This is a book that describes a calligraphic tarot that pays homage to martial arts, Zen masters, and the powerful energy of black ink to come through in any rendition, from the hand to the digital processing of the marks left on paper.

In this book Camelia Elias offers ten examples of reading the six-card draw with the Marseille Tarot. The topic is the theme of choice and the common thread that runs through it is the question of what is at stake when we compare situations.

In this book Camelia Elias reads the Marseille Tarot in various cross layouts. The 15 examples she goes through offer the reader unique insight into method, practice and personal experience. The cards are cast with a steady hand and the crosses are read with a strong heart. The result is nothing short of awesome.

Taking her point of departure in a simple draw of cards, Camelia Elias demonstrates the essence of her cartomantic signature based on the imperative to read like the Devil. A 3-card draw, its mirror, and two readings of follow-up questions is all it takes for a whole philosophy and practice of reading cards to unfold.

The focus of this book is Andromalius, the 72nd demon in the Goetia, and how he functions as a mirror of Lucifer himself. In the process of illustrating the Lucifer/Andromalius entanglement, Camelia Elias tells stories about how Andromalius fares when dispatched to perform over and above what the Goetia prescribes.

En este libro Camelia Elías nos ofrece una introducción a las cartas del Tarot de Marsella combinada con lecturas de cartas contextualizadas. Cada descripción va acompañada de una interpretación de las cartas que combina el método tradicional – basado en hacer deducciones lógicas sobre el significado de los naipes – y el método de argumentación visual que se apoya en el arte individual y subjetivo de la percepción. Se muestran además lecturas completas basadas en consultas reales al Tarot.

This book is about the tension between how singular the manifestation of love is and what we assume, often wrongly, about the idea of togetherness. To know the difference means to know the heart of the other. To know the heart of man is, in fact, the highest, sages and artists tell us. But who has this gift? Lovers do. Lovers share a passion that exceeds common understanding, and yet their acting on it can be fraught.

This book is the third in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback, divination philosophy and method. The focus is on the Lenormand Oracle.

This book is the second in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback, divination philosophy, and essays on method. The focus is on playing cards.

This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of ‘fragment’ in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragment’s performativity and function within a historical perspective, stretching from Heraclitus, via the German Romantics and European writers of the Modernist period, to American postmodern manifestations of the fragment.

This short history of divination with cards looks at three main traditions: the French, the British, and the Anglo-American gone ‘French’. The style is succinct and personal, with the writing performing on two levels: the descriptive in a historical context and the reflective in a contemplative context. In between, the author offers an original take on how we can think about the history of divination.

This book is the first in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature ‘Read Like the Devil.’ It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback, divination philosophy, and essays on method.

‘Don’t have any children,’ the author’s mother said, in response to the question: ‘what’s your greatest wisdom?’ posed to her by her own daughter when she was 10. Forty years down the road this book springs out of investigating just what this wisdom is all about. The book thus offers reflections on the state of being childless.

This short history of divination with cards looks at three main traditions: the French, the British, and the Anglo-American gone ‘French’. The style is succinct and personal, with the writing performing on two levels: the descriptive in a historical context and the reflective in a contemplative context. In between, the author offers an original take on how we can think about the history of divination.

This book is an omnibus edition that gathers three types of texts around the Marseille Tarot: two previously published works out of print, here in re-edited form, unpublished lectures, and new essays. The book features applications of the basic principles of reading the Marseille Tarot to the contextualization of current questions and concerns.

A book of fragments and prose poetry celebrating what mothers try to pass on to their children: a sense of how to be grateful for the experiences in life that can be said to be not only beautiful but also significant in form.

A book written for the curious reader who might like to know what some of the greatest literary figures in Western literature are up to when they read the Tarot, or use divination as inspiration for their work. Italo Calvino, Robert Browning, W.B. Yeats, and Rachel Pollack gather in a concatenation of voices across the page; voices that the author traces as if using transparent paper, a good ink pen, and an occasional draw with the Tarot cards for the idea that baffles, or the philosophy that resists the gratuitous.

This bi-lingual book tells the story of an encounter with a place, Agger, on the West Coast of Denmark. After more than 20 years of visiting and of developing intimate relationships with the place, the author moved here to embark on a post-academic career, and to explore the sea.

This book explores the possibility to fit the essence of six Tarot cards to the constricted structure of the haiku poem. The result is a beautiful economy of thought and image.

This book is for all the diviners who want to hear what else we can do with the Tarot cards other than what a particular school or tradition prescribes. It’s a treat à la carte for all the diviners who ever felt burnt out, after having served the same dish over and over to people.