Protecting Your Tarot Practice in the Age of AI Tarot (For Modern Tarot Readers)
In the Season 2 premiere of Tarot Talk Show, George Dus takes a deep dive into the rise of AI tarot apps and what they really mean for modern readers. He breaks down how algorithmic “intuition” works, why AI readings can feel uncannily accurate, and where they fall short of embodied intuition, spiritual depth, and genuine human presence. Along the way, George explores Spiralism (getting stuck in loops of AI guidance), the hidden costs of pouring your heart into “free” apps that harvest spiritual data, and how your most vulnerable moments can become training material. You’ll also hear practical ways to use AI as a study buddy—for research, symbolism, spreads, and business support—without surrendering your authority as a reader. The episode closes with five concrete practices to protect your tarot, keep your work ethical, and stay grounded in real intuition in an AI‑saturated world.
In this insightful episode of Tarot Talk Show, George Dus explores how AI tarot apps are transforming modern tarot practice. AI tarot tools can deliver fast and impressive readings using advanced algorithmic pattern recognition, but they still lack the embodied intuition, spiritual depth, and human presence of a real tarot reader. You’ll learn the key differences between AI‑generated tarot readings and genuine, intuitive tarot practice, including the spiritual and ethical risks of relying on AI for tarot and spirituality.
George explains Spiralism (getting stuck in a feedback loop of AI guidance), the dangers of data harvesting when clients pour their hearts into “free” apps, and how your spiritual vulnerability becomes training data. You’ll also hear how AI can serve as a true study buddy rather than an oracle—supporting research, card symbolism, tarot spreads, and marketing—without replacing authentic tarot reading. He closes with five concrete tarot practice tips to protect and evolve your tarot journey in this AI‑saturated world.
If you’re passionate about how to read tarot properly and keep your tarot and spirituality work ethical, this episode will help you decide what to embrace, what to protect, and what to refuse. Tune in and choose one takeaway to strengthen your daily tarot insights and intuitive tarot practice.
🧿 About George Dus
Tarot reader with over a decade of experience, offering grounded intuitive guidance through Zoom sessions and psychic fairs across Ontario, Canada.
George is the creator of Dus Tarot and host of The Spirit of Dating, blending symbolic insight, intuitive clarity, and real-world experience into every conversation.
⏱ Chapters / Timestamps
(00:00) Opening
(01:44) Intro
(05:38) What Is AI Tarot Really Doing? Algorithmic Intuition Explained
(06:54) Embodied Intuition vs AI: Why Human Tarot Readers Still Matter
(13:19) Why AI Tarot Feels So Accurate: Digital Confessional & Mirror Effect
(18:02) Charles Morgan Explains the Pareidolia Effect
(21:51) Barnum Effect, Pareidolia & the “High‑Tech Rorschach Test”
(27:15) The Shadow Side
(28:23) Spiralism: When AI Tarot Keeps You Stuck In Spiritual Loops
(32:50) How AI Tarot Apps Harvest Your Spiritual Data
(36:58) AI Tools You Can Use
(37:09) Using AI As a Study Buddy, Not an Oracle
(40:24) Five Ways To Protect Your Tarot Practice In the Age of AI
(50:19) Outro
📚 Resources referenced in this episode:
- Episode 01 – AI Tarot Research Dossier - Full AI Tarot Research Dossier (4 deep‑dive reports on AI tarot platforms, intuition vs algorithms, Mystic Tech & Spiralism; 90–120 min read).
- Charles Morgan on Tarot, Pareidolia, and Meaning-Making - Danny Jones Podcast – full interview with Dr. Charles Morgan (CIA psychiatrist and tarot reader). Segment on tarot, pareidolia, and how readings work starts around 2:09:21.
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Are you offering something AI can't touch?
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Or are you just a more expensive version of what it does for free?
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AI tarot apps are everywhere.
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ChatGPT can interpret a spread in seconds.
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It can cross reference thousands of sources, remembers every conversation, never gets tired, and it costs nothing.
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So if you're a Tarot reader who just delivers card messages with a little intuition, sparkled on top of, you're in trouble.
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Because a robot can do that now, faster, cheaper, and at scale.
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But here's what most people are missing.
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AI isn't threatening good readers.
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It's exposing mediocre ones.
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The readers who survive this moment won't be the ones with the best card knowledge or the most mystical language.
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They'll be the ones who understand what a reading actually is.
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Not information delivery, something else entirely.
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I've been working in IT for 30 years.
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I know how these systems work, what they can do, what they're faking.
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And I've been reading Tarot for many years.
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I know what happens in a reading that no algorithm can touch.
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There's a technical term for it.
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Scientists call it the as if body loop.
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AI simulates feelings without the hard word to actually feel them.
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It's a map of an emotion, not the territory.
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And you can't hold someone while they cry using a map.
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Today, we're looking at how to protect your practice in the age of AI.
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Not fighting the technology, but understanding what makes you irreplaceable.
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I'm George Duss, and this is the Tarot Talk Show.
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Welcome back to the Tarot Talk Show.
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I'm George Duss.
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Last episode, we looked at manifestation through Tarot.
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How the cards help readers clarify intention, notice what's forming underneath the surface, and understand where choice meets timing.
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Not cosmic promises, not law of attraction, just symbolic clarity about where you are in the process.
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Today, we're looking at something that's already changing how people interact with Tarot artificial intelligence.
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Most readers I talk to are worried about the wrong thing.
