Hello, my tiny tarot friends. Happy October. Happy almost Halloween. Happy Samhain. I am your tiny tarot witch, Amelia Hruby, and I have not been on this pod feed since very early in the year or really since last year when I finished my tiny tarot project of making a tiny episode speaking to the meaning of every card in the tarot.

We finished that project with The World at the 2024. And since then, I have had a tiny tarot dream of creating a site where you could press a button and select a random tarot card and be linked to the episode for that card. My thought was that then you could sort of use that site to do your own tarot pulls and listen to the episodes to make meaning from the cards. And I thought it'd be a lot of fun, but I didn't know how to code it, because I have some web design skills, but not like that. So this fall, I was explaining this to a friend and they asked why I didn't just vibe code it using the support of a generative AI tool like Claude.

Now, I consider myself to be an AI skeptic. And so I resisted this at first. I wasn't sure if I wanted to use AI in this way. I am very critical of the way the AI companies have stolen the work of artists. I myself have a book that was stolen by Anthropic, and I'm a part of the class action suit against them or settlement against them to receive money for my books being used to train their large language models without my consent.

So I'm not interested in AI that rips off artists and steals from us. But I was interested in AI that can write some code, especially because I knew that without that assistance, I would never bring this project to life. And I feel like the descriptions and the audio of all of the cards is already on the Internet. It's freely available. I have chosen to make it so.

And what I kind of learned from my book being swiped and stolen is that my podcast episodes could be too, and I don't really have any recourse for that. And that frustrates me, but also made it feel like maybe I could use this tool to create something I actually wanted to create with those episodes instead of just feeling like a frustrated victim of the inevitable eating of the Internet by companies like OpenAI or Anthropic or Perplexity or others. So that's a lot of caveats to say that: I have made you a tiny tarot card site with the support of Claude. And I am really excited to share it with you this week in honor of the spookiest time of year, one of the most mystical magical portals of the year. And I hope that you will head to the show notes, click the link there, and it will open a page where you can read a little bit about the podcast and then press a button to pull a card.

Then you'll receive a random card from the major or minor arcana. There will be a brief one sentence description, which is the description I had written for the episode, and a button to listen to the episode if you would like. I have been playing with it all month and really enjoying this new way of bringing tarot into my life and also revisiting my own interpretations on the cards. And I hope that you'll enjoy it too. It's totally free to use.

It's just a wonderful resource for you. And if you would like to thank me for that, you can buy my tiny tarot zine, is also linked in the show notes for you. I also just wanna say that I hope that this type of free resource makes you want to go buy more tarot decks from the amazing, brilliant artists who create them. At my last count, I owned approximately 26 decks. So I'm gonna link some of my favorite tarot decks in the show notes as well.

Some creators I know personally, some whose work I just admire from afar. But I'm gonna link you directly to their websites. These are not affiliate links. These are just genuine recommendations. So if you love pulling the cards with the episode on my new card puller site, I hope that you will also love purchasing a deck from an artist.

I want to believe that we can find paths forward where AI can be a generative tool that is not stealing from artists. I don't know if that's a naive dream. Maybe it is, but this is my tiny attempt to bring the two together, and I hope that you enjoy it. I wish you the most beautiful, blessed rest of your fall, and I hope that you might pull a card today.