Announcing Amor Fati: A Tarot-Based Roleplaying Card Game! And more...
New Occult Philosophy Tabletop RPG, New Website, and varied musings
Hello!
It feels good to be getting the ball rolling with this whole online engagement thing. I write you this evening with a couple of exciting announcements, so let’s get those out of the way first of all!
I’m pleased to announce my new website is live. You’ll find an online shop there as well as the ability to book my readings and consultation services. Those of you who book with me regularly will be pleased to note that everything is now under one roof, so to speak. A digital cottage roof, with chatty ghosts and bats hanging from the rafters.
The greater occasion for all this, though, is the release of my new tabletop game - Amor Fati: A Tarot-Based RolePlaying Card Game. It’s a roleplaying game, like D&D! But instead of rolling dice, you draw tarot cards and play them from your hand. Anyone can play cards at any time, and the cards they play drive the story being told. I call it a RolePlaying Card Game.
I wrote Amor Fati with new roleplayers in mind, it’s presented in 5 short mini zines, designed to be cross-referenced during play. RPGs have a history of being overly complex for no reason. I wanted to make something simple yet original, something that skips to the fun part of telling stories with your friends.
After several years writing and play-testing Amor Fati, I released it to the public at Philly Zine Fest last week.
Currently the Digital Edition of the game is available on my shop. If you’re interested in the history of magic and esotericism, a different look at the tarot, and humoral theory, I hope you’ll check it out!
I will announce a pre-order for the physical Box Set shortly, and you, my dear mailing list readers, will be the first to hear about it! The Box Sets are handmade and I’m all out after our success at Zine Fest.
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Dr. Justin Sledge, better known as youtube’s Esoterica, recently released a video on the apocryphal text known as The Gospel of Mary. If you, like me, are obsessed with Mary Magdalene, this is a must-see. And the text itself is really worth reading.
LEST YE THINK that I’m trying to convert anyone to anything, think again! I’m simply interested in magic and spirituality from all angles, especially in powerful and necromantic ancient women. Early christianity was weird as hell though, there was no church structure, no one was sure that Jesus was the christ, some people were literally sleeping in tombs to speak with the dead, and women were at least as prominent as men, giving prophesy, healing, and teaching publicly…
In less well-known, well-funded, and less recent uploads, I recently came across this fantastic discussion on the life, magic, and artwork of Austin Osman Spare. Don’t let the crappy ms paint title card fool you, this is a beautiful discussion of one of the most enduring and mysterious occultists—visual artists of all time. If you don’t know Spare’s art, here is a sample:
This last one is not explicitly occult-themed, but I simply can’t stop watching this “video-album” from medieval music ensemble Murmur Mori. Their focus is on secular poetry from the middle ages, which is really cool because most music you’ll hear from this period performed today is liturgical church music. Fascinated by their eerie performance with lots of antiquated instruments and unnecessary hand motions.
Thanks for reading and thanks as always for your support. I hope you made it through the eclipses in one piece, and that you’re enjoying this new, incredibly scorpio-heavy moment as the days shorten and the nights grow colder. Heres to sex and death and the triumph of the will - all hail scorpio!