PHILOSOPHY
This section focusses on the philosophy behind the signature method Read Like the Devil, drawing on semiotics, cultural studies, and Zen.
Some of the examples also compare the different cartomantic traditions pertaining to the history of the Marseille Tarot, the Lenormand Oracle, and Playing Cards.
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Marseille Tarot
Cartomancy or coaching? Restructuring a business without destroying it. Two 3-card readings of the same cards in reversed order.
Most think that divination is about reading fortunes or the self in relation to time. But what if I proposed that this is never the case, as we mostly read the cards for place, spatial metaphors, and the geography of the unknown?
Falling for fallacies that cartomancers apply to their practice and what to do about it.
How to avoid giving in to the desire to read for your emotions, with an example from Richard Gere and the Dalai Lama.
Lenormand Oracle
If you're fearful, would you call your Genghis Khan type of an ancestor? What could he teach you about fear, when he had none? Think again.
When it comes to knowledge in times of crisis, the comforting is not hearing what's comforting but knowing what to do more of and less of.
Playing cards
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better” doesn’t work in divination. Let’s see what does.