What Does The Deck Say? March 27, 2024

The Motif Deck: A green feather hanging by a red string against a yellow background, three yellow flowers floating in a blue basin against a red background, and a green key in a glass filled with red fluid against a yellow background. ©Lee Bradford.

Today’s cards: A green feather hanging by a red string against a yellow background, three yellow flowers floating in a blue basin against a red background, and a green key in a glass filled with red fluid against a yellow background.

The tools you think you need for your success are bound up, but you are not. Sit down for a bit and consider what it is that you really want, and what you really need to do to get there. Stop considering whether the people you look up to would approve your actions, or if your story is “good enough” to tell to others. The thing that unlocks what you need for yourself will always look different to what unlocks what other people need. Take your medicine, bitter as it may be, and let what happens after sweeten your life.


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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