Divination

This book is the first in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback. Camelia Elias lives up to her reputation of a cartomantic martial artist, taking no prisoners. Her cuts through misunderstandings and misinterpretations are clean, leaving the serious student of cartomancy with a sense of wonder. The aim is to establish a top-level cartomancy that gives the possibility for all the students of the Marseille Tarot to reach the level of competence where they are beyond comparison, in a league of their own. This course book offers rigorous deconstructions and revisions of traditional approaches to reading the Marseille Tarot, establishing a unique, oracular voice that's efficient, convincing, and poetic. The fortuneteller that emerges from these pages is analytical, deductively logical, and contextually situated. Her Read like the Devil method fuses the obvious with an incisively penetrating Zen clarity.

In Tarology Enrique Enriquez sees the Tarot de Marseille through the prism and science of pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions. By following into the footsteps of Oulipian writers, he applies the idea of constraint and the rule of restriction to the surprisingly visual and gestural nature of Tarot. The result is not only illuminating but also enriching for all those interested in the history of Tarot and its divinatory practices. Enriquez develops a whole new method of reading cards, which combines careful considerations of chance with choice. By using a phenomenological and constructivist approach to the cards, Enriquez shows how the Tarot de Marseille speaks poetry and thus reveals some of our deepest concerns with language, with what we can say when we are at a loss for words.

THE GYPSY QUEEN DREAM BOOK And FORTUNE TELLER By Madame Juno the Gypsy Queen. This fascinating book has been out of print for many years and is now very hard to find in early editions. OBSCURE PRESS have now re-published it using the original text. "Madame Juno, the Gypsy Queen, gives the true interpretation of every dream you are likely to have. She has striven to avoid that most provoking quality about dream-books, the error of omission. She has aimed at completeness." Within the book's 256 pages are 185 pages dealing with dream interpretations, and also detailed chapters on: - How to Tell Fortunes by Dominoes. - By Dice. - By Cards. - By Tea-Leaves or Coffee Grounds. - By Moles. - Fortunes Told From the Hand. - The Moon. - Judgments Drawn from the Moon's Age. - Charms and Ceremonies. - Charms, Spells and Incantations, - Fortune Telling Games with Cards. To the book has also been added the Oraculum or Book of Fate, which Napoleon confessed that he was often in the habit of consulting. This unusual and thought-provoking book will appeal to all with an interest in the art of divination.

This book is the third in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback. Camelia Elias lives up to her reputation of a cartomantic martial artist, taking no prisoners. Her cuts through misunderstandings and misinterpretations are clean, leaving the serious student of cartomancy with a sense of wonder. The aim is to establish a top-level cartomancy that gives the possibility for all the students of the Lenormand Oracle cards to reach the level of competence where they are beyond comparison, in a league of their own. This course book offers rigorous deconstructions and revisions of traditional approaches to reading the Lenormand cards, establishing a unique, oracular voice that's efficient, convincing, and poetic. The fortuneteller that emerges from these pages is analytical, deductively logical, and contextually situated. Her Read like the Devil method fuses the obvious with an incisively penetrating Zen clarity. In addition to method and technique, the book features extensive in-depth readings of the grand tableau, demonstrating dazzling detective skills that emphasize the beauty of interpretation at its finest expression.

This is a collection of essays that gathers the voices of both reputed veteran and young cartomancers. The book captures the heart of cartomancy through 21+1 snappy rules, delivered with martial arts aplomb in the form of manifestos. While each fortuneteller imparts his and her deep wisdom about what works and what doesn't in any cartomantic session, the idea is to go beyond the flashy, the verbose, and the dictatorial, and rather suggest instead what the nerve of each individual contribution to cartomancy is all about. As most of the contributors are also artists, this book showcases their calligraphic and sigil style artwork.

This book is the second in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback. Camelia Elias lives up to her reputation of a cartomantic martial artist, taking no prisoners. Her cuts through misunderstandings and misinterpretations are clean, leaving the serious student of cartomancy with a sense of wonder. The aim is to establish a top-level cartomancy that gives the possibility for all the students of the playing cards to reach the level of competence where they are beyond comparison, in a league of their own. This course book offers rigorous deconstructions and revisions of traditional approaches to reading the playing cards, establishing a unique, oracular voice that's efficient, convincing, and poetic. The fortuneteller that emerges from these pages is analytical, deductively logical, and contextually situated. Her Read like the Devil method fuses the obvious with a penetrating Zen clarity. In addition to method and technique, the book features an incisive discussion of how to use playing cards in a magical setting, contributing fresh and original insights to the emerging interest in magic.

Scent and Divination is a book for all lovers of cards and smoke, ritual fumigation and incense burning. While touching on historical records of the significance of fragrance in oracular settings, Camelia Elias offers insights into her personal practice with talismanic perfume making and creating original incense recipes on the basis of divination with cards. This book blends the art of cartomancy with the aroma of precious resins, exploring the encounter between people whose identities are fully revealed and the method of reading their cards like the Devil. The book ends with an inédit account of consulting with a client for a magical fragrance, resulting in a story whose character borders the supernatural: too good to be true, but nonetheless true.