Why the spread arrives as an image
Because «the Tower came up» as text is a list, not a spread. Viki sends an assembled image: real cards drawn from the full 78-card deck, laid out in the scheme, positions numbered. Looking at a spread with your eyes is half the work of tarot.
What’s in the image
- The cards in the order and geometry the scheme dictates.
- Numbered positions — you see where the essence is, where the obstacle, where the advice.
- The full card images, not names in text.
Why it matters
Tarot is a visual system. Half the meaning lives in the pictures themselves: where a figure looks, what it holds, which cards landed side by side and echo each other’s details. A text list carries none of that.
An image can also be saved, forwarded, printed and returned to with fresh eyes — a different experience from scrolling chat history.
The full deck
All 78 cards are in play: 22 major arcana and 56 minors across four suits. No trimmed «majors only» sets — that loses the everyday concreteness the minors carry.
What comes with the image
The reading, in text: what each position means, how the cards link, what conclusion follows. An image without a reading is pretty but useless.
How long it takes
Assembling the image takes time — up to a couple of minutes for large spreads. If Viki’s been «typing» a while, she’s drawing.
Real cards as an image plus a written reading.