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Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
If we can read with cards, we can write with cards, too!
Can you write a three-card line for a famous character? 1. Odysseus masterminds a great victory over Troy and faces monsters, storms, and captivity before sailing home to be reunited with Penelope. (I'll try this one: King of Clubs; 7 of Spades; Queen of Hearts) 2. Romeo experiences love at first sight, makes a tragic error in fighting and killing Tybalt, and dies with Juliet in a cold, stone tomb.
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Mr. Woolery Inner circle Fairbanks, AK 2149 Posts |
Huh.
1. King of Spades, 4 of Clubs, Queen of Hearts 2. Ace of Hearts, 5 of Spades, 10 of Spades That last is hard. When I read cards, I don't really deal with death as a particular indication. I like to view the cards as representing archetypal challenges or situations. Here, we are talking about finality, so I am borrowing from the imagery of tarot and I'm not completely satisfied with the choice I made. But I don't think I have another that works better for me. (I don't read the Ace as death, the way some people do.) Rather a fun game, though. How about this: Bilbo Baggins leaves his cozy hobbit hole, faces challenges ranging from trolls to goblins to Gollum to a dragon, then returns home to find himself not really fitting in anymore. -Patrick |
Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
Two of Diamonds Normally I would go with Jack for a quest or adventure, but Bilbo is small and has a small calling that will lead to great treasure.
Seven of Spades Someone else should go with an alternative choice, but I like the 7 of S for completion of challenges or tasks. Eight of..??.. Not sure here, but eight to me means a new beginning: clubs if the focus is on the changes within Bilbo and maybe spades if the focus is on how the ring starts the rest of the stories..?? Hamlet, anyone? Oliver Twist? The Shawshank Redemption?
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rev_marcus New user Just getting started with 95 Posts |
I am just starting to look into card readings, just bought a couple of resources that I am reading now. I hope this thread goes somewhere. After I do a bit more investigating I hope I can contribute.
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18032 Posts |
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On Oct 7, 2016, rev_marcus wrote: I have something that may interest you .. it's called FORTUNE 500 .. I hope to release it this week .. A big discount for Café members or those who are going to ECSS ... I'll have an independent class there.
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18032 Posts |
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On Oct 7, 2016, direct wrote: I do exactly the same thing!!!! You are a genius
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Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
I can see how having one system down could open the door to reading many things:
Earth............Coins...........Diamonds.........Square..........4 Fire............Wands............Clubs............Triangle...........3 Water............Cups............Hearts............Circle............1 Air............Swords............Spades............Cross............2 I like playing cards because they seem elemental, primal. I started this story idea because I think there may be some predetermined meanings in certain patterns that the cards fall in--maybe similar to flushes, pairs, and straights in poker: all red cards, for example, being bright, open, expressive yangishness. In my very new experience with reading cards, it seems the immature approach would be to let the cards act as omens or signs of guidance telling us not to marry or that it's okay to quit the job. The mature approach would be to see possible pathways, dreams, opportunities, cautionary tales, areas that need work, and so on.
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Mr. Woolery Inner circle Fairbanks, AK 2149 Posts |
Direct, I do read runes. Specifically the Elder Futhark. What you linked to looks like the Anglo Saxon Futhork, a later "alphabet." Your idea does have some merit. The use of one oracle to open up another can certainly help, but I have some misgivings about your approach. Which is the fertility rune? For me, that's Ing, the one that looks like a diamond or else like two Xs stacked together. It isn't at all the same as how I interpret the Hanged Man, though. The runes do have their own meanings and if you are afraid to put in the relatively short time it takes to learn 24 symbols, I assure you that it isn't that hard.
