In 2010, I created a blog called Saturness, where I shared my divination studies, readings, and deck reviews, as well as all kinds of emotional and spiritual experiences (aka crises). I took a hiatus between 2013 and 2019, but in 2020 I returned to the blog and changed the name to Marina Oracles.
A few months ago, I realised that my blog contained way too many posts about my personal life – both emotional and spiritual –, and that I no longer felt comfortable sharing such things online. And with AI scraping through websites content, I felt even less at ease with having my intimate journey out there. Not that I am important enough for my information to matter, and it's not like Google doesn't have access to my whole life as it is, but I still felt the need to streamline my blog and focus on the divination aspect alone.
All of the substance, none of the (overly personal) clutter: that became my motto. So, in 2026, I deactivated the older blog and moved the posts that remained compatible with my new intention to this one. Basically, I have kept the best bits of the old blog and began to build something fresh on top of them.
Yes, there are many older posts from when I was young and silly, but I think they show my evolution as a cartomancer and belong here. Also, some facts from my daily life still leak into the posts, since I read the oracles for myself. But I do try to focus more on the 'oracular process' than on my private stuff, hopefully making it more interesting for other people as well.
What else? Oh, in 2018, I took a crystal healing course at the now-defunct Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy and became a CCH (Certified Crystal Healer). But you won't see me writing much about it here, because I rarely practice it these days... I may return to it someday, who knows?
And in 2023, Ana Cortez published a new book/deck called The Doors of Somlipith (which I call DOS because I can't resist an acronym). It's basically an updated and re-imagined version of the Playing Card Oracles. Here in the blog, I use both decks interchangeably, since the core of the method remained the same.
That's it folks. Thank you for reading this far! This blog is an important creative and intellectual endeavor for me, and I hope you find something useful, fun, or at least interesting in my writing.
Frequently Unasked Questions
• How come you say your blog is a decade old, when your profile says you've been on Blogger since September 2024?
Granted, it makes no sense. But there is a reason for that: I had to move my blog from an older Google/Blogger account to a new one, created in 2024. Thus, the blog now has the date of the new account, not the older one.
• Why do you only have a couple of posts per month over the years?
As explained above, this blog is a distilled-and-updated version of an older blog I had, which used to have many more posts. The problem is that the older blog contained a lot of personal things I no longer felt comfortable having online. As a result, this new blog ended up looking quite gappy, as if I haven't been very active over the years, which is not true.
• What happened to your posts between November 2013 and September 2020?
Actually, this huge hiatus happened due to me moving to social media. A questionable move, I know, but a decade ago social media wasn't quite as toxic, money grabbing and algorithmic as it is now. It genuinely felt like a new space for creativity and connection. So I never stopped practising divination, but I started posting about it elsewhere. Also, I had other interests (you won't believe it, but I was actually a Twitter poetess, back when Twitter was not the stinking gutter of the internet) that kept me from blogging during that time period.
Then, during the COVID-19 pandemic, having grown absolutely sick with social media, I felt the urge to return to my roots and decided to start blogging again. By then, blogging culture, at least in the divination community, was pretty much dead but... I like it, so I keep doing it.
• The big, important question: will you read my cards?
I don't read cards for strangers online any more, except in the communities I belong to such as Tarot, Tea & Me. If you join (or already are a fellow member), we can do an exchange over there, for feedback. That said, I will not read about life and death situations, nor answer questions that should be directed to licensed physicians, solicitors and psychotherapists.
• Why do you only have a couple of posts per month over the years?
As explained above, this blog is a distilled-and-updated version of an older blog I had, which used to have many more posts. The problem is that the older blog contained a lot of personal things I no longer felt comfortable having online. As a result, this new blog ended up looking quite gappy, as if I haven't been very active over the years, which is not true.
• What happened to your posts between November 2013 and September 2020?
Actually, this huge hiatus happened due to me moving to social media. A questionable move, I know, but a decade ago social media wasn't quite as toxic, money grabbing and algorithmic as it is now. It genuinely felt like a new space for creativity and connection. So I never stopped practising divination, but I started posting about it elsewhere. Also, I had other interests (you won't believe it, but I was actually a Twitter poetess, back when Twitter was not the stinking gutter of the internet) that kept me from blogging during that time period.
Then, during the COVID-19 pandemic, having grown absolutely sick with social media, I felt the urge to return to my roots and decided to start blogging again. By then, blogging culture, at least in the divination community, was pretty much dead but... I like it, so I keep doing it.
• The big, important question: will you read my cards?
I don't read cards for strangers online any more, except in the communities I belong to such as Tarot, Tea & Me. If you join (or already are a fellow member), we can do an exchange over there, for feedback. That said, I will not read about life and death situations, nor answer questions that should be directed to licensed physicians, solicitors and psychotherapists.
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