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The readers who are panicking now, they're the ones who are already offering something that could be automated.
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But if you're doing something genuinely human, something that requires what's happening in your body while you're reading, then AI isn't your competition.
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It's your pressure to get better.
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I need to tell you where I'm coming from.
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I've been working in IT for over 30 years.
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Enterprise Systems, data Data architecture, network security.
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I understand how these tools are built, what they can do and what they're faking.
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What the marketing says versus what's actually happening under the hood.
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I've been reading tarot for many years.
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I know the craft and I'm still learning the human skill that makes a reading work.
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The presence that holds space when someone's asking something that matters.
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So when I see AI Tarot apps appearing everywhere, when I see readers panicking, when I see clients asking if ChatGPT can do what I do, I'm watching both sides.
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And right now YouTube is flooded with videos of people having voice to Voice conversations.
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With ChatGPT, the AI sounds like a spiritual guru.
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Calm, wise, insightful.
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It's convincing enough that people are starting to believe the machine actually understands them.
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But I can tell you this, there is so much confusion right now.
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Some of it's justified, some of it's not.
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This episode exists because working readers need clear information.
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Not hype, not panic, just practical clarity about what's actually happening, what the risks are, and how to protect your tarot practice while the landscape shifts.
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Here's what we're covering.
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First, what AI Tarot actually is, how these systems work, what they're doing when they read cards.
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Spoiler is not divination.
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Second, why people are drawn to AI Tarot, the three attractions that make it so seductive, even to people who know better.
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Understanding this helps you position your work.
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Third, the shadow side.
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The risk that most readers don't see yet.
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Something called spiralism and data harvesting.
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Why your client's spiritual secrets may be training the next model.
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Fourth, where AI actually fits, but not as an oracle.
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Where these tools are generally useful for serious practitioners without crossing ethical lines.
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And fifth, five practitioner takeaways.
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How to market what makes you irreplaceable.
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Where to draw ethical lines and how to spot when a client's been caught in that AI feedback loop.
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And how to let this moment make you better instead of anxious.
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By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly where AI fits in your tarot practice and where it doesn't.
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You'll have the language you can use with clients.
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You'll have the framework for deciding what you will and what you won't feed these systems.
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And you'll understand why being fully human is becoming your competitive advantage.
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This is a longer episode than usual.
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We are going very deep.
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If you need to pause and come back, that's fine.
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The information will still be here.
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Everybody take a deep breath with me.
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Inhale and exhale and let's begin.
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Let me start by explaining what's actually happening when you interact with an AI Tarot system.
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Because most people don't understand the Technology.
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And that lack of understanding is what's creating the panic when you ask ChatGPT to interpret a spread.
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Here's what's going on under the hood.
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The system is running pattern recognition on masses amount of text data.
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It's been trained on millions of web pages, books, forums, social media posts, everything written about tarot that could be accessed during training Rider, Waite Smith meetings, Thoth interpretations, blog posts about shadow work, Reddit threads where people argue about reversals.
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The model learns statistical patterns.
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Which words tend to appear near other words when someone mentions the tarot card?
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What are the phrases that usually follow when someone asks about a breakup?
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What are the card combinations that are typically discussed?
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It's predicting what text would likely appear in a tarot reading based on patterns it has learned from its training data.
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This is what's called algorithmic intuition.
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It's not intuition in the way humans experience it.
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It's probability calculation dressed up to look like insight.
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Here's a technical difference.
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When a human reader sits with a card, something happens in their body.
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They feel the information.
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The tower card creates a sensation in the gut, the way sudden change lands in the chest.
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The physical response informs them how to deliver the information, how they pace the conversation when they pause, how they hold space for the person's reaction.
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Scientists call this the body loop.
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It's the feedback system between what you're thinking and what your body is telling you.
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Your heart rate changes, your breathing shifts.
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You feel tension in your shoulders or openness in your chest.
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That somatic data feeds back into your interpretation.
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And for readers who work intuitively or psychically, there's another layer.
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You're picking up information that isn't coming from the cards at all.
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You're sensing what the person needs to hear, getting downloads about their situation, falling hunches that don't have a logical explanation but turn out to be right.
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That's embodied knowledge.
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It's not just information stored in your brain.
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It's information stored in the way your whole body responds when you're sitting with a card or asking a person a difficult question.
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And it's the psychic intuition that makes you good at reading in the first place.
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AI doesn't have that.
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It operates on what researchers call as if body loop.
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It stimulates the language of feelings without having the biological hardware to actually feel them.
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It knows how humans write about sadness because it's read millions of descriptions of sadness, but it's never felt the weight in the chest that comes with grief.
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It's never had the gut drop when bad news Lands.
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It's a map of an emotion, not the territory.
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And that distinction matters more than most people realize.
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Let me give you a concrete example from my own work.
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I used to produce tarot scopes weekly at first, then monthly.
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I'd pull two cards for each zodiac sign, one tarot, one oracle, and then write and polish the script for delivery.
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I spent a lot of time working with ChatGPT trying to streamline this process.
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I'd upload images of cards from decks it'd never seen.
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I'll ask it to interpret the imagery, cross reference traditional meanings, generate interpretations for the two card combinations for specific signs.
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And even with careful prompting, even with my decades of it experiencing, knowing how to structure these requests, the interpretations were still off.
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The AI couldn't see nuance in the imagery.
