What Does The Deck Say? December 20, 2023

The Motif Deck. ©Lee Bradford.

Today’s cards: A wine glass broken across a taut string, a feather above a filled glass, and a feather hanging from a taut string.

The same poison that put you in this mess is the source of the antidote that will help you recover. But first, you have to face the situation squarely and see what you did to yourself that led to this. Only then, will you see what needs to be done to recover.


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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