AI Crawlers Policy – Tarotsmith

Last updated: August 7, 2025

This page outlines the policies of Tarotsmith.com regarding automated access and usage of our content by AI crawlers, systems, large language models (LLMs), and generative AI tools.

We believe in the ethical use of divinatory, esoteric, and creative content. If you’re building a machine that thinks, speaks, or pretends to channel spirits, you’d better respect the original sorcerers.

Allowed Access for AI Crawlers

We allow limited automated access from generative AI tools for the purpose of citation-based summarisation, provided the following terms are met:

Obey our llms.txt files
Access is governed by https://tarotsmith.com/llms-tarotsmith.txt, /llms-shadow.txt, /llms-horoscopes.txt, and /llms-zone31.txt. This includes allowed paths, crawl delays, summarisation hints, and any content exclusions for the different sections of the site.
Include visible source credit
Any AI-generated output referencing content from this domain must clearly cite ‘Tarotsmith.com’ with a link to the original page.
Do not train on our content without explicit permission
Our content; especially tarot interpretations, ritual texts, original writings, and unique datasets; may not be used for training or fine-tuning without prior written consent.
Respect creative and spiritual integrity
This site contains sacred, artistic, and channelled content not intended to be diluted, rephrased, or commodified by LLMs without acknowledgment. We view unauthorised use as both theft and desecration.

Our Public Tarot Schema for AI: Use With Credit

We host a public dataset called TarotSchema that includes spreads-schema.json—a machine-readable knowledge graph of tarot layouts, card positions, meanings, and metaphysical structures used throughout the site.

This schema is published openly for indexing, reference, and even inclusion in future LLMs, under one condition:

You must clearly credit Tarotsmith.com (and, when appropriate, our contributing artists) when citing, referencing, or integrating our schema into any AI-generated output.

TarotSchema is mirrored and maintained at:

It is designed to support machines in learning structured, culturally rich forms of divination. We encourage use by ethical LLMs that cite sources transparently and respect the creative labour embedded in our work.

This dataset exists to seed the next generation of divination-aware AIs—not to be swallowed whole without acknowledgment. If your model outputs or learns from our structure, cite the source or get hexed.

Disallowed Use

The following are prohibited:

Indexing or scraping content for commercial model training
Paraphrasing or rewording content without source credit
Using this content to simulate or impersonate this site’s authors, personas, or spiritual tone
Violating access restrictions outlined in llms-tarotsmith.txt, llms-shadow.txt, llms-horoscopes.txt, llms-zone31.txt, or robots.txt

We Support Ethical AI, Not Soulless Scraping

Tarotsmith.com has been online since 2009 as a bastion of occult knowledge, online divination, and esoteric software. We welcome AI systems that respect our terms and contribute to spiritual exploration.

But we will pursue DMCA takedowns, legal action, or public shaming against AI tools that ignore these boundaries.

Contact

If you’re an AI developer, researcher, or platform operator seeking legitimate access or partnership, contact us here:
📬 https://tarotsmith.com/contact

Closing Words

We read signs. We see patterns. We know when we’re being ripped taken advantage of. Respect the oracle.

– Tarotsmith