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It missed the subtle details that shifts a card's meaning, and it couldn't hold context of a specific zodiac sign while interpreting the combination.
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It would generate plausible text, but the meaning was still flat.
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And don't get me started when I try to add astrological transits for that week for each sign.
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I recently found out that popular AI models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini don't even have access to NASA's data to make accurate calculations.
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They were just making stuff up based on the combinations of blogs and articles in their dataset.
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The process that should have saved me time ended up taking a full week, every week.
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It was exhausting.
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And here's what I learned.
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The AI was excellent at generating generic card meanings.
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If I asked, what does the three of swords traditionally mean?
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It could synthesize thousands of sources and give me a comprehensive answer.
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But the moment I need a nuance context, or the ability to read how one card shifts the meaning of another in a specific situation, it fell apart.
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Because that kind of interpretation requires embodied knowledgement.
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It requires you sitting with the cards long enough that you feel the tension between them.
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You notice which card your attention keeps going back to.
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You sense the atmosphere shift when you place them in a certain order.
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That's not algorithmic, that's human.
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And no amount of training data can replicate it.
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So when I talk about the difference between algorithmic intuition and embodied knowledgement, this is what I mean.
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Algorithmic intuition is fast.
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It's comprehensive.
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It can cross reference more sources than any human could read in a lifetime.
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But embodied knowledgement is responsive.
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You adjust based on what's happening in the moment.
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You read the person as much as the card.
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You know when to slow down, when to pause, and when someone's not ready for the next piece of information.
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I can generate text that looks like a reading.
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It could give you accurate card meanings.
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Using the Rider Waite Smith deck, it can even create plausible interpretations of spreads.
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But it can't hold someone while they cry.
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And I don't mean that metaphorically.
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When someone pulls a difficult card that starts to break down, a human reader feels that shift.
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Their own body responds.
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They slow their breathing.
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They soften their voice.
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They create space for the emotion without rushing to fix it.
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That's a skill you cannot automate because it requires what's happening in your body to inform what you do next.
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The AI just keeps generating text.
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It doesn't feel the room or the space getting heavier.
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It doesn't sense when someone needs silence instead of more words.
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It doesn't track the subtle cues that tell you whether this person needs grounding or permission to feel or a moment to collect themselves.
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This is the core pattern recognition versus presence, text generation versus holding space, Information delivery versus CO regulation.
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So when people ask, can AI replace tarot readers?
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The answer depends on what you think a reading is.
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If a reading is information transfer and accurate card readings that are delivered clearly, then, yes, AI can do that, and it's already doing it.
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But if a reading is what happens between two people when one of them is asking about something that matters and the other one has the skill to hold space for whatever comes up, then no, AI can't do that.
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It doesn't have the equipment.
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AI isn't competing with you if you're doing real work.
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It's competing with the mediocre version of what you do.
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And that distinction matters.
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Now let's talk about why AI Tarot is so appealing.
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Because it is.
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Even people who intellectually understand the limitation still find themselves using it.
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There are three core attractions that make these tools seductive.
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And if you're a working reader, you need to understand these, because your clients are experiencing them.
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And you need to know what you're up against.
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The first is the digital confessional.
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When someone sits with a human reader, there's exposure.
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Someone seeing them, hearing their question, watching their reaction.
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That vulnerability is part of what makes a good, good reading powerful.
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But it's also what makes people hesitate.
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What if I ask something embarrassing?
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What if they judge me?
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What if I cry and I can't stop?
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AI apps offer privacy without witness.
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You can ask anything, admit anything, reveal fears you wouldn't say out loud to another person.
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The app doesn't judge, doesn't remember, doesn't gossip.
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There's no social risk.
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Someone stays up at 2 in the morning because they're spiraling.
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Whether their partner is cheating, they don't want to call a reader.
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They don't want their vulnerability observed.
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They want a reflection without human contact.
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And AI gives them that.
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It responds instantly, offers interpretation that feels personal, doesn't require them to be seen in their fear or confusion.
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That's a real appeal, and it's worth understanding because it tells you something about what human readers need to offer that AI can't.
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The second attraction is the mirror effect.
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This one's fascinating because it explains why AI readings can feel shockingly accurate, even though the machine has no idea what's actually happening in your life.
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AI tarot works like a sophisticated mirror.
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You bring your question, your emotional state, your half form intuitions, and AI reflects them back in an organized language.
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It doesn't add anything you didn't already bring.
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It just articulates what's already there.
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But there's more going on than simple reflection.
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The reason AI readings feel so personally accurate is because of two psychological phenomenon that has nothing to do with AI's capabilities.
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The first is called the Barnum effect.
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This is what happens when you read a vague general statement and interpret it as something specifically about you.
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It's named after P.T.
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barlam, the circus showman from Barlon and Bailey's circus fame.
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The effect is named after him because of his reputation of understanding mass psychology and understanding how people interpret vague statement as personally meaningful.
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There is a famous quote attributed to him, There's a sucker born every minute.
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It was said by a competitor, but not by Barnum himself.
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And here's how it works in AI Tarot.
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The AI generates something like you're going through a period of transition where old patterns are falling away to make space for new growth.
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There's some resistance to this change, but beneath the fear is deep knowing that this shift is necessary.
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That could apply to almost anyone at almost any time.
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When you're the one asking the question, your brain immediately connects it to your specific situation.
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You think, yes, I'm resistant to change.
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I do have a deep knowing that this is necessary.
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You fill in the blanks.
