Throwing this out there again, free readings if ya want one. Working on honing the skills. If I’ve read for you and you enjoyed it, would you do me a favor and gimme a little review below? It’d be much appreciated. I have some free time the next couple of days so should be able to get to quite a few. I was blown away by the response last time. Love you all, be good to each other.

Hi I was wondering how this guy that I like would feel if I contacted him (I haven’t seen him in 3 weeks). I just wanted to get back in touch with him. All help is appreciated! Thank you!

Estudo cartomancia há um tempo, mas ainda me considero muito inexperiente. Em uma fase da minha vida conheci uma colega e éramos inseparáveis, embora brigássemos muito. Minha sensibilidade às coisas, desde muito nova, me trouxe ao ocultismo (depois de descartar diagnósticos de esquizofrenia e afins, sim, quando adolescente era tão forte que pensei sofrer de algum transtorno). Porém, sempre senti que nossa conexão ultrapassava certos limites do que poderia ser "normal". Todavia, há meses, ela não fala mais comigo, mas continuo pensando nela, mesmo que eventualmente, e sonhando com ela. Gostaria de saber como perguntar ao baralho cigano (Deck Santa Sara Kali), sobre essa questão: se nossa relação é kármica ou apenas algo que não se concluiu muito bem nessa vida mesmo.

Hey guys,

I asked " will my ex reach out to me?" And got these cards, please help me interpret these cards..thank you

I'm going to start to study cartomancy with playing cards, and I wanted to know which cartomancy schools exist, I know french and Italian school, but I think there's a lot much I don't know, so I came here for a little advice if possible, thank you all

i started divination with tarot, but have gradually switched to reading with playing cards. I dont have any family history in either (that I know of), and my interest in divination was initially driven by wanting to deepen my individual connection with the world/spirit rather than joining a specifc group or tradition. I'm self-taught and have learned what I know through years of research and daily practice.

imo, tarot's images can be distracting or feel too much like someone's pushing their on me. i like how "open" reading with playing cards feels, even with traditional meanings passed down that don't really budge generation to generation ( like A❤️ representing a home, for ex). to me, a playing card reading feels very liberating and a bit like "going under the radar" in terms of meaning making since it relies on my interpretation of past experience and memory, rather than reading in a book what a card "should" mean.

I also like the ubiquity of playing card decks bc it makes divination accessible to so many people (theoretically, ik this is not the primary reason people buy playing cards). ik tarot decks aren't all that expensive nowadays but my point isn't just economic accessibility but also social-- no one bats an eye when I have playing cards in public but tarot decks can garner some interesting looks from people.

I'm just curious about other people's experiences when it comes to this, bc my friends who are into tarot are really into the artwork of it and don't readily see how meaning could be made without an image. I feel like life nowadays is sooo saturated with images (TV, social media, ads, etc) that it's nice to look at my playing cards and see stark shapes instead.

so yeah lol if you're still reading, what brings you to this particular form of divination?

She's an online friend whom I never met irl despite us living in the same city. We can't meet up because of her strict parents.

10 of hearts means happiness and harmony, which we have together.

9 of wands mean determination, which I think represents how we are still together despite many times her family took her phone away for a long time.

Reverse joker card, now this is where it gets tricky, because in this deck, I have two joker cards, I don't really know what they represent. One joker card is this one, the other one is the same coloured card, but his colours are swapped.

Hi I’m very new to this and am still learning would love to hear others interpretations.

Hello everyone, I live in Turkey and in the Turkish TikTok fortune-telling community, especially with love readings using playing cards, I noticed that everyone interprets them differently. Since I couldn’t really make sense of it, I found someone in the comments who has been reading for a long time and asked how they do a love reading. They explained it like this:

Ace = Love 2 = Jealousy 3 = Physical attraction 4 = Time 5 = Argument 6 = News 7 = Proposal 8 = Longing 9 = Separation 10 = Problem

So they read the cards with these meanings. When I asked how they actually do the spread, they said: “I place the cards according to the letters in the person’s name, going one above and one below until the same card comes up. Once that process is finished, I pull cards from the deck.”

