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October 2023

October 05, 2023

It’s indispensable

On the value of reading playing cards.

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...

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 03, 2021

Spying with old cards

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

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.

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...

April 2020

April 02, 2020

Power in the powerless

Power is staying in the momentum, samurai style.

February 2020

February 10, 2020

Let us laugh, amen

Is there meaning, purpose to life? Am I here for a reason? We can read...

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...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

A CARD TRICK

How to divine for the things on your wall.

August 2019

August 11, 2019

THE FALLACY OF MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO ALONG

Lazy thinking is not 'unified vision'.

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 14, 2019

THIS WITCH CAN FLY

Witches say many things, but can you fly?

February 2019

February 16, 2019

TALES OF MAGIC

The transformative is not where you think it is.

February 08, 2019

BABA YAGA’S BLOOD

When Baba Yaga speaks your language.

January 2019

January 31, 2019

PLEASE WORK, BECAUSE I LOVE YOU

Having conversations with the cards when you're heartbroken.

January 24, 2019

PLAYING CARDS GYPSY STYLE

How to read playing cards for lack and luck.

January 07, 2019

‘MEANING’ IS ACTUALLY A QUESTION

When we search for meaning, what we actually do is formulate an interesting question.

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?

December 06, 2018

99 PERCENT CLARITY

Divining for the remaining one percent that's missing from having full clarity.

July 2018

July 27, 2018

HOW YOU UNWITTINGLY ECLIPSE WHAT YOU DO

What vocabulary do you use to describe what you do? What do the cards say...

July 12, 2018

Off with their heads or how astrology narratives inspire to fix family troubles

If a family member is troublesome without a reason, you can elect to say, 'off...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

LINEAGE OF THE SCRIBES

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

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.

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...