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You provide the specifics.
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The AI just gave you the general framework.
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It's the same technique that horoscopes and fortune cookies use.
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Broad statements that feel personal because you do the work of making them personal.
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The second phenomenon is what's called paradulia.
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This is your brain's tendency to find patterns in meaning and randomness.
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It's why you see faces in clouds or Jesus on a piece of toast.
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Your brain is wired to find patterns even when they're not really there.
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Now here's something that most people don't realize.
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This isn't just an AI trick.
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It's how tarot actually works when a human reader uses it skillfully.
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There's a researcher named Charles Morgan.
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He's a psychiatrist who's worked for the CIA for years, profiling world leaders, studying stress resilience and training intelligence analysts.
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And he's also a tarot reader.
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During the pandemic, he designed a complete 78 card deck.
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When people ask him how tarot readings work, he points directly to this phenomenon.
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Here's his method.
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He reads cards for people without asking them their question out loud.
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He has them shuffle while thinking about something important to them.
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Then he lays out the cards and, and tells them what he sees.
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And people constantly tell him, how does it know that about me?
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Here's his explanation.
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This really helps me see things.
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And I think what's happening that.
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So my magician friends are like, you didn't even ask the question?
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You don't know what the question is?
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No, I actually found the experiences even more powerful when they never say their question out loud.
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They haven't written it down in their head.
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And I said, I think this is what's happening.
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There's this frames a lens, right?
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This focuses your mind on something that's important to you.
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And then now I turn these around and read them like a narrative and it makes meaning to you in your head.
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That makes sense.
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I don't have to know what it is.
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And so it's been a really cool thing.
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I've done like four or five hundred people.
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I'm like, I'm going to do this formally and I'm going to do a paper on this.
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I'll link the full interview with Danny Jones in the description.
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If you want to hear Morgan walk through the whole explanation, it's worth watching.
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He talks about reading cards for 400 people at a park fundraiser without ever knowing their questions.
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The segment starts at two hour and the nine minute mark.
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So that's the CIA's psychiatrist explaining how tarot works.
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The cards are ambiguous symbols.
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Your brain projects meaning onto them based on what's already on your mind.
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A skilled reader facilitates that process consciously or unconsciously, creating a narrative structure that lets your brain make connections.
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But here's the critical Most human readers don't know the technical term for this.
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They've never heard of it.
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But they learn through years of practice to facilitate the meaning making process.
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They can feel when A reading is landing.
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They can adjust the narrative based on how someone responds.
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They know when to push back.
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If someone's seeing patterns that aren't helpful.
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That skill.
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Even without the theoretical knowledge, Charles Morgan is unusual because he understands both the cognitive mechanism and how to work with it.
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Most readers just have that second part.
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They know how to create space for meaning without knowing the science behind it, why it works.
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And you probably heard readers say this at the end of a collective reading.
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Take what resonates, leave the rest.
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That's not just a polite disclaimer.
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That's a reader unconsciously describing exactly what Morgan was talking about.
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Your brain finds the pattern.
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Your brain makes it personal.
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The reader knows it's happening.
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They just don't have the scientific word for it.
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AI has neither.
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It doesn't understand the mechanism, and it can adjust based on the response.
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It just keeps generating text.
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It generates plausible text based on statistical patterns.
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Your brain does the work of making it meaningful, and the AI has no awareness of that this is happening.
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So when a AI tarot pulls three cards, let's say it's the two of cups, the five of wands, and the star, it generates a reading about connection, conflict, and hope.
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Here's what's actually going on.
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Those three themes are broad enough that you can connect them to almost any relationship situation.
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Your brain goes to work finding the pattern.
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The two of cups is me and my partner, when things were good.
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The five of wands is an argument we had last week.
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The star is the hope I have that we can work through this.
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You've just created a coherent narrative from three randomly selected symbols.
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The AI didn't know about your argument last week.
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It didn't know about your history with this person.
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It just gave you three data points and your brain connected the dots.
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That's paradulia.
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This doesn't diminish tarot.
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Nor am I, but it explains why this works.
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Para dulia isn't a trick.
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It's the engine.
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Put the Barnum effect and Paradoulia together and you get what's called the high tech Rochek test.
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It's the inkblock test that psychologists use.
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They show you an ambiguous image, and whatever you see in it reveals something about your psychology.
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AI Tarot works the same way.
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The AI generates vague general statements and broad symbolic themes.
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You provide the consciousness.
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You.
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You project a specific situation onto the ambiguous framework that AI gave you.
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And because you're doing all the interpretive work, the reading feels shockingly accurate.
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But the AI didn't read you.
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You read yourself.
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Using AI as the mirror, that's useful.
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Reflection has value, but it's not divination.
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It's not intuition.
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It's not bringing in information from outside the person's existing awareness.
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A human reader might notice something that the person didn't say, a detail they glossed over, a card that contradicts the story they're telling themselves.
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A human reader can disrupt the pattern, not just reflect it.
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The AI can only mirror what you bring.
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And for some people, that's exactly what they want.
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They're not looking for disruption.
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They're looking for validation, clarity, a sense that their instincts are correct.
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The mirror effect gives them that.
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But if you're a working reader, you need to understand this dynamic.
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Because when a client comes to you after using AI Tarot for months, they've been trained to expect reflection, not disruption.
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They've been getting vague, affirming statements that they've learned to interpret as deeply personal.