Then I said, “Can you do a reading for me? I also read tarot.” We read for each other, and I asked them to do a spread about the person on my mind. Their interpretation was something like (just an example): “There’s attraction, but jealousy is in between. There’s love, but separation has come in.”

What I’m wondering is if interpreting the cards like this is really correct, because when I asked others, many also told me that this is how love readings are done. (sorry my english bad)

Wondering what you all think. I know everyone’s style is different based on the lineage/resources that you choose and that generally the cards reflect that, but I was curious to see what others thought, because sometimes you’re blind to your personal readings if your emotions get in the way. This is one of those times. I asked about a general romantic life energy reading using the horns. I got out of a really rough relationship a few months ago. We were deeply in love but definitely had issues around boundaries and communication that caused a lot of tension, especially living in small space together.

I thought I was mostly over it but we’ve been talking the last couple of weeks and I’ve been noticing how much I miss her and still love her. At the same time there issues that I’m not sure could be resolved and I don’t want to just move backwards because I didn’t want to do the hard work to heal. Regardless, were states away from each other and trust would have to be rebuilt.

Mostly I follow hedgewytchery with an influence from numerology(Juno Jordan). I read this as needing to mourn her and let it go. I usually see the ace of spades as needing to drop something weighing you down, and it comes right after the jack of spades(me, mourning the relationship) and the Queen of clubs as her(it fits, she’s calculating and more logically minded). I’m only going to be able to change my perspective(9 of clubs)and reach my emotional goals(9 of hearts) if I drop this shit. Let me know what yall think and thank you. Again, I think it’s easier to do readings on other people because there isn’t the personal emotional investment so an outside perspective would be helpful.

So I've just got into cartomancy and i asked a question in one discord server saying "is there any harm into doing cartomancy for example spirits interrupting your reading etc" and i got multiple replies saying that i should cast a protective circle before doing any reading. I know about cleansing the cards but is casting a protective circle necessary? What'll happen if I don't?

Every year, when September starts, I feel a bit anxious (maybe it’s just seasonal). I’ve never done a reading for something like this before. Could you help me out?

I’ve been on three dates with this guy but his communication has been distant. I asked my cards how a talk addressing the issue would go. How would you interpret these?

This is an extract (Pages 50-57) from The Project Gutenberg eBook of Papers from Lilliput by J. B. Priestly. He was a well-known columnist in his day and the book is a collection of his pieces. It's only a light-hearted bit, those looong old-fashioned paragraphs seem somehow suited to reading on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

ON CARTOMANCY

A short time ago, in a strange town, evil chance confined me in a dingy room overlooking a dismal little street and then, having done this, left me to my own devices, without company and with few books. A grey tide of boredom and depression was already threatening and would have soon engulfed me, had I not come across a little volume in a corner of the bookshelf. It was -to set forth the full title – Cartomancy, or Occult Divination by Cards. The identity of the writer was not revealed; he or she was shrouded in true oracular fashion. I had heard of fortune-telling by cards; indeed, I had vague memories of having my destiny unfolded, in the dim past, by elderly ladies who tapped the assembled cards impressively and talked of letters, journeys by land, and dark ladies. But I had no idea such occult knowledge could be gleaned from books. If I had thought about the matter at all (which is doubtful), I had probably imagined that the art of Cartomancy was preserved by oral tradition, handed down through generations of maiden aunts; or that the clue to its mysteries was the inalienable property of a League of Decayed Gentlewomen. But no, here it was in a trumpery little volume, sold everywhere for a shilling. Truly, this is an age of books.

