Telling Fortunes

Fortunetelling, cartomancy, divination, augury, with tarot, playing cards, oracles, and all things related to the -mantic art.

  • Cards: Ace of Cups

    Heavy shifting and big transitions have been underway in my life recently. It seems fitting I initiate this new foray into another suit with the Ace of Cups. When I began these card explorations I didn’t have a set order as far as suits went, but I seem to have been influenced unconsciously by Jodorowsky’s…

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  • Cards: 10 of swords

    Cards: 10 of swords

    For the last card of this suit, the final 10, I will not be using another additional card from the Majors. Instead, I will look at the card from two perspectives. Defeat. Exhaustion. You have reached the end of your tether, two options are available now, find the strength to break out of the cage…

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  • Last week I had a series of one card draws, spanning three days, and for those three days the same card came up. The 10 of cups. When I look at the Marseilles 10 of cups, I think of excess and completion in the realm of the heart, the hearth, and in the home. Receiving…

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  • Cards: 9 of swords

    When I think about the number nine I inevitably and unavoidably think about the hermit, key 9 of the trumps. In this particular number 9, with an excessive amount of swords lying in opposition and the center sword piercing the hilts, I think about the negative aspects of the hermit. Alienation and mental vexation. This…

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