Okay, so, I’ve been messing around with tarot cards for a while now. It’s a fun hobby, you know? I always thought it would be cool to have a tool to quickly figure out the combined meanings of two cards. You pull two cards, and bam, what do they mean together? I looked around online, but most of the free stuff was kinda janky.
Then, I stumbled upon this idea of building my own simple tarot combination calculator. I thought, why not? I can totally do this. It doesn’t need to be fancy, just something that works. I started by listing out all the cards, like, the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana. I figured, I gotta have the basic meanings of each card down first. So, I created a simple list:
- The Fool: New beginnings, innocence, etc.
- The Magician: Manifestation, resourcefulness, etc.
- …and so on…
Next, I thought about how I wanted to input the cards. I figured just typing in the names would be easiest. No need for fancy dropdown menus or anything. Just keep it simple. Then I remembered something I learned about combinations a long time ago. It’s that formula, like, nCr = n! / (r! (n – r)!) or something. But then I realized, tarot combinations aren’t exactly like mathematical combinations. It’s not just about which cards are chosen, but also what they mean together. For tarot, each card has two possibilities in any combination: it either appears or it doesn’t. So for two cards, there are 22 = 4 possible combinations.
Getting to the Core
So, the formula wasn’t directly applicable, but it did give me an idea. I decided to just make a simple lookup table. If you input “The Fool” and “The Magician,” the program will check my little table and spit out the combined meaning I wrote for that pair. I spent a good chunk of time writing out these combined meanings. It was actually pretty fun, thinking about how different cards interact with each other. Like, what does it mean when you have The Fool, representing new beginnings, combined with The Magician, representing manifestation? That’s a powerful combo!
After a lot of writing, I finally finished all of them. I was tired but felt fulfilled. After testing different combinations, I was satisfied. Now I have this cool little tool that lets me quickly check the combined meaning of any two tarot cards. It’s not perfect, but it’s mine, and it works. I’ve been using it for my own readings and also sharing it with friends. It’s been a fun little project, and I learned a lot along the way. Maybe I’ll add more features later, but for now, it’s a simple and handy tool that does exactly what I need it to do. It feels good to make something with your own hands, you know? Even if it’s just a simple little program like this. But it works fine, so I am satisfied!
