The Playing Card Oracles Set
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The sourcebook plus cards. A complete divinatory foundation for the 52-card deck - meanings, spreads, and beyond. Ana and CJ’s seminal work.
Get the Set - The divinatory art of the 52-card deck -
An old & living art - pulled from parlour, parlance, and pact. Forty years of devotion to the deck most people keep in a drawer.
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The fifty-two card deck is older than the tarot, and brimming with secrets. This is a deck that was never meant for games - a book without a binding, in a language of universal symbols. Ana Cortez has spent more than forty years in conversation with that deck.
Here you'll find her three principal works, “the Order” she keeps for serious students, the in-person “Dark Moth” gatherings she hosts in Santa Fe, NM, and a small library of free instruction to begin the work tonight.
“Out of the literally hundreds of oracle/tarot decks I own this one never leaves my tarot table, it is in constant use.” - Lark, Amazon review
Playing card divination - cartomancy - is the practice of reading the 52-card “playing deck” as an instrument of self knowledge and prophecy. It is the earliest known form of card reading in the Western world, appearing soon after playing cards themselves reached Europe in the fourteenth century, before the tarot was ever invented.
Each suit governs a territory of life: Hearts speak to emotion, sympathy, healing, and the subconscious; Diamonds to prosperity, creativity, self-confidence, and transformation; Clubs to ideas, thinking, dreams, and communication; and Spades to labor, the physical body, discipline, and responsibility. The numbers carry the story's intensity, and the court cards populate your story with characters.
The Playing Card Oracles and Doors of Somlipith methods go further still - restoring to the original deck its full divinatory potential: elemental language, natural time keeping, and archetypal depth, brought to life through the visionary paintings of Ana's father, C.J. Freeman.
The father-daughter body of work. Three volumes - the foundation, the deepening, and the alchemy. Begin where the deck calls to you.
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The sourcebook plus cards. A complete divinatory foundation for the 52-card deck - meanings, spreads, and beyond. Ana and CJ’s seminal work.
Get the Set
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The deepening. For readers ready to walk the deck's esoteric corridors - divination practice with the 52-cards to last a lifetime.
Get the Set
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Two books in one - the author's own story of struggle and awakening, paired with transformational techniques that work with any deck, any method.
Get the BookEssays, comparisons, and small instructions kept open to the public. Take what serves you.
A small, serious circle for students who intend to make this practice their own. Monthly instruction, working spreads, recorded sessions, and a private correspondence with Ana - kept by invitation and intention rather than algorithm.
“There is no other story in cartomancy like this. Or in any magic that I’ve glanced at. You saved a lifetime of passionate work and started your own. Fascinating, Mesmerizing.” - P.M. Jones, Order of the Black Ace member
A monthly gathering at an intimate table in Santa Fe, New Mexico - readings, instruction, conversation, and the slow art of the deck in good company. Open to the curious and the committed alike.
“I first saw this book at the Meow Wolf “art experience” in Santa Fe, NM… I couldn’t stop thinking about the book… It is a beautiful book to read, full of history as well as inspired illustrations.” - MMHowe, Amazon review
A short instruction to begin reading tonight - meanings, a working spread, and a small ritual to open the deck.
