Hello, I’m Sandy Tide Readings. I’m based in Japan, where I create divination content using astrology, numerology, tarot, and other methods.
I’m not a fortune teller. The closest description I’ve found for what I do is divination content designer.
In astrology, I work with the planets, houses, aspects, current planetary positions, and the many relationships inside a birth chart. Numerology gives me several different numbers derived from a person’s date of birth, and when it makes sense for a particular reading, I may bring in tarot or another method as well. I then design the reading around that information and the person it belongs to. That has gradually become my own way of approaching divination.
I also offer readings that use astrology, numerology, or tarot entirely on their own, so combining different systems is not a requirement. What I care about is getting beyond a single piece of information whenever there is more to look at. I compare factors, look for patterns that keep appearing, notice where interpretations support one another and where they don’t, and then decide what deserves the most attention for that particular person. The design and analysis behind that process is a large part of my work.
A New Era of Divination, Awakened by AI
The biggest reason I openly describe myself as a divination content designer rather than a fortune teller is that I use AI in my readings.
AI has changed this field very quickly. It is now possible to paste someone’s information into an AI system, ask for an interpretation, and receive something that already looks surprisingly complete. I think that convenience has also created a problem. It has become very easy to stop at the first answer, and partly because of that, more astrologers and readers have started emphasizing that they don’t use AI at all. I understand the reaction. A long, polished reading does not necessarily mean that much thought went into it.
I use AI for almost the opposite reason. I want to compare more information, not stop thinking about it sooner. If I’m looking at one planetary placement, I may want to see how that placement changes by house, what the aspects add to it, whether a similar theme appears elsewhere in the chart, and how several possible interpretations hold up once the rest of the information is taken into account. The prompts behind my readings can become very large because I build in conditions, priorities, exceptions, and different branches depending on what appears. I make those instructions myself, and honestly, a lot of the work happens there before a finished reading ever exists.
AI is very good at helping me sort through that volume of material. It can compare different pieces of information, bring possible connections into view, and help me check whether something has been overlooked. But there is still a point where I have to decide what actually belongs in the reading. Something can be technically relevant and still not matter very much. Another detail can look minor on its own and become much more interesting when it appears again somewhere else. Two interpretations can also disagree completely, and I don’t think disagreement should automatically be cleaned up just because a neat answer looks better.
Eventually all of that material has to become something that means something to one person. Deciding what stays, what goes, what deserves more space, and how the pieces fit together is the part I consider divination content design.
Divination Has Always Been Around Me
On Japanese morning TV shows, daily zodiac rankings are a familiar feature, and checking where your sign ranks has become part of the morning routine for many people. I was one of them when I was a child. I wanted to know where my sign ranked that day and what the lucky color was, although I wasn’t someone who seriously believed that the horoscope was going to decide how my day turned out. The television was on, the horoscope came up, and I watched it.
Still, first place felt good. Twelfth place was a little irritating. Then I would go to school or get on with whatever I was doing and, by the end of the day, I had usually forgotten what the horoscope had said anyway.
I find that much more interesting now than I did then. There was the horoscope itself, but there was also the tiny change that happened in the person hearing it. A good result could improve my mood before anything had happened. A bad one could make me slightly more alert to something going wrong. Whether the prediction eventually “came true” was almost a separate question.
That may be what interests me most about divination now. Someone receives a piece of information, feels something about it, and then goes back into their own life carrying that information with them. Maybe it changes nothing. Maybe it changes the way they notice something. Maybe it puts words around something they had already been sensing for a while. I’m interested in that space between the reading and whatever the person does next.
Looking at What We Haven’t Seen Yet
I don’t know the future, and I don’t believe astrology, numerology, or tarot can completely determine someone’s life. That is exactly why I try to focus on what a reading can help someone notice, understand, or consider more clearly. Rather than treating any interpretation as a fixed answer, I look at the information carefully and ask what it may reveal about the person, their circumstances, and the possibilities in front of them.
At Sandy Tide Readings, accuracy comes from how closely I examine the information in front of me. I look at the details that matter, compare different interpretations when more than one is possible, and pay attention to contradictions instead of forcing everything into one neat answer. AI helps me handle a large amount of information at once, but I still go back through the results myself and decide what actually belongs in the reading.
A reading can contain a lot of technically correct information and still miss the person standing in the middle of it. That is something I try to keep in mind. More information is useful only if there is some thought behind why it is there.
I’m much more interested in the question of how far we can go by examining the information that is already available and asking what it might tell us about this particular person. Sandy Tide Readings has grown out of that question.
The Final Decision Is Yours
There is one thing I care about most in the way I approach divination: I don’t want anyone to let the result of a reading decide their life for them.
If the result is encouraging, it might give you enough confidence to do something you had been hesitating over. If something in the reading bothers you, you might stop for a moment and look at an issue you had previously ignored. Sometimes the useful part may be much smaller than that. You may simply see one part of yourself differently after reading about it.
But what happens next is still yours.
I would rather divination show someone another possibility than close possibilities off. I don’t want it to become an instruction that has to be obeyed, and I don’t think a prediction should replace someone’s own judgment about their life.
Sandy Tide Readings will continue working with astrology, numerology, tarot, and other forms of divination with that in mind. I want to create readings that give people something useful to think about when they are looking at themselves, their circumstances, or what may be ahead.
If something here catches your attention, I hope it is there for you when you have a reason to look a little closer.
