What Does The Deck Say? February 26, 2025

Three cards from Lee Bradford's Motif Deck: A red feather is tied to a green string and hangs down against a blue background, a yellow hand holds a clear glass in which a blue liquid swirls in (out?) against a red background, and a clear glass half-filled with a red liquid in which a green key sits is against a yellow background. ©Lee Bradford.

Today’s cards: A red feather is tied to a green string and hangs down against a blue background, a yellow hand holds a clear glass in which a blue liquid swirls in (out?) against a red background, and a clear glass half-filled with a red liquid in which a green key sits is against a yellow background.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. It will be difficult to do only what needs to be done when you know you are capable of so much more, but exercise restraint and keep to that tightly defined path. Using too much of your resources now means you won’t have them later when they will be sorely needed. Pace yourself and take measured steps.


The Motif Deck is a unique cartomancy system designed and painted by Lee Bradford where the images have no inherent meaning, and so it’s up to the reader to assign significance. The cards consist of seven objects interacting with each other: hand, candle, rose, feather, key, string, and cup. Each image consists of one or two of these items on a plain colored background. These images were designed to be meaningless – they are just objects. What gives them meaning is the combination of color, frequency, placement, and interpretation from the querent and the reader. The Motif Deck is ©Lee Bradford.

What Does The Deck Say” is a weekday series of 3 card pulls from a cartomancy deck. No context or query is given to frame what the cards say as the posts are reading samples and not personal instruction. The result is sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, and usually surprising. All readers are invited to leave a comment about what they perceive in the random spread as each person will interact with the cards in their own way.

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