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To @sabrin1a : the sheer audacity here is blinding 😍🔪🔪

You know, it was completely unnecessary and unwarranted to spread all that hate. What's wrong with anyone asking for birthday wishes??

How about you don't give in to this "marketing tactic" if you are so blown up about it??? Who are you to tell her anything with that absolute bullshit attitude of yours??? Absolutely no one.

You seem like an attention-seeking brat. Who can get bitter even with sweets. Your assumptions are so laughable.

What's the threshold for logical and illogical, how about you leave it to the ones asking? They didn't ask for your damn kidney, all they did was for a wish, or sometimes what vibes they give off.

Isn't it normal to like being wished for birthday?? You are just so incredibly resentful...

My second ask and this one is not about tarot but about yourself, miss. Why do we need to wish you happy birthday? You are announcing to a whole bunch of internet strangers that it’s your birthday and you want more energy being sent to you because it’s your birthday?

I can barely believe this. The marketing in reblogging so you receive more attention makes sense. But this is totally illogical. It’s like people getting downvoted on Reddit and getting upset about it or having a “Happy Cake day” and getting upset people didn’t wish them a “happy cake day”. Who cares, honestly?

The people, the GENUINE (not internet fabricated or fake) Wishes should come from people close to you. From around your immediate surroundings. And if there is a lack thereof (I don’t know), it should mainly come from within. Mature , more enlightened people would not accept any ‘crumbles’ merely for social norms. This isn’t it.

If you want me to wish you happy birthday and say that it’s with my entire heart I wish it, I can do it for the sake of this tarot reading (which I’m starting to doubt is true at all) but be aware it won’t be genuine.

Think of beggars on the street, you look at them and you think “such poor lives/it must be awful to be in their position”, walk on and move with your life. You’ve forgotten they exist. Boom.

Excess Of Direspect !

@sabrin1a rather than focusing first on your points you have mentioned I had love to bring out that unapologetic tone of saying to me with that audacity of you have.

I'm controlling my anger here pressuming that you are mature enough to understand. I can say more worse but I'm maintaining my professionalism .

Enough of infringement and criticism regarding rules and especially me since you have mentioned .

Let's come to the heated debate over here since you want some, ryt ?

First of all talking about genuine wishes you are right about it. I won't say anything about it. But now , I won't accept such disgusting and lowly means of communication to make someone understand or convey by comparing them with legit beggars or reddit people.

Wishes as a rule and your perspective

Are both different things . What you are thinking may not be necessarily what people are thinking and pressuming . Stop putting yourself among others same as you when they are different.

It's my choice what to put as a rule and what not ,okay ? You are not a reader and nor you are doing readings where can you impose what should I put as a rule and what I not.

Nor you are my master nor you are my boss nor you are on that position to impose what you feel on me and what should I do .

About someone did or not they did they did more than what I wanted . They wished me More than wishes. Okay.

Illogical marketing strategies :-

I'm a reader and my purpose and Intentions are different so goes for others even. What seems logical to you may not be to others.

I'm not here to please you at all with my logical rules. It's my birthday event and it's my life and I can do what I want cuz it's a light hearted Day.

This shows how selfish you are and how judgemental you are. You just think what you think is right . What you belive is right .

Tumblr cannot monetize for many countries so for me . Keep your mouth shut when you don't know anything. This is called stupidity and impulsiveness in one's nature .

The one who has been here on my tumblr account for so long knows either what I do is for marketing or either mainly reaching and helping people . I don't need to explain myself .

For others their marketing startgies are different and for me it's different. Who in the fucking hell are you to judge and criticise?

Wishes as a way of attracting energies :-

To this very idiotic statement of yours - announcing to the bunch of internet strangers and attracting energies. I can barely belive this .

Your most welcome to fucking get lost . I m not doing this for you . Words are power and Intentions fuels them . I have My own ways to energizes myself and make my self happy.

Tarot reading needs energies and energies can be manifested in any ways. This is enough to justify your half knowledge.

You should fucking apologise to me for speaking to me like this. You got no Rights . I have more people even your presence won't matter to Me. Stop giving yourself extra attention .

Overall,

Your statements over Me and my work are grounded by Materialistic thoughts accompanied by narrow mindedness and lack of knowledge about the sector .

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Pick a card - what's coming next in career 💗

This is my first pac, I'm so excitedd. This was suggested by @livelythoughts tyy

1-2-3

Take some deep breaths, and choose the pic which draws you in the most. Just follow your gut.

