Card Readings

The author welcomes you to consult with the animals by having a personalized MEDICINE CARDS reading.


This is how it's done: E-mail David Carson at makingmedicine@gmail.com. Tell a bit about yourself and the situation for which you want guidance. Together, you and David will establish a date and time for your telephone reading.

Medicine Card readings are offered in increments of 30 minutes. Sessions length will be determined by the amount of time purchased through PayPal.

Once your reading is confirmed, David Carson will send a phone number to call him at the designated time.

Medicine Card Reading
30 Minutes - $60

Medicine Card Reading
60 Minutes - $100



From the desk of David Carson
- Taos, New Mexico


Hello and welcome to my web site!

Thank you for visiting. I am proud to be an originator of Medicine Cards. The book and accompanying card deck was an absolutely unique publishing venture. Medicine Cards was published to great acclaim in 1988 by Bear Publishing Company. It set the model for hundreds of new decks and animal metaphysical literature that soon followed. These cards and book have sold in the millions and created a tidal wave of interest. I toured the U.S. and other countries giving card readings to individuals all over the world.

The cards above are placed on a medicine wheel, a sacred template of traversing life's mysteries. When an animal appears in certain directions a subtle communication unfolds. In times past, the human family was in much closer contact with animals and understood their messages. We still can if we open our hearts and listen. This shift of consciousness brings the possibility of change into our lives, the potential for transformation. I can very readily testify to this.

I have been in semi-seclusion for the last couple of years writing but previously I have done countless card readings. Mostly reading for people leading ordinary lives (Is there such a thing?), I have read for an FBI agent, police and military officers, an English bobby, Jungian psychologists, artists, dancers, poets, scientists, business people, housewives, therapists, farmers, nurses, doctors, secretaries, lawyers, royalty, actresses, venture capitalists, teachers, children, potters, Sufi Sheikh, rabbis, priests, ministers, shamans, a the wife of a U.S. Senator, an airline president, astrologers, several tarot readers and other card readers, eco-activists, massage therapists, professors, journalists-people from varied cultures and from every walk of life.

Let me also tell you a few locations where I have done Medicine Card readings: cafes, churches, synagogues, tipis, by a Russian rushing river, in Swiss chalets, Italian palaces, street level Haight Ashbury, on beaches and in countless bookstores in USA and Europe. I've read for people in England, Ireland, Canada, Belgium, Holland, France, Scotland, Iceland and many other nations.

What were the topics of the readings about? Often they were about personal relationships, career, money, creative challenges, relocation, marriage and divorce, ancestral mysteries, children, pets, health issues and various other issues. The people I've read for have been wonderful and I thank them one and all for sharing with me. It was a great honor to meet with each one. The animal spirits had much to say and to contribute to their lives.

I have never personally kept testimonial letters though I have had many. If you would like to see one, check out the book WHAT IS SPIRIT? Subtitled "Messages from the Heart" by Lexie Brockway Potamkin. The art is by Peter Max. It's a lovely book in design and content. I love the art and many of the testimonials are very moving. A testimony by my friend Bill Rossiter about me begins on page 130.

We live in extraordinary times. In this communication age I am again offering readings by phone. I hope you will want to counsel with the animal spirits. Perhaps you will find guidance and the power you need to overcome difficulties. Perhaps you can reconnect to the mysterious, numinous, magical world we live in and find a higher order of being, one that touches with the Great Spirit and the cosmos.

Thank you for reading this letter and feel free to contact me.

Cordially yours,

David Carson

E-mail David Carson at makingmedicine@gmail.com.