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November 2021

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...

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...

October 2020

October 21, 2020

A good magic operation: when you panic, celebrate

A good magician observes flow, rather than prance about in interventions.

September 2020

September 28, 2020

A thing of beauty: up, down, and the unpredictable

Read cards in the positions of 'up, down, and the unpredictable' if you want to...

September 03, 2020

Cards for crass times

What questions can we pose in crass times? Do we go to hot goddesses that...

April 2020

April 24, 2020

Concepts at odds: the intuitive, the spiritual, the plain clear

When you say things like: 'The love will last 12 hours', there's nothing spiritual about...

April 14, 2020

More of this, less of that

When it comes to knowledge in times of crisis, the comforting is not hearing what's...

March 2020

March 26, 2020

To touch another by skating on the surface of their skin

Stop digging your own graves. Stay with the surface of things. Ask yourselves what you...

March 18, 2020

The year of the Emperor, falling off his throne

In grim times conducting 'business as usual' is not the appropriate action, when health must...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

The new dark moon is for infinity, not intentions

When the moon is new and dark, you can't see it. How can you concretize...

January 15, 2020

THE SOLUTION AS A QUESTION

On how to avoid hexing yourself, by giving advice in the form of asking follow-up...

January 06, 2020

THE FORTUNETELLER’S DEN

Where is your fortuneteller's office? On divination and geography.

December 2019

December 09, 2019

THE ACE OF SWORDS

With the Ace of Swords you silence yourself and others.

October 2019

October 02, 2019

CARDS AS GHOSTS

Cards are ghosts. You can send the hungry ones to the underworld.

September 2019

September 22, 2019

EUPHEMISMS IN LENORMAND

We say, know your language and know your context if you want to be precise...

September 11, 2019

WHAT RULES YOU FROM THE INSIDE

Reading cards is a process rather than a process of interpretation.

September 04, 2019

ARRIVING AT THE SCENE WITH THE GUN

A metaphor that helps you clean the house faster.

July 2019

July 14, 2019

What a Mountain, a Shopping Channel, and Cards Have in Common

How to read cards without mythology.

June 2019

June 27, 2019

STEPPING INTO MATURITY

Most motivational speech springs out of immaturity. If you dream of success, what is your...

May 2019

May 27, 2019

HAHA, REALLY, I DON’T THINK SO: MARSEILLE TAROT À LA CARTE

'Haha, really, I don't think so' is the backbone of all my teaching.

April 2019

April 22, 2019

VALIDATE OR MOTIVATE

People are good at telling you how you feel. But what do they know? If...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

THIS SALES PERSON UNDERSTANDS ME SO WELL

Desire, change, magic, the promised land. It's a formula for a particular kind of story...

March 21, 2019

NOT THE FLAMING HEART

What would happen if you replaced the phrase 'I believe' with 'the art of'?

March 06, 2019

THE MATTER OF FACT

'Yes, no, how much, how little, and when?' Is answering this bluntly equal to being...

November 2018

November 27, 2018

CONVERSATION WITH OR ABOUT THE CARDS?

What are you prone to in your practice of reading visual text? Having a conversation...

November 19, 2018

WHO’S AFRAID OF THE FORTUNE-TELLER?

On the difference between fortune-telling and divination.

April 2018

April 04, 2018

WHEN FORCE IS ON THE DOT

Do you annoy your querents, the people you lead or inspire? I hope so.

January 2018

January 25, 2018

WHEN THE FOOL IS AN IDIOT

As many people, as many opinions. But a fool is still a fool. What do...

October 2017

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 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...