Add JSON output format and a separate interpreter binary
deck-engine gains --format json (language-independent, slug-based) so a new dist/interpreter-cli can score how significant a day's transits are without linking the engine itself — it depends only on the JSON shape, via its own minimal parser. Also documents the full reading pipeline end to end (CLAUDE.md, README, docs/) and adds docs/reading.md, a non-technical explanation of what a daily reading contains and means.
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# Your daily reading, explained
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This page describes what actually happens when you get a reading —
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no code, no jargon you haven't already agreed to. If you just want to
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know "what am I looking at", start here.
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## The one-time setup: telling it who you are
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Before you can get a personal reading, you tell it a few things about
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your birth, once:
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- the **date** and **time** you were born, and which time zone that
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clock time was in
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- **where** you were born (latitude/longitude)
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That's it. This information never changes and is only used to work out
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exactly where the planets were, and which zodiac sign was rising, at the
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moment you were born — your **natal chart**. Everything else the app
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does is compared against that one fixed reference point.
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## What happens every day
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Each day, the app does two independent things and then combines them:
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1. **It looks at the sky right now** and compares it to your natal
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chart from step one — this tells you what's changing today,
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relative to your own personal baseline (not a generic horoscope).
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2. **It shuffles a tarot deck**, using today's date as the shuffle
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"seed". This means: if you check your reading three times on the
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same day, you get the exact same 10 cards, in the same order, every
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time — it only changes when the date changes. There's no randomness
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involved beyond that; today's date fully determines today's spread.
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## The three parts of a reading
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### 1. Your natal chart
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A snapshot of the sky at the moment you were born: where the Sun,
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Moon, and each planet were, which zodiac sign was rising on the
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eastern horizon at that moment (your **Ascendant**), and which of the
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12 astrological "houses" each planet falls into as a result. Think of
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this as your personal baseline — it doesn't change day to day, and
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every other part of the reading is measured against it.
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### 2. Today's sky (your "transits")
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Where the Sun, Moon, and planets are positioned *today*, plus:
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- the current **Moon phase** (New, Waxing Crescent, Full, and so on)
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- any **aspects** — meaningful angles formed between where a planet is
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today and where a planet sat in your natal chart. For example, "the
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Sun is opposite your natal Moon today" is one aspect. These are the
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traditional signals astrologers use to say a day is emotionally
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charged, a good day for decisions, a day of tension, etc. Not every
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day has aspects; some days are quiet.
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Each planet's position today is also placed into one of *your* 12
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houses (not a fresh chart for right now) — that's the standard way
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astrologers read "what house is this transit happening in for me".
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### 3. Your tarot spread (the Celtic Cross)
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A classic 10-card tarot layout, drawn from the 22 Major Arcana cards
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(The Fool, The Magician, and so on through The World). Each of the 10
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positions asks a different question about your day or situation — for
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example, "what covers you right now", "what crosses/challenges you",
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"your hopes and fears", "the likely outcome". Every card can land
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**upright** or **reversed**, which traditionally shades or inverts its
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meaning. The order and meanings of the 10 positions, and the meaning
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of each card, come from A. E. Waite's original 1911 description of the
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spread — the same source most modern tarot decks trace back to.
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## How "big" is today?
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Not every day is equally eventful astrologically. A separate,
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optional step can look at today's aspects (part 2, above) and works
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out an overall **significance level** for the day — Quiet, Notable,
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Significant, or Major — based on which planets are involved, how exact
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the angle is, and whether it touches your Sun or Moon (the two most
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personally weighted points in a chart). On a genuinely Major day, it
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also calls out the single most important thing happening, as a hint
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that it's worth paying closer attention to your tarot spread that day
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rather than treating it as routine. Quiet days still get a full
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reading — this step only adds a "pay attention today" flag, it never
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removes anything.
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## What a day's reading actually gives you
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Put together, one day's reading contains: your natal chart (for
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reference), today's sky and how it's speaking to your chart, how
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significant today is overall, and your 10-card Celtic Cross spread for
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the day. Right now these sit side by side — the astrology tells you
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*how eventful* today is and *where* to pay attention, and the tarot
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spread gives you the actual guidance to sit with. They don't yet get
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woven into a single narrative (e.g. a spread explained *in light of*
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today's significant transit) — that combined storytelling is the next
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piece to build, not something you get today.
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*(This page, like that piece, is still a work in progress — expect it
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to grow as the reading itself does.)*
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