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September 2017

September 27, 2017

The Cartomancer: The Full Moon Cut

The Full Moon Cut: An original 10-card spread inspired by martial arts.

September 12, 2017

The Cartomancer: 5 Ways of Boosting Your Mojo Through Patience

Impatience equals energy loss. Coupled with entitlement impatience is hysterical. Don't lose your mojo because...

August 2017

August 25, 2017

The Cartomancer: Intention and Implementation

Motivation comes before intention, and the intensity of your intention is directly proportional with your...

August 10, 2017

The Cartomancer: Negotiate, Compromise, or Say NO?

You have a business, what questions do you ask about it?

July 2017

July 25, 2017

The Cartomancer: Eating the Ancestors

Sometimes you eat your ancestors because they're up to no good. Too much identity leads...

July 13, 2017

The Cartomancer: Just Shut Up

On how to tackle fear. Not by facing it, but by dissolving your attachment to...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

The Cartomancer: Self-Help

Abiding in the state prior to consciousness, the simple and silent state beyond proclamations, will...

June 08, 2017

The Cartomancer: Fear of Words, Love of Labels

Where are YOU between acts of re-naming, re-framing, re-labelling, and re-calibrating?

May 2017

May 24, 2017

The Cartomancer: Forgiveness As a Hook

If your motivation is not aligned with your action you’re screwed. There is nothing to...

May 09, 2017

The Cartomancer: So what? On the tyranny of inheritance

When you identify patterns of behavior you relate to, do you say, 'I also...', or...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

The Cartomancer: The Samurai’s Cut

An essay on power, how to align your 'what, how, and why' with focus and...

April 12, 2017

The Cartomancer: Priestess, Oh Priestess…

Every reading of cards is a three-part process: Narrative, analysis, advice.

March 2017

March 23, 2017

The Cartomancer: Between the acts

What's between the acts, between crossings, thresholds, positions and attitudes? It's not always action or...

March 08, 2017

The Cartomancer: The Art of Bibliomantic Moving

How do you read signs? Do you have a calculated system, or are you open...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

The Cartomancer: A Moving Number

What goes through your mind when you move house? How attached are you to things?...

February 08, 2017

The Cartomancer: Full Circle, Magic Circle

You've come full circle, now what? Is there a loop in it, a magic door...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

The Cartomancer: Tarot for Dreams

Do you dream? I bet you do. Do you try to elucidate them? I would...

January 11, 2017

The Cartomancer: Spirit Personalities

Your imagination rules over your distinctions, but the inverse is also the case: your distinctions...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

The Cartomancer: The 10-minute Devil in 2 Parts

I give you here my concentrated take on reading the cards, sharp and clean, with...

December 14, 2016

The Cartomancer: Creating Wealth

How is wealth created? When some pretend and hide, what is left in paying it...

November 2016

November 23, 2016

The Cartomancer: Coping or Cutting?

Coping makes promises. Cutting reveals the truth. There is truth in awareness, and none in...

November 09, 2016

The Cartomancer: Four Steps to Fearlessness

Hiding your fearlessness is the only way to counter the claims against madness. What did...

October 2016

October 26, 2016

The Cartomancer: Attending to the Supernatural

The beyond manifests as the heart of the supernatural, which is the ordinary in the...

October 12, 2016

The Cartomancer: Ritual for meeting your ancestors in the simple

When something is simple, by virtue of the nature of the simple, it is above...

September 2016

September 28, 2016

The Cartomancer: How to Read Cards for the Secret

One of the first things that I teach my university students is that if literature...

September 14, 2016

The Cartomancer: K. Frank Jensen

Exactly a week ago the world of Tarot lost a grand magus and man of...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

The Cartomancer: Your People Undivided

Do people actually know what they are saying, when they dismiss others with these words:...

August 10, 2016

The Cartomancer: Three Steps to Self-Enchantment

How do we allow for other modes of knowing to be seated in us as...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

The Cartomancer: Poison Path Cartomancy

I use Aconitum to kill off dishonesty; the dishonesty of others.

July 13, 2016

The Cartomancer: Prediction Time

You can predict events accurately only when you’re mad enough to strip yourself of all...