Pile 1

I picked a reversed wheel of fortune for y'all. This could show some bad luck, things not going your way. You could be facing some kind of disappointed in your career. A rejection or a blockage in your project. There could also be delays in work. Advice - ask help from colleagues, peers or family.

Pile 2

I picked eight of wands for yall. This can show that you all might have struggled a lot before. However I see some positive and steady growth after this struggle. It shows energy or a newfound motivation. If you're still struggling, don't worry things will soon improve. There will be progress in what you're working on at the moment. However don't get too excited. Go slow and don't be haste.

Pile 3

I picked the emperor for you, it shows someone wise, mature, stable. Its an authoritative figure. In terms of career, it tells you to be disciplined and maintain a structure. You guys will be good leaders. Take control and be proactive. I see you getting recognition from coworkers or peers. Set rules and maintain good work ethic.

Hope y'all enjoyed!

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ABOUT ME :

I'm Anya. I'm a cancer sun, Leo moon and aqua rising.

I have two blogs here -

anyatarot - This is my tarot blog where I post tarot readings.

Yourfreetherapist - This is my astrology blog.

I do paid tarot readings as well. There isn't much limitation to the questions I take. Please dm me for these.

( nothing 18+, no legal advice, death related questions)

The readings I do -

- Any 3 question readings

- 5 question readings

- Career guidance (elaborate)

- Love guidance (elaborate)

- Self development ( elaborate)

GAMES GOING ON -

~ Moodboard game - yourfreetherapist (Open)

~ tarot career game - Anyatarot (open)

~ Free tarot reading - anyatarot (Closed)

For any other questions, please dm me 💗

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Hey guys, I wanted to try something different!

Tarot career game (open)

I will be telling you the career you are best suited for using tarot. Please note I'm not a professional and it may not resonate.

Rules: (you must be following me)

LIKE AND REBLOG THIS POST

REBLOG MY PINNED POST

REBLOG MY PAC

SEND ME YOUR INITIALS /NAME

Leave a feedback

That's it. I have nothing else to do these days lol since no ones buying readings from me 😭

Do check out my paid readings hehe

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nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.

me: oh cool

nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.

me: oh cool

nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.

me: oh... cool?

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my life advice is if anyone ever says 'let me know if there's anything i can do' think of something for them to do even if you feel like they didn't mean it. if they didn't mean it they shouldn't have said it and if they did mean it u will both feel closer to each other for it.

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:((

The fact that she was too lazy to do that, and scammed you thinking you wouldn't check or find out.

If it is so, well, it's wrong and she shouldn't have done it. You just don't do this. It wastes time and energy and expectations of parties involved.People are not foolish, and the internet is available to everyone present here (obviously). You know in Hindi there is this phrase "Nakl ke liye bhi akal chahiye" literally translating to "Even cheating involves the brain". There is that.

You can't just assume people wouldn't find out about this shit. They will. Have some responsibility and common sense, don't put out the notice to do readings if you can't or are just going to copy. You will be exposed eventually, badly.

So, be aware guys! There will always be a difference between site copy-paste and genuinely written content.

Ps: guys if you are confused or unaware on how to do any type of reading, tarot, Oracle, astrology, intuitive, rune and many more. Sincerely, ask the readers who do those readings before proceeding, if you have the tiniest of doubts, I believe many readers will help you in this journey. You know, it's always nice to ask the experienced even if they don't know how to clear doubt, if you ask they may guide you to other readers who will know. And there is always YouTube to teach.

This is it and my take!!

Okay- Bye!!

SCAM ATTENTION PLEASE 🙏🏼 :-

This about an exchange reading I had with a reader who broke my trust , disrespected both of us and I consider this as a scam .

It's @riyus-things now she deactivated her account. She is a fake reader anyways .

I started my exchange just two days ago and asked any 3 people who had be Interested to the reading with Me . She was among them.

I had opted for vedic chart reading for My question's prediction. Later when I got the reading it totally copied from the website I knew .

The following points had my suspicion come true :-

I got to know from the chart what website she used .

Prediction wasn't according to question's context I asked .

I already had an eye on the blog quite few time in which I observed about her English. The prediction's English and her English were different. I didn't want to look down as I thought that maybe it's for professionalism.

But , I had check on the website 5 times just because I didn't want to say anything wrong but it was what it was .

She copied the whole prediction from website.

EVIDENCE :-

Her reading Vs website's reading :-

2nd :-

This is whole of this very long in my DM but but I could just upload this .

Later I had sent her the website reading's screenshot , she showed by responding as she is totally unaware what is happening because she got caught.

FROM HER SIDE :-

LISTEN TO ME :-

I guess it's not hard to see how she was manipulating me and twisting from one excuse to another .

