Watch the cards come alive like you’ve never experienced before. A living world that keeps revealing more the deeper you go.
Taught by Ana Cortez, author of The Playing Card Oracles and The Doors of Somlipith.
New to the Order? Begin with Drawn to the Flame at $12 a month.
Maybe you have a shelf full of decks. Maybe a wall of shelves. Tarot, oracle, maybe even a playing card deck or two. Some spoke for a while. But did anything ever “stick” the way you thought it would?
So you kept searching. For what, it’s hard to say, but you knew you’d know it when you found it.
Until the quiet exhaustion set in. And you wondered: “Maybe I’m too picky...” or “Maybe this is all there is.”
What you were looking for was never something the mainstream could have pointed you toward. But you were never meant for the mainstream.
Maybe it’s been sitting in your kitchen drawer all along.
Encoded in the deck you’ve been looking at your whole life. Waiting for you to notice and answer the call.
And is it any surprise that the 52-card deck we know today as “playing cards” originally came from Egypt? Initiates have called it the “little book without a binding,” the “mystic test book,” and the “book of the seven thunders.” And once you look with eyes to see, it all begins to fall into place.
I had held off on any use of ‘playing card’ divination because it felt dry and hollow to me. Then I found this deck... it was like I had found the system that resonated with me.
It is amazing that the 52 card deck is perhaps the most magic item that circulates the global population, but goes entirely unseen for its esoteric purpose.
Ana’s approach to card reading also includes a system of timing, making predictive work even more precise.
Ana and her father, CJ Freeman A father and a daughter - CJ Freeman and Ana Cortez - drawn like moths to flame by a living transmission that held them spellbound. So far outside any known tradition that literally no one understood what was unfolding. Like a treasure map torn in two - neither could complete it alone.
Together they pierced the veil - glimpsing a living, breathing world held captive for centuries, hiding in plain sight inside the deck of red and black we call playing cards.
What came through upended everything. 52 revelatory, otherworldly paintings poured from CJ’s hand - a self-taught artist who defied every convention, borrowed from nothing, created for no one. Seeking only the true transmission.
Ana was a teenager when the paintings first appeared. What followed was a 40 year odyssey - true mystical sleuthing - peeling back layer upon layer, dream upon dream, until the architecture revealed itself: precise, ancient, regal. A system of royalty. Unlike anything the world has ever known.
A living alchemical reality, waiting in the wings for centuries. Long before Tarot. Slipping like a slumbering giant beneath a veil of assumptions and misperception.
Until now.
Only now - for the first time in known history - it awakens inside “The Doors of Somlipith” and the Order of the Black Ace.
Forget fortune-telling. Forget birth cards. Forget every playing card method you’ve ever encountered.
This is a radically complete, fiercely responsive system rewriting the history of divination. Ask it anything - your relationships, your crossroads, your 3am questions - and watch it answer in a language that finally knows you from the inside out.
You didn’t come here to be handed a system.
You came to inhabit one - a living body of knowledge that reveals new layers as you’re ready to receive them. Forget finish lines and framed certificates. Think instead a system of initiation that expands with you.
At its heart is The Doors of Somlipith - a full 52-card playing card deck and guide, the final masterwork of Ana and CJ and the living textbook of the Order.
Where the lineage speaks in real time. This is Ana at the edge of her own discovery, your direct line to the woman still actively decoding this system after 40 years. Every session archived so nothing slips through. Live attendance and replays come with Flight of Somlipith and Light Guardian.
Orbiting The Doors of Somlipith, the final masterwork of Ana and CJ and the living textbook of the Order. Start wherever you’re drawn and move at your own pace.
Through the Pyramid Layout, the 36 Gates and foundational spreads like the WITN, you’ll align with natural time and receive dates in your readings.
English, French, Russian, Portuguese, German and Spanish, available whenever inspiration strikes.
New developments, fresh transmissions, refined techniques that can’t be found anywhere else - not even in Ana’s books.
Engaged seekers who felt the same frustration you felt, found the same door you found, and are now building practices that feel entirely their own.
With Ana and her daughter Naga. Member-only access to the two women who carry this lineage most intimately.
Relax. You’re somewhere you can stretch into.
