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.
For a collection of more than 200 texts, visit my Substack.
Hats off
On a decade of wearing a certain hat.
Family drama
Christmas, Easter, anniversaries. All good until it’s evil. The evil is called family drama. A 3-card for tackling conflict.
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.
Magic in a jar
A conversation about love and the magic the goes in and out of some very fine pots.
Predicting death
A conversation about death.
Vermeer’s pearl
A 3-card draw towards a contemplation of art and light.
When the moon is not listening
A 3-card reading on not dreaming and why, plus a ritual for lucid dreaming.
Preaching to the wrong choir
A 3-card reading on failed moralizing.
Wrong assumption
A 3-card draw on what happens when the Hermit makes the wrong assumption.
A house arrest
A short video recording that features a 3-card reading for a mother and her son.
For the life of me
A short video recording that highlights a point about reading for big questions with ‘small’ cards.
Crushed expectations
What you don’t expect regarding crushed expectations.
The shimmering
A 3-card reading for a series of reflections on hot and cold takes.
Happiness per command
What do we make of dumb decisions?
Haiku interventions
Haiku interventions with the cards.
Culture wars
Observation on a public dispute regarding Hellenistic astrology and its advocates' claims about the use of whole sign houses in ancient astrology.
Understanding reading fortunes
Sometimes the cards predict an event even though you’re asking for something else.
Demolish and revitalize
A 3-card draw using the cards as a prompt.
Done with it
A 3-card draw for a moment of realization