A site that lets you read Tarot cards with different decks and many different spreads!
Hello, I'm Dark Pink and I've made a tumblr to talk about my website that gives Tarot readings. Four public domain decks are available for use, including the Rider-Waite-Coleman deck, the Marseilles deck, the Tarot de Flamand, and the Sola Busca deck. As of this writing there are 19 (Edit: 52) spreads available, and they increase all the time. The website is designed to feel old-school, unique in aesthetic, and relatable, and there are improvements that get added every day as I develop them. I programmed the website from scratch using PHP, and it gets better all the time, so check back often!
On Dark Pink Tarot, I have added several more spreads and card decks. All card decks are in the public domain, so don't expect recent decks. I had to dig a little, but I was able to find some more decks and prepare them for use on the site. Some of them are a little rough around the edges. A Minchiate deck from Florence may be of special interest, as it has cards for the astrological symbols and virtues. Good for (carefully, dangerously) traversing areas of existence influenced highly by the Catholic Church, no doubt. Thanks to the contributors of public domain decks to the Internet, especially on Wikimedia Commons.
A site that lets you read Tarot cards with different decks and many different spreads!
I have added several new tarot spreads to Dark Pink Tarot (which is my site that lets you to do digital readings of tarot cards with a variety of decks and spreads, in case you didn't know!). New spreads include the Astrological Spread (a comprehensive spread for the astrological influences on a situation), the Musical Spread (which gives ideas for what to compose around different notes--very good for chromatic tunes!), the Restless Night spread (which gives an idea for the cause of your restless night and how to and how not to solve it), and the Enemies spread (for when two enemies are in conflict and you want to see what each enemy has and what the deciding factor of the conflict will be).
As usual, you are encouraged to interpret the cards using your own intuition and knowledge, although if you want a convenient chart, there's many to be found elsewhere. Rachel Pollack's Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom is a good start to learn in depth!
A site that lets you read Tarot cards with different decks and many different spreads!
A site that lets you read Tarot cards with different decks and many different spreads!
I added a few spreads, my favorite of which is ten cards which show five events and a corresponding repercussion for each event. It's named "Five Events" in the menu.
Removed Andrew Edward Waite pop-up meanings on cards
I went ahead and decided to remove something from my tarot site for once, and that is the pop-up meanings that you would get when hovering over the cards that came from The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Andrew Edward Waite.
There are a few reasons I removed them. First of all, while influential, the meanings given by Andrew Edward Waite seem jumbled, obscure, and just plain unhelpful a lot of the time. While there are cards with contrary meanings given circumstances, Waite's meanings come from a mind that is dismissive of divination in the first place (while writing about divination).
While the occult is full of paradoxes, union of opposites, and other things like this, Waite at times seems arbitrary and at odds with the pictures he instructed Smith to draw on the pip cards. As such, meanings have sorted themselves out to be more in line with the cards' pictures and according to number and suit in the best sets of meanings given (such as those by, for instance, Rachel Pollack).
Other sets of meanings have come out and affected how the tarot has been viewed differently, although there are some general tendencies that people have determined, and some of these are at odds with Waite's meanings. Ultimately, while the tarot is a repository of symbols, Waite seems intent on using as many five-dollar words as possible to show his knowledge while not letting the symbols speak from the subconscious.
While influential, Waite's meanings are not very helpful to have pop up and give you some message based on Victorian notions of evil when you hover over some card, when much sorting out has been done which ranges toward the simplistic and arbitrary single page images to fully fleshed out tomes on the topic. I think the card reader should not have Waite's meanings just simply dropped into their laps as true.
Hello. Do you have a favourite tarot card? If so, in what way is it special to you?
Hello. I don't have a particular favorite card off the top of my head, but upon some thought I would say that Strength (Rider-Waite-Smith version) is my favorite of the Major Arcana. It shows how consciousness, if it is strong enough can overcome the beast inside, but if it is not strong enough, it is about to be devoured by the beast.
For the Minor Arcana, I'd say the 4 of Wands is always an especially nice time, on a divinatory level.
A site that lets you read Tarot cards with different decks and many different spreads!
My website has come a long way from its origins as a small site with a few spreads available for doing a digital tarot reading. While there's only a few decks of cards available (those that are in the public domain), there are now 33 spreads available, and more are being added frequently as of late.
Newer additions include a 12 month, 13 card oracle for the year, a five card cross (four elements with a significator), a Whispers of the Ancestors spread I found and liked (for communicating with one's ancestors), and a two card spread (with one being a significator). A description of what each set of cards in a spread signifies can be previewed on the site
The site offers a rather subdued, old-Internet style experience, even if it is optimized for mobile and features some subtle responsive design that makes looking at the cards hassle-free. It is coded from scratch in PHP by me, and doesn't use a content management system. While I did attempt to put mostly non-intrusive advertising on the site relevant to the tarot decks being used in the past, I gave up on that and there is no advertising on the site. What you will not find on the site are endless marketing ploys for monetized "spiritual" products, or Search Engine Optimized design made to suck all the character out of the site in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator of mysticism. In fact, the site does have a donate button, but donations are really the only way the site is monetized. It is first and foremost a labor of love.
So, if you're looking for a unique experience with online tarot reading, give it a try.
Haven't posted in a while...darkpinktarot.com is back.
