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Gandreiðarstafur - Witch Riding Stave

“To go wherever you want”

Icelandic scholar Þorsteinn Konráðsson began collecting Galdrastafur in 1890, but it was not until 1934 that he collected up his volumes of data and wrote it up including hundreds of magic symbols. His style was unique, using a two-tone black and red for dramatic effect. This one appears in several other manuscripts but never first - it must have been Þorsteinn’s favourite.

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wow everything im learning abt the rust situation is making me a little furious

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halyna hutchins’s death was 100% preventable and is absolutely part of the same labor issues iatse has been fighting to rectify and making it about anything else or anyone else is disrespectful

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This blog is moving

This blog is moving

Since wordpress has become an unusable beast (FFS, the page where I’m typing this took eons to load and I can’t even see a way to upload a photo!), I’m moving to Blogger: https://fatekeepson.blogspot.com/2021/04/about-me-reintroduction.htmlThe old content will remain here, though I might reproduce some of the most-visited pages over there.

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The Wellness Model

Recently, the card reading du jour fashion has been for the Wellness Model. You can see what it’s all about here:https://www.today.com/health/tarot-therapy-why-some-believe-cards-can-help-mental-health-t165649 Garbage, isn’t it? Doesn’t predict, doesn’t tell you anything. It’s all Dr. Phil -style unqualified therapist garbage. If you want therapy, go to a qualified, state-certified therapist. If…

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I'm being followed by a moon shadow, moon shadow, moon shadow...<3 (at Seguin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG-7kamHlOt/?igshid=1i2zfamvb27l4

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Thomson Leng, where have you been all my life?

Thomson Leng, where have you been all my life?

The question is rhetorical, of course. The Thomson Leng Tarot has been around since 1935. The art is very 1930’s. And while the RWS is theatrical (some of the scenes are actually taking place on a stage), the Thomson Leng is cinematic.The extra card shown above reminds me of those prologues you see in movies from that era. Here’s one from 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Hood(starring Errol Flynn…

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The Impact of Pirated Decks

The Impact of Pirated Decks

I’m featuring a little of Ciro Marchetti’s work* in the photo above because there won’t be any more new decks. Ciro has announced publicly that he won’t be doing any more. Shoddy pirated copies of his decks have been turning up everywhere for a long time now. It’s everywhere, and he’s tired of the constant effort of fighting it. I think he means it. He’s out. This is what he had to say:

“As I…

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Another BLM Post

Dave says it better than I could.

This was close to where I live. Javier Ambler II had congestive heart failure. He told them. And they tased him to death. Then they hushed it up for FIFTEEN MONTHS. The Texas AG finally ordered them to release the information. His family just recently found out he was murdered. Because he allegedly…

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The Black Lives Matter Protests

The Black Lives Matter Protests

The protests have gone worldwide. It’s a continuation of an old, old fight against something that never should have existed to begin with going back to lynchings and slavery, and I, for one, am happy to see so many people rising up and taking a stand against it. It tells me that there are still a lot of humans out there with…

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The Grand Jeu, An Introduction

The Grand Jeu, An Introduction

Don’t look away… Years ago, when I started blogging here, some of my first posts were on the Grand Jeu. I shared what I knew and tried to figure out the rest. In time I moved on and wrote about other decks, but I’ve continued to use this deck over the years, in spite of the fact that I still have some questions about it that have never been answered to my satisfaction and probably never will be.…

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Where to go?

OK, the picture doesn’t really express exactly what this is about. It’s Robert Johnson at the Crossroads, the place where all that stuff you labored at finally falls into place and you become badass. If you’re not a Lenormand badass by now you won’t be. But there’s a “Where to go?” element to it, too. That fits, so I used the image.

This has been primarily a Petit Lenormand blog. There’s been…

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Killing the Glad Girl

Killing the Glad Girl

There is a scene early in the film Red Dust where Clark Gable goes to toss a drunk worker at his rubber plantation into bed, and discovers that Jean Harlow has taken up residence there. She kicks the drunk to the floor, and the exchange goes like this:

Harlow: You’re not going to leave the corpse here? Gable: It’s his room. Didn’t you know? Harlow: Honest I didn’t. I just took the first room the…

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A 2020 election reading

A 2020 election reading

This is a reading I did on facebook recently, on the fly. I will quote it here as is, neither adding to it nor editing:

“September 16 at 1:42 AM

It’s early yet, but I’ve done early pulls on elections before and they’ve worked. All of my election pulls have been correct except 2016, and the fault in that one was the way I worded the question – Hillary DID win the popular vote, and that’s what the…

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I hate oracle decks (but not the Literary Witches)

I hate oracle decks (but not the Literary Witches)

It was the face on the box that caught my eye as I was browsing. I thought it was Charlotte Brontë. And there were wolves and hands and trailing vines…I had to find out what this was.

As it turns out, it’s not Charlotte. It’s Emily, the Wuthering Heights sister. The book that spawned multiple film adaptations and that Kate Bush song.

Any one of the Brontës would be a clear indication that this…

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Le Tarot Astrologique

Imagine, if you will, a deck published by Grimaud sometime between the late 1800’s and 1917 or so, very roughly coinciding with the Belle Époque. Imagine the strange old art, the fantastic vibe. Now imagine it’s not yet another Tarot, but an astrology deck. Yes, there are “Majors”: the planets, ascendant, nodes (split into ascendant and descendant) and Part of Fortune. The “Minors” are three…