How I Built Yarrow

Tarot’s had me for a few years. So I built Yarrow, a three-card reader. Most spreads run past, present, future. Yarrow runs Root, Stem, Bloom: what’s beneath, where it stands, what it’s becoming. Past, present, future never sat right with me. It treats time like a straight line you’re stuck on. A reading should feel like growth, not a sentence being read out. So I stole the structure from a plant. Root holds what you don’t see. Stem is the part doing the work right now. Bloom is the thing you’re turning into, whether you meant to or not. Same three-card logic, better metaphor. Also I wanted to build something. Tarot was the excuse. The Stack I wanted tooling I half-knew and wanted to know better. Astro for the structure, Tailwind for the styling, Svelte for the moving parts. I’ve been on Astro about two years, since Henry recommended it at a 1RG Side Project Social. It’s fast to pick up and faster to get going. Yarrow was started with understory, my own Astro template, so most of the…