About

Hi, Camelia Elias here, musing on the magical meaning of life. Any other meaning of life doesn't interest me in the slightest.

I'm a professor, writer, and cartomancer. The blog you've stumbled over is an old one, now kept open for the sake of remembrance. I used to write on Fragments more regularly, but as things have changed, my focus took a turn when I started teaching the art of reading cards. That was in 2010. On the rare occasion, if I return to the blog here, I do it to cast a spell on infinity. 

Although I pursue different things of public interest, I'm on my way to retiring from public life.

But there are areas I'm still active in: I read fortunes, teach Zen, and create beauty in the world in the form of art (analog photography, calligraphy, painting, butoh, writing, perfumery, and pottery).

My website offers to read your fortune.

Read Like the Devil asks you to join a club.

EyeCorner Press publishes my books.

Aradia Academy teaches Zen and the art of reading visual texts of poetic and oracular force.

The Danish Testament shares not only my thoughts on transmissions, but also my installations combining ceramics with scrolls.

The picture below is from 2020, a screenshot of a live session with a group of cartomancy students, when we all had to think about something that was actually interesting.

Enjoy!