Tarot Card Draw

For fun: draw one, three or ten cards from the full 78 card tarot deck, upright or reversed, with the common meaning of each card.

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About tarot card draw

Tarot Card Draw does its work in front of you rather than sending anything away to be processed. What you see is the whole of it.

Everything runs client side, which is the only arrangement where a privacy claim is checkable. Open the network tab and watch it stay empty.

You will find it under Fun, alongside 18 other tools for the same sort of job.

Runs in this tab, so nothing you type is uploaded.

How to use it

01
Start it
Every control is on the tool itself. Keyboard shortcuts, where there are any, are listed beside it.
02
Watch it run
It updates in the page as you go. Nothing is sent anywhere, so it keeps working with the network off.
03
Close when done
Nothing is stored between visits. Reloading gives you a clean start rather than picking up where you left off.

Examples

A single card
Input
seed: reading-1
spread: single
Output
Card: Four of Wands (reversed) - stability and rest, read through energy, ambition and creative work
A three card past, present, future spread
Input
seed: reading-1
spread: three
Output
Past: Four of Wands (reversed) - stability and rest, read through energy, ambition and creative work
Present: Six of Wands (reversed) - harmony and cooperation, read through energy, ambition and creative work
Future: Seven of Pentacles (reversed) - reflection and assessment, read through money, work and the material world

Questions

Does Tarot Card Draw work offline?+

Yes. It is JavaScript running in this tab, so once the page has loaded it needs nothing further from the network. Put the machine in flight mode and it carries on. Nothing you do here is sent anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to go.

Does it remember anything between visits?+

No. Reload the page and it starts from nothing. There is no account, no saved state and no cookie holding your last session. That is a deliberate trade: it cannot lose your data because it never keeps any.

Is it accurate?+

Timing comes from performance.now(), the high resolution clock the browser provides, rather than from setInterval, which drifts by a few milliseconds every tick and compounds over minutes. What can still shift things is the browser throttling a tab in the background, so leave it visible if the timing matters.

Does it make a sound?+

Where a sound makes sense, it is generated with the Web Audio API rather than loaded as a file, so there is nothing to download and nothing to block. Browsers refuse to start audio until you have interacted with the page, which is why the first press is what switches it on.

Can I use Tarot Card Draw on a phone?+

Yes. The controls are sized for touch and the layout collapses to one column on a narrow screen. Bear in mind that a phone locking its screen will suspend the page, and timing stops with it.