Thoughts on Fortune Telling | Solo Show
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Gordon White
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
It's been one of the highlights of my year to start getting messages and images of the Fortune's Fools Lenormand oracle out in the world. And, as you might expect, it's got me thinking about fortune-telling.
One of my personal creative goals for the project was the queer (lol) the Little White Book concept, and so the companion book IS my fortune-telling book, in the sense that it is a book-length exploration of the techniques and metaphysics of telling fortunes. I've been reading fortunes for two decades, teaching tarot for almost one decade and have interviewed some of the best modern minds on the subject.
And so I have some takes. Several of them spicy.
This week, the audio version is an off-the-cuff exploration of those takes, recorded immediately after my deck artist, Colin Alexander, and I completed a full unboxing of the deck. An unboxing obviously makes for a terrible audio-version of a podcast so this week they're completely separate.
- The audio version is Thoughts on Fortune Telling.
- The video version is Coling and my gay little unboxing and reminiscing about the deck creation journey.
And there are still some decks available if you want to buy them here. (It still says pre-order, but they totally exist, I swear.)
Note: James and I are travelling for the next few days. For the 36 who purchased the top-tier package, we'll be in touch next week with the dates for the training and initiation.
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| 0:00.0 | And the A bit of a different solo show this week where the audio version is going to be its own thing, a companion if you will to the video version because the video |
| 0:26.5 | version is Colin and my unboxing of Fortune's Fools. Now, an unboxing doesn't even work as performance art on the level of audio. |
| 0:38.0 | So you don't get to sit through that. |
| 0:41.0 | You don't have to endure something so weird and |
| 0:43.4 | surreal if you would like to see the cards and hear Colin and my reminiscences of said |
| 0:49.1 | journey that's what the video version is for. The audio develops out of that. |
| 0:55.0 | Like I've just literally finished recording with Colin now |
| 0:58.0 | and turn the camera back on and the mic back on |
| 1:01.0 | to put some thoughts together on fortune telling in general |
| 1:05.2 | after completing a fortune telling deck because that's podcast content |
| 1:11.1 | thoughts on fortune telling, and what they are having completed a fortune telling |
| 1:20.0 | oracle of my own. |
| 1:21.4 | Now if you're unaware, the Lunormand Oracle is a 19th |
| 1:25.6 | century development of a game, well actually several games which were inspired |
| 1:30.9 | previously by coffee cards and they have nothing to do in theory with the |
| 1:36.4 | woman for whom they are named, Marianne Adelaide L'Normand, Linnomond, Linnomond. |
| 1:41.4 | That's the materialist answer as it turns out going through this |
| 1:47.6 | process and it was a friend of mine in the jungle when I was explaining to her the |
| 1:52.2 | project is still ongoing this is last year in Peru |
| 1:54.5 | who La Normand was and these cards and so on because I'd had I'd brought with me not my |
| 2:00.4 | article but another La Normant into the jungle whereas previously I brought a |
| 2:03.5 | tarot and I was explaining Marianne to my friend and she's and I mean this in the |
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