What Does The Deck Say? November 6, 2024

The Motif Deck: A red flower is bound by a green string against a blue background, A yellow hand reaches up against a red background, and a green flower is being burned over a red candle. ©Lee Bradford.

Today’s cards: A red flower is bound by a green string against a blue background, A yellow hand reaches up against a red background, and a green flower is being burned over a red candle.

You’re going to have to let it go. You have held on to that hope for so long, you no longer recognize that not only have you tied yourself up in it, but that it is no longer achievable. Holding on to it will only hinder you further. Painful as it will be, let it go.


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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