What Does The Deck Say? August 7, 2024

Three cards from Lee Bradford's Motif Deck. ©Lee Bradford.

Today’s cards: A glass filled with green liquid against an orange background that is shattered by a red string, a blue-swirled glass held by an orange hand against a red background, and a green key engulfed with red flame against a blue background.

Your expectations will be shattered quickly, but how fast you recover will depend on your willingness to accept alternatives. Accepting and following through are two different actions, however. Do what you need to do to test what is presented to you. Remember that the goal is not to meet a standard of appearance. The goal is to get the job done.


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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