THE CARTOMANCER
Coping makes promises. Cutting reveals the truth. There is truth in awareness, and none in coping. Coping is just tagging alone, with your ears bleeding. Read more
Coping makes promises. Cutting reveals the truth. There is truth in awareness, and none in coping. Coping is just tagging alone, with your ears bleeding. Read more
Hiding your fearlessness is the only way to counter the claims against madness. What did you think that all that talk about being silent is all about? Some sort of a mystical act that no one really understands, unless you are the sphinx or some ugly witch from Romania? Read more
The beyond manifests as the heart of the supernatural, which is the ordinary in the extraordinary. Why else do you suppose you can speak with the dead, divine your future, or give clear and precise answers with the cards to yourself and others on current concerns or old wounds? Read more
When something is simple, by virtue of the nature of the simple, it is above hard and easy. Are your rituals simple in this sense, or are they subject to polarity? Read more
One of the first things that I teach my university students is that if literature has any function whatsoever, then it’s because it shows us how to relate to our desire to know secrets, how to transact with them, and how to have them told but not revealed. Now, think about the same idea as it relates to cards. Read more
Exactly a week ago the world of Tarot lost a grand magus and man of cards, legendary collector and historian, K. Frank Jensen. His legendary status can be traced in all the most important reference books, from Michael Dummett to Stuart Kaplan. Read more
Do people actually know what they are saying, when they dismiss others with these words: 'You are not my people'? Read more
How do we allow for other modes of knowing to be seated in us as ‘more’, to use a metaphor from Vodou spirituality? Try three steps. Read more
I use Aconitum to kill off dishonesty; the dishonesty of others. Read more
You can predict events accurately only when you’re mad enough to strip yourself of all your masks. Read more
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