Customer Reviews

Tarot Magic

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I bought this CD through an ad and was pleasantly surprised. I especially liked the option to choose from various decks and spreads. I've been reading cards for about 7 years but my mother has been reading them for ages and she admitted they were very accurate.

What I liked:

* Variety of spread and cards

* Assistance with wording the queries

* Visual display of cards and meanings

* Scroll down ability within the cards meanings

* How many times the cards have been shuffled (or the age of the deck which is important to tarot readers)

* Completion Indicator of shuffled cards.. ie, 78%, 98%, 100%

What I didn't like:

* Saving the files into a word document to send to friends who requested readings via e-mail. Not only do you have to save it to a Word Document (or similiar) but the pictures of the cards were not downloadable, unless you used another program type. ie; .jpg, .bmp, etc. It became too complicated.

* Once the reading was over you had to exit out all the way out to the parchment to change the spread and rewrite the same question.

* Only one option for shuffling the cards may be used at a time. An individual can't shuffle AND cut the deck at the same time. You have to change the option each time. A small detail, but for tarot readers, ensuring the cards have been well shuffled is a must! Without wasting the time it takes to accomplish it.

Other than that.. it was relatively simple to use. I was a bit skeptical in the beginning but it proved to be worth the money! Enjoy!

I purchased this program as part of a set of other divining programs called "Ultimate home horoscope and tarot". However, this program is the standout of the bunch.

MANY OPTIONS
Not only do you get to pick from 10 decks of cards which cards you will for each reading, but there are multiple types of readings you can do.
The ten decks are:
Gran Tarot Esoterico
Marseille
Grand Eteillia
Ibis Tarot
Medieval Scapini
Oswald Wirth
Rider Waite
Stairs of Gold
Tarot of the Stars

...I was disappointed that the Morgan Greer tarot was not available however, I find the Marseille deck an acceptable substitute

The eleven spreads are:
Advice Spread
Celtic Cross
Days of the Week
Horoscope Spread
Life Cycle
Relationship Spread
Right Livelyhood
Self Knowledge
Stair of David
Timeline
Tree of Life

VERY MUCH INFORMATION IN THIS PROGRAM
With each of these decks and spreads are explanations of their history and significance to the reader.
Also within the library are the following text subjects, available in Acrobat Reader format, meaning readable outside this program and printable:
Minor Arcana
Major Arcana
Suit of Wands
Suit of Coins
Suit of Swords
Suit of Cups
Esoteric Tarot
Esoteric Origins of Tarot
Kaballah
An Approach to Tarot History
The confluence of the 3 great systems
The Continental Tarots
The Gnostic Tarot
The Spanish School
The English School
Essay on the Major Arcana
Essay on the Minor Arcana

VERY PERTINENT INFORMATION PROVIDED FIRST:
The feature I liked the most during a reading was the specifity of the information provided. Instead of given overall meaning for the card, you were given, the meaning relative to its position in the spread, the general meaning and the explanation of the position of the card.

CAN SAVE AS WELL AS PRINT READINGS
I like the fact that you can save the programs and it does this automatically by date. Also when it prints out it gives you a very attractive printout instead of a bare bones looking printout.

MUCH USER CONTROL
The user of this program, controls 100% what is done from the shuffling and riffling, cutting and moving, to the special effects associated with the sounds and information provided.
I personally don't like sound with my program and this was an easy thing to switch off.

ONLY COMPLAINTS:
Though you can Alt-tab to run when other programs are on, you lose the bottom bar to easily switch from one to the other.
Also I wish you could add other decks. These are very minor problems.

SUMMARY:
If you are a beginner in Tarot as I am, this is a cool program. It runs well (I have a 733 Pentium with 512MB Ram however) and it is an interesting program to run. I have gotten hours of enjoyment from this. However, buying it within the other program was more economical.

Let me preface this by stating I am a novice in this area. After reading reviews and doing lots of searching for different tarot software, I decided to purchase this one. My expectations were that it would be "adequate." The reality is, this product surpassed my conservative expectations. I am quite happy with it... I especially like the archiving of the readings and the library! The library has a nice grouping of articles that I've found very helpful. I'd recommend this to anyone aspiring to learn more about tarot. It's fun, entertaining and educational.

