Fortune in Your Hands

Alaric Albertsson (Iowa) is the author of A Handbook of Saxon Sorcery & Magic and To Walk a Pagan Path. He is a founding member of Earendel Hearth, an Anglo-Saxon inhired, and served as vice president and was on the Board of Directors of the Heartland Spiritual Alliance. He is currently a member of the Druidic organization Ar nDraiocht Fein and serves as the Anglo-Saxon Vice Chieftain for the ADF Germanic kin, Eldr ok Iss. Albertsson first embraced polytheism in the summer of 1971. At this time he had the opportunity to talk with rural people in the Ozark Mountains about traditional moon lore, weather lore and folk beliefs and was strongly influenced by spiritist traditions. Over the past four decades, Albertsson's personal spiritual practice has developed as a synthesis of Anglo-Saxon tradition, country folklore, herbal studies and rune lore. Visit him on Facebook.

Contents

Introduction 1

One: Why Playing Cards? 5

Two: The Suits and the Elements 23

Three: Numerology and the Cards 37

Four: The Suit of Diamonds 59

Five: The Suit of Hearts 77

Six: The Suit of Spades 93

Seven: The Suit of Clubs 111

Eight: Laying Out the Cards 127

Nine: When and Where to Read Cards 167

Ten: The Ethics of Divination 179

Eleven: Spellcasting with Playing Cards 189

Conclusion 215

Appendix: Keywords 219