June 16, 2025, 11:59 p.m.

Death & the Coffin: A Cartomancy Essay

Eight of Pentacles

Tonight I am so excited to share with you Death and the Coffin, and debut the aspect of Eight of Pentacles Press that is possibly most dear to me: physical, magical writing. The essay is available as both a public post and in the mail as a zine.

Briefly explore a philosophy of divining about endings, through the lenses of Tarot, Lenormand, and Nature:

Starting from a place of death instead of a place of transformation does not need to fundamentally change the interpretive outcome of the card, but the acknowledgement of death can provide more divinatory clarity to what comes after it. What is dying? Why? What did it feed on to live? What is going to eat it now?

Read the essay in full on Eight of Pentacles, and order yourself a wee copy from my Ko-fi shop. The physical version unfolds to reveal a zine-exclusive spread to assist you in interpreting the Death card in any Tarot reading.

Exalted Jupiter blessings,

Ash ✨

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