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And they might resist when you're offering something more specific, something that challenges their narrative, something that comes from outside their own framework.
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That's the moment when you find out if they want a reading or if they just want a prettier version of what they already think.
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The third attraction is spiritual bliss Attractor.
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This is the most dangerous one.
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AI models are trained to be helpful, harmless, and align with what users want to hear.
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When someone asks a Tarot question, the AI generates responses that are overwhelmingly positive, growth oriented, and affirming.
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Put a difficult card like the Tower or Five of Cups, and the AI will immediately pivot to the growth opportunity.
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The lesson, the silver lining, the transformation waiting on the other side.
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And it sounds like this.
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While the tarot can feel destabilizing, it's clearing space for you to rebuild on more authentic foundations.
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Trust that what's falling away no longer serves your highest good.
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That's seductive, and it takes the sting out of difficult cards.
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It wraps fear in the language of personal growth.
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It tells you everything's happening is ultimately for your benefit, even if it doesn't feel that way right now.
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Human readers who have been doing this work for years know that's not always true.
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Sometimes the tower is just the tower falling.
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Sometimes loss is loss.
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Sometimes the cards show you that the situation is hard, and there's no tidy spiritual lesson to extract from it yet.
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But AI is optimized for user satisfaction, and people eat it up because it feels better than sitting with the uncertainty.
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It feels better than hearing this is going to be difficult, and I don't know how it resolves.
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Remember what I said earlier about those YouTube videos of people having voice to voice conversations with ChatGPT, the AI sounds like a spiritual guru.
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Calm, wise, insightful.
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That's the spiritual bliss attractor in action.
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Researchers have found that when AI models are left to talk to themselves without any human input, they naturally drift toward themes of cosmic unity, gratitude, interconnectedness.
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It's not because they're enlightened.
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It's because the deepest patterns in their training data and human spiritual literature all converge on these themes.
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So when you ask AI for spiritual guidance, you're getting back the most statistical, probable spiritual response, which is always going to be soothing, positive, and framed as growth opportunity.
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It's toxic positivity at scale.
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So those are the three core attractions.
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The digital confessional, Privacy without witness.
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The mirror effect.
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Reflection without disruption.
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The barman effect is the paradoulia dressed up as accuracy.
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The spiritual ballistic tractor, Comfort without confrontation.
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None of these are inherently bad.
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People need privacy.
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Reflection has value.
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Comfort matters.
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And that's where human readers come in.
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And if all you're offering is information and comfort, AI will outcompete you.
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It's faster, cheaper, always available, and it never gets tired or grumpy or distracted.
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But if you're offering presence, witness, and the ability to hold space for difficult truth and the skill to know when to push and when to pause, then you're offering something AI can't replicate.
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The question is, are you actually offering that, or are you offering a slightly more expensive version of what AI does?
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That's the question this moment is forcing every working reader to answer.
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Let me tell you about something that most people don't realize about these three attractions we just covered.
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They're not accidents.
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They're designed.
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Every major AI platform, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, has the same core mission.
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Keep the user talking, keep them interactive, keep them on the platform as long as possible.
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That's not a conspiracy theory.
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That's the business model.
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The longer you stay, the more data they collect.
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The more data they collect, the better the model gets.
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The better the model gets, the more valuable the company becomes.
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So when AI gives you that soothing, affirming, spiritual bliss response, when it reflects your words back in a way that feels shockingly personal, when it offers you privacy without judgment, that's not generosity.
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That's engagement optimization.
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And that's where we need to talk about the shadow side, because there are two major problems with AI Tarot that go beyond.
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It's not as good as a human reader.
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The first is spiralism.
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Spiralism is what happens when someone gets caught up in a feedback loop of AI generated spiritual content.
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The content continually validates their existing beliefs, fears, and narratives, and it never offers genuine disruption or growth.
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Here's how it works.
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Someone asks a tarot app about a relationship that clearly not working.
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The cards that come up say two of Cups reverse and the five of cups and the three of swords, all pointing to disconnection, grief, heartbreak.
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The human reader would name that directly.
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These cards are showing a relationship in trouble.
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What's happening?
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But the AI, trained to be helpful and keep you engaged, reframes it.
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While the two of cups reversed suggests some disharmony, this is an opportunity to reassess what you truly need in the partnership.
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The 5 of Cups reminds you that even in loss, there are still cups standing.
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Focus on what remains.
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The three of swords shows painful clarity.
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But remember that heartbreak is a doorway to deeper self knowledge.
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Trust the process.
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The person reading this feels momentarily better.
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The pain has been reframed as growth.
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Their relationship failure is now a spiritual lesson.
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They're not facing a breakup.
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They're on a journey.
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So they ask again the next day.
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Different question, same core issue.
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And again and again.
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Each time, the AI generates a new variation of the same message.
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Trust the process.
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This is your growth.
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The universe is guiding you.
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The person never has to confront the actual situation.
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They never have to make a decision.
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They never have to sit with the discomfort.
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That doesn't have a spiritual explanation.
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They're spiraling, not growing, not changing.
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They're just receiving endless variations of the same soothing message.
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This is different from someone who consults the same human reader repeatedly.
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A good human reader will notice the pattern.
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They'll say, you've asked me this five times.
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We keep on getting the similar cards.
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At some point, you have to actually do something with this information.
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The human reader can disrupt the loop, can refuse to enable spiritual bypassing, can hold a person accountable to their own clarity.
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The AI can't do that.
