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February 2019

February 16, 2019

TALES OF MAGIC

The transformative is not where you think it is.

December 2018

December 23, 2018

WHEN IT’S NOT ABOUT THE VIRGIN

When it's not about the christians or the pagans, what it is it about, then?

June 2017

June 29, 2017

The Cartomancer: Self-Help

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

November 2016

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...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

The Cartomancer: A Decent Reading

In cartomancy what you need is a decent eye. It’s the kind of eye that...

June 08, 2016

The Cartomancer: Relax, Your Local Gods can only be Discovered through Foreign Intervention

Your local gods are other people's stories. The totally other people's stories.

May 2016

May 25, 2016

The Cartomancer: Underground Smoke

The intuition about the beyond, that is not only instantly recognized but also embraced, leads...

May 11, 2016

The Cartomancer: The Reading on Point

The fortuneteller doesn't care about your feelings. She wants you to see what is happening.

April 2016

April 27, 2016

The Cartomancer: Your Second Chance

If you’re genuinely asking yourself, once part of a group, ‘Why am I here?’, then...

April 13, 2016

The Cartomancer: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Staying in your power is not about staying in symbolic power, which amounts to being...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

The Cartomancer: How to Speak with your Tree Ally

In my conversation with the Pine spirit, I think that what I hear is an...

March 09, 2016

The Cartomancer: “Know Thyself,” but what does it really mean?

Go out. Smell a flower. Stay together. If it rains, open your mouth and taste...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

The Cartomancer: Read the Cards like the Devil?

Reading the cards like the Devil is like cutting the moon in halves, and then...

February 10, 2016

The Cartomancer: Is Your Calling Big Enough?

Universal experience has taught us that finding out what we are good at, and serving...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

The Cartomancer: Transmission

We say to one another: ‘Don’t waste my time.’ ‘Don’t waste my time’ should be...

January 13, 2016

The Cartomancer: Courting the Self

The court cards are not us. The court cards are agents helping us or blocking...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

The Cartomancer: 12 Days of Omens

Maybe you miss your public transport one time too many, and every time it happens,...

December 09, 2015

The Cartomancer: The Sorcerer’s Cartomancy

Knowing yourself is not very interesting if it stops there, in self-knowledge. What is infinitely...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

The Cartomancer: How to Discover Your Character in an Earthquake

We may think we know who we are and what we are, but as culture...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

The Cartomancer: The Smell of Souls

Magical folks say that October is the month when the veil between the worlds is...

October 14, 2015

The Cartomancer: Feel Good or Feel?

What is cool is letting chance rule the experience of what we come to understand...

September 2015

September 23, 2015

The Cartomancer: In Love and War

When your love is clear it is part of the infinite beyond. When your love...