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TarotBot Erotic (v. 2.4)
Разработано Liberus
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Optimized for Honeycomb tablets and small screen devices
This is an explicitly erotic deck using Wiccan imagery. Wicca views creation as a divine union, the creative and ecstatic union of loving and complementary male and female principles.
The four suits of the pips are Pagan symbols, for the cups, wands, swords, and pentacles are the religious objects of Wiccan rituals. Each ritual tool is associated with a specific cardinal direction, and the symbolic qualities of earth, air, water, and fire. For many Pagans, wands are of air and swords are of fire. The cup, the wand, and the athame (a black handled knife, considered a representation of a sword) are frankly sexual symbols.
Further, The Moon and Death have had their placements switched in The Tarot and the Mysteries of Love and Sex. Since women, generally speaking, are fertile in synch with the lunar cycle, women are fertile for thirteen days a year, on the thirteenth day of their “moon” for thirteen hours. The Moon, then, is number thirteen.
In counterbalance to the cycle of fertility is the cycle of life which moves from birth to death (and back again). The fadic number of eighteen is nine and Nine is the number of completion, finality. Thus, eighteen, as a high vibration of nine, is the appropriate numerological designation of Death.
TarotBot is an open source framework for tarot readings on Android devices with switchable card decks and interpretations.
The interface, which re-presents tarot, was designed with the primary goal to only draw from the physical artifacts (the deck of cards) those attributes which are meaningful to the reading: imagery, interpretations, and context. The traditional shuffling, dealing, and arranging of the cards is removed from the process allowing a much more streamlined reading experience to emerge. The experience may lack some traditional elements but conducting readings for one’s self, especially on the go, is far from traditional.
While other tarot apps seek to replicate the experience of tarot cards TarotBot aims to evolve tarot into a new medium.
When tarot is most effective is when one uses intuition to interpret the cards, however interpretations are provided to help anyone unfamiliar with tarot. These are a synthesis of experience and research conducted during development.
Primary research sources include:
The Oracle of the Tarot by Paul Foster Case
Tarot Plain and Simple by Anthony Louis
Learning the Tarot by Joan Bunning
Sex Magic, Tantra, and Tarot by Christopher Hyatt
