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Issn 2378-6213 Issn ISSN 2378-6213 THE CARTOMANCER VOLUME 1 - ISSUE 1 SUMMER 2015 ON THE COVER The Cartomancer The Wise Fool Tarot Mission Statement The cover image is The Hierophant from the Wise Fool Tarot. Read an interview with deck creator Our goal is to support Cade Burkhammer on page 6. an inclusive and mutually supportive community of Tarot, Lenormand and Oracle card readers worldwide through a quarterly journal that includes... Well written informative articles by a wide range of experts for FEATURED ARTICLES cartomancers of all levels, from novice to professional. 38 Communing With Your Muse High quality divination inspired by Pamela Steele art from around the world and full color samples from some 40 Intuition and Conscious Evolution of the best recently published and classic decks for readers to by Heather Mendel explore. A Marketplace for authors and 42 Symbolic Living: Understanding Soul Through artists to publicize and promote their books, decks and other Tarot and Dream Imagery Tarot, Lenormand and Oracle by Toni Gilbert related products and upcoming events of interest to the community. 44 New Uses For Damaged Decks A public forum for letters and by Jaymi Innowen Elford editorials that offer respectful and supportive commentary on topics of interest to the card 46 Suggesting Living reading community at large. by Camelia Elias 49 Unorthodox Oracles: Earthen Alters by Mellissae Lucia 51 The Ins and Outs of the Tarot Suits by Jadzia DeForest 53 The Magical World of Oracles by Bonnie Cehovet COLUMNS REVIEWS 10 It’s All About Perspective 24 Under The Roses Lenormand by Bonnie Cehovet 26 Le Tarot Noir 11 Tolerance Within Community by Jadzia DeForest 28 The Burning Serpent Oracle 12 The Things People Say 30 Vintage Wisdom Cards by Jay DeForest 32 Sacred Mandala Lenormand ART 34 Tarot de St Croix 16 Magical Realism Tarot Cheryl Fair 17 The Portland Tarot Theresa Pridemore NEXT ISSUE The autumn issue will be out August 1st and 18 The Egyptian Lenormand we are featuring the Alice Tarot by Karen Nefer Khepri Mahony and Alex Ukolov of Baba Studio. 19 Rainbow Travellers Tarot Carmen Waterman 20 The Syzygy Oracle and Sacred Mandala Lenormand Heather Mendel 21 Unpublished Majors Deck Jadzia DeForest HUMOR 56 Today I Will Nurture My Inner Demons by James Ricklef 57 Good Trade! by Pamela Steele EDITOR’s NOTE The Cartomancer is published quarterly in print and online: Welcome to the first issue of The Cartomancer, a quarterly Tarot, Oracle, and Spring Issue - February 1st Lenormand magazine! After being in the works for nearly a year, it’s finally Summer Issue - May 1st manifested in this tangible form. I’m sure parts of it will evolve over time and as we Autumn Issue - August 1st receive feedback from our readers. But for the first issue, this is it. Winter Issue - November 1st The goal with this journal is to include many of the different aspects of tarot, and divinatory card reading in general. Featured articles, reviews of recommended decks, a showcasing of artwork, editorial columns, and humor make up the structure of this magazine. By including these sections it allows us to experience tarot in a multi-faceted way. Tarot is a main focus in The Cartomancer because it makes up the majority of the card Editorial Staff: reading community. The magazine also includes oracle and Lenormand topics, as there is much cross-over. Many tarot readers that I know are especially exploring Jadzia DeForest Lenormand these days, including me. Bonnie Cehovet This first issue includes the basic sections originally envisioned. I would like to see Jay DeForest it grow to include community resource listings, a calendar of events, and divination inspired art / photography that is not necessarily part of a deck. I hope you enjoy this premiere issue, and I welcome your feedback. Sincerely, Jadzia DeForest TO SUBSCRIBE VISIT: www.thecartomancer.com/ JADZIA DEFOREST is a Tarot reader, instructor, and author residing is Portland, subscribe Oregon. She is co-author to both the Tarot Learning Cards and Astrology Learning Cards decks, published through Devera Publishing & Distribution. She is also the director of the Northwest Tarot Symposium, an annual tarot conference. TO Advertise VISIT: Visit www.TarotByJadzia.com & www.NWTarotSymposium.com www.thecartomancer.com/ advertise JAY DEFOREST is a professional Tarot & Rune reader, Co-author of the Living Magick Learning Card series, and owner of TheGuidingTree.com, an online FOR SUBMISSIONS VISIT: Body, Mind & Spirit shop. www.thecartomancer.com He offers readings, spiritual & life counseling and inter-faith clergy services for those desiring compassionate support and guidance with the adventure of life. Jay lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Jadzia, in their 