The Card Reader
Turn the Cards – Know the Future
Draw three cards from The Cunning Folk Cards deck for a Passing Away, Present, and Passing Into reading — a past, present, and future spread built from the gifts, crafts, wishes and powers of English cunning folk. Ask a question below, click the “Draw the Cards” button, then click each card in turn to reveal what it has to say.
The Passing Away
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The Present
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The Passing Into
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Click each card to turn it. Read each in its position, the past, the present, the future… the three together tell the full story.
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The Cunning Folk Cards
Working cards drawn from the practice of the English cunning folk — the village healers, seers and protectors of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Each card names a tool of the trade and speaks to what that tool reveals in your situation.
The Four Suits
- Hearts
Love & Home - Diamonds
Health & Healing - Clubs
Knowledge & Fortune - Spades
Soul & Shadow
The Ten Ranks
- Ace — The Gift
- 2 — The Mixing
- 3 — The Blessing
- 4 — The Foundation
- 5 — The Wound
- 6 — The Remedy
- 7 — The Sacred
- 8 — The Turning
- 9 — The Power
- 10 — The Wish
The Courts
- Jacks
Notable Cunning Folk - Queens
Great Cunning Women - Kings
Great Cunning Men
The Jokers
- The Man in Black
Opposition - The Angel
Providence