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Broke, coerced, and bedevilled

Broke, coerced, and bedevilled

I shared the picture above today on my Instagram account, and wrote the following story for it. I’ll quote myself below:

‘I like every aspect of reading cards, for both the usual and not so usual reasons, but I have to say that I never tire of marveling when the cards visually corroborate a story to the minute detail. Here’s a reading I performed today for a woman, who put the following…

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WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T: THE ART OF REFUTATION

WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN’T: THE ART OF REFUTATION

You know that there’s a difference between generations because of the art of refutation. Most young people know jack, but they pretend that they know a lot. The consequence of this is that they hardly ever engage in refuting conjectures. This is another way of saying that they are not very good at prediction. They can’t guess correctly what happens next based on observing reality, so they often…

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FIVE CARDS, ONE MIRROR

FIVE CARDS, ONE MIRROR

I’m often asked: ‘How do you read a 5-card string in line?’ I have just about a ton of examples, from private reading situations and classroom teachings, so it’s difficult to pick just the right ones to offer here. Today, however, I was prompted to make a selection. I offer two recent examples here, a quick one with the Marseille cards, and another with the Lenormand cards. The first example is…

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COURTING THE SELF

[FIRST PUBLISHED ON AGORA PATHEOS IN THE CARTOMANCER COLUMN] One of the questions that I often get in teaching cartomancy pertains to how we distinguish between the court cards. Who is who on the table, when the court cards show up? I read the cards according to the function that I see each card embodies, whether I look at trumps, pip cards, or the court cards. The suits are stylized ideas of our…

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THE FATHER'S HOUSE

THE FATHER’S HOUSE

Last week I performed a reading that went straight in with the client. She was not only happy with the reading, but also confirmed both the situation and the necessity to follow to the letter the advice that the cards have indicated. I reproduce the reading here as I think that others might find it useful to see how I ended up assigning agency to the different ‘people’ populating the spread,…

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HE AIN'T WORTH IT

HE AIN’T WORTH IT

I have to admit that there’s nothing I enjoy more than to give some woman the following message: ‘He ain’t worth it’ – when it’s called for. ‘I really don’t know what I can do,’ some say. ‘How can I be towards my lover?’ (A married man with children). ‘I know for sure that he loves me.’ ‘Yeah, honey,’ I say. ‘It looks like he does, but he still ain’t worth it’. Some men love to ‘decide’ that…

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WHAT THE DEVIL

Come or go? Continue or leave behind? Approach or distance? We often come across these questions, particularly when we get to see the card of the Charioteer in a reading. The immediate response to this card taken out of context is to say that the Charioteer is all about overcoming a challenge. Within a context, it makes an enormous amount of difference whether we see the Charioteer claiming a…

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Today, it is still one of the more popular of the varieties of poker played.