Author: Madeira Darling

Madeira Darling is a snarky mystic, devout Satanist, serious Marxist, laughing dominatrix, and writer from San Fransisco where they live with their boyfriend in a house full of altars to their various demons.

No? It is international women’s day. All women. Respect all women. I’m a poor girl, so you can’t accuse me of being upper class, but I see your hatred and raise you the flag of “bs”

The holiday began celebrating a series of strikes by teenage immigrant girls and was organized by a bunch of commies.  Bourgeois women will never ever be on the same side as the rest of us.  Their material interests are opposed to ours.

All I Do Lately Is Read Tarot and Read About Tarot.

Which you’d think would be hard to reconcile with being a skeptical atheist but y’ know like… it’s a pleasure to read and a great way to get in touch with the subconscious and like esotericism is sort of soothing and meditative for me… so eh, y’ know? 

Also like a fuckton of sceptical people will acknowledge the beneficial qualities of meditation and what not as like… just exercises in self-soothing, so like why can’t my version involve more imaginary shit to make it more entertaining?

Are there any techniques for cartomancy that involve not simply drawing and laying out cards, but playing card games with them (solitaire or multiplayer) as I imagine one could get some quite interesting things out of say… playing a hand of five card draw with tarot cards (one would have to come up with something to do with the majors, but I imagine one could), or like reading from a game of solitaire and what goes where when. I may not be explaining my idea very well.

You could for example in a draw style of game, assign a particular meaning to cards discarded to draw new ones (as if they held a particular position in a spread) and get divinatory meanings out of winning or losing hands.

For example a flush could indicate perhaps a lack of balance in life or a need to focus on a specific aspect of the self, a straight might mean that things are progressing in a very expected “a to b to c” manner, pairs/three of a kinds etc might tell you to focus on what those cards have in common (like all the 2s have aspects of meaning in common) and so that common element of each card could be played up.

I suppose for the majors one could use the first 14 as a suit of their own basically, and then make the last 8 wild except for their suit (so they can be any number but not any suit, or they could just count as extra high number cards, which could impact scoring, or they could just be wild, and maybe like a majors flush would count for less or more, though probably less since it’s more likely, than a flush of one of the other suits)

For a multiple paths reading, you could get as many players as you have options, each player represents an option, the hands they draw represent the likely outcome of each path, or the strategy one would need to use for it to work out, the winning hand could be read as the path with the highest chance of success 

If you are still doing readings. In the foreseeable future I am completing my job and moving back stateside I suppose in an effort to change direction how do you think it will work out?

The first card I pulled is the three of cups, which is a card of celebration and accomplishment, so that’s an excellent sign.  The next card I got is the five of swords which can stand for win at all costs, defeat or betrayal, in context it seems to me to probably be in a “win at all costs” sense, especially given the deck I’m using (Deviant Moon) shows a figure picking up swords with a sort of “haha” expression on his face, and he’s looking backwards towards the three of cups.  Next we have the four of cups which indicates boredom or dissatisfaction with the status quo.  In the deck I’m using, a figure is depicted idly dropping a cup of wine from a balcony, looking again back a card to the five of swords.  So I think basically, you’ll at some point have a choice between partial victory that leaves people happy and complete victory at much higher costs and if you choose the less ethical path you’ll be left feeling bored and unsatisfied with your life afterwards or possibly a warning to avoid letting attaining your goals leave you bored and unsatisfied.  I drew another card for clarification and got the four of pentacles and it’s another card that indicates success but also the possibility of sort of “cutting yourself off from other people” after victory out of fear.

So, basically, you’ll do well and if you keep in mind to be open to life’s possibilities and make sure not to start putting up too many walls you’ll be very happy I think

reverendharlemheat:

relishboi:

the word “shitpost” is now devoid of meaning. if you have that word on your blog then youre just saying nothing

oh come on it still has some meaning. for instance if it’s in someone’s bio it means “i’m extremely racist and quite possibly a budding fascist”

I thought it meant slightly surrealist observational comedy.