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Tarot for Techies

by benzguo on 1/4/22, 5:41 AM with 32 comments

  • by YeGoblynQueenne on 1/4/22, 11:45 AM

    Speaking 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

    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

    And The Tower:

    https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/the-tower/crowley

    An obvious metaphor for the post-9/11 world, no doubt.

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    [1] ex-both, to be clear.

  • by stared on 1/4/22, 10:24 AM

    I was expecting "Hexen 2.0" by Suzanne Treister (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.

  • by palad1n on 1/4/22, 8:09 AM

  • by JKCalhoun on 1/4/22, 1:21 PM

    Code, 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-4...

  • by chias on 1/4/22, 9:57 AM

    is 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?

  • by jaclaz on 1/4/22, 8:51 AM

    Nice, 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.

  • by benzguo on 1/5/22, 4:21 AM

    V2 cards! Thanks for the feedback everyone :) https://witchcraft.computer/major-arcana

  • by anm89 on 1/5/22, 1:02 AM

    Being delusional for people who should be smart enough to know better.

  • by aasasd on 1/4/22, 9:36 AM

    > 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.

  • by andrepd on 1/4/22, 12:18 PM

    >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

  • by floatingatoll on 1/4/22, 7:49 AM

    Good work on the foil effect, site author.

  • by lisaztruong on 1/4/22, 2:53 PM

    wow, this is really cool