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December 2017

December 05, 2017

You Only Need One Thing to Get Your Magic Going

It's not 10 or a 100 things you need to control in your magic. Just...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

LINEAGE OF THE SCRIBES

What do you know of your lineage of choice or blood?

November 22, 2017

Asking Questions About Fate

These days I’ve been performing a lot of I Ching divination. I like the simplicity...

November 14, 2017

Three Ways of Reading Cards: In Line, Singling Out, and Layout

Readers of cards read in different ways. Preferences are not subject to critique. One can...

November 08, 2017

Ordinary and Extraordinary Questions

How is your divination? Stale or stellar? The answer is in balancing your questions.

November 01, 2017

Formless Sigils

How do you craft a sigil? What's behind your method and concept?

October 2017

October 25, 2017

If it’s October, it’s Time for Horror Dreams

Lucid dreaming and a ritual for fixing horrors with cards.

October 18, 2017

Samhain As a Ring of Fire

A ritual for the greater love when love is lost, using playing cards, conjuration, and...

October 13, 2017

A trump myth about the Marseille Tarot

The French only read with the trumps, or the major arcana of the Marseille Tarot....

October 11, 2017

Two Devils: Chance and Hope

Hope and chance and fortunetelling. What do they have in common beyond the cliché?

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...