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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.

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...

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.

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 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.

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...

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...

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...

August 2020

August 13, 2020

Cancel culture according to the Lovers

Your persona gets canceled in the social space because cancel culture is upon us. Just...

July 2020

July 26, 2020

The dead serious occultist in the age of activism

What is an occultist as a politician, and how can we curate our blindspots?

July 10, 2020

The art of the question: sins and virtues

Asking the right questions is a virtuous art. But it helps to start with looking...

July 02, 2020

Rotten associations

How to read your cards for the pointed fingers at you in the social media.

June 2020

June 16, 2020

How to rest in a world that’s not at rest

Taking a rest from worries and the world is simpler than you think.

June 04, 2020

Entrances and exits

When the world is invested in taking stock of the larger picture for the benefit...

May 2020

May 21, 2020

‘His heart is not up to speaking’ – divination and depressive states

How to think of depression when you read the cards for depressive states.

May 07, 2020

Magicians, marriages, and conmen

How do we script magical advice for relationships in the name of the good fiction?

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...