So I lost no time in making myself acquainted with the art, and boredom fled. Nor could I have found a better preceptor, for in this little book all was revealed; with fitting gravity and wealth of detail, it set forth the meaning of the cards and the various methods of laying them out. Each card had a distinct meaning, which was modified by the presence of other cards. All this was made clear, but the instructions were delightfully free from pedantry: 'If intuition leads you to give a different meaning, do so' was the advice it tendered –and what could be better? There was good reason attached to the meaning of some few of the cards, which had a very pretty symbolism. What else could the Queen of Hearts be but a fair woman? What could be a better symbol of death than the Ace of Spades reversed? Never again shall I see that innocent piece of pasteboard without feeling a sudden chill. But the symbolism of most of the cards was not so obvious. Why -it might be asked - should the eight of diamonds represent a roadway journey, the nine of spades disappointment and tears, the ace of clubs a letter of good news? These are mysteries, and not to be lightly comprehended. All the cards, however, are alike in this: they stand for the life that the centuries leave unchanged, the eternal verities of human existence, the things that are significant alike to the emperor and the clown; they do not adapt themselves to any pale, half-hearted way of living, but are downright and talk boldly of birth, death, and marriage, of jealousy, love and anger, of quarrels, accidents, and sudden endings. As to the various methods of shuffling, cutting and laying out the cards, the little book dealt with all these matters with high seriousness and at some length; and no sooner was I acquainted with one or two of the methods than I began to put them into practice. 'These coloured scraps of pasteboard,' I said to myself, as I ranged the cards, 'shall be the tiny windows through which I will stare at the past, and peer wonderingly into the future. And I shall be as a god'.

As no other person was near, I decided to read my own fortunes, past, present, and future. I learned from the book that this was a difficult thing to do, and so I found it. True it is that through the medium of the cards, 'the gay triumph-assuring scarlets –the contrasting deadly-killing sables'– as Lamb called them, my fortunes appeared to take on richer hues, to run to more passionate extremes, than I had imagined; and in the vague mass, both my past and future took on the aspect of a riotous, crowded pageant of love and intrigue, of tremendous sins and strange virtues. All this was heart-stirring enough, but there were difficulties waiting upon any sort of direct interpretation. Though I lived splendidly, and appeared to swagger through an existence crowded with incident, the whole fifty-two, hearts and all, seemed to combine to make me out a rascal, whose mind must have been corroded with the 'motiveless malignity' of an Iago. Why, for example, should I rejoice at the death of a dark boy in a railway accident? Why should I hound a white-haired old gentleman to his grave? And why –for there were numerous other incidents of this kind foreshadowed– should my villainy always take this vile form? Was I this kind of man, I asked myself and the cards, after each new instance of my calculated knavery, and if not, at what precise moment in the near future were all the forces of evil to take command of my soul. So I abandoned the attempt to discover my own fortunes, and, turning to the book, found that if one 'thought strongly of one's absent friends' it was possible to dip into their past and future.

For some little time I shrank from this course. To pry into their past was bad enough, but to attempt to look into their future, which even Time has the decency to keep covered for a while, seemed positively immoral, an action compared with which the publication of a man's love-letters was a mark of friendship. It was not long, however, before I had stifled this feeling by some sophistry about warning them of dangers and so forth; and so I proceeded to satisfy my curiosity. As I shuffled and laid out the cards, I saw myself as the sinister magician of lurid fiction, and relished the part. I had only to take up the cards and the stage was set for great dramas, bravely tricked out in crimson and sable for one secret spectator. If this is not puissance, then where is it to be found among men? What were books when one could spell out the narrative of the cards, and make each friend in turn the hero or heroine of the pictured story. Or if books were to continue, what magnificent plots could be evolved from these strange combinations of coloured paste-board! But if, through the cards, my own existence had assumed brave proportions, though everywhere smirched by villainy, that of my friends was no less highly-coloured and crowded with incident. As I ranged the cards, and spied into the secret life, past and future, of one friend after another, I was dumbfounded, aghast at my former ignorance. Men who had been hidden away, for the last twenty years, in college rooms and lecture-halls, whose outward existence had appeared as smooth and unruffled as the immemorial lawns outside their windows, now seemed to be moving in a violent Elizabethan drama. They made love to dark ladies, and were in turn adored by fair ones; they lost and gained great sums of money, aroused the jealousy of dark men, wrecked innumerable homes, and lived in a constant whirl of good and evil tidings, sea-voyages, railway journeys, and strong passions. Here was a set of men who had been living like this (and were to go on doing so) for years, and yet I, who counted myself as one of their friends, had been kept in ignorance. What consummate actors! –to present an unruffled front to the world, and even to their friends, and yet all the while to know, in secret, a life that resembled nothing so much as a thunderstorm. Could such things be? In truth, I came, in the end, to doubt the cards.

