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Sources and rights

Card meanings

Card and position meanings are original writing for this site. Quotations from A. E. Waite’s The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911, public domain) are reproduced verbatim and marked. Other books may be consulted as background, but their text is not copied.

Card art

  • Rider–Waite–Smith: Public domain (1909 Pamela-A printing, scans restored by Steve P.)
  • Tarot de Marseille: Public domain, scans from Wikimedia Commons
  • Tarot de Viéville: Public domain, Bibliothèque nationale de France scans via Wikimedia Commons
  • Visconti-Sforza: Public domain, scans of a facsimile edition via Wikimedia Commons
  • Sola Busca: Public domain, scans from Wikimedia Commons
  • Oswald Wirth: Public domain, Bibliothèque nationale de France scans via Wikimedia Commons
  • Soimoi: CC BY 4.0, Mike Koz (koz.tv)

Remote-viewing targets

Every target image records its source, credit and licence, and these are shown with the target at feedback. Images are re-encoded and their metadata stripped before use. The current development pool uses public-domain and openly licensed images and is labelled during sessions.

Zener symbols

The five symbols are drawn for this site from the conventional designs.

I Ching

Hexagram judgments, line statements and images are quoted verbatim from James Legge’s translation, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. XVI, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1882), which is in the public domain. Hexagrams 1–32 were transcribed from the proofread Wikisource edition; 33–64 and the images from Internet Archive scans of the 1882 printing, cross-checked against two further scans. Every correction made to the transcription is recorded with the data. Chinese names, pinyin and trigram attributes are standard reference facts. The English hexagram names and the one-line summaries are written for Scryway and labelled as modern commentary.

Astrology

Planetary positions are calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris (Copyright Astrodienst AG), used under the GNU Affero General Public License in a separate service, Scryway Ephemeris, whose source code is published at github.com/AaronHawk/scryway-ephemeris. Its ephemeris files are derived from NASA JPL’s DE441. The in-browser fallback is astronomy-engine by Don Cross (MIT licence). Both are checked against NASA JPL’s Horizons ephemeris. Birthplaces come from GeoNames (geonames.org), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0; time-zone rules come from the IANA time-zone database built into your browser. Descriptions of planets, signs, houses and aspects are original summaries written for Scryway and labelled as interpretation.

Runes

The rune poems are quoted in their original Old English, Old Norwegian and Old Icelandic from Bruce Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 1915), cross-checked against independent transcriptions; the medieval texts are in the public domain; the English translations beside them are Scryway’s own, made from those texts, and no published translation is reproduced. Reconstructed rune names, sound values and the history notes summarise standard scholarship in Scryway’s own words. Modern divinatory meanings are original summaries of present-day practice and are labelled as modern interpretation, separate from the historical notes.

Sacred texts

Each text is a single public-domain translation, transcribed from the source named on its page: James Legge’s Tao Te Ching (1891) and F. Max Müller’s Dhammapada (1881), both from the Sacred Books of the East; Sir Edwin Arnold’s Song Celestial (1885); George Long’s translation of Marcus Aurelius (1862), all via Project Gutenberg; and the Psalms and Proverbs from the World English Bible, which its publishers have dedicated to the public domain (“World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org). Translators’ notes are not reproduced, and every change made in transcription is listed with the text. The short descriptions of each book are Scryway’s own. Editions and rights in full.