Cartomantic prompts: Cards and Coffee (past cycle)
For a number of years now I’ve run cycles of 7-11-22 cartomantic prompts posted consecutively each day in a cycle on a wordpress platform. People would sign up in droves, and for a number of days be ready to be inspired by fascinating questions.
Read about the premise for Cards and Coffee below.
The general premise for the prompt cycles is the following: Much of what you do with cards is reflect on the questions that you bring to the table. But think of it this way: There are questions, and then there are the better questions: questions that you are conscious of, and questions that you are not conscious of.
Often the questions you are not so conscious of creep into what you see in the cards: You formulate a question to the cards, and then there’s the question that stares you in the face; the question that the cards formulate on your behalf; the question that you dodge. The cards have a nasty, but I would also say, tender and loving way of making things plain for you.
The cartomantic prompts are mini-lessons in the art of asking questions as you see them arise from the cards themselves. How do you deal with the questions that the cards formulate for you?
Here you can order a past cycle at a reduced price. You can choose between the following topics: ‘Beauty,’ 'Focus,' 'Do your Best,' 'Everyday is a good day’, ‘Cards and Coffee,’ ‘The House,' 'Coping', and 'Voice'. Each cycle uses an array of interesting cards and magic rituals, from historical tarots to art tarots, from tasseomancy to protection spells.
For some examples of what questions the cartomantic prompts invite me to consider, see a prompt from the Every Day is a Good Day series, read my Taroflexions essay, This will Make you Think, or watch my video, Releasing Freedom.
Cards and Coffee
And routine, I might add. How often do you think of your routines as being part of what creates flow in your life?
And when we say flow, do we mean habitual patterns of behavior, or something else?
I get up in the morning, and I drink coffee. I'm not on the run when I drink my coffee. If there's some place I need to be, I make sure I give myself time for my coffee before I have to go anywhere.
But what's so special about this routine? About giving myself time? Do I just sit and stare into my cup? Plan vigorously for the day, or think 'positive thoughts', making affirmations for abundance too?
Although my routine is informed by the same action – I get up in the morning and have coffee – coffee ends up doing something for me that's more than just quickening my senses or kicking me into some mainstream mindfulness business.
Coffee accompanies my session of reading cards, just for fun and inspiration, and it also gives me an opportunity to think about the beans at the bottom in aesthetic ways. For you see, I don't just drink coffee. I make art with it.
Armed with this art, I look at my cards again. I think of what I don't normally think of. After all, when the cards hit my table in a random way, they don't do it so that I can experience an extension of what's already habitual.
Thinking about what the cards may prompt me with, combined with the weird image patterns that coffee beans create enhances the flow of joy in my routines.
This cycle of tarot prompts will thus focus on how we can flavor our routines.