I think using numerology and suits is a fairly standard practice for playing cards. See Richard Webster's essay on the subject to be found at the Deceptionary. It just makes sense. Alan, I agree that any oracle is more useful as a way to gain some insight into a situation. I personally love one description I read (on a blog I can't seem to find again) of tarot reading as creating or reframing personal narratives through archetypal images. It fits how I use cards and runes. -Patrick |
bevbevvybev Inner circle UK 2674 Posts |
From my Cartomancy book:
In chapter eight we discussed how picking out cards that represent your own personality, situation and hopes for the future could give you a greater insight into the cards. Weʼve also talked about how itʼs useful to think of everyone as having their own ʻinternal deckʼ that they bring to the table when they come for a reading. As a final thought for this book I wanted to touch on the idea of the cards as a language. We interpret the cards to create stories, which when discussed with the sitter can help us discover the themes and ideas that are the most pertinent in their lives. In this respect the cards are like hieroglyphics - each one representing a concept or theme that when strung together can create a narrative. As the one giving the reading, you supply some of the ʻglueʼ that can piece these ideas together, along with the help of the sitter who adds context and truth. Thinking of the cards in this way is interesting as we are able to see them as the building blocks for story telling and extemporisation. They are a language unto themselves. With that in mind I want to leave you with the idea that you can actually reverse engineer this concept by starting with a story first, and then try to piece together the cards that tell the story. For instance, if I told you this little story - ʻ A relationship is being put under intense pressure due to money related worries although they will be resolvedʼ - then you could describe that story, using the suits of the cards only as Hearts Spades Diamonds This is simply one of the early suit readings from page 22, but in reverse - weʼre thinking of the story first and trying to work out how weʼd explain that using the language of the cards. On page 67 I described a fun exercise, to go through the pack creating a continuous narrative from the cards and seeing how far you could go before you ran out of ideas. This is a bit like that, but Iʼm talking now about describing existing stories. Weʼve done it with ourselves to a certain extent when we had to choose some cards to represent our current situation in chapter eight. Now I want you to start applying it to your friends, people you know, stories you hear and things you read in the paper, on the internet and see on the news. Start using the cards to describe every day events. For instance, if I told you this story - ʻA fair woman with a heart of gold hears some good news from a lady at workʼ - then you could sum this story up with these three cards Queen of Hearts / Six of Hearts / Queen of Clubs or how about this one - ʻSome projects at work are taking good shape from stable progress thanks to a young guy whose family connections are a major contributing factor to the success of the projectʼ - you could use these cards to describe this scenario Five of Clubs / Jack of Clubs / Ten of Hearts The point of all this is that by starting with the scenario first, it forces you to use the cards as a descriptive story telling language. By thinking about all kinds of things that go on in your life and in the world around you and considering how you might describe those things using the cards, you will gain great insight into how the cards work together, and will start noticing patterns and obvious connections that the cards make when they describe both the big and small events in our lives. Next time youʼre watching a news story or reading an article, think for a while about which cards could sum it up. You can practice this no matter where you are or what youʼre doing. The cards are there to describe the world and the more you play with them them, the more the world of cartomancy will make sense. Fun exercise (from page 67): Shuffle up your entire working deck and pull out a court card. Use this ʻcharacterʼ as the protagonist of a story you are about to create. Turning over one card at a time from the deck create a story about this initial person using the meanings of each card as you turn them over one at a time. Explain what happens to him and describe the people he meets, for good or for bad. Go through the whole pack if you can and try to keep the story cohesive! If you can do it with your working deck, then try it with your normal deck. This is great practice! Hope that gives you guys some food for thought! Julian |
Mr. Woolery Inner circle Fairbanks, AK 2149 Posts |
I don't claim to be an expert. But it takes less than two hours to learn the meanings. Much less if you have a good visual imagination. That's just keywords, mind you, not pronunciation and names, which are another layer of complexity, though very useful in some circumstances.
If you are who I suspect, welcome back. I've missed you. (For real, no sarcasm.) And Julian's book on Cartomancy is very good, for anyone on the fence about it. Just sayin'. Patrick |
Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
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On Oct 10, 2016, direct wrote: Please relate the awful story of the runestone! Please relate the awful story of the runestone! Please relate the awful story of the runestone! (In case you have a rule or personal conviction, I asked three times.)
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bevbevvybev Inner circle UK 2674 Posts |
Nice to see you back 'direct'
wonder how long you'll make it this time! longer I hope |
Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
Joker / Ace of Spades / King of Clubs
Through an ingenious trickster, a runestone contracts deathly disease, leaving gypsy man rattled
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Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
Posts such as the one above make me endure all the commercialism, cronyism, egoism, dogmatism, and other static at the Magic Café: heartfelt, distilled experience explained simply and directly. I'm sad the post will sink down and be lost like gold among the green pages.
Anyway, there's much to think about here. The small aspect I have been thinking about (and the reason for this thread): Quote:
On Oct 11, 2016, direct wrote: Borges said something like there is only one story, the wandering ship trying to find it's way home. I am trying to hunt that quote down today. I suspect there are a few more, but probably not many: the tragedy, the comedy, the romance, the epic, perhaps a few types of fairy tales. I am backing my way into experience from the abstract but direct's post obviously arises from practical, real-life work.
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