Just started an incredible adventure learning about Chinese metaphysics. I hope I’ll be able to talk about it on the blog in the future. It happened completely by accident. I started reading about the I Ching (or Yi Jing) and this sent me down an unexpected rabbit hole of (self) discovery. I’ve always been in love with Taoism, but now it’s even more the case. Meanwhile, I’ll start posting again about cartomancy (got a couple of things to finish in the playing cards section)
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Wow!
In three months in 2023 I’ve gotten more views than in the whole of 2022! Thank you guys! Be back in April!
100 Days
This is my one hundredth day of posting content. Yippieee! I will take it easy from now on, for two reasons:
1. If the number gets too high, I will feel more under pressure to keep posting
2. The more that happens, the less I’ll have fun
So yea, I will start posting weekly, more or less
Overanalysis
There’s this odd idea that overanalysis is something intelligent, despite the fact that it invariably leads to silly conclusions. Just because a lego brick is made of atoms and your grandma is made of atoms doesn’t mean your grandma must be stacked on top of other grandmas to build a castle.
Experience shows
Experience shows that the fact that a good deal of humanity’s problems are self-created doesn’t mean humans are going to stop creating them.
Cartomancy with Playing Cards | Ten of Spades
In cartomancy with playing cards, the Ten of Spades (10♠) is the card of secrets.
All tens in cartomancy relate to the idea of goal or destination. While the Ten of Hearts represents the querent’s hometown, the Ten of Clubs travel and the Ten of Diamonds another city, the Ten of Spades indicates destinations that are abroad and unknown.
As an extended meaning from this, the card indicates all things that are unknown, unfamiliar or secret. It’s a card of mysteries, lack of clarity and lack of awareness. Another extended meaning is that it represents the night and things taking place at night, while the Ten of Hearts represents the day.
Because tens represent goals, the Ten of Spades is the card of negative goals. It represents all things that are illegal, underhanded and shady. It’s also a card of silence and lack of communication, which can be a meaning if the other cards in the spread are good.
In love, the Ten of Spades can indicate marrying someone from abroad, eloping in secret or, with bad cards that reinforce the meaning, cheating. In work readings the Ten of Spades can simply indicate working the graveyard shift or a night job, but it may also indicate illegal activities.
When near card that indicate failure, the Ten of Spades reinforces the notion and makes it final.
Psychologically, the card is connected to hidden thoughts and to the subconscious mind.
Some Combinations:
K♣ – 3♣ – Q♣ – 10♠ – K♠ = she has a man on the side
4♣ – 10♠ = secret meeting to talk about something | can mean lack of communication
10♠ – J♠ – 3♠ = theft
9♣ – 10♣ – 10♠ = traveling abroad
3♦ – 10♠ = moonlighting
Cartomancy with Playing Cards | Ten of Diamonds
In cartomancy with playing cards, the Ten of Diamonds (10♦) is the card of success.
All tens relate to the idea of goal or destination. The Ten of Diamonds tends to interpret the notion on the material plane, therefore it signifies the concrete ability to reach goals. Just as the other tens, it also connects to physical destinations, but while the Ten of Hearts represents the querent’s hometown and the Ten of Clubs represents travel, the Ten of Diamonds represents another city. Not necessarily a distant one though.
In love readings the Ten of Diamonds indicates the reaching of common goals. It is especially good if the couple has concrete projects to realize together, as it indicates success in these. It is not a card of feelings, but it does show that the people involved (or at least one of them) is serious, as high morals and values and is willing to commit.
In money and career readings, one of the possible meanings is a large sum of money. The other cards will specify what is being done with it. Otherwise, the Ten of Diamonds represents the completion of personal projects and job security. Usually it represents professions where one has other people under them, but not always. It also indicates lots of energy, so the person is certainly taking their job (or passion, hobby, etc. Depending on the question) very seriously.
Psychologically, the card means that the person can be relied upon. They are dependable and have high values, and will generally do what’s honorable. Negative cards can however negate this trait, showing someone who is shallow and unreliable.
Some Combinations:
10♦ – A♥ – A♦ = investing money to buy a new house
10♦ – 4♠ = money problems (psychologically, one not to be relied on)
J♥ – 10♦ – 3♠ = foolishness leading to losses
10♦ – 5♥ – 9♦ = living in luxury
5♣ – 10♦ = a large investment
Cartomancy with Playing Cards | Ten of Clubs
In cartomancy with playing cards, the Ten of Clubs (10♣) is the card of travel.
