Fate Keeps On Happening

  Greetings from the Dome of Doom. Maybe you've heard about the heat dome? Triple digit temps with no end in sight. Not just "Wow, I'm really sticky and uncomfortable" hot, but "This shit will literally kill you" hot. It's an issue in much of the US, and I read that Italy is currently experiencing a heat dome too. Global warming is real, kids. Now is a good time to stick close to the AC and knock wood our raggedy power grid holds. So pardon my not-great rumpled sheet photos. This is where the air conditioner blows best! Go here and here for better images and a bit of historical background. These decks are gorgeous , my photos don't begin to do them justice.  The Bohemian Fortune Telling Cards is a deck I've been anticipating for years . Karen and Alex have been working on it in between other projects, so it took awhile. It was announced in 2017 or thereabouts, and at that time it had already been in the works for four years. Along with that, th

  There's something about the word "gatekeeping" that makes people kneejerk. People talk like it's Always A Bad Thing, they accuse people of doing it when they don't get something they want. Be a doormat lest someone accuse you of "gatekeeping!" This is why we have idiot readers all over youtube. It's why we have so many cringy bad books and decks. People have been throwing the gates wide open for decades now, letting every Tom, Dick, and Harry in. "Anybody can do this!" And your listing gets buried under a flood of dilettantes practicing unlicensed psychology with a cheesy deck. You see magazine articles saying "Tarot doesn't predict the future." Etc. Would you throw your front door open and let in every random person on the street? In myth, everything worthwhile has some kind of threshold guardian. If you want in, you have to face the guardian first. "With the personifications of his destiny to guide and aid him, the he

    For many years now, I've been explaining that the bundle of sticks in the image above, and in a lot of other old Lenormand decks, is not a broom. It's a birchrod bundle and it's used for punishment, not cleaning. But at some point, someone misidentified it as a broom and the idea has infected many a book, deck, and website ever since. There are broom meanings added on to what's essentially a card of strife. I've also seen "sex" for this one, but a specific kink does not encompass sex. That's like saying the Park is a "sex card" because some people are into sex in public places. Or people read it as "repetition", which throws the deck out of balance. The Ring already covers things that happen over and over. With Whips/Birchrods, something might happen twice (there's two implements) but no more than that. I'm not saying that the cards have to be frozen in some particular moment in time. The interpretation of the cards has