSEE (Etalab open licence 2.0); Statbel, Retraite Québec, the Central Statistics Office, Statistik Austria and RENAPER (CC BY 4.0); the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0); the Social Security Administration (public domain); Open Data Berlin (CC BY 3.0 DE); the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (free use with the source indicated).
• First-name origins: Wiktionary, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; each first-name page cites its article.
• Name days: data.gouv.fr (open licence), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikidata (CC0).

Each article lists its sources at the end.