Okay, so I’ve been messing around with this idea for a tarot card combinations calculator. It’s been a wild ride, let me tell you.
Getting Started
First off, I had to figure out what I even wanted this thing to do. I mean, there are 78 cards in a standard tarot deck, and the combinations are, well, a lot. So, I started by jotting down some basic ideas. I wanted to input two or more cards and get some kind of output that would tell me about their combined meanings.
Building the Thing
I’m no coding whiz, but I can hack my way through some basic stuff. I started with a simple spreadsheet, just listing out all the cards and some keywords associated with them. Then I started playing around with some basic formulas to see if I could get it to spit out some combined meanings. It was messy, but it was a start.
- Created a spreadsheet: Listed all 78 tarot cards.
- Added keywords: Wrote down a few keywords for each card.
- Experimented with formulas: Tried to combine the keywords somehow.
Hitting a Wall
Honestly, the spreadsheet thing got out of hand pretty quickly. It was hard to manage and even harder to get any meaningful results. I realized I needed something a bit more robust. That’s when I started looking into maybe using some basic programming languages. There are some languages good for this type of thing, but I don’t know any of them. I just wanted to quickly build a tool. So I was thinking maybe I could just use some simple scripts.
Trying Out Scripts
I messed around with some Python scripts, just trying to get the hang of it. I found some online tutorials and started piecing things together. It was slow going, and I definitely made a ton of mistakes, but I started to see some progress. The idea was to create a simple program where I could input the cards and get a combined meaning based on their keywords.
- Tried learning a language: Didn’t work.
- Found online tutorials: Helped a bit with the basics.
- Wrote some basic code: Slowly started to make something that resembled a program.
Making Some Headway
After a lot of trial and error, I finally had something that kind of worked. It wasn’t pretty, and it definitely wasn’t perfect, but it was a functional tarot card combination calculator. I could input a few cards, and it would give me a basic interpretation based on their combined keywords. I even managed to add a little feature where it would consider reversed cards.
- Kept practicing: Spent hours just trying and failing.
- Finally got something working: It was basic, but it worked.
- Added a reversed card feature: Made it a bit more complex.
Still a Work in Progress
So, that’s where I’m at now. It’s still a work in progress, but I’m pretty happy with how far I’ve come. There’s still a lot I want to improve, like making the interpretations more nuanced and maybe even adding some kind of user interface. But for now, it’s a fun little project that I can use for my own readings. It was tough, but in the end, it was a rewarding experience. I’m still playing around with it, trying to add more and more stuff, making it a bit fancier each time. You know how it is, one little feature leads to another, and suddenly you’re knee-deep in something you never thought you’d be able to do. Who knew a simple idea could turn into such a big thing? But that’s the fun of it, right? Learning and creating and just seeing where it all goes.
