Queen of Coins

01 · Origin

The Problem Was Personal

After leaving a career in film and TV art department coordination, I found myself working from home with no commute, no external schedule, no built-in rhythm. The structure that had governed my body and my days for years was gone — and it was taking a toll.

I already read tarot. I'd used it for years as a reflective practice — a way of framing the day, asking good questions, sitting with uncertainty without trying to immediately resolve it. What I didn't have was a tool that made that practice feel intentional and complete: something that connected the card to movement, to work, to creativity, all in one place.

So I built it. Queen of Coins became the project where my background in tarot, my interest in wellness, and my development work all converged. It started as a mobile app idea and became a daily practice I will actually use.

02 · Screens

The App in Practice

Each screen is designed to feel deliberate. The card pull, the ritual, the journal, and the history all read as parts of a single continuous practice rather than separate features.

Today

Settings

History

Journal

Movement Preference System

The same card generates a completely different movement suggestion depending on your practice — and again when the low energy toggle is on. Each combination is authored.

Capoeira

Capoeira · Low Energy

Pilates

Pilates · Low Energy

03 · Technical

Building the Architecture

The most interesting technical challenge was the data model. A 78-card tarot deck isn't just a list of names — each card needed a complete ritual payload: a morning anchor, work approach, creative prompt, movement energy type, and tagline. That's roughly 400 pieces of authored content, all of it meaningful and none of it generic.

The solution was a typed TarotCard schema in TypeScript with a ritual object on every card. Movement suggestions were abstracted into a separate system that cross-references the card's energy type with the user's selected movement preference — so a Capoeira practitioner and a yoga practitioner get different suggestions from the same card.

Persistence is handled entirely with AsyncStorage — the current card locks for the day, history builds across sessions, and streak calculation runs against the sorted history array on every load. No backend, no user accounts, no sync: intentionally local-first for V2.

04 · Features

What It Does

• Full 78-Card Deck · Every Major Arcana, Minor Arcana, and Court Card with unique ritual content. There are no repeated suggestions.
• Daily Ritual Screen · Morning anchor, work approach, creative prompt, and movement suggestion — all tied to the day's card energy.
• Journal · Write a daily reflection tied to each card and date, saved locally and readable in a dedicated history view.
• Streak Tracking · Consecutive daily practice tracked from pull history — resets if a day is missed.
• Low Energy Toggle · Swaps movement suggestions to restorative options on days when full practice isn't possible.
• Movement Preference · Capoeira, yoga, pilates, walking, and more — the app draws from your chosen practice across all 78 cards.
• Share Card · Export a styled card image — built with react-native-view-shot rendering an off-screen component.

05 · What's Next

The Road Ahead

Queen of Coins is currently in personal beta — used daily as a wellness and creative practice tool. After 30 days of real use, the next phase will be shaped by what actually matters in practice versus what sounded good in planning.