This course will introduce you to the art of Russian playing card cartomancy. My goal with this class is to hopefully instill in other readers the love I have for these classic cartomancy methods and in spreading the love for these systems hopefully, we can all preserve these systems for future generations.

In this course, we'll travel back to the very end of the 18th century and some of the cartomancy that you'd have been likely to see practiced in Russia. I'll cover some of the basic history of the use of playing cards for divination in general because it helps to understand where these systems of divination come from. Then we dive into the Russian style of playing card divination covering the traditional system. We'll be discussing the traditional Russian meanings for the cards as well as two classic Russian spreads for reading with playing cards and one that is a Russian Lenormand crossover. One of the common misconceptions is that these old divination systems don't hold up in the modern era but we'll also cover how to make some of the antiquated or outdated aspects of older cartomancy systems more modern and appropriate for today's querents and readers. I also give some general tips for doing readings with this system but that could often also be applied to other systems as well.

Grab a deck of cards, a cup of tea (or other favorite beverage), pull up a table, and let's spend an afternoon seeing what the cards have to say to us through the Russian method of playing card divination.