Seeing the Future: Staffer reviews getting online tarot card readings

Tarot cards — the newest niche trend on my TikTok feed. It seems like the algorithm is practically begging me to listen to a stranger pulling cards that are meant to predict my future or give insight into my spiritual life.

After a month of watching these videos, I began noticing that things said in the videos were actually happening in my life — oddly specific things like drama in my friend group or predicting what happened with that one British boy I had a thing with a year ago.

So in order to see if these cards were too good to be true, I skipped the general readings on TikTok and decided to get a personalized reading of my own from Etsy.

After glancing at a few listings, I settled on an “In-Depth Tarot Reading for the Next Six Months of Your Life” by Etsy seller AnaReadings for only $10.86.

I gave her my name and birthday, then opted for her “two-question” option over the blind reading so I could ask specific questions I wanted to be answered: “What will the following months hold for me?” and “What should I know about my current relationship?”

Within 12 hours she sent me my 1,618-word reading, detailed with timelines, certain traits I have and upcoming situations. She described the five cards pulled, what they meant and how it would affect me in addition to answering both of my questions.

The main points of my reading were that I’m currently in a bad period but good fortune is coming my way and that my current relationship will strengthen.

While there were some predictions that were slightly inaccurate, like that I’ll soon get together with my boyfriend of almost a year, I had no questions after reading it.

For the price point and speed of the reading, it seemed well worth the money and I’d happily purchase another in the future.

After my hopeful first reading, I decided to give it another go and try one by Melizzzyyy called “Personalized Mystery Intuitive Tarot Reading” for $7.77. This one was different from my first reading as instead of sending questions, there are categories you can choose from which were love, general, witchcraft, spiritual, career, friendship, advice, mystery reading and “random! chaotic!”

I was instantly drawn to the “random! chaotic!” due to my love of exclamation points and having been described as a naturally chaotic person.

The reading came the same day in an aesthetic PDF that the seller messaged to me, unlike the first that was just an Etsy message. It was five paragraphs total but one was just a random story the reader gave relating to my reading, which may be annoying to some, but I didn’t mind. I did buy the chaotic reading after all. They pulled three cards total but only delved into one of them.

The reading itself was about a masculine energy currently having “petty beef” with me. It also gave details about the masculine energy such as names, hair colors and astrological signs which I found helpful and interesting.

While I wouldn’t pick this reading over the first one as it wasn’t as descriptive or informative, it still gave me helpful insight and I don’t regret purchasing it.

I decided I needed one more reading to fully understand my future and to bump up the price to see how it compares to the cheaper ones.

I chose a three-month tarot reading from tarotreaderkarly. You can choose between an Etsy message or voice memo in the normal 5-6 day timeline or a 24 hour option. My low patience went for the 24 hour Etsy message, totaling to $20 — twice as much as my other readings.

The reading came 18 hours after purchasing and they had pulled oracle cards, along with tarot— two tarot and one oracle card for each month.

They gave a breakdown of each month in reference to the card — December being a time for exploring new things and growing, January will be calm while I make deeper connections and February will have highs and lows that I’ll have to push through.

It wasn’t too detailed which left me with a few questions, but since it was a more general reading I didn’t mind. While it was vague, it gave me good advice on these coming months and how to handle some situations mentioned such as making sure I take time to rest during the lows in February.

I don’t think this was worth the extra money since it was equivalent to the others in length, description and how many cards were pulled, but it still was a helpful reading. Even though it was an adequate reading, I’d opt for the cheaper options any day.

While I won’t be consulting tarot cards for every question and problem that comes my way, these readings still piqued my interest in the practice and also gave me interesting advice — even if it may not be totally true.