Guide · 4 min

Reading tarot with Claude

Ask Claude for a tarot reading and it will improvise one — fluent, warm, and made up, because a language model can't shuffle. Familiar gives Claude an actual deck. Here's the whole setup.

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    Connect Familiar to Claude

    Two minutes, once. Add the connector at mcp.familiartarot.com and Claude gains a real deck — a true shuffle, real card art, your decks.

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    Ask in plain words

    “Draw three cards on the job decision.” No prompt engineering — the deck is a tool Claude reaches for, not a character it plays.

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    The cards arrive drawn for real

    Claude reads what was actually drawn — upright or reversed, in the deck’s own voice — and your readings are kept on your Connect page.

What it looks like

“One card on whether to send the email.”

The Sun — major arcana. Joy, vitality, success.

The Sun, upright — clarity and plain success. Sent in daylight, read in daylight: this is a yes, and the sooner the cleaner.

Connect Familiar to ClaudeFree · the Marseille deck is included

Also works in ChatGPT (developer mode), Grok, Le Chat, and Perplexity — the connector is the same; only the adding steps differ. If a step misbehaves, the connection guide covers troubleshooting.