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No. 10
The Sensualist
Sexuality and desire
Sexuality and desire · Card 10 of 44

The Sensualist

The rule

You may have learned that desire is a drive to be managed, that wanting, especially wanting openly, isn't fully acceptable. It might begin with something as small as ordering exactly what you want, and noticing the old urge to explain. Desire sits at the core of identity. Whatever energy goes into managing it into silence never gets spent on the life that's actually wanted.

Traditionally echoed in Ọ̀ṣun, the Yoruba orisha of love, sweetness and sensuality, whom the other orisha once shut out of their work, only to find that nothing they made would hold until she was let back in.

For you

What do you actually want, underneath the version you usually admit to?

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This page holds the card’s rule and question. The physical deck and companion booklet go much deeper: the full meaning of The Sensualist, a divination meaning, a journal prompt and a somatic practice. About the deck.
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