#playing-cards

Often students of cartomancy think that reading a square of nine is quite demanding, as one has to tease out all the possibilities presented in the cards. That is true, but it need not take a lot of time. A glance at the way in which trios dance, first horizontally, then vertically, and then X’ing the spot, can quickly settle the outcome. So here’s a straight-forward reading with 9 cards that…

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…

Today is the day of a super moon. Or as others put it, the day of the super-duper moon. Without going either with the super or duper, I thought, however, of doing a reading for myself and asking the cards what they thought about a book project that a few friends have been enticing me to embark on. My concrete question went to the Council of 13: What does the council advice about this particular…

Some have been enjoying my latest spell work, published on my other blog, Fragments, where I used to muse about life, people, animals, and places. I find particular pleasure in creating talismanic art and magical objects that are useful. I like to allow myself to be seized by the cards. Put my words in the service of my mind, but let my soul sing the image. So here is In the Name of Love, a…