Cartomantic prompts: Seven Deadly Sins (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 specific premise for Seven Deadly Sins ran in July 2020, below.
The general premise for the whole 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?
You can order a past cycle at a reduced price. You can choose between various topics such as ‘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.
Seven deadly sins
Everyone works out of a sense of being depleted, depleted of resources, financial and emotional. Many experience a loss of heart. In the olden days such states were considered to be the consequence of theft, the thieves being identified as 7 deadly sins.
You're not just depressed about the world situation, or your very specific unfortunate situation, if you're experiencing one, but you're also overeating, giving in to gluttony, or consuming TV and social media notions, giving in to wrath – if too much injustice is represented – or pride – if hopping on the revolution wagon.
People steal ideas from one another, giving in to greed and envy, or they lust after what others have. A sense of death, apathy, and sloth is prevailing. Not only is it enough to worry about surviving the rampant virus, but you also have to worry about others' actions against you.
In the previous cycle of cartomantic prompts, we looked at beauty. Now I want to look at the ugly in the world.
For 7 days in a row I read the cards with view to formulating questions that we can pose to ourselves that have a combative nature: How do we protect ourselves from the 7 deadly sins? How do we discriminate between the battles we need to engage with? What is the actually essential?
As usual with these prompts, I expect the cards to surprise us beyond our general conditioning towards taking concepts at face value, and then adding a twist to it. What we're after is the obvious, not the trite and the cliché.
Let's look at pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth with an open eye.