Cartomantic prompts: The House (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 The House 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.
The House
People travel. I travel. My sister travels. She was recently with me for a whole week, suffering from 'withdrawals'. She refused to post any pictures on social media.
Why on earth not?
Fear. Fear of thieves. She lives in an area where burglars spend their time on Facebook. Who is not at home? Easy peasy to find out.
I gave my sister a spell for the protection of her house. A ‘remote viewing’ kind of spell. As it was my turn to go to Norway for 5 weeks, I thought the same. i must protect the house.
Ok, I’m kidding. Given my weird Zen inclinations, I obviously don't care about possessions or whether they’d be stolen. I think I’d laugh at it.
But others experience anxiety.
This inspired me with the idea to run a new series of 11 prompts on the topic of The House.
In the context of the house I imagine that there are a few essential questions we can pose: What is my house to me? How sacred, how profane? How can I protect it?
Now imagine that there are countless questions that you can pose, equally valid and essential. But you won’t pose those because culture conditions you to think in habitual patterns.
Now imagine also that if you knew what questions to ask, you’d be able to think of different ways of: how to honor your abode; how to protect it; how to make it sacred; how to open it to others.
What protects the familiar is not the familiar
What we do when we work with cards, or any of the other divinatory systems, is become aware of how we can enlarge our field of consciousness beyond our habitual patterns of thinking.
If people have devised countless spells for this or that, or against this or that, where do you think that the idea came from?
From staying put?
Like hell.
The strongest house protections are the most weird.
In this cycle we look at questions that urge us to consider the unthinkable, and then launch into some weird spellcrafting.
All done in a snappy style Read like the Devil that will not only grab your attention but also hold it and then shift it.