I have a passion for seeing the obvious. They say I read the cards like the Devil. I tell fortunes from a martial arts and Zen perspective. This means that I read for the plot, not some presupposed belief in metaphysics. I look at what narrative emerges from the cards and take it from there. Is there something I didn’t think about before? There always is. What we find in the cards is this swerve, the thing I didn’t think about before, because it never occurred to me to think about it.

In my work with both questions that cannot be ignored and the contemplative arts, I’m interested in language and its oracular power as expressed through words and visual imagery. Oracles give us access to the present, which most people don’t live. Oracles give us access to surprising and spontaneous knowledge.

Cards are like a Zen master’s stick. They whack you over your head, pointing to what attitude is seated in you. Maybe you want to change that.

Approach me with a question. Any question. Surprise me and be surprised. Get smarter.