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Tarot for Techies
- floatingatoll 5y agoGood work on the foil effect, site author.
- palad1n 5y agoThe card images are from this deck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider–Waite_tarot_deck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider–Waite_tarot_deck
- aasasd 5y agoI've long ago bought me a copy of that deck purely for how good it looks. Everything else is either old and crooked, or crayon drawings by some psycho nerd (ahem Crowley/Harris cough), or straight up Boris Vallejo style. Plus some are influenced by Rider-Waite. Meanwhile Rider-Waite is pretty much Marseilles-but-good. I don't even do anything tarot, and owe the knowledge of its existence primarily to ‘The Ogre Battle’ and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Should probably learn to do some kind of dealing for when I need a decision, in lieu of coin and dice. (Mildly curiously, the cards I bought had original English titles—unusual because they accompanied a book in Russian, and the target audience is IMO unlikely to casually know English.)
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoWow, I actually much prefer the Crowley Harris deck, just for the sheer amount of detail. The Rider-Waite just looks kinda boring to me, to be honest.
- pukexxr 5y agoRider-Waite, Marseille, and Crowley-Harris are the trinity for me, personally speaking.
- aasasd 5y agoEh, I pretty much apply modernist thinking to my mystic symbolism: I like the symbols clear and concise. Excessive decoration just takes away from the message of the symbols, and suggests either that the author might be unsure that they can impart the symbols well enough, or that there are additional meanings in these details—which is probably untrue. Plus, in this post-psychedelic age, the detailed drawings look like self-parody, in the spirit of ‘horror vacui’. Compare e.g. art by Rammellzee and James Koehnline for various outfits of Bill Laswell: https://www.discogs.com/release/57834-Altered-Beats-Assassin-Knowledges-Of-The-Remanipulated/images https://www.discogs.com/release/57834-Altered-Beats-Assassin... https://www.discogs.com/release/2166602-Various-Axiom-Dub-Mysteries-Of-Creation/images https://www.discogs.com/release/2166602-Various-Axiom-Dub-My... https://www.discogs.com/release/196685-Transmutation-Mutatis-Mutandis/images https://www.discogs.com/release/196685-Transmutation-Mutatis... https://www.discogs.com/release/1228556-Profanation-Preparation-For-A-Coming-Darkness/images https://www.discogs.com/release/1228556-Profanation-Preparat... I feel that this is what Crowley would've done if he had Photoshop in his day. The dude had plenty of troll attitude, IMO. (Also I discovered this paragraph in the Wikipedia entry on ‘horror vacui’, which sounds sorta funny in this context (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_vacui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_vacui): There is an inverse relationship between horror vacui and value perception. Commercial designers favor visual clarity in shop window displays and advertising to appeal to affluent and well-educated consumers, on the premise that understatement and restraint appeals to more affluent and educated audiences. In one study, 100 clothing stores were surveyed to find patterns and relationship between how efficiently the store's real estate was used and the store's brand prestige. Bulk sales shops and chain stores were found to fill their window displays to maximum capacity; while high-end boutiques often used their space sparsely, with no price tags.)
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoHah, Mr. Crowley was a total troll. But he was an artist's and interlectuarl's mystic, so his tarot was specifically designed to look like it belong to an upper-middle class practitioner, rather than a commoner, with traditional but incomplete understadning of the Art. He basically wanted to elevate Tarot reading from the palmistry tent at fairs to the salons of the nouveau rich, so he chose art and interpretations that would appeal to that kind of person. A troll and a real marketing genius, I think.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoMy favorite (for the artwork) to date (scroll down to see all the cards): https://robertmplacetarot.com/the-alchemical-tarot-renewed-4th-edition/ https://robertmplacetarot.com/the-alchemical-tarot-renewed-4...
- Pamar 5y agoAbout "when I need a decision" - you might like this: http://www.pa-mar.net/Lifestyle/I-Ching.html http://www.pa-mar.net/Lifestyle/I-Ching.html (disclaimer: I am the author).
- jaclaz 5y agoNice, though it seems like cards come out only upright (I only drew a few cards). One can still additionally flip a coin heads=upright/tails=reversed to manually correct the issue.
- pukexxr 5y agoThis is not how tarot works. Shuffle a tarot deck. Half of the cards are not upside down.... Edit: spelling
- 7sidedmarble 5y agoI'm not a "Divination Expert", but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to do a pile shuffle so that some actually are upside down.
