#3-card

Something struck me today. Something was missing from the cartomantic community. A voice, or some voice anyway, that registers the sentiment, or as za French say, le sentiment, around what’s happening in the world of cards. I decided to try my hand at it, and in collaboration with the cards, see if I could answer a few questions that address some current issues and debates over the…

The advantage of taking sacred objects out of their reliquaries and placing them before your cards, if reading cards is what you want to do on a quiet evening, is that it makes you consider the function of these objects beyond the ritual of ‘I swear that I’m having a sublime time right now’. Some smart folks long before us have figured out that the reason why we want to read cards, look at the…

The simplest lesson in cartomancy

There are many ways of reading cards, each more elaborate than the other. Also in this world there’s competition for it. Who can invent the most intense spread? The Americans like to do that. Count in chunks of fives or nines? The French like to do that.

I prefer the simple way, which is looking at the cards and understanding the essence of what I see.

I look at 9 Clubs, 3 Spades, and 8…

A dead, beautiful thing

Say, you find a dead thing. You look at it and say, ‘this is a dead thing’. You take it to your house on a collector’s impulse and put it under the tap. You wash the dead thing and you go, ‘holy moly, it’s gold.’

Now the dead thing is beautiful. You start thinking that if you also pair the gold with a diamond, then it will be something bigger, for sure.

We surround ourselves with cultural…

DESIGNING A SPREAD FROM WISDOM BOOKS

December is upon us and I’ve started thinking about making gifts. Among the items chosen are books. But not any books. I like to give away books of wisdom, books of classical wisdom, and by classical I mean to say, wisdom that’s forever relevant.

Not only that, but I also like my books of wisdom to be more than the manifestation of re-thinking old ideas.

I sit with one of the achievements this…

WHAT DO I SAY TO THEM?

I’m welcoming new students in the Lenormand Foundation Course.

Although close to 200 people have taken this course already, I’m very pleased to see that there’s more out there who need it – not to mention the ones who are back for a refresher.

I had a moment of hesitation as I was admitting the new ones in the facebook group dedicated to the course:

What do I say to them?

I can say thank you, and…

A 9 of Cups, A Knight of Cups, and a King of Pentacles came to tell a story about sadness, even though they all looked very happy indeed. Something lurked there in their satisfied grins, pretty armor, and great abundance.

Hidden in the past was a closed heart, and so even if wishes had been made with good intentions, there was something in my feeling sense that was not open to being a full-time…