Telling Fortunes

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

  • Spreads as cartography

    Spreads as cartography

    Tarot spreads as a cartographic map I am exploring of late how the eye wanders around a given shape. This idea was first introduced to me by Camelia Elias through her teachings in Radiant Reading and also here. It is something most of us card readers already do, except this particular approach is an openly…

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  • Cards: 5 of Coins

    We arrive at this juncture in the middle, the 5 of coins. A solitary coin encased within flowering leaves and two open buds above and below. The heart, the center, the core. There is an emphasis here in the center, the excluded, as the four coins around it are balanced and stable. A seed perhaps,…

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  • The Yes and the No

    The Yes and the No

    I read yes/no questions because I make no distinction from one question to another, they are all questions and I ask the cards all manner of questions. The way I see it, nothing is fixed and as we move about our lives we are constantly making decisions and changing the realms of possibilities for ourselves.…

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  • Cards: 4 of Coins

    With the beginning of May we arrive at the house, the table, the 4 walls of the 4 of coins. I associate the fours in general with all things square, stable and sturdy. In this case, it being the 4 of coins, the suit of money, means, and ends, I think about banks, business ventures…

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