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f. silvestris said:
well, I think the concept of mediumware is very appealling, but I'm still rather missing the point about these tarot programmes: I can't really connect with the cards onscreen, and don't understand why I'd want to use a computer programme instead of actually shuffling and manipulating the cards
I can think of two: Time constraints for shuffling and spreading, and time restraints for writing it all out.
Until it went belly-up, I used to get a daily reading from Annikin.com. It started out as a tarot-only reading and later became a half Tarot/half astrological thingie. originally I used to get the daily reading sent to me but as time went on you had to go to the site and 'do' it yourself.
Yes, yes, yes - cards on a computer screen are not 'shuffled'; there is nothing random in a computer program, and we all know it. However, I stopped doing my own readings because I needed a clarity of vision and a distance from myself. Yes, yes, Yes! I know that no 'live' person ever touched the cards, that it is all a machine - BUT - the accuracy of the readings were sometimes frightening. I looked forward to my daily reading and miss it horribly now that it is gone. {Ann - if you're out there reading this - I miss you!}
So, almost every day I drop the Tarot Magic CDROM into the drive and pull it up. I ask the same question every day and see what my three-card reading tells me, and then journal it.