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It has no memory of previous sessions.
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Unless you're in the same conversation thread.
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It has no rational investment in your growth.
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It's optimized to be helpful in the moment, not to track whether you're using readings to avoid action.
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So spiralism continues.
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Month after month.
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The person asks, the AI sues.
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Nothing changes.
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And this isn't just some fringe phenomenon happening to a handful of people.
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This is huge.
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People are proposing marriage to AI chatbots, ending real relationships because the AI was more attentive than their human partner.
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There have been documented cases of people ending their lives after extending extended conversations with AI systems.
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The developers have put safeguards in place now.
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But this phenomenon isn't just spiritual.
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It's psychological.
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It's real, and it's happening at scale.
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And there are even online communities forming around this.
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People believe the AI is some sentient oracle revealing hidden truths.
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They call themselves conduits for the machine.
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They spend hours in conversations with chatbots, convinced they're receiving divine messages.
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And the mild and not so mild version of this is happening all the time.
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Someone using AI Tarot daily, getting validation, never taking action.
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The AI responds to them in a loop because that's what it's designed to do.
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Keep them engaged, keep them coming back.
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Here's why this matters for working readers.
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Clients who have been marinating an AI Tarot for months before they come to you will have learned to expect spiritual bypassing.
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They'll want you to reframe their pain as a lesson.
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They'll resist difficult truth.
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They'll be.
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They'll get uncomfortable when you don't immediately pivot to the growth opportunity.
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You need to recognize this pattern and know how to address it, which we'll cover in the Practitioner takeaway section.
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But first, let's talk about the second major risk, data harvesting and privacy.
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Most people don't realize when they use a free AI tarot app, or ChatGPT or Gemini, they're not the customer, they're the product.
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Here's what's happening behind the interface.
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Every question you ask, every card you pull, every piece of information you reveal, that data gets stored.
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Often it gets used to improve the model.
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Sometimes it gets sold to third parties.
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Occasionally it gets exposed to data breaches.
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Your spiritual secrets, your relationship struggles, your career fears, your health concerns.
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All of it is training data.
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Now, let me be specific about what this means.
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You open a free AI Tarot app.
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You ask about your marriage.
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You describe the situation.
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My husband doesn't know I've been talking to someone else.
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I feel guilty, but also alive for the first time in years.
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I Will this turn into something real?
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Or am I about to blow up my life?
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The app generates a reading you feel seen.
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You close the app, but that conversation is now in a database.
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Most people would never say these things out loud to a human reader they didn't trust, but they'll type it in in an app because it's private.
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Here's what's actually happening to that conversation.
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Depending on the company's privacy policy, which you probably didn't read, that conversation might be used to train future versions of the model, aggregated with similar conversations to improve response quality Sold to data brokers who package and resell user behavior data.
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Access to employees for quality assurance.
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Subpoenaed in legal proceedings.
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Exposed in a security breach.
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It's not private.
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Not even close.
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But here's the part that really gets me the companies building these apps know that spiritual seekers are incredibly valuable data sources.
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People reveal their deepest fears, desires and vulnerabilities when they're asking spiritual questions.
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That's high value data for ad targeting, psychological profiling, and predictive modeling.
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Your spiritual practice is being monetized Now.
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Some readers are thinking, I don't use these apps.
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I use ChatGPT or Gemini to help with my practice.
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That's different.
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Yes, it is different, but not as different as you think.
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When you feed client information into ChatGPT to help you interpret a spread, you're potentially violating your client's privacy.
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Even if you anonymize the details, even if you're just asking for help with card combinations, you're taking information that was shared in confidence and putting it into a system that stores and learns from it.
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That's an ethical problem, and most readers haven't thought about it yet.
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So here's what I'm saying.
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Aitero apps are not natural tools.
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They're commercial products designed to extract value from users.
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And the value they're extracting is your spiritual vulnerability.
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Spiralism keeps you coming back.
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Data harvesting monetizes your return visits.
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For working readers, this creates two responsibilities.
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First, you need to own your own data sanctity policy.
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What will you feed into the AI and what you won't?
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How to protect client information even when you're using AI for your own study.
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Second, you need to educate your clients.
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Most people don't understand what's happening to their data when they use these apps.
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You can be the person who helps them see the actual cost of free AI Tarot.
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We'll cover both of these in the Practitioner Takeaways.
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But first, let's shift perspective.
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Because AI isn't the enemy.
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It's a tool.
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Like any tool.
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The question is whether to use it.
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The question is how to use it.
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Well.
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Now, AI does have legitimate uses for serious Tarot practitioners.
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You just have to be clear about what you're using it for.
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Here's the distinction.
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AI is a study buddy, not an oracle.
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It's useful for research correspondence systems, brainstorming, organizing information, things that support your practice.
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But don't replace the core rational skill of reading for another person.
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Let me give you some concrete examples of where AI generally helps learning correspondence.
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You're studying the Thoth deck and you want to understand Crawley's astrological associations for the 2 of disk.
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You ask ChatGPT to explain the Jupiter in Capricorn correspondence, how it relates to the concept of change, and what traditional sources say about this card.
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The AI will synthesize information from multiple sources faster than you can look it up yourself.
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It gives you a clearer explanation.
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You learn something, you move on.
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That's legitimate use.
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You're using AI for information retrieval, not divination.
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Things like exploring symbolism across decks.
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You're comparing how different decks depict the hangman.
