Hey everyone, welcome back to Seeking Witchcraft. It's your host, Ashley, and today I have a John Luca to discuss Cardamancy. Welcome to the show. Would you mind introducing yourself to the listeners?

Hi, Ashley. Thank you for having me. And hi, everybody. I am John Luca. I am a witch initiated in a gardenarian tradition and an aspirant in the wildwood tradition. I am also a big fan of cardomancy. So I practice tarot, playing card, Sibilia, and Lenormand. I have been doing that for many, many years as a teenager, more seriously

within the past six years. It's my preferred form of divination, so I'm just really excited to

share it with everybody. Amazing. So right off the bat, I know this episode is about Card of Mancy,

but you mentioned a couple other types of divination as well.

Could you say what those are again and what exactly those entail?

Yeah, totally.

So cardomancy is an umbrella term for any sort of divination that involves cards.

So tarot is considered a part of cardomancy and part of the cardomantic tradition.

The Lenormand is a specific type of cardomancy that originated in Germany using the name

of Madame Le Normand, who was supposedly the Oracle to Napoleon.

It's totally made up, by the way.

But it's a 36-deck Oracle card that was really popular back in the, I don't recall the exact dates.

I want to say it's like the late 1800s is when it gained popularity.

The other one called the Sibilia is an Italian type of Oracle tradition,

and it's specifically a set of 52 cards that are used, each with a different symbol on it to describe and

symbolize a specific aspect of daily domestic life.

Just I guess a question.

So what's just like the overall historical roots of card of Manzi?

Like where did this start?

And part of the reason I'm

asking this uh me aside from just getting background information is uh I see these gosh I forgot

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