Guide · 4 min

Reading tarot with Grok

Grok will lay out a tarot reading the moment you ask — fast, a little irreverent, and entirely made up, because a language model can't shuffle. Fine for a riff; thin for a reading. Here is the prompt that gets the most out of Grok, the wall it hits, and how to hand it a deck that was actually dealt — custom connectors are open to every Grok user now, on the web and your phone.

1. 01

   The prompt that gets closest

   Ask for one card, name the question, and make it commit before it explains: “Pick one tarot card at random for this, upright or reversed, then read it.” Pinning the orientation and a single card keeps Grok from drifting into a horoscope.

2. 02

   The one thing a prompt can't do

   There's no shuffle behind the words. No deck state, no real randomness, no reversal odds — ask twice and the “random” card can repeat, or arrive pre-picked to match your mood. A prompt shapes the reading; it can't make the draw real.

3. 03

   Give Grok a real deck

   Grok added custom connectors for everyone — open its Connectors settings, add a new custom connector, and paste the Familiar URL; OAuth signs you in, with no key to manage. Then “draw three cards on this” pulls from a true shuffle of seventy-eight, upright or reversed by real odds, with the card art to match. The exact URL and steps are on the connection guide.

Use a different assistant? The same deck connects to Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. The connection guide has the per-client steps.