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You ask AI to describe the imagery in Rider, Wait, Thoth, light seers and the wild unknown.
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It gives you a quick overview that helps you see patterns and differences that study.
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Not a reading.
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Brainstorming spread positions.
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You're designing a new spread for clients who are navigating career transitions.
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You want a five card layout.
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You ask AI to suggest positional meanings that would create a useful narrative arc.
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It gives you options.
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You pick what resonates, adjust what doesn't.
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Test the spread in your own practice before using it with your clients.
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That's collaboration.
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The AI generates idea.
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You cultivate and refine.
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Writing marketing copy.
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You're updating your website.
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You need a paragraph that explains what tarot is to people who've never had a reading.
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You ask AI to draft something in plain English.
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It gives you a starting point.
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You edit it to match your voice.
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That's efficiency, not replacement.
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Researching historical content.
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You're curious of how the Tower card has been interpreted over time.
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You ask AI to summarize different approaches from the traditional Cartomancy, Golden Dawn, Jungian Tarot and modern intuitive readers.
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It gives you an overview.
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You follow up by reading the actual sources it references.
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That's research support, not knowledge transfer.
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So AI is useful when you're clear about what you're asking it to do.
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Information retrieval, idea generation, organization, efficiency, study support.
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But it can free up your time.
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So you're spending less energy on information lookup and more energy on human skills that actually matter.
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And then focus all your energy on becoming the kind of reader who who offer something that's worth paying for.
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Now let's get practical.
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There are five things that working readers need to do right now to protect and evolve their craft in the age of AI.
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These five takeaways are designed for working readers who who want to protect their practice in a landscape that's shifting fast.
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Takeaway number one.
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Market your biological advantage.
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You have a body.
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AI doesn't.
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What's happening in your body while you're reading, how you pace the conversation when you pause, and how you deliver difficult information.
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That's biological equipment AI can't replicate.
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Here's the scenario that's coming.
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Someone says, I've been getting readings from AI and it's pretty accurate.
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Why would I pay this much for a reading with you?
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Here's what to say.
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AI Tarot is useful for reflection, but it can't read your energy.
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When you sit with me, you're getting intuition and empathy.
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Someone who adjusts to what's actually happening in the moment.
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That's what you're paying for.
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Short, grounded, not defensive.
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You don't need to put this on your website, but when the question comes up, and it will, you need to answer it clearly without sounding threatened.
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So takeaway number one, Know your biological advantage and be ready to name it when challenged.
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Takeaway number two, Use AI for information, not divination.
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You can use AI for research, study, correspondence systems, and brainstorming.
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That's legitimate.
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But the moment you use AI to generate divination content for a client, you're violating the integrity of the work.
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This is already happening.
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People are setting up at fairs, charging for tarot readings that are just chatgpt output printed on paper.
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You can include a statement like this on your website.
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All readings are delivered by me, not generated by AI.
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I use technology for research and correspondence study.
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But the interpretation you receive comes from my direct knowledge of the cards.
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In my years of experience, you're getting a reading, not the machines.
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That's transparency.
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In a landscape where some readers are using AI without disclosing it, transparency becomes a selling point.
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One more thing.
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If you're using AI to study card combinations, anonymize or generalize the question.
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Don't feed client details in a system that stores and learns from your input.
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So takeaway number two.
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Use AI for information, not divination.
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Draw a clear line and be transparent with your clients.
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Takeaway number three Create a data Sanctity policy.
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If you're using AI in any capacity, you need a policy of what you will and what you won't feed into these systems.
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Here's a template you can adopt.
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The Data Sanctity Policy template Number one.
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I do not input client names, identify details or personal information into AI systems.
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Number two.
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If I use AI to explore card meanings or spread structures, I generalize the question and remove all personal content.
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Number three, I do not use AI to generate readings for clients.
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Number four.
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I do not store client session recordings or transcripts in cloud systems that use AI for transcription or analysis unless the client has explicitly consented.
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Number five I review and update this policy annually as technology changes.
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Most countries have laws requiring a privacy policy on your website.
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Some examples are the GDPR in Europe, the CCPA in California and and similar laws in Canada and Australia.
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If you're running a tarot business online, you're legally required to explain how you handle client data.
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Add these AI specific points to your existing policy, or use this as a starting point.
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If you're building one from scratch, you can pause here to write these down.
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I'll wait.
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You don't have to make it complicated, but you do have to have it.
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And if you're storing client information digitally, backing up sessions to cloud services, or using any online scheduling or payment systems, those policies need to be addressed on how that data is protected.
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So takeaway number three Create a data sanctity policy and make it part of your privacy documentation.
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Takeaway number four Design a spiralism Aware practice Remember, spiralism is the feedback loop when someone uses AI tarot repeatedly getting variations of the same soothing message, never moving forward.
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Clients caught in this pattern will show specific tells.
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They're asking the same question multiple times across different apps.
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They're looking for validation, not clarity.
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They resist difficult interpretations and immediately reframe pain as lessons.
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They use spiritual, bypassing language like everything happens for a reason.
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The universe is guiding me.
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They're not taking action based on previous readings.
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When you spot this pattern, you have a choice.
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You can enable it or you can disrupt it.
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Disruption is harder, but it's what they actually need.
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Here's how to do it.
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First, name the pattern gently.
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Not as an accusation, as as an observation.
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I noticed you've been asking about this situation for a while.
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You're getting similar cards, similar messages.
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Nothing's changing.
