What Does The Deck Say? October 9, 2024

The Motif Deck. ©Lee Bradford.

Today’s cards: A yellow fluid in a clear glass against a red background, a green hand holding a glass in which an actively red swirling fluid is moving against a yellow background, and a yellow lit candle standing against a red background.

Turn it around and force it to account. If that situation tends towards passivity, then let it remain passive while you become active and do what you need to do. If that situation tends towards a reaction, then let that reaction happen while you stand back and observe with a detached demeanor. Don’t let others force you into acting/reacting in a prescribed way. Let them make that step and be prepared to act counter to everyone’s expectations if that is what it takes to keep yourself safe.


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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