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A card meaning tells you what the card means. It does not tell you what it means for the thing you are actually dealing with. Draw here, ask in your own words, and the reading is written against the entries already published on this site — with a numbered source under every claim, so you can check each one.

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Which system

They answer different shapes of question. Tarot and the I Ching are for a situation you are inside; astrology and numerology read a birth you cannot change; dreams read what your own head produced.

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What is being read

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Your question

One question, in the words you would use talking to someone. The reading is written against it, so a vague question gets a vague reading.

How it works

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You draw, or you enter your birth data

The result is worked out here, in your browser: a real shuffle of all seventy-eight cards, three coins thrown six times, a chart cast from the ephemeris, a name and a date reduced. Nothing is guessed at this stage, and nothing has been sent anywhere yet.

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The published meaning is retrieved, not invented

Your question and the list of what came up go to the reading service. It fetches the entries this site has already published for those exact items and hands the model those and nothing else. A citation pointing at anything that was not fetched is stripped out before the reading reaches you.

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You check it

Every claim carries a numbered marker. Open one and you get the entry text exactly as the model received it, field by field, with a link to the full page. A sentence with no marker is a sentence with no source, and it should be read as one.

The kind of question it is for

The Lovers came up reversed for a decision about work, not a relationship. What then?
My Moon is in Scorpio and my Sun is in Libra. Do those contradict each other?
I got hexagram 23 with a moving fifth line. Which reading applies?
I keep dreaming about missing a train and about my teeth. Are those the same thing?

What it will not do

It will not predict. It will not tell you what another person is thinking. It will not give medical, legal or financial advice, and it will not stand in for anyone qualified to give those. Ask it when something will happen and it will tell you that these systems do not answer that.

What it does is narrower and duller than the word interpretation usually implies: it takes a result the tools here already compute, retrieves the meanings this site has already published for it, and holds them against the question you asked. The meanings are looked up rather than generated, and a citation pointing at anything that was not looked up is stripped before you see it.

Three free readings without an account and five on one, because each one costs the site real money. They are a balance rather than a daily allowance: they go down as readings are written and nothing puts them back. Drawing cards, casting hexagrams and computing charts stay unlimited, and always will.