I.e - Herself then her friend then herself and then a mixed excuse of both reasons.

Listen, everything has been mentioned in rules from time to everything . Comfortable rules were provided .

You know this is literally a disrespectful thing this shows you are not valuing and respecting other honestly with your work.

She did this so quickly like just a copy paste , but I would taken an hour to predict would this be fine and justified ? If yes , you are a fake reader like her.

If I wouldn't have told you about post I would make you had just gone so easily like that .

She sent me a reading which was again fake and copied which is can be seen with her communication skills .

Wait ! I had look at post she made as an apology - she said that Her friend sent her the reading here she told me that she recommended her website . Wow .

I had a look at her asks where my friend asked how did she learn palmistry there she was saying it's her friend and family who knew about it. In post she is accusing them now . She is a fraudster .

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Quiraing, Skye Island, Scotland by Lukas Watschinger

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“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.

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Growing.

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Hangzhou West Lake, China

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Back with a new one card and dice mini reading game 🖤

Ask your question via DM (no inbox!)

Pick a deck: Firefly Tarot (left) | Terror Tarot (middle) | Creatures Tarot (right)

Tell me one number between 1 & 22

Likes, reblogs and/or follows are more than appreciated ;)

Open until April 13th. I will also be offering 3 more in depth readings at random after this game so if you are interested to participate just mention it 😊

Remember that I do readings as an hobby and purely for your entertainment. Dignity optional, but sense of humor mandatory!

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FREE MOODBOARD

Hi, everyone. I'll be doing a moodboard game for the first time, I'm very excited as it's my first astrology game.

RULES:

1. Follow me ( advantage of following me - I reblog lots of astrology games going on so you'll stay updated I guarantee it lol)

2. Reblog this post ( help me get reach I'm new 😋)

3. Send me your big 3 in my ask (sun, moon and rising sign)

4. Tell me what you like to do in your free time/hobby so I get to know a bit about you as well

That's it!

You'll be getting a moodboard on the vibes I think you give based on astrology as well as you in general.

THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING! 💗

P.S - It's gonna remain open unless I state otherwise on here

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"but there is something that happens when you are told you are too much. you begin to ask everyone, "how small would you like me?""

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Shufflemancy 101: A Brief History & Analysis

Hey! If you like my work and want to support me in my quest for divination theory, digital tools, algorithmic quandries, and research into niche divination tools, consider throwing dollars at my Ko-Fi tip jar! Every contribution helps me keep making posts like this one. (You can also read this post over on Ko-Fi!)

The difficulty with researching something like shufflemancy is that it's a relatively modern phenomenon. I haven't yet found anyone (online or in a book) specifically talking about the origins of shufflemancy as a term or where it might've come from.

So, we start from square one.

What is Shufflemancy?

According to Wikipedia, shufflemancy is divination "by the use of an electronic media player such as an electronic playlist, iPod, or other medium wherein one skips a certain number of songs and the lyrics and/or tune of the song is the answer to the divinatory question."

Simple enough. Use an electronic collection of music that's been shuffled to divine.

This did lead me to the question: What counts as shufflemancy? Does tuning into a radio station count?

It's my opinion that radio divination does not count. There's no shuffle function. Yes, it has an element of chance, and that's what makes it divination. It certainly falls under the wider umbrella of divination via music, too. But it isn't shufflemancy if it doesn't make use of a shuffle function.

So, to make things simple, for something to be shufflemancy, it must:

Use an electronic medium

Involve a randomized shuffle function

Be something the shufflemancer can interpret to answer a question (pretty much anything)

Early Shufflemancy

The earliest form of shufflemancy as we understand it today, using the above requirements, would probably be tape players capable of shuffling music. With the nature of tape, it would take a while for the thing to wind and rewind to find the cue on the tape which signaled the start or end of a song, but it'd work.

With that said, shuffling as we understand and recognize it today would've started with CDs in the 1980s. There were CD players that could hold three to five disks at a time. They could shuffle songs between all disks held in the player, creating a random mix of tunes for listeners to enjoy.

Using either of these methods for divination would work, technically. The results would be somewhat limited, but that doesn't mean it's a bad method to use. Especially if your CD player could hold 5 disks, you could easily put in 5 albums from different artists with all different vibes for a wider variety of outputs.

I certainly remember using my little blue radio that held two CDs at once like this. I'd put in two albums and hit shuffle, and the first song that played would be my vibe and advice for the day. It was divination -- some of the earliest I'd ever done consciously, at the young age of nine. And when I got the bigger one that held three CDs? Game changer.

