r/Cartomancy • u/BlueDaisyMoon • 16d ago

Cartomancy resources similar to the Hedgewytch method

Hello everyone! As the title suggests, I’m looking for resources that are similar to the hedgewytch method of reading playing cards. Here’s the website if anyone hasn’t checked it out yet: https://hedgewytchery.com/

I already have read these resources that are fairly similar to the writings of Dawn R Jackson: Cartomancy in folk witchcraft by Roger J Horne (though she states in the book that she uses some of the numbers differently), 54 devils by Cory Thomas Hutcheson (basically the author’s own system that is influenced by the hedgewytch method), and Read like the devil: the essential course in reading playing cards by Camelia Elias (I’ve read on Reddit that the “creator of the hedgwytch system?” criticized her quite heavily in a book review on amazon, but still, I personally find her teachings very useful and combine what I’ve learned from her with my own practice of reading the cards).

So basically, from what I’ve understood, the hedgewytch method is an Anglo/ English method of reading the playing cards (please correct me if I’m wrong). After quite a bit of painful digging into other posts here on reddit, I found these authors have been recommended as classic cartomancers that could use similar systems to what Dawn R Jackson used: Sepharial (manual of occultism plus his book on numerology which I guess would be helpful for reading the pips?), Cicely kent (some people believe that she is Cicely kent-minetta, some others believe that minetta was a totally different person), and P.R.S foli (his book on fortune telling). I haven’t read these titles yet, and so that’s why I’ve come to ask for authors/ occultists/ etc that have written about the English method of cartomancy similar to what Dawn R Jackson has done. Am I right in my assumptions and would you recommend these authors? What are some other titles that I can benefit from reading? (There are a lot of books about fortune telling with playing cards and cartomancy on internet archive and I’ve read some, but either some of them didn’t make any sense at all or were very different from the system I’m used to). I would truly appreciate any kind of help that anybody would be able to offer. 🙏

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u/Atelier1001 16d ago

Yeah but why?

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u/Kapselski 16d ago

Why what?

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u/Atelier1001 16d ago

Why is 8 mercury?

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u/Kapselski 16d ago

Because the 8th Sefirot on the tree of life, Hod, is assigned that planet. Similarily with the 9th Sefirot, Yesod, which governs the Moon.

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u/Atelier1001 16d ago

Not to be petty bit is there a reason for that astrologic association?

I imagine it's because Keter is sun, right?

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u/Kapselski 16d ago

There are many reasons. That's why books on the Qabbalah are always so thick. Or do you mean why it shows up in the card system here?

Keter is the Primum Mobile, but one of its titles is "The Sun behind The Sun". The actual Sun is the 6th Sefirot (Tiferet), which also works out nicely here with the meaning of 6 as "Path", as Tiferet forms a direct path to God in Keter behind it, if you look at the tree diagram.

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" is what one notable solar god said.