In the beginning of the month I mentioned that I would be adding a limited reading option to my offerings, today is the day I do so. What I want to do here is share a little bit on how the reading will work. The template of the reading spread will be the astrological map … Continue reading The year ahead…
Category: Telling Fortunes
Fortunetelling, cartomancy, divination, augury, with tarot, playing cards, oracles, and all things related to the -mantic art.
Expanding on crossed cartomancy
It is that time of the year again, September, the month I like to focus on St. Cyprian and St. Justina, as their feast day is in this month. Today as a matter of fact. Seizing this opportunity I'd like to expand a little on crossed cartomancy or what can alternately be termed Cyprianic cartomancy. … Continue reading Expanding on crossed cartomancy
The Oracular Incantation
We begin in a hall like a cathedral full of echoes, enclosed by high stone walls. There is a cup, a breath disturbs the waters of this upraised cup, prayers are intoned. Within all is holy. Beyond, a sword stabs the earth, sinking deep and disturbing the soil, echoing the words, "the earth gives and … Continue reading The Oracular Incantation
“When outside forces impose”
I'm quoting myself in the title, it's from my lyrical exploration of the tarot trumps, or majors. June and July have flown by, maybe it's more like a rumble, they've rumbled by. Now we're in August and I'm thinking about the world, the card in the tarot pack The World or Lemonde as it's called … Continue reading “When outside forces impose”
Telling Fortunes in Times of…
In an interview with Sam Block from The Digital Ambler in the Glitch Bottle podcast, he said something about divination that has stayed with me for some time, and it is that divination is for seeing the bumps, or obstacles, ahead as we navigate down the river of life. This has been rephrased in my … Continue reading Telling Fortunes in Times of…
The Suits In Their Element
When I see the pips, the elements do not come first, instead, as I mentioned in the opening of this series, their phenomenological virtues (qualities) comes first. By this I mean their tangible physical life applications and the processes arising out of their applications and uses, and what is mirrored in the cards at play. … Continue reading The Suits In Their Element
Encountering the Suits: Weight of Influence
Spinning golden plates, that shimmer like a bull's eye. If batons embody potential and power, coins denote power of a different kind. The power of acquisition and persuasion. Persuasion as a secondary to acquisition, in that through crafty words one can persuade the other on the value of a thing. Not so long ago, actual … Continue reading Encountering the Suits: Weight of Influence
Crossed Cartomancy II
Jumping back into the fray of Cyprianic cartomancy, I'm now going to survey several approaches to the method. The main, or recurring, spread used in The Book is the cross pattern, as illustrated in the first part, which can be read here. It is with this one that I will stay. Moreover, for three examples … Continue reading Crossed Cartomancy II
Crossed Cartomancy I
"Cartomancy, or the divination through playing cards, is more modern, for cards were only invented after Charles V. This branch of the conjectural sciences, still today practiced by many people, and sincerely accredited by many more, is the great resource of lovesick girls, using it out of jealousy, suspicion and longing for the object of … Continue reading Crossed Cartomancy I
Encountering the Suits: Accomplished Work
Force. Tension. Expansion. Like a massive tree trunk with roots running deep, arising out of the earth and reaching upward to the sky, so the baton presents itself vibrating with life. Made of wood and wielded with power. I position myself with the baton in hand like the Ace and I have a plan. A plan … Continue reading Encountering the Suits: Accomplished Work