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January 2024

January 16, 2024

Which one is it?

Comforting with the cards when all the symmetries are off.

October 2023

October 05, 2023

It’s indispensable

On the value of reading playing cards.

August 2023

August 31, 2023

When the moon doesn’t listen

What happens when you're a a champion at dreaming, lucid dreaming, and performing cool magic...

July 2023

July 27, 2023

The point of cartomancy

Cartomancy or coaching? How to dismantle a business without destroying it.

June 2023

June 30, 2023

The proud game

If you're in the camp of giving encouragement through the words, 'I'm so proud of...

June 08, 2023

The question of time in cartomancy

Most people think that divination is about reading fortunes or the self in relation to...

November 2022

November 04, 2022

Democracy and the Dead

When we talk about democracy, what are we really talking about? What do we know,...

October 2022

October 17, 2022

A surprising portrait of the fortuneteller

A reading of 6 cards on desire, style, and possession.

August 2022

August 05, 2022

Against the circus of exhibitionists and voyeurists

Reading three sets of cards for a positioning against fools.

May 2022

May 31, 2022

Richard Gere, the Dalai Lama, and a cartomantic hit

On emotions and techniques that prevent us from reading for the desire to hear what...

April 2022

April 07, 2022

Finding a form

Finding a form for your expression, from work to relationships, follows a path that's not...

February 2022

February 11, 2022

Reading for the soul mate: a quirky take

How to read the cards for your soul mate with a special twist.

January 2022

January 21, 2022

‘It’s complicated’ – a short conversation on locating the true heart’s desire

We often talk about the importance to know the true heart's desire, our desire and...

November 2021

November 29, 2021

How I ate The Red Goddess book published by Scarlet Imprint

How to eat your Red Goddess books by way of magic, dreams, and a dash...

November 20, 2021

How to move beyond language with cards

These days the vocative case is widely used by robots, though Carmen, Satan, and Amore...

October 2021

October 31, 2021

Halloween: Exacting Justice and Revenge

A ritual for the dead and some fine classics.

October 16, 2021

Passions of the heart

Divination is the practice of reading passions.

September 2021

September 08, 2021

What art collectors say beyond the grave

Communing with dead art collectors for lost passions, fun, and the art of speaking the...

August 2021

August 04, 2021

Which one first? The importance of sequence

'Which book of yours should I start with, if I want to read the cards...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

Cartographic cartomancy: tracing experience, memory, and projection with the cards

A cartographic reading on how to map experience, remembrance, and projection with the cards.

June 23, 2021

The folkloric midsummer night of the fairies

A ritual for the folkloric midsummer night.

June 08, 2021

Love, virility, and wicked magic between eclipses

How to read signs between solar and lunar eclipses via omens and a human touch.

June 03, 2021

Spying with old cards

Reading old cards from the 1700s to spy in the spirit of the times.

April 2021

April 26, 2021

Reading cards for miscommunication

I prefer communication via seduction than via clichés à la 'transparent,' 'honest,' and 'direct' when...

March 2021

March 23, 2021

Against the validation cult with the cards

The entry ticket to the validation cult is this: the Queen of Swords gives no...

February 2021

February 22, 2021

Conserving energy by discarding belief in the self

Believing is very tiring business. If you want to conserve your energy, you stop believing...

January 2021

January 27, 2021

Playing cards for risk analysis

Playing cards are the sharpest in the cartomancy tool box when it comes to answering...

January 18, 2021

How to clean and tidy up as if your life depended on it

Tactics of cleaning and tidying up Zen style and with the cards.

December 2020

December 20, 2020

Ask for respect on solstice day

The Great Conjunction is upon on solstice day. Make some magic with the cards for...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

Dispossess yourself from the demon called feeling

Feelings? No thanks. There's nothing more constructed than our senses. By way of prediction, here's...