About Threshold

Threshold is a reading companion, not a fortune teller. It assumes you already own a deck and have already pulled your cards. You tell it what you drew; it helps you make sense of it, in your own words, at your own pace.

What it is not

It is not a fortune teller, and it does not draw cards for you. There is no virtual shuffle, because a card a website picked is a card nobody pulled. It will not tell you that you are about to meet someone, come into money, or need to worry about a friend — and it is not a substitute for medical, legal, or financial advice, or for talking to someone when things are hard.

What it is: a structure for reading the spread already in front of you, meanings for all seventy-eight cards written for someone still learning, and a mentor that asks better questions than it answers.

On the mentor

The mentor is a language model, and it is told quite firmly to behave like a teacher rather than an oracle. It knows only which deck you chose, which spread you laid out, and which cards went where — the same facts you can see on your own screen. It does not know who you are, and there is nothing for it to remember between visits.

It is also, deliberately, optional. The card meanings, the elemental breakdown, and the notes workspace all work without ever opening it.

Privacy

Nothing about your reading is stored on a server. Your synthesis notes and display preferences live in your own browser’s local storage, tied to the specific draw you were looking at. Clearing your browser data clears them, and nobody else can read them.

Sharing a reading encodes the whole layout into the fragment of the link — the part after the # — which by design is never sent to any server. The person you send it to reconstructs the reading in their own browser from the link itself.

Accessibility

Tarot imagery is dense and the type is small by default, so there is an Aa menu with three text sizes and two alternate typefaces: Atkinson Hyperlegible, designed for low vision, and Lexend, which many people with dyslexia read more comfortably. Both are remembered on your device.

Reversed cards are announced in image alt text rather than communicated by rotation alone, and every animation on the site collapses if your system asks for reduced motion.

Support

Threshold is free, has no accounts, and shows no ads. The one real running cost is the mentor — each conversation is a paid API call — and that comes out of my pocket. If the site has been useful to you, a coffee genuinely helps keep it open to everyone.