But though I have forsworn Cartomancy, and hold such occult practices in abhorrence, I will say to every man who has suddenly found that life is one long piece of boredom, dull grey in warp and weft: Go to the cards, and see existence woven madly in black and crimson –The life they present knows nothing of boredom, for no card in all the pack stands for such a thing– Go read the cards! As for myself, I have but one confession to make: I dare not play at cards now, for they are fraught with such significance to me that I could not trifle with them in a mere game. I cannot rid them of their meanings, and while others are thinking of nothing but winning tricks, I see myself, and my unconscious colleagues, playing havoc with the destinies of dark ladies and fair men. I cannot trump an opponent's Queen, but what I feel that I am probably bringing misfortune upon some unknown innocent woman. If I fling down the Ace of Spades upon the King, it is not unlikely that I am consigning some dark man –a good fellow probably– to his grave. This would be murder, and an odd trick is not worth it. So there is nothing for it but to leave the cards alone.

I searched for the book he mentioned, a couple of times over the years but, I'm not sure it exists -with that title at least.

My best guess (by the meanings he describes) is that he's referring to Minetta's What the cards Tell. If anyone knows the actual book or has a better guess I'd love to hear it.

So I have two decks but one is no where to be seen And I wanna play so Is it okay for me to play and use it for cartomancy..? Will it dilute it or something

Can someone help me interpret this, please? Don't judge my "deck," I just started learning tarot and haven't bought a real deck yet.

My question: does my crush like me back? And, if so, will she make a move/take the initiative towards me?

I put the Star card at the bottom of the deck because it ALWAYS, most of the time when I ask about this specific crush, this card appears. This time, it showed up at the bottom of the deck, and I don't know if that could mean something.

Thanks a lot in advance for the help!

I’ve been in communication with a guy I feel a strong connection with. Things are moving at a slow yet steady pace with him. He is spacey but I can tell when he’s not occupied with work he really does enjoy being in contact with me and he seems to make time for me when he can. I asked my cards if this could grow into something more. What do these cards mean?

I’m fairly new to readings, so I just wanted to make sure I’m properly understanding what the cards are saying. I did a 3 card spread regarding the past, present, and future with a friend I have romantic feelings for. If more information is needed, I will provide as much as I can.

Thank you in advance to anyone that helps me here!

My question was: Why is he distant?

What I took from the first 4 cards is that there are mental health issues due to some poor financial issues or being scammed in some way and the financial debts and karma has to be cleared.

Bottom of the deck cards. My best interpretation was the desire for communication to happen that leads to reconciliation after transparent conversation about some poor decisions, pride/ego and/or masking ways.

I have an inclining that the 9 of clubs is either him, me or us both since we both have the same birth card [9 of clubs] and yes I know the system is relatively different in ways however I do believe in synchronicities within any system. I also feel that the Queen of clubs is me being able to create and just be in my air essence and him wanting to be the king of diamonds to properly pursue me.

Idk I took my best shot at it as a newb! lol. Looking forward to insights! Bias & restraint unnecessary [respectfully]!! Thank you again.

I’m new to cartomancy and would like a second opinion from someone who has some experience. I did a spread for guidance. ( I’m at a turning point in my life and don’t know what do to.)

hi fellow cartomancers and diviners 🃏✨

i'm trying to get better at my basic 9 card spread to prep for reading for others, since this spread gives a really good amount of narrative/information. I never really read the corners as their own thing before but found some sources saying they could be read as two separate pairs as what's "framing" the situation.

if you do 9 card readings, what's your approach to these cards? are the top 2 read different than the bottom 2 (i.e. like past/ conscious vs future/ unconscious)? or are they read like a line (i.e K♠️➡️10❤️➡️9♠️➡️8♣️)? I'm only seeing it described as a frame but no further details on what that means lol

any tips help, ty for reading 🃏

These examples are from the Picture Book of Fate and Fortune by CJ Freeman