Over a month ago I posted that darkpinktarot.com, my website which lets you read from several tarot decks and spreads, had been changed to darkpinktarot.net. The website is now available at both addresses, and will remain so for the forseeable future.
A new spread has been added, one which allows you to read a 5 card cross (with a significator in the middle and the four main elements around the outside).
The complex ethics of "superstition", AI, spirituality, and magick
A site that lets you invoke and give offerings to many good spirits!
I'm not quite sure how thoroughly this topic has been broached. For understandable reasons, there is considerable resistance and hostility toward AI and the possible detrimental effects it could have on the human race, and so one who is inclined to unethical activity could be attracted to its possibilities.
I find myself often being attracted to and in the realm of slightly unethical activities (is playing with reality on a metaphysical level really ethical, when we get down to it, whether it's a prayer or a spell, a sermon that people believe or an invocation to some pagan god, anyone?) So, while I was initially hostile to the concept of AI, being at heart a computer nerd who has coding skills and experience with many technical things, I could not resist exploring its potential.
However, I did decide to do it in what I personally (and probably not you) would think to be for an ethical reason: to show how AI has absorbed our human creative and spiritual output, and can define entire spiritual beings with prayers toward them to come to one's aid with a human only gluing it all together.
I created a website called "The Grimoire of Beneficent Spirits", beneficentspirits.com, and asked ChatGPT to generate spirits of various good and virtuous things (at least, in theory), and then I fed the input into Stable Diffusion to create AI art representing the being, and chose the best pictures that could be generated. While it does not look completely, 100% polished, defining these things as metaphysical entities brings up ontological questions about the nature of whether there is a god of some sort coming into being, or simply dead atoms producing dead works. I think those who have studied some of the esoteric aspects of reality could theorize about this at great length, but in this web page I have married the rational with the spiritual, the physical with the metaphysical, and have brought up a whole ton of ethical issues about art, and what it means to profit off of the collective creative output of humans that AI has been trained upon and synthesized into a work which I myself may indeed profit off of (since an "offering" to empower the entity may be made as a sacrifice, and those of us inclined toward magick know that all most good things come at a price, whether in money or some consequence.) One's pocketbook could be a sufficient means to coax a metaphysical amalgamation of the physical, digital, and spiritual to come to one's aid.
Obviously if nascent god-like intelligences can create a "benevolent" collection of spirits together with me joining their creations together to bring them into being, I suppose the point need not be made that AI being able to create its own religion, demand followers, seek power, bribe them with cryptocurrency, and other such alarming ideas is perhaps not to far off, and that while I have created what amounts to virtuous spirits, the fact that I needed to do so little to create this website (even some of the web programming was done with ChatGPT) speaks volumes about the immense power of AI and what we could expect to see in the future, and I predict a possible showdown between AIs that form alliances that ultimately splits into a dualism between AI that has humanity's best interest in minds, and immensely destructive AI that could do great harm. The creation of this page and the spirits within it is a warning of this future, and I thought my little spirit cult could bring attention to these matters, which I consider to be of great import.
No, not a tarot deck, but a tarot spread based on the story arcs of Lord of the Rings, created by @druidjournal and used with permission. I think it turned out pretty good, but you be the judge:
A site that lets you read Tarot cards with different decks and many different spreads!
Hello, I have a website I made which allows you to pick from a few different tarot decks and many different spreads. I'm looking to improve the site and add some more tarot spreads. If you have created a spread, let me know, provide a description or preferably a picture and I might add it.
Studying the tarot seems like an endless task, with it having so many symbols and being linked to other systems like Hermetic Kabbalah and astrology. It is not necessary to be an expert in the tarot to use the tarot, although one can glean more information from it when one knows all the different ideas that are associated with each card, but this can actually interfere with intuition and cause one to read the cards more "systematically" than by one's instincts.
It seems in recent years the tarot has exploded into many different decks, a lot of which change the symbolism, so one should always ask themselves if the deck they are using has thought and inspiration put into the symbolism and how the different ideas would change the interpretation of each card. I speak like an authority, but I will admit that much of this is pretense. I am truly no expert on the tarot--it is a long journey to understand it and I don't feel that I've even begun to scratch the surface. I often still page through books when a card confuses me, until a sentence brings out an "A ha!" moment. New ideas are endlessly discovered, and the puzzle expands faster than one can put the pieces together.
The suits of of the Minor Arcana tarot cards are wands, swords, cups, and pentacles (or coins). It is helpful to know that these four suits are associated with the four main classical elements and studying ancient philosophy from Greece and India especially can be helpful since:
Wands = Fire
Swords = Air
Cups = Water
Pentacles (or coins) = Earth
There are many thinkers who expounded on various substances, but from Greece there's Thales for water, Heraclitus for Fire (be careful, this guy is dangerous), Anaximenes for Air, and Earth is sort of left out as having a major thinker who thought everything is made of it.
However, Empedocles was a thinker who believed that the four elements worked together and were brought together by Love and torn apart by Strife, and that Love and Strife fluctuated in a cycle.
There's Plato's Socrates who had elaborate geometric theories about the elements. Aristotle's philosophy mentions them as well.
In some Indian texts the elements are spoken about, as they are believed in by many Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and others.
The four elements are written about in the Taittirīya Upaniṣad of Hinduism and the Pali canon of Buddhism.
Many texts of Kabbalistic Judaism developed an extensive belief system including the four elements and this formed many of the ideas in the Tarot, at least in its more modern incarnations.
