Fortune in Your Hands: A Witch's Guide to Playing Card Divination and Magic - Softcover

Albertsson, Alaric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738777897 ISBN 13: 9780738777894

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications, 2024

Synopsis

See and Influence the Future with an Ordinary Deck of Playing Cards

With a history as long and prestigious as any tarot, a playing card deck can reveal profound divinatory insights. Alaric Albertsson shows you how to use numerology and elemental associations to transform this household item into a potent tool for unveiling your future.

Fortune in Your Hands presents in-depth explanations of all fifty-two cards, suit by suit, and shows you why playing cards can be the best divination tool for you. Discover how the cards relate to the four elements, how each card's number is more significant than you might assume, and how a variety of spreads gives context to your query or situation. Learn the ethics of divination, when and where to read cards, how to cast spells with them, and much more. With this book and a humble deck, you really can hold your fortune in your hands.

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About the Author

Alaric Albertsson (Iowa) is the author of several books on magic and spirituality, including A Handbook of Saxon Sorcery and Magic and To Walk a Pagan Path. He has served as vice president and was on the board of directors of the Heartland Spiritual Alliance, and has served as the Anglo-Saxon Vice Chieftain for Ár nDraíocht Féin's Germanic kin, Eldr ok Iss.

Albertsson first embraced polytheism in the summer of 1971. At that time he was introduced to the folk tradition of spell casting and divination with playing cards. Over the past five decades, Albertsson's personal spiritual practice has developed as a synthesis of Anglo-Saxon tradition, folk magic, herbal studies and rune lore. Visit him on Facebook.

Edition details

• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738777897
• ISBN 13: 9780738777894
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232