Okay, so, today I tried to make a “digital tarot” thing. It all started this morning when I was scrolling through some random stuff and stumbled upon this idea. I was like, “Huh, that’s interesting, maybe I can do something with this?” I’m not a coder or anything, but I like to tinker.
First, I googled “digital tarot card readings” just to see what was already out there. There’s a ton of websites and apps, of course, but I wanted to make something… simpler. More for my own use, you know?
My Little Project: Digital Tarot
So, I decided to keep it super basic. No fancy graphics, no complicated algorithms. Just text. The core idea was this:
- Create a list of all the tarot cards, with their names and maybe some keywords for their meanings.
- Find a way to randomly pick a card from that list.
- Display the chosen card and its keywords.
I started by opening up a simple text editor. Yeah, no fancy coding tools for me. Just plain old Notepad. Then I began listing all the cards, Major and Minor Arcana. I didn’t know all the meanings by heart, so I had to look them up as I went. That took a while, actually! I put each card on a new line, like this:
The Fool: New beginnings, innocence, spontaneity
The Magician: Manifestation, resourcefulness, power
The High Priestess: Intuition, subconscious, mystery
…and so on…
I made the plain text look a little bit better.
After I finished the list (phew!), I needed a way to “shuffle” it and pick a card. That’s where things got a little tricky, it took me a while, then I figured, hey, I could just number each line and then randomly pick a number! It’s not exactly “shuffling,” but it gets the job done for my simple purpose.
I saved the file. Now, whenever I want a quick reading, I can just pick a random number between 1 and 78 (the total number of cards) and see which card corresponds to that number. Boom! Instant digital tarot.
It’s super rudimentary, I know. But it was a fun little project, and it actually works! Maybe someday I’ll learn some actual coding and turn it into a proper app, but for now, this simple text-based version is good enough for me. It’s all about the intention, right?
