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Get a current lean and two conditional possibilities.
Decision Tarot for iPhone
Arcalis
One original card. A clearer answer. What could happen next.
Ask how to choose or how a situation may develop. Your reading gives a grounded lean, two conditional possibilities, and signals you can watch for.
Ask one real question
Choose the question that brought you here.
Each path ends in one finite private reading. The original card gives you something specific to notice; your reaction helps the reply work with more than the explanation you have already repeated.
Start with a familiar question
A Tarot-style reading for the question in front of you.
Arcalis uses original story cards to explore a real question, without a fixed dictionary of meanings.
The Decision Tarot method
What you leave with
The story card does not supply an answer. It gives the writer something specific to respond to, so the reply can work with information their usual explanation did not contain.
01 · The letter
“I don't know whether to leave my job.”
02 · The detail they noticed
“It worked from a different angle.”
03 · What it brought up for them
“Maybe I am treating leaving as the only way to find out whether I am capable of more.”
This sentence is the new information. The Sideways Key did not mean or discover it.
04 · A current lean
Test whether a different role can protect your focus before deciding to leave.
If the current role can change
- Possible development
- You may be able to grow without leaving yet.
- Watch for
- A concrete change in responsibilities or protected time.
If the same pattern continues
- Possible development
- Another role may become the more viable path.
- Watch for
- Whether promises turn into action.
The lean can change with new facts. The story card supplies an angle; the user's words and observable conditions carry the reading.
Ask · Draw · Read · Revisit
A finite reading you can return to.
Arcalis answers the question first, then shows the conditions behind two possible developments. Deeper reasoning and an optional next step remain available.
Write one honest sentence
Start with the part you keep circling. A single optional follow-up can help add context, and you can always skip it.
Notice what caught you
Choose one original illustrated story card as the anchor for your question. If a detail catches your attention, say why it matters in this situation. If none does, continue without the card. It has no fixed or universal answer.
Get a grounded answer
The reply connects your words with the detail you noticed. It gives a provisional lean and two conditional ways things could develop. When you have a real choice, it also lays out what each path protects and costs.
Keep only what matters
The finished reply is saved automatically in Letters. Browse encountered stories in the 36-drawer Cabinet, bookmark only the lines you want in Memory, and use one finite Look Again without drawing another card.
Share without exposing the letter
Turn only a Heart or question you choose into an editable Insight Card. The original question, personal association, and full Reply stay out of the image by default.
Grounded by design
Your response creates the new information.
The story card does not contain facts about the future. What matters is why one detail catches your attention. Arcalis gives a lean and possible developments while keeping the conditions and unknowns visible. You keep final authority.
Common questions
What a reading can and cannot tell you
What is Arcalis?
Arcalis is a tarot-style iPhone reading app with original story cards. It helps you consider a choice or how a situation may develop.
Is Arcalis a tarot app?
It uses the pause, imagery, and attention of a tarot reading, but its original story cards have no fixed meanings and do not predict the future.
What can I ask Arcalis?
Ask how to choose, how a relationship or work situation might develop, whether to send a message, or how to test an answer you favor.
Does Arcalis tell me what to choose?
Arcalis gives a provisional lean and explains why. You can revise it when new facts arrive; the decision remains yours.
Can Arcalis predict the future?
It describes two conditional ways a situation could develop and what to watch for. It cannot promise an outcome or know another person's mind.
Bring the thought that will not settle.
Arcalis is available on iPhone.