All tens relate to the idea of goal or destination, but because the suit of Clubs is concerned with work and physical movement, all of which are means in the reaching of something, the Ten of Clubs signifies travel, which is the means for reaching a destination.
Most of the times, the Ten of Clubs signifies exactly that: physical movement. The context of the question and the presence of other cards will clarify its meaning further. In general, the Ten of Clubs indicates more distance than the Two of Clubs, which can indicate walking, but in itself it doesn’t necessarily indicate a long distance, unless the Nine of Clubs falls nearby. It can simply indicate a trip to a neighboring town, or even to the other side of your city. Metaphorically, the Ten of Clubs also stands for vehicles of all kinds.
Sometimes the Ten of Clubs will come up in situations where it doesn’t make sense to interpret it as travel. In those instances, it indicates metaphorical travel, i.e. a method for reaching an aim. It stands for pathways and courses of action. For instance, if the querent asks if a new business strategy will turn out to be good, you would want the Ten of Clubs surrounded by good cards.
Broadly, the Ten of Clubs stands for the querent’s path in more than one sense. Spiritually or intellectually it can indicate deepening your understanding of a topic, for instance. However, four times out of five, the card will indicate literal travel (for instance, spiritually it can indicate a literal pilgrimage)
Psychologically, the Ten of Clubs is a card of transformation and evolution. In itself it is positive, but watch out for bad cards nearby that might indicate involution.
Some Combinations:
10♣ – 8♣ = traveling for work or a work connected with travel (flight attendant, taxi driver…) It can also show a commute
10♣ – 2♥ = short trip
8♦ – 10♣ – 9♦ = a business trip that will go well or a good business strategy
10♣ – 3♠ – J♠ = theft of car, traditionally
5♣ – 2♣ – 10♣ = walking long distances, running a marathon, sports connected with travel/movement across space
Cartomancy with Playing Cards | Ten of Hearts
In cartomancy with playing cards, the Ten of Hearts (10♥) is the card of happiness.
All tens are connected to the notion of goal or destination. The Ten of Hearts, being in the most positive suit of the deck, is another lucky card, like the Nine. It has the power to reduce the impact of bad cards and that of improving good situations even further, by highlighting their uplifting effect on the querent. The difference with the Nine of Hearts is that the Nine represents the fulfillment of the querent’s wish, while the Ten shows happiness, regardless of whether the wish is fulfilled.
The Ten of Hearts, like all tens, can also indicate a place. In the case of the Ten of Hearts, it represents the querent’s hometown or country, depending on the scope of the question. In this respect, playing cards are like the Sibilla. Therefore, sometimes the Ten of Hearts simply shows up to indicate where the situation described by the other cards will take place.
In love readings, the Ten of Hearts indicates deep understanding and it is symbolic of unshakable bonds of affection, not necessarily to a person. The card also signifies that someone truly makes the querent happy, or vice versa. If followed by negative cards, it can indicate that the querent (or the other person) does not feel complete, or like he has finally arrived where he is supposed to be in life in terms of relationships.
Same goes for material readings. The Ten of Hearts indicates a deeply fulfilling job or work atmosphere (the card tends to describe interpersonal relationships, most of the times). There can be situations in which the Ten of Hearts shows up to mean that the person spends way too much time at work or doing something (like a hobby) and that it absorbs them completely. But this is only with mildly negative cards, when they describe the cause of a bad situation (why isn’t hubby paying attention to me?).
Psychologically, the Ten of Hearts indicates gladness, joy, happiness and recovery from depression. It shows that one is capable of finding meaning in life. Spiritually it’s connected to heaven or to higher planes of existence.
Some Combinations:
10♥ – 8♣ – 9♥ = dream job (if then 5♠ – Q♣, the male querent doesn’t spend much time with his wife)
A♥ – 10♥ = a deeply fulfilling family environment or a dream home
10♥ – 9♣ – 10♣ = traveling away from your hometown or country
10♥ – 7♣ – 6♣ = can mean feeling incomplete
2♣ – 10♥ = depending on the question it can mean going out for a walk or date in your town
On Online Soapboxers
Ideology begins with the belief that those who don’t think like you do so either out of malice or out of ignorance, meaning that what is left to do is to either instruct them or destroy them.
I am tired of soapboxers. I obliterate them out of my life as soon as I spot them. There are many categories of people I can’t do without: bus drivers, business owners, street cleaners… Ideologues are not among them.