99 year old house full of cats, plants and tarot decks. You can contact him through www.JayDeforest.com. BONNIE CEHOVET is a professional Tarot reader with over twenty years experience, is a CTGM (Certified Tarot Grand Master), and a Reiki Master/ The Cartomancer Teacher. She is a published author, including Tarot, Birth Cards, and You (Schiffer PO Box 86908 Publishing, 2011). Tarot, Ritual, and You (Schiffer Publishing, 2013), and Surviving the Holidays (through Amazon.com). She is co-author, along with Brad Tesh, of Portland, OR 97286 Seek Joy ... Toss Confetti (through Amazon.com). Her reviews and interviews can be found on her site (www.bonniecehovet.com), and on the All rights are reserved. Aeclectic Tarot website (www.aeclectic.net/tarot). Her writer’s blog can be found here - http:// www.bonnielcehovet.blogspot.com/. ©2015 The Cartomancer. AN INTERVIEW WITH CADE BURKHAMMER, CREATOR OF THE WISE FOOL TAROT with Jadzia DeForest issue’s cover art. He was kind enough to agree and even let me choose which card! Q: How did you get into Tarot? A: I was handed down a Tarot deck when I was fourteen. I felt a calling to learn the mystical arts of subjective truth, healing, and world folklore. This introduction to the Tarot was in the 1980s, and I was an artist and musician very much absorbed in the punk, goth, and industrial music movements, which all carried occult themes and challenged the systems of society, culture, politics, thought, and life. Reading Tarot came naturally to me as I discovered that the Tarot is a way for the psyche to access ancient information not readily available in our mainstream society. I quickly realized that Tarot can still the body, develop the soul, influence conscious dreaming, and increase self-awareness, and this was absolutely formative for me as a young artist. Q: What was your inspiration for creating a Tarot deck of your own? A: I felt inspired to create a deck with the images I wanted to I met Cade in 2014 when he came up for a visit to Portland see: images that relate from the Bay Area. He wanted to show us his tarot project the ancient archetypes and learn more about assisted publishing through Devera. I of classic Tarot to was immediately delighted by the image samples that he’d modern society. I did brought. So much texture, beautiful muted colors mixed a painting in 1991 of with bold accents, and the modern imagery is inspiring. towers crumbling, an airplane, and a large When the idea for The Cartomancer came to be, I contacted angel holding energy Cade about featuring one of his card images for the first from above. Ten years later, I saw the event on September 6 The Cartomancer - Summer 2015 eleventh through the media, and the muses encouraged me other that connects them. Eventually, I realized it was too to document the Twin Towers’ annihilation as the traditional vague. I wished to simply introduce the deep mystical ways Tower card in the Tarot. In that replenish the beings within order to make this painting I researched Tarot, art, science, psychology, this planet. The Fool theme understood, a series of paintings came about to integrate the was required to create the and sociology. I then reinterpreted these juxtaposition of the concept entire story. So I began to study concepts to relate to a modern audience. simple yet deep, hence Wise the many versions of Tarot and Fool. The Fool fearlessly desires relate them to a contemporary new knowledge, wisdom, and audience. experiences. I also felt inspired to combine the widely used Poker card deck with the less widely used Tarot deck. Two Jokers are required for a poker deck. So I added four more Q: Tell us more about the Wise Fool Tarot, what’s the overall Jokers to the WFT deck. I connected the Fools with each suit. concept and theme? The Fool reminds us that the more we know, the more there A: The underlying concept of the Fool is the sacred clown is to explore and to revel in the wonders of the mystery of that humbles and heals a tormented misguided personality, life. whether it is personal or collective. Fools are found in all world cultures. In order to keep a tribe or culture sustainable, Q: Tell us a little about the process from a deck creator’s the Fool (or Native American Heyoka) would satirize society view. How did you decide which art medium you wanted and perform in exaggerated manners to reveal to the people to work in? What do you feel were your greatest obstacles how not to behave, and demonstrate to the viewer a healthier creating this deck? And, which parts were easiest? way to live. A person would be prescribed a “strange” act to perform in order to successfully heal their psyche and body, A: Since childhood, I was inspired by the surrealist art of which would affect Dali and Geiger.
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