READ LIKE THE DEVIL VOL II
READ LIKE THE DEVIL: THE ESSENTIAL COURSE IN READING THE PLAYING CARDS
CAMELIA ELIAS
This book is the second in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback, divination philosophy, and essays on method. The focus is on playing cards.
Camelia Elias lives up to her reputation of a cartomantic martial artist, taking no prisoners. Her cuts through misunderstandings and misinterpretations are clean, leaving the serious student of cartomancy with a sense of wonder. The aim is to establish a top-level cartomancy that gives the possibility for all the students of playing cards to reach the level of competence where they are beyond comparison, in a league of their own.
This course book offers rigorous deconstructions and revisions of traditional approaches to reading the playing cards, establishing a unique, oracular voice that’s efficient, convincing, and poetic. The fortuneteller that emerges from these pages is analytical, deductively logical, and contextually situated. Her ‘Read like the Devil’ method fuses the obvious with an incisively penetrating Zen clarity.
In addition to method and technique, the book features an incisive discussion of how to use playing cards in a magical setting, contributing fresh and original insights to the emerging interest in magic.
CARDS
The playing cards that are featured in the book is a reconstructed version of the Goodall and Sons playing cards, ca. 1870s. Elias produced an edition with gilt edges as a separate companion.
6×9” | B&W illustrations | 330 pp
ISBN 978-8792633736 paperback
ISBN 978-8792633743 ebook
CATEGORY
Divination
EDITIONS
Standard paperback 2020 | $28
Ebook 2020 | $18
NOTE
Textbook in cartomancy.
REVIEWS
This book is a great place to start reading cards. Camelia offers a contemporary approach that she carefully crafted after examining the many traditions of the cartomantic world. She is all about clarity and what makes sense. Read Like the Devil: The essential course in reading playing cards covers much more than meanings and spreads. She teaches about what happens off the table too. I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series. — ETHAN McNICOL, Amazon
Stunning and revelatory stuff! — G A WALLACE