- shard 5y agoDo you mean riffle shuffle? A pile shuffle should be able to keep all cards in the same orientation (technically a riffle shuffle could as well, if you're careful with the orientation)
- aasasd 5y ago> The sun: the frontend > The Sun Tarot card radiates with optimism and positivity. A large, bright sun shines in the sky, representing the source of all life on Earth. Yeah sure bud.
- chias 5y agois this supposed to do anything? I click "Go", I see a card. Hovering over the card gives me a pointer-cursor as though i should click it, but clicking it does nothing. The only part of the page that does anything is the link to biddytarot.com to explain the current card. Am I missing something?
- technion 5y agoAlthough the card itself has an unclickable cursor for some reason, there is a relevant clickable piece of text under it.
- stared 5y agoI was expecting "Hexen 2.0" by Suzanne Treister (https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/TAROT_COL/HEXEN_2_TAROT.html https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/TAROT_COL/HEXEN_2_TAR...). It's a Tarot deck with "mysticism of the 20th century" theme - CIA, computing, quantum, counterculture, etc.
- aasasd 5y agoAfter looking through the cards, I'm vaguely sure that if I just read up for a while on each of them, I'll have background for a sizable chunk of Hunter Thompson's and ‘The Illuminatus’ 60s universe. Surprised that Crowley himself is not there.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoSpeaking as an ex-teenage witch [1] and a student of Crowley's Book of Thoth, this is... underwhelming? At the very least, if you are going to re-interpret the Tarot for the modern era, you should make an effort to design your own deck, rather than repurpose an old deck, even keeping the cards' names. For the uninitialised, that is how Crowley did his Tarot of Thoth, essentially an update of the old Tarot for the modern era (welll... Crowley's era!): https://www.tarot.com/tarot/decks/crowley https://www.tarot.com/tarot/decks/crowley For instance, the first thing I'd do would be to redesign Lust to more closely match the Internet (a red woman riding a beast of many heads): https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/strength/crowley https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/strength/crowley And The Tower: https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/the-tower/crowley https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/the-tower/crowley An obvious metaphor for the post-9/11 world, no doubt. _____________ [1] ex-both, to be clear.
- ljm 5y agoAfter playing Inscryption recently, I've been thinking what it would look like to have something akin to a card game (or even Tarot) but based on modern tech. Even bought a copy of Tabletop Simulator to try it out. This might be inspiration enough to give it a shot.
- tines 5y ago+1 for Inscryption, what wonderful and beautiful piece of art that game is.
- zwkrt 5y agoAgreed. I think that TFA's major arcana reinterpretations are pretty good, if not fleshed out. But Tarot when you really get into it is an entire framework for thinking about all aspects of existence, so you have to be pretty crafty to make a whole deck. A few years ago I tried, and this is as far as I got (just threw it on github now): https://github.com/zwkrt/programmer_tarot/blob/main/major_arcana.tsv https://github.com/zwkrt/programmer_tarot/blob/main/major_ar...
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- andrepd 5y ago>is it safe? >i met a witch in mendocino and told her i was building a tarot website. she told me to build with good intentions, and that is what i have done. use at your own risk. Don't know if this is satirical or not, but it was a good chuckle regardless :p
- HelloNurse 5y agoIt seems in line with typical attitudes towards tarot decks, which might or might not be tongue-in-cheek. For example, the recent tabletop RPG Wickedness, which uses a tarot deck to simulate a coven of witches, recommends reassuring the deck that you are going to make it play a fun game.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoCode, Keyboard, Pixels and Docs appear to be the suits. Some of the Major Arcana were funny to me: The Tower (usually meaning I believe a very bad turn of events) has become "The Reorg". Years ago I was drawn to the "Alchemical Tarot" deck by Robert Place for his amazing artwork. It's gone in and out of print, being tweaked when re-issued. Looks like the 6th edition (and examples of his amazing art) can be found here: https://robertmplacetarot.com/the-alchemical-tarot-renewed-4th-edition/ https://robertmplacetarot.com/the-alchemical-tarot-renewed-4...
- lisaztruong 5y agowow, this is really cool
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- anm89 5y agoBeing delusional for people who should be smart enough to know better.
- benzguo 5y agoV2 cards! Thanks for the feedback everyone :) https://witchcraft.computer/major-arcana https://witchcraft.computer/major-arcana