‘Why must you also do this, hide posts behind a paywall?’ some may ask, lamenting the tediousness in having to subscribe to everything these days.
The answer is simple, as far as I am concerned. In addition to having retired from my day job as professor at a Danish university, I’ve also been retiring from teaching a ton of online cartomancy classes.
‘But we want more…’ people have been saying, with one student of mine going all the way, declaring in public: ‘I want a lecture from you every week for the rest of my life.’ So here’s the deal. As I can’t stop writing about the cards because of my regular obsession with them, I’ll keep the ideas flowing. But if I get in the teaching mode, I think it’s only fair to be rewarded for it, as teaching requires a different kind of commitment. If I must make a continuous effort to come up with original, solid, coherent, and methodic material, I need to find the proper time for it. Since time is money, as they say, I will ask for it.
Meanwhile, there are quite a few free essays here already – currently close to 200 – that have a highly instructional dimension. As they will remain free, the teaching in them will be accessible to anyone with the desire to learn.
Thus to make it clear on what everyone gets:
paid subscribers get ideas + method + examples + adversarial pieces à la ‘this is what I don’t like in divination, and why you should stop if you’re guilty of it’
free subscribers get ideas + an occasional breakdown of argument into explanation followed by some examples + free previews of all subscriber posts
To an extent, my substack space here is similar to what I’m doing in the Read like the Devil Practice Club, where I provide essays and teachings. The only difference is the possibility the subscribers have to receive more diversified material and meet with me on a monthly basis for a live Q&A and practice session. I don’t commit to that here.
Here I want to thank everyone who reads my substack, both the free and paid subscribers. It feels as if I get to teach forever, even in spite of myself, crossing my own aim and dream of final retirement to the edge of the world, where I get to commune with the sea, the sand, and the stories that nature tells.
Or wait, I already live at the edge of the world doing the very thing. It goes to show, in spite of the clarity we like to profess, we can still get confused in the head as to where we are in the world, what we’re doing, and why…
Enjoy, and subscribe…