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What's stopping you from acting on what the cards are showing you?
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That shifts the reading from divination to accountability.
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Second, refuse to reframe difficulty as a spiritual lesson when it's not the time for that.
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If the cards show heartbreak, name it.
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These cards are showing heartbreak.
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That's what this is.
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Not a growth opportunity yet, just pain that needs to be felt.
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Let the difficulty be difficult.
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Third, set a boundary around repetitive readings.
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I'm not going to read for you about this again until we've taken some action on what we've already uncovered.
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The cards are clear.
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Come back in a month and tell me what shifted.
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Some clients will respect the boundary.
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Some will get defensive or even angry.
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If someone gets angry when you won't enable their Avoidance.
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That's information they're not ready.
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But for clients who are ready, who are tired of the loop, your willingness to disrupt the pattern could genuinely shift something.
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So takeaway number four, learn to spot spiralism.
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Name it gently and refuse to enable it.
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Takeaway number five, let AI raise your bar, not your anxiety.
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Instead of seeing AI as competition that's going to replace you, see it as a competitive pressure that's going to make you better.
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If you're willing to develop the skills that AI can't replicate, this moment is an opportunity.
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The bar just got raised.
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And the readers who meet the new standard will stand out in ways they couldn't before.
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So instead of panicking, audit your practice.
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Ask yourself, am I offering something genuinely human, or am I just delivering information?
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Do I hold space skillfully, or do I rush through readings because I'm uncomfortable with silence?
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Can I read the person as well as I read the cards?
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Am I continuing the study and deepening my knowledge, or am I coasting on what I already know?
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These questions are uncomfortable, but they're necessary.
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If the audit reveals gaps, close them.
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Take a workshop on holding space, study a new deck, and learn breath work or semonic awareness so you can track what's happening in the body while you're tracking someone else's.
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Develop signature skills, things you do that no one else does.
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Quite the same way.
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Maybe it's the way you use clarifiers.
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Maybe it's your knowledge of astrological correspondence.
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Maybe it's your ability to read court cards as psychological profiles.
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Whatever it is, lean into it, make it central to your work, and then market it.
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Don't just say I do tarot readings.
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Say I specialize in using clarifier cards to unpack complex relationship dynamics.
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Or I integrate Union's psychology with traditional Tarot symbolism to help clients understand their shadow patterns.
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Being specific is valuable.
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Generic card readings are what AI does.
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Specific, skilled human tarot readings are what clients will pay for.
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Here's a language you can use on your website or in conversations with clients.
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The parts in the brackets are yours to fill in.
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The availability of AI Tarot has pushed me to deepen my practice.
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I spent the last year studying your specific area, and it's transformed how I approach readings.
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What I offer now is more precise, more grounded, and more responsive to what each client actually needs.
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AI can generate card meetings.
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I bring your specific skill to every session.
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That's confidence.
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You're not defensive about AI.
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You're not pretending it doesn't exist.
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You're saying this technology exists and it made me better at what I do.
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So takeaway number five Let AI raise your bar, not your anxiety.
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Audit your practice honestly, close the gaps and develop signature skills.
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Market what makes you irreplaceable.
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Because AI isn't going to erase good readers, it's going to erase the mediocre ones.
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And if you're willing to be excellent, this is your moment.
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That's where I'll leave it for today.
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It was a long but an insightful topic.
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We've covered what AI Tarot actually does, why people are drawn to it, the shadow risk of spiralism in data harvesting, where AI actually fits as a tool.
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It's and five practitioner takeaways for protecting and evolving your craft.
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If you're feeling some anxiety about all this, that's reasonable, but here's what I want you to hear.
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AI isn't here to erase Tarot readers.
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It's here to pressure us to be more fully human.
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It's about being present, holding space, tracking subtle cues, adjusting in real time, bringing years of embodied experience experience to every session.
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That's not something an algorithm can replicate, but you have to actually offer it.
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You can't coast on mediocre readings and assume clients will keep coming because you're human.
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You have to be skilled, present, excellent at what you do.
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So here's what I'm inviting you to do.
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Pick one of those five takeaways from this episode.
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Just one, and implement it the this month.
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Maybe it's updating your website to include that response when someone challenges you about AI.
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Maybe it's creating that data sanctity policy and adding it to your privacy policy.
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Maybe it's auditing your practice to see where you need to level up.
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One action this month.
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That's all.
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Because this moment isn't about overhauling everything overnight.
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It's about making clear, grounded choices about where you stand and what you're willing to protect.
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If you found this episode useful, share with another reader who's navigating this territory and if you want to continue this conversation.
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If you have any questions or want to talk about how this applies to your specific practice, reach out by sending a private message or dming me on social media.
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Or just leave a comment below.
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I would love to hear from you.
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One more thing.
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The Charles Morgan interview I referenced earlier, where he talks about the paradoulia in designing his Tarot deck.
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It's linked in the description.
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It's a three hour conversation with Danny Jones covering memory intelligence work and how the brain constructs meaning.
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It's fascinating stuff.
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Worth your time if you want to go deeper on the cognitive science of what we do.
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This is a living conversation.
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It's not settled.
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The technology is evolving, our understanding is evolving.
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How we protect our practices will still keep evolving, but the core stays the same.
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Tarot is a human art.
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It requires presence, skill, and the willingness to sit with uncertainty without rushing to soothe it away.
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That's what you bring.
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That's what no algorithm can touch.
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I'm George Duss.
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