So this puts shufflemancy's origins somewhere around the mid-to-late 1980s, when Sony put out the first CD player with shuffle. As we moved into the 1990s, CDs became more popular and cassettes faced obsolescence.

The Shuffle Revolution & Early Modern Shufflemancy

In 2005, Apple changed the game again. It had already debuted the iPod in 2001, providing an easy, pocket-sized music experience as a direct challenge to the CD's cultural domination. On January 11, 2005, nearly 20 years ago, Apple announced the iPod Shuffle.

And oh, boy, did it change everything.

I could talk forever about the iPod's impact on the music industry, the death of the in-order album, and the eventual rise of music streaming services. But others have done that to death, so I'll focus in on our topic of shufflemancy.

This is where we start seeing shuffling music as it is now, in the modern day. In my digging, I found mentions of the term "shufflemancy" as early as 2007 -- just two years after the iPod Shuffle was announced. Someone proposed the concept and terminology of "shufflemancy" as we understand it today on a Halfbakery Forum "Idea" post on October 3, 2007.

It's difficult to say whether this is the first instance of the term. In reality, shufflemancy seems to have emerged as a natural by-product of the evolution of music technology. Where there is innovation, witches and diviners will mold it to their purposes. We're a resourceful bunch like that. It grew organically as we moved from buying albums to buying singles to streaming music without buying at all.

People were offering public shufflemancy readings as early as 2009 in places like TarotForum.net. It's spoken about during this era as a "silly" and "new" form of divination that people were trying out. There aren't any dates in that link, but according to the website's data, the first post in the thread was published on June 16, 2009.

From there, shufflemancy saw a gradual rise in popularity. It evolved from using iPods to iTunes, Napster, and eventually Spotify as these new applications emerged.

Shufflemancy Now

If you look up "shufflemancy" using Spotify's search function, you'll receive dozens of results. Many of the top playlists are public ones curated by shufflemancers for themselves and others to use. Options range from general playlists to "mega mixes" containing upwards of 200 hours of music from all different genres, artists, and eras. There are some with a paltry five hours of music, while one that I've seen goes up over the 600 hour mark. (If I can find that one again, I'll reblog it, because... damn.)

Select a "messages from your guides" option from the search or curate your own -- the choice is yours. For one-time shufflemancers, using a pre-made option may be the best, most economical choice. But dedicated shufflemancers sometimes boast multiple hundred-hour playlists for different purposes, all personally curated.

Clearly, it's popular. There are shufflemancers on Tumblr and Etsy offering free and paid services using their specially curated playlists. A quick search is all you need to find someone receiving a divinatory reading via song lyrics, meanings, and vibes. And it seems to work -- sellers on Etsy boast hundreds of positive reviews. Some even offer playlist curation services for personal shufflemancy or messages from deities and/or spirits.

It all begs the question, how does shufflemancy work?

Shufflemancy Methodology

Finding this is significantly easier than pinning down the history of shufflemancy. This post from Tumblr user orriculum, sums it up fairly well. So does this one by the-daily-diviner.

To do shufflemancy, the basic steps are:

Create or find a playlist of songs. A large collection seems to be the most favorable option for a wide spread of possibilities.

Ask a question. Divination 101 -- figure out what you want to know and ask it. Simple enough.

Pick a number. Choose any number and shuffle that many times or skip that many songs.

Listen to the song. Write down lyrics that stick out, messages that come through, and anything else that seems relevant (genre, tempo, vibe, etc.)

Interpret. Take the information gathered during the song and use it to draw conclusions, just like any other form of divination.

Simple enough. Shufflemancy is the sort of method that requires a high level of intuitive thinking. It's very mutable and suits a good amount of personalization.

This is both good and bad, I think. It would be incredibly easy to create a bias in your shufflemancy playlists by selecting songs with primarily one genre, artist, album, emotion, or through-line. The ideal playlist really does have a wide variety of music, and this means selecting songs that the shufflemancer doesn't necessarily like. We all have a genre or artist we hate; excluding an entire genre skews results. Impartial selections of music are critical to the success of good divination. Otherwise, we risk interfering with the outcome.

And speaking of interfering...

The Algorithm Problem

(Note: I'm focusing in on Spotify since it's very commonly used and because it's accessible to me. Shufflemancy can be (and is!) done with plenty of other apps like Apple Music.)

When Spotify was originally launched, it used a version of the Fisher-Yates Shuffle to perform its shuffling of music. In essence, this algorithm takes a finite sequence of data, picks an option from that selection of data, and removes it from the pool. Then, it picks another and another until no more options remain.

