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When you shock yourself with the cards, and then laugh
I said it again, and I’ll repeat myself, as it bears repetition. When things go wrong in a reading with the cards is when the agency gets fucked up. Although it may seem that we always know who is...
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I met the Devil and this happened
The famed Pam-A deck in my private collection, first edition, 1910 There’s a new fad in town: card combinations with the Rider Waite/Smith Tarot. All fine, if the practice actually went somewhere. But...
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Colors of the New Year
As it happens, my New Year starts off rather colourfully. First off, my head is buried in a very fine church incense blend, made according to some monks’ idea of alchemy. Why they would use kitchen...
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Office gossip
I read the playing cards for two people at the same time. They take turns to tell me what’s happening. The man says: ‘the research center is closing due to differences between the director of studies...
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A certain relentlessness
Sometimes I do things to please myself. Creative things, they call it, when you use your hands and imagination in order to give form to an idea. As it happens, for all my sitting all day long with...
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The teacher on the fence
Sometimes it’s not just students who are on the fence about their education. The teacher can also experience a similar thing regarding teaching. ‘I’ve been waiting for you to do this,’ a cartomancy...
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The Fortuneteller as a Grave Digger
Yes, you heard that right, grave digger, not gold digger. Let me explain. Two days ago I was a grave digger. Or rather, I was exhuming a dead body. In a dream. I dreamt that my sister and I were...
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Hoodoo magic with playing cards
This week Aradia Academy has opened registration for the Read Like the Devil series of foundation courses focussing on the Playing Cards module, a series that is taught by The Janitor, Bent Sørensen,...
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WHEN THE ‘INNER VOICE’ IS A DIMWIT Have a look at these cards above: The Devil says: ‘You can do anything.’ Circumstance says: ‘Today you hang.’ Temperance in the middle says: ‘Know how to mix these...
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A reading that slays
For over two decades my partner, Bent Sørensen, had to witness my morning rituals with coffee and fumes, the latter in the form of strange smelling incense or freshly baked croissants. As a standard...
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Offense, excitement, and a reading about impotence
As a test, psychotherapists and spiritual teachers alike prefer to ask this question: ‘how often are you offended?’ People’s answers disclose something about their emotional barometer. The less one...
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The fortuneteller as a grey eminence
If the fortuneteller is not a grand, grey eminence, what is she? What exactly is her function? I like to think of myself as a grey eminence, a title reserved to the masters who are past the age of...
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Losing the plot: A 3-card challenge
Reading cards for insight into relationships in love, at work, with money, or the body, is a classic, but I’ll say that there’s at least one other equally pressing topic worth considering that’s...
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Things and ideas on a plate
I actually like Black Friday. Those who can’t afford ‘the thing,’ can now enjoy it at considerable discounts. I thought about the ones who put effort into making ‘the thing.’ I felt grateful for their...
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Please, stop
I found myself pleading this week. As I was browsing several virtual book fairs dedicated to fine art and letter press books, I quietly intoned: ‘please, stop torturing me… I don’t have 5 or 35000...
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Erotic Dreams
How do we dream of another? Part of my job as a diviner is to read the cards for dreams. People tell me what they dream about, and I elucidate their dreams with the imagery from the cards. I thus...
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Dark duel: Algorab conjunct the Moon against some fancy gossipers
The day of reckoning has come. Dark stars and the dark moon conjoin the force of ravens and of crows under the signature of double blinks. Algorab makes its pronouncements: ‘Today we’ll cook some...
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This is how magic works
Yesterday EyeCorner Press and translator Oscar Díaz del Valle mutually agreed on the terms for the translation of my book, Marseille Tarot: Towards the Art of Reading, first published in 2014. This...
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Dark occultism in the age of misinformation
These days I’ve been writing missives, both in my recent Aradia Academy newsletter and on Patheos, pertaining to my upcoming course in Cartomancy and Necromancy, and I thought about the general...
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Cars and Cartomancy
‘The wall moved.’ ‘No, it didn’t.’ ‘Yes, it did, a few millimeters, and it was in my way. That’s why I crashed.’ This is Ayrton Senna talking, explaining why he couldn’t finish a car race in Dallas...
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