THE SHUFFLE
Shuffle across the board
The texts here are based on short contemplations with the cards, daily draws, and other reflections.
Here you can also find examples of more cards than the standard Marseille Tarot, the Lenormand Oracle, and playing cards.
Enjoy some of my favorite Italian and French art tarots, the sudden insight, and the occasional maxim or haiku poem prompted by the cards.
Family drama
Christmas, Easter, anniversaries. All good until it’s evil. The evil is called family drama. A 3-card for tackling conflict.
Logos, mythos, eros
A 2-card reflection on the paradoxes of logos, mythos, and eros, and a 3-card reading on the extraordinary experience.
The condition of secrecy
A reflection on cards and books, plants and possessed vases.
Virtue signalling
A 3-card reading on the disadvantage of virtue-signalling.
Predicting death
A conversation about death.
Vermeer’s pearl
A 3-card draw towards a contemplation of art and light.
Preaching to the wrong choir
A 3-card reading on failed moralizing.
Paired cards
A 2-card reading on the art of memory.
Of labyrinths and cocks
A 7-card reading on the use of oracles for the poetic and clear expression.
Wrong assumption
A 3-card draw on what happens when the Hermit makes the wrong assumption.
Crushed expectations
What you don’t expect regarding crushed expectations.
The older ‘other woman’
A 10-card reading as a tirage-en-ligne on how, on occasion, the legendary 'other woman' is not the younger model, but the older one.
The choice
A 6-card reading for choosing the lesser evil.
The shimmering
A 3-card reading for a series of reflections on hot and cold takes.
The heart in a pinch
A 9-card reading for a Pope who can’t get what he wants.
Spirits and choices
A wish upon a star.
Happiness per command
What do we make of dumb decisions?
Haiku interventions
Haiku interventions with the cards.
Hats off
On a decade of wearing a certain hat.
Culture wars
Observation on a public dispute regarding Hellenistic astrology and its advocates' claims about the use of whole sign houses in ancient astrology.