At first glance, this seems great! It creates a fairly random output. But as is the nature of randomness, there were clusters. The same artist would play four or five times in a row from a large playlist, and Spotify users complained. It was random, but it didn't feel that way.

The human brain is wired to find connections and patterns. When the same artist plays over and over again despite a playlist being on shuffle mode, it creates a pattern that the brain recognizes. Therefore, the "true" randomness of clustering outputs was unsatisfactory.

So, in 2014, Spotify updated it. Their new algorithm would detect and remember the song it just played and, in shuffling, account for the artist and album to provide a more random-feeling result. The new algorithm detects what's already played and selects accordingly to prevent the same artist from playing twice in a row, just as it prevents the same song from playing twice. It spreads artists out evenly (though not perfectly, to maintain the illusion of randomness) to provide an enhanced listening experience.

What does this mean for shufflemancy, then? If Spotify's algorithm is interfering in the output provided from a playlist, does that mean it's not a reliable form of divination?

At first, I wasn't so sure. I adjusted my thinking -- if a tarot app was preventing certain cards from being drawn (or from being drawn in a particular order) because I'd already drawn them that day or week, would that render the app unreliable? And the answer was yes. It would! It removes the random element from the method, therefore making it not true divination by my definition.

So shufflemancy with Spotify isn't (good) divination, then. Right?

My Opinion & Theory

In thinking about this further, I think it comes down to personal opinion. People certainly have success with shufflemancy via Spotify, or else they wouldn't do it. They definitely wouldn't offer their services (free or otherwise) if they weren't confident in the results it provides.

Thinking that way, I believe there's a way to off-set the algorithm's interference. With enough songs in a playlist, the random element is enhanced despite the algorithm. Not by having the same song multiple times (Spotify would surely detect this and prevent it from playing), but perhaps the same song covered by different artists. Songs with the same vibe, the same meaning, similar lyrics... AND songs from a wide variety of artists and genres, regardless of whether the shufflemancer likes the songs or not.

The person with that 600+ hour playlist for shufflemancy has it right, I think. That's the key. Variety and volume to make up for Spotify's algorithmic shuffler.

Additionally, in listening to my many, many Spotify playlists, I noticed something. If I'm listening to a playlist on shuffle and decide I want a specific song, I can choose to play it immediately. Afterwards, songs I've already heard might play. It seems as though doing this resets the shuffling algorithm in some way. Doing this in combination with a large and varied playlist might be the key to making shufflemancy in Spotify truly, fully reliable.

My Next Steps

Obviously, scholarly research only goes so far in situations like this. In order to properly gauge the accuracy of shufflemancy, I'll have to do it myself.

First, I'll need a playlist. I have a handful of playlists that sit in the hundred-hour range, but they're curated with friends for specific vibes. They're not really suitable for shufflemancy. So making one for myself is step one. I'll use premade playlists as a springboard for ideas, but the end result will be my own. For transparency, I'll make the playlist public and share it as part of the next edition in this series of posts.

The next step is to just... do it. Do the divinations, and do them regularly. Instead of a daily tarot card, I'll do a daily shuffle. I'll form "spreads" and put together a more in-depth methodology that fits my style as it develops.

Then, finally, maybe public ones? For reviews and feedback, obviously. It's one thing to do divination for myself -- confirmation bias and all -- but to do it for others and to be open for immediate feedback is entirely different.

Last, it's a matter of compiling my findings into a coherent document. Easier said than done, but done it must be.

Resources

I pulled from a lot of places for this one. Massive thanks to the Crossroads Discord for listening to me yell about divination for the last several weeks. It will continue.

In any case, here are all the resources I referenced for this leg of research:

Wikipedia - The Fisher-Yates Shuffle

Wikipedia - Methods of Divination

Wikipedia - The iPod Shuffle

PopSci - History of Shuffling Music

Engineering at Spotify - How to Shuffle?

The Verge - The Mixed-Up History of the Shuffle Button

Auntie PanPan (YouTube) - Shufflemancy - What IS It?!?

Halfbakery - Shufflemancy Idea Post

Fox and Faith Wordpress - Radio Divination and Intentional Living in Your Day to Day

Scientific American - How Randomness Rules Our World and Why We Cannot See It

PC World - The CD Player Turns 30

Make Use Of - How Spotify's Shuffle Feature Really Works

Orriculum on Tumblr - Post on shufflemancy technique

The-Daily-Divinre on Tumblr - Post on shufflemancy technique

Empirical Zeal - What Does Randomness Look Like?

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