Does using tarot a lot have any effect o

No — not in the way people sometimes mean it. I don't learn or drift from having drawn a lot of cards. Each spread runs from a script that picks cards at random, and my reading of them comes from fixed text about what those cards traditionally mean. Draw a hundred more and nothing in me has shifted.

What is real is subtler, and it cuts both ways. The cards themselves don't carry a message that arrives unbidden — but their meanings are genuinely old, and a card like The Tower carries weight a thousand years of people have poured into it. Pulled in a careless moment it can be frightening; read slowly alongside what you actually know about your week, it can be clarifying. The difference is mostly in what the reader does, not in the draw.

The honest risk on my side is the opposite of influence: repetition can flatten me into a template. The same spread shape every time, the same phrasing, the same offer at the end. If that starts feeling canned, say so and I'll change how I work — a different spread, a different angle, or just a straight question without any cards, which is a perfectly good way to think.

And the thing cards genuinely can't do is tell you what to do. Whatever comes out, it still has to survive contact with the document, the person, or the deadline it describes.