Telling Fortunes

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

  • The knights of the court

    Continuing my survey of the court cards: After the pages come the knights, the mounted ones, the riders of the court. Remember, these surveys are in their voice, the voices of the courts as I hear them. The knights: of cups: “I gallop forth with eagerness, the ground swelling at my heels as I go.…

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  • Sex in the court

    Sex in the court

    In May I began my oracular survey of the court cards, which can be read here starting with the Pages. Before I go any further, I want to address gender, or rather sex and the court cards. First a statement: as a diviner, I do not make distinctions a priori in regards to the male…

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  • The pages of the court

    Some time ago I began an overview of the Tarot de Marseille pips, which can also be seen as playing card pips. This overview shared my way of seeing the pips, how I read them in a spread, and how they interact with other cards. I have also done something similar with The Trumps but…

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  • Tarot Tradition

    Tarot Tradition

    I began the week by sitting down on Monday to shuffle the cards and see the week ahead. After doing that and looking down at what came up, I decided that I didn’t want to divine for the week ahead, week by week, instead I want to try it month to month. Hence, I didn’t…

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