Cars and Cartomancy

Reading the cards for Ayrton Senna.

The Lenormand houses as temperaments

Playing detective with the Lenormand houses as temperaments, philosophy style.

The problem is called grief

When you read cards, you don’t just address problems. You address grief.

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better” doesn’t work in divination

If we forget that divination is a technology in addition to being an interpretative art, we forget that there’s no difference between what a doctor does and what a magical healer does. Let me put it this way: would you go to a doctor who relishes his failures, or what’s worse, can’t even wait to fail better, and more, fall from all graces too because, well, it’s delicious?

Knowledge and understanding of your own wisdom

Distinguishing between knowledge and understanding of your own wisdom with the cards.

The simplest lesson in cartomancy

How to read playing cards so you won’t loathe your fortunetelling business.

Broke, bedevilled, and coerced

How is it possible that the cards fall on the table just perfect?

THE STORY BEHIND THE IMAGE

The surface and the story behind the surface. Read for both.

THREE NEW BOOKS

A month ago I wrote here about finalizing three book manuscripts and a deck of cards. Since I like to start projects and finish them on the dot too, I was true to my own word once again. I just had a book launch party, and shipped today a whole lot of boxes. It was

WORK AND FUN

What happens when you don’t qualify ‘wok’ and ‘fun’.