I guess you get what you pay for but I was very disappointed with Tarot Magic.
First was the packaging, there is no manual, only a PDF file so I had to print that out. OK, if you have a printer, bad if you get the software Friday night and have to wait until Monday to use the printer at work, or go down to the Printers and pay more money to have one made for you. Having to flip back and forth between screens to figure out what should be a simple program is both time consuming and aggravating.

There is a wealth of information in other essays on the cards and Tarot in general but again all in PDF files. This info is probably the same information as in the numerous other books on Tarot I already have, but if you are very new to Tarot then it will be a great place to start reading.
Next is the graphics, very "cheesy" as my 14 YO daughter called it. Part of this "comic book" look (my comment) is the tiresome navigation. I did find the pull downs and that helped but would have liked a more professional look as apposed to a kid's game feel. Also, I cannot see the cards very well in a spread because they are so small, there is no option to enlarge the screen or make the cards bigger.
Finally, the primary reason I bought Tarot Magic was it is touted as a resource for reading a specific card on a specific position in a given spread. Well that would be all fine and dandy if I were able to use a menu to do this. But Tarot Magic required me to go to the card table, fan the deck, find the card and place it in a position. OK, again, I was looking for a resource, not a game. Reversals are a real problem in this mode too. The manual claims that when you pick a card for a position you simply select "reverse card" in the deal menu. It doesn't tell you that to do this you have to have the card placed in a spread, then select it to read, then select it to be reversed, then you can read the reversed meaning. Again, having a menu to do a lot of this would add a more professional look and speed the process up a whole bunch.
I do need to say something positive about Tarot Magic. If you are very new to Tarot reading or just want to have the program to have it so you can "Impress your friends with "expert" Tarot readings" (direct quote from owner's manual) at your next slumber party then this is a nice economical program that you should get.
If you are have any experience in reading Tarot and are looking for support software then pass this one up.

The graphics were great, and the layouts were exciting. It was a bit technical cutting and dragging the piles. Sometimes the answers were right on, and others didn't seem to help. I prefer to use the real cards, but if you love software and are intrigued by the tarot; this program may be just what you've been waiting for.

I suppose if I had not been familiar with the Web site used to advertise this program, I would have been happy with it. While the software offers more spreads and animated hands that shuffle, the free on-line version offers a choice of numerous tarot decks, which I thought would appear in the program itself. I'm most interested in the imagery and sybolism of different decks, so I was disappointed that I spent money to get less than I could get for free on line. If, however, you're interested in multiple spreads and animations you will probably find this program worthwhile.

This software provides a beautiful classical Tarot card reading. Behind the scenes an expert Tarot reader sorts out the card meanings for you since they can vary depending on whether the cards are reversed as well as where they fall in the spread. This is a wonderful tool for someone interested in immediate results and who doesn't have time or doesn't want to spend years trying to decipher tarot code. I find it to be extremely accurate, insightful, helpful, and absolutely inspiring. You can even save your readings and/or print them out. And the decks are just beautiful. You'd have to pay well over $100 to own this many tarot decks.

I have been reading Tarot for about 7 years now. I am told that I am very accurate, when I read for clients. However, I am blocked when I try to read for myself. Honestly, I didn't expect much from this... I've read the little books that come with tarot decks...I pretty much ignore them, they are just not as good as reading from intuition. However, this program hits the nail on the head every time. Both for myself and I've tried it on a few clients for "fun" to see if it corresponded with my readings. Well, I was really dumbfounded, it did. And I'm lock in step with this program now, I use it mostly for my own personal readings, but when I need more depth in reading a clients I will turn to Tarot Magic, to see what I'm missing.It's outstanding. I thought it a bit pricy at first, but not at all...WELL WORTH EVERY PENNY!-- Love it -- Rain

This software could have been wonderful. My version came with about sixteen different decks to install, and the graphics were nice. However, this software is extremely buggy. EXTREMELY buggy. Whenever I'd try to use any of the menu options, I'd get an error message and the software would crash. A big waste of time, money, and effort. If you can get your hands on a copy of "Expert Tarot," which is a third of the price, you'll be a lot better off.

... the website is so much better, I thought they would be identical but they're not even close. I was thoroughly disappointed with the generic translations and quality of the software, screen cannot be minimized. But I was even more upset when I found out this software is included in the ultimate home Horoscope & Tarot software. After my tarot magic experience I'm pretty anti-software as far as tarot readings go, but if you must have it, you may as well get it with a bunch of other stuff for free. I actually got my Horoscope & Tarot software at [a local store for a good price], so I saved money and got more.