In short I felt that other systems are limiting and incomplete. I’m so happy that you’re offering this!
I have been reading playing cards using Ana’s system for more than a decade now and it’s been one of the few systems that actually worked for me.
I’ve spent the last year looking into pretty much every playing card system I could find and I came right back here. It’s time for me to commit fully.
The Black Ace goes there. Each time I rewatch a video I get something new out of it. I’m finally ready to fully commit to my practice and doing readings professionally.
Your work, along with Mr. CJ Freeman’s, is, in my opinion, the most accomplished and profound in the history of cartomancy. Thank you so much.
I used to read with Tarot, but this is more intuitive - more expansive.
You really changed my world, Ana. I always loved card reading, but it never felt free and powerful. You and your dads wisdom is sooo special and so different to all I found before.
It’s the magic I’ve been missing. There’s something about the depth of it - it feels like I’m breathing air again.
There is no other story in cartomancy like this. Or in any magic that I’ve glanced at. You saved a lifetime of passionate work and started your own. Fascinating, Mesmerizing.
§ Membership The cards are ready to come alive for you. Not sure which door? Trust your intuition! The Order grows with you wherever you enter - there’s no wrong choice, and you can always adjust your tier as you go.
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Something pulled you here, but you’re shy...
and you want to feel the energy of the Order before you go all in. This is your threshold. Stand close. Let the system speak to you.
Live gatherings and replays: upgrade to Flight of Somlipith.
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or $777 / year
You’re all in.
This is the full living tradition. The complete body of work, the ongoing transmissions, the community field, and Ana at the edge of her own discovery - still decoding, still transmitting, 40 years in.
Every month Ana transmits live - a living tradition still actively unfolding, and you’re in the room where it happens.
$222/ month
or $2,222 / year
You’re here to receive the work, and also to sustain it.
The Light Guardian is a rare designation within the Order - held by those who feel called to carry the flame beyond themselves. Your support makes the continued evolution and purity of this lineage possible.
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Ana and her daughter Naga The DOS is the heart of the system and we do reference it throughout the Order. That said, if you’re working with one of CJ’s earlier decks or a standard playing deck - the deck of 52 is our guiding star regardless of which iteration you hold.
And the moment you join, a free PDF of the complete DOS text is waiting in your portal. Full access to every referenced teaching from day one.
The cards of the DOS themselves are breathtaking, but they’re not a requirement to begin.
The Order is not the next in sequence after the book - it’s where the book comes alive.
Members at every level are inside right now - from people who just cracked the cover to those who’ve been devoted for years. The living tradition meets you exactly where you are.
In fact, the best time to join is while you’re actively in the book. That’s when everything hits most impactfully.
Yes. If you come with genuine curiosity and an ability to self pace.
The Order is not a race. Transmissions come with exercises and entry points scaled to where you actually are. Beginners consistently find this the most natural, intuitive system they’ve ever encountered - because it meets you at your level and expands as your appetite grows.
Scale back when you need to. Digest. Bring your questions to the community. Practice for a while. When you’re ready for more - the system is already waiting at the next level.
Come as you are. The Order grows with you.
I’m not gonna sugar coat. It’s harder for experienced Tarot readers.
“The Doors of Somlipith” derives from nothing you’ve encountered before. Everyone enters the Order on a level playing field - and that means years of Tarot experience can actually work against you if you’re not prepared to let it go completely.
Forget everything you thought you knew about card reading. Beginners have a genuine advantage here - at least at the start. An empty cup fills faster.
That said - once you’re grounded in this method, some of what you knew before may find its place. But that comes later. First, throw everything out.
No, it’s not. But Cards of Destiny and the methods we practice in the Order both use playing cards, and both are in depth, valid paths.
But the cosmology is different, and so is the approach. In the Order the system is deeply dynamic - it meets you wherever you are, every time you pick up the deck.
This is actually one of the most important questions you can ask.
There’s a reason mystery traditions have gathered together since the beginning of human history. Something becomes possible in a group that is simply not possible alone. A field opens. Connections ignite. The material lands differently than it does on the page.
The Order makes the system immersive - 100+ videos, exercises, live gatherings with Ana, and the dynamic intelligