sebbyr Posted March 17, 2022 Posted March 17, 2022 Hey, a friend of mine introduced me to tarot. I always liked occultism and gave a try and I liked it. She used to draw me her cards, but sometimes we spend a time without talking. Since that, sometimes I draw them from some random online websites. Can I take them as a real draw? I don't know how to interpret them at all so I just get some hints from what each card means. Oddly enough I am going through something rn and the drawing matched my present perfectly.
katrinka Posted March 17, 2022 Posted March 17, 2022 You're getting randomized images. just like with a pasteboard deck, so that part works. Unfortunately, online scripts tend to use wonky card meanings and they never consider how the cards fall and relate to each other. So it's 50/50 that way. Your best bet is to internalize the meanings yourself. Then it won't matter if you use a physical deck, a script, or an app.
stephanelli Posted March 21, 2022 Posted March 21, 2022 On 3/17/2022 at 4:31 PM, sebbyr said: Hey, a friend of mine introduced me to tarot. I always liked occultism and gave a try and I liked it. She used to draw me her cards, but sometimes we spend a time without talking. Since that, sometimes I draw them from some random online websites. Can I take them as a real draw? I don't know how to interpret them at all so I just get some hints from what each card means. Oddly enough I am going through something rn and the drawing matched my present perfectly. I think the act of drawing the cards online works fine, but like Katrinka said, I'd be a little careful with the interpretations it gives you. If you learn the basic meanings of each card it'll help you to get more from doing the online draws and you'll begin to be able to make connections between the cards as well what each individual card means. I like the course provided at http://learntarot.com/ personally, but there are many resources out there - here's a thread with lots of good resources lists if you haven't found it already -
BlueMoth Posted March 27, 2022 Posted March 27, 2022 @sebbyr Personally, I tend to feel online draws done by computer algorithms are not as good as in-person ones, or one where you have an actual human being doing the reading for you (online or in-person). I did online draws for a while when I didn't have my own deck, but I felt they were mostly random and one reading strongly contradicts with another. Hope this helps!
gregory Posted March 27, 2022 Posted March 27, 2022 (edited) Drawing cards - however you do it - is drawing cards. But you need to interpret them yourself, not run wit the stuff those sites give you, as katrinka says. Try Orphalese. Best of all worlds. https://orphalese.net Free, comes with its own decks - two of them, a TdM and a Waite type - and if you decided to buy in, you can add many more. Basic "Standard" meanings are also included, which can help you to learn. Edited March 27, 2022 by gregory
fire cat pickles Posted April 2, 2022 Posted April 2, 2022 If you're talking about phone apps, Galaxy Tarot for Android is pretty good, including the meanings. It doesn't attempt to give you an outright reading per se. Just a generic spread where you tap on each card with a list of possible meanings for each card. The interpretations for each card are actually quite nice, a good learning tool, IMHO. It's fully randomized as far as I can tell.
Guest Posted April 5, 2022 Posted April 5, 2022 I think there are good websites explaining what the cards mean. I wouldn't rely on a computer choosing the cards though
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