The Disruption Generator is a living experiment and theoretical oracular device. It starts with this question:
What can true randomness do once installed into the divination thought form?
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We’re more than 30 cards into the Disruption Generator (for further explanation as to what exactly the Disruption Generator is see the first card) and it feels time to explain what a multiple card reading would look like in this system. Today’s draw will be a traditional 3 card Tarot spread using the next three cards from the Disruption Generator set. As explained in the first post, this system is not fixed and you are free to do readings with these cards as you please. I will only be explaining how I envision the system being used.
I picture the system to be used on a more individualized level, utilizing the cards to do a reading for yourself as opposed to reading for others. This is because I am designing the reading to be written out on paper with a layout based on William S. Burroughs’ diary entries, where he would divide the pages into three vertical columns. I recommend that these readings be done in a notebook or journal, to keep them together and available for reevaluation.
You take a single sheet of paper and write the intention of the reading across the top.
Then, divide the remainder of the page into 3 columns, leaving enough room on the bottom for further notes.
This is also the time to decide what the value of each column will be. For our purposes today I will be using past/present/future. Other layouts that could be used are: what helps/what hinders/what are your realized or unrealized potentials, current situation/challenges/guidance, what you think/what you feel/what to do, strengths/weaknesses/advice, mind/body/spirit, or whatever triad you can think of that may come of use.
The Disruption Generator, in its final form, will be a book based system that utilizes randomized Bibliomancy to shuffle through the pages of the collected system to choose each card. This is not how this draw was achieved but let’s assume that it was.
At this point, you would shuffle through the pages of the Disruption Generator and find your three cards. Here are the cards we will be working with today
NECTAR
An attractor; to inspire pollination
EVOLUTION
To change; adaptation
HANDSAW
A tool used to build or to destroy; to cut away
Write the word from each card in one of the columns on your paper, from left to right in the order they were drawn.
Now, this is where the system becomes completely about intuition and self reflection. The cards of the Disruption Generator are designed to bring about unusual thought. They’re random words, snatched from the aether. Unlike the tarot, these cards lack any custom or tradition. These cards don’t carry with them generations of scholarship and interpretation. The Disruption Generator is about YOU. You define what the cards mean and how these images and words trigger thoughts in your mind. I may give a vague description of each card here and eventually in the book, but the intention is that you do the heavy lifting and find what each of these things mean to you.
For each column, envision how the chosen word may factor into your inquiry.
Try to find how all three cards may interact with one another.
Take those ideas and write them down in the column.
I recommend automatic writing, if you feel comfortable with it, since this should bring out thoughts and ideas unhindered by preconceived notions or biases. Again, this is all about you and how you best process the ideas brought to the surface by the cards. Work how you need to work.
Note any other thoughts at the bottom of the page.
It’s my hope that this layout can work as a diary, of sorts, mapping out a person’s journey and pinpoint exact points along the way where questions needed to be answered.
As I said above, the Disruption Generator has no set rules and the system will be more useful with other people finding ways to use it that I haven’t considered. This is only how I see this system working best. I’d be happy to hear any ideas or feedback you might have so feel free to reach out here or at any of We The Hallowed social media pages. I can also be reached on my Instagram, @outletpress.
Later, I hope to write more about other topic such as in-depth single card readings, reading for others, or spreads of more than three cards. The Disruption Generator is still young and it will grow. Who knows how many more cards there may be? Who knows how that many cards will open up the possible uses for this system. I hope you’re as excited as I am to find out.
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