Stories from Infinity

Published (September 13, 2024)

DISPLACING ACE OF SPADE  

I came into contact with the knowledge hidden in the deck of playing cards around the age of 36, when I was displacing the Ace of spade, the card representing death, rebirth, transformation and the symbol for the order of the Magi.
 

I didn’t know at the time that I had an appointment with this ancient knowledge, and that this appointment was written in the book of time.
 

ASSISTING ACE OF SPADE

Being born under the influence of the 3 of Diamond, the Ace of Spade was always very near to me. As a young adult, I worked for 10 years with an underground dance / theater company, and the director of this Theater was a Taurus Ace of Spade.
 

It’s a friend and teacher of mine, an Aquarius Queen of Diamond, that spoke to me for the first time about this knowledge.

SACRED SYMBOLS OF THE ANCIENTS 

She herself had learned about it thanks to her teacher who was coming from a lineage of women who had always been very interested into the esoteric knowledge. In their library they possessed an original version of Edith Randall and Florence Campbell book : « Sacred symbols of the ancients ».
 

At that time, I was living in Los Angeles. Being born and raised in the city of Marseille, in the South of France, I had moved to Los Angeles to learn with a lineage of Mexican shamans which had originated in Mexico in ancient times.
 

SHAMANISM

At 20 years old, the year I was displaying the 8 of Diamond, I had met the books of an anthropologist from UCLA, which had spend his life studying Mexican shamanism. His books were telling the story of how he had been introduced into the cognitive world of those shamans. Coming from a family lineage which had lost the connection with Spirit, those books had the power to reconnect me to who I truly was : a magical being evolving in a deeply beautiful and mysterious universe.
 

Following that thread, 10 years later, I ended up moving to Los Angeles to learn the modern form of those ancient teachings.
 

LIVING IN LOS ANGELES

Even if I was barely speaking English at the time, I was able to find some work and to stay. I enjoyed very much the Pacific ocean, the mysterious palm trees in the Los Angeles sky, Topanga canyon, the views on the city from Will Rogers State park, the desert of Joshua Tree, Los Angeles freeways and the community of people who had come from all over the world to learn with this lineage of Mexican shamans… At the time, I thought I will spend the rest of my life in this far away country. It was like starting a new life, I had said good bye to old Europe.
 

The training I received was based on learning and practicing series of movements, and on the recapitulation of one’s life. Every workshop or class was the occasion to review some specific themes about our own life in order to become more conscious of the imprinted patterns that were ruling us.
 

The basis of this work was to do a deep cleansing. The idea behind it was that the only thing one needs to do is to create some space inside him/herself - which also implies to bring more consciousness in the way one’s live. Once a certain level of consciousness or understanding is attained, one acquire a greater feeling of detachment and freedom, and becomes naturally a conduit for Spirit. Then Spirit shows the way.
 

It took me about 5 years of recapitulation, and then Spirit showed me the cards.
 

SPIRIT SHOWED ME THE CARDS

Spirit shows itself to us all the time but it takes time to acknowledge what Spirit wants from us, most of the time we are too busy with all the « important » concerns of our daily life. Usually, in order for us to pay attention, Spirit needs to trick us.
 

When I first heard about the cards from my Queen of Diamond friend, I did not pay much attention. At the time my attention was too busy with a woman I was in love with. She was not living in the US and we were seeing each others only rarely, but I was always thinking about her. This person was a 9 of Heart and was very passionate about the Tarot cards. On one occasion we met in Los Angeles and as a present, I bought her Robert Lee Camp books’: Love Cards and Cards of your Destiny. She liked the books but when she left, she did not take them with her and since I wanted to know when I will get to see her again, I started to be interested in what the cards had to say.
 

SUDDENLY UNDERSTOOD THE WHOLE SYSTEM

It’s during that time that I displaced the Ace of Spade. When this happened, I suddenly understood the whole system. Everything made sense. I could see its depth and accuracy. I understood the quadration, the displacements, the meaning of the emblems and of the numbers… I could also feel the mood of the long line of mystical teachers that had been keeping this knowledge throughout the ages.
 

When I first hold a card deck in my hands and arranged the cards in their natural order : from the Heart to the Spades, I had the feeling that some kind of magic was operating and that this simple action was realigning the energy inside of myself.
 

As a Pisces, I had always loved ancient mythologies but my moon in Virgo was also giving me a quite rational mind, so this system felt like a perfect fit. It was reconciling those 2 aspects of myself. It connected ancient symbolism with ancient mathematics.

MAGI TRAINING

At this time I was working as a supervisor in the French lychee of Los Angeles and it became a wonderful field of exploration. I could ask the teachers, the administrative staff, the children and their parents their date of birth, and I started to give readings to everyone. I also enrolled in the Magi training that was offering Robert Camp and deepened my learning under his tutelage.
 

Before that, I had never been so much interested into people’s stories, and suddenly it seemed that everyone had an interesting story to tell, because everyone story was the way the law that was ruling them - indicated by their card - , was finding its expression in this lifetime.
 

The next year, I was offered a position in the Theater of the French Lycée. It felt as if a cycle had come to an end. I had met the books of Carlos Castaneda when I was working with a theater company in France, those books had taken me to Los Angeles, and now I was back into theater… and guess what ? The director of this theater was also an Ace of Spade! I knew too well what to expect and I saw this situation like an opportunity to finish what had not been finished before, I aimed at being impeccable in my work… but did not succeeded that well…

WRITING MY OWN BOOK 

After two years, I was dismissed from this work because I was more interested into writing my own book about the cards than in doing the job I was paid for…
 

As a consequence, I knew that my time in Los Angeles was up : I had found the treasure I had come to look for, to the other side of the Atlantic, without knowing, and it was time for me to go back to Europe and to start doing what I was really made to do : to help people with those ancient arts and to continue to explore and uncover treasures from the past that have been lost to our modern consciousness.

TIME TO BE AT SERVICE

My time of assisting Ace of Spade people had ended, it was time for me to be at service of the Ace of Spade as a symbol for the mystic knowledge.
 

It has now been 13 years that I have been teaching, writing books, giving private sessions, learning more about the cards and the ancient ways of understanding and perceiving the world, and helping many people to understand themselves better and reconnect to their essence.

Guilhem Morera, Author and Master Cardologer

Purchase Guilhem's books (in French) through the links below: 

La Cartomancie des Anciens Mages, au Le Petit Livre des 7 Tonnerres (2012)

Le sens cache dujeu de 52 Cartes (2016)

Guilhem's Card: Three of Diamonds

Website: AstroCartomancie.com

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