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a deck of your own thinking · for Jess ·
a divination instrument

your own thinking,
cut into cards.

Eighty-nine of your zettels — about play, the body, the forty percent, the bell-sound name, the work the market would never have selected for — shuffled, and dealt to you when you ask. The deck is you. The reading is you reading you.

Most divination instruments work by interrupting the chatter — a fixed corpus of small, foreign passages stops the inner monologue long enough to let something arrive. This deck does the same job with one substitution: the passages are not foreign. They are yours.

Ask a question if you have one. Or press shuffle and let three cards come up unprompted. Each card is one of your own zettels — body verbatim, with a small "when this card appears" note added underneath. The three cards lay down as Foundation, Present, and Direction. Read them in order. Read them sideways. Make meaning from the juxtaposition — that is how the instrument works.

Below the spread you'll find every card laid out in a browseable index. The cards are the same ones in your notebook; here, they are arranged differently — as a deck, not a library.

Ask a question — or don't. The cards work either way.

Foundationwhat is underneath
Presentwhat is happening now
Directionwhere the wind points
A reading
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The full deck

eighty-nine cards. click any to see it solo.