Generic vs personalised tarot: what's the difference?
Generic tarot gives the same reading to everyone who draws the same card. Personalised tarot starts from your specific question, your context and what you actually told us, and answers that instead of handing back a repackaged version of your question. At Witch Room the reading follows the interpretation criteria Jana has built over twenty-five years, applied to your case rather than to an average profile.
The difference shows up in what the reading does with what you wrote. A generic answer describes the card: the Three of Swords is about rupture, full stop. A personalised reading takes your situation, what you have already tried, and the thing you did not ask but let slip in the context, and says what that card means there.
The second difference is discomfort. Catalogue text is written to please everyone, so it never contradicts anyone. A reading that starts from your case will name the pattern you keep repeating, even when that is hard to read — and that is exactly why it is useful for deciding something.
You can usually tell which one you got from the reply itself. A personalised reading quotes your own words, your specific situation and the details you gave. A generic one hands your question back with the nouns swapped and would have suited anyone else just as well.