The Receipts

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Interpretation & Meaning

The Receipts - a card from the inclusive oracle deck

Here’s the thing about Jessica Fletcher (she/her).

You don’t become the baddest chick in Cabot Cove by following your imagination and love for stories. Despite being a writer, Fletcher solves mystery after mystery by keeping an eye on the facts and processing an intricate web of information better than a goddamn machine.

She recognizes the dramatic nature of the world she inhabits but holds tight to the precious truths that those tiny, factual details are whispering in her ear.

When this card shows up in a reading, it’s time to set emotions aside and look at the hard evidence.

Get your head into the books, be inquisitive, collect the facts you need without tainting them with bias or illogical thinking.

This is the card of obsessive rationality and cerebral prowess: treat the problem at hand like an equation that can only be solved through methodical processing of one variable at a time.

The situation requires looking at the world like it’s a game of chess and carefully planning the next move.

Keywords: curiosity • knowledge • book smart • rationality • logical thinking • objectivity • inquisitive • impartial • wisdom • pragmatism • rigorous approach • science • methodical • seriousness • accuracy • realism • argumentative • didactic • informative • skepticism • intellect • knowledge over ignorance • precision • meticulous • emotional detachment • convergent thinking

Practical References

Places	School, College, Library, Book Shop
Work	Fraud Examiner, Detective, Analyst, Criminal Investigator, Business Intelligence, Scientist
Situations & Life Events	All milestones concerning education
Activities	Puzzles, Escape Rooms, Sudoku, Crossword Puzzles, Trivia, Strategy Games
Archetypes	The Sage, The Intellectual, The Brainiac

Interpretation within the Game of Cracks

The Soil

When this card appears in the Soil position, it suggests a situation or environment that encourages clinical objectivity and emotional detachment. It might refer to a marriage of convenience or a relationship with someone who is hyper-logical. In a work reading, it might symbolize a workplace with a goal system based on performance and productivity.

The Knot

As the Knot, this card symbolizes the tension between logic and emotions. In order to advance in your journey, you need to examine the facts with clinical rationality and adopt a methodical approach

The Eye

When this card shows up as the Eye, it can represent a book smart person, a nerd, a logical thinker who values factual knowledge over emotions or relationships

The Fall

As the Fall, this card warns you against intellectualizing or applying rigid logical thinking to the current situation. Life isn't a judicial court: by sticking to hyper-objective reasoning you might be missing the subjective, emotional core of the problem you are facing

The Hook

When this card appears as the Hook, it's an invitation to access your logical reasoning and treat the current problem like a game of chess. Your emotions might be swaying you away from the truth, summoning your analytical skills is the only way to get a clearer sense of how to act

The Fruit

In the Fruit position, this card suggests an outcome that manifests itself through previously overlooked or hidden knowledge. You'll get key information to finally make sense of the mystery around you

Homework & Practice

In order to embody the teachings of this card, you can:

Read mystery novels, watch mystery shows
Solve puzzles, riddles, sudoku, escape rooms
Play strategy games with your friends
Enroll in a math or statistics course
Fact check your news sources. Start asking where every piece of information came from, if the statistical methods applied are valid, question everything
Host debates with your friends. No matter how silly, they will help you refine your logical thinking along with the ability to craft compelling rationales

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