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Hoodoo Cartomancy Card Meanings
New to Hoodoo cartomancy and don’t know where to start? Here are the card meanings I suggest for all fifty-four playing cards as a professional card reader!
The Ace of Hearts :: The Light
Like a kiss, the Ace of Hearts is a catalyst.
It's among the most blessed cards in cartomancy.
Hearts are the suit of the priest class and human desires. Hearts emphasize the turns of fate around our emotional lives.
Cartomancy as Ancestral Citation
The truth is I've always been able to read without them. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Its a mark of the lineage. A long conversation between the dead and the living. To work the cards is to remember those who worked the cards.
Spectral Technologies 101
One thing my students in the newly renamed Intuitive Strategies Community know is that the best reader is a safe reader.
Intuitive Strategies for Feeling Free
The opposite of feeling used up, drained, and burnt out is feeling free. There is nothing more intuitive than feeling free.
Intuition for Queer Empaths
Queer empaths are everywhere: becoming overwhelmed by emotions that no one shared, bursting into tears, being suckered into complex emotional ordeals.
The Joker and The Dogs
The Joker is a trickster, neither good nor evil. The Joker is the chaotic beauty and terror of living on earth. Of living on earth in a body.
Working Playing Cards: Clubs & Spades
Just try to remember the spiritual aspects of endings and choices, and you’ll make peace with the Spades.
Working Playing Cards: Hearts & Diamonds
There are important differences between the suits in tarot and those in playing cards. Those differences are essential to understanding these tools.
Working Playing Cards to Get What You Want
Playing cards can be used as petitions or as an energy enhancer under a candle, but there are so many other ways to use tarot and playing cards in conjure and spellwork. Here’s a couple things you should know before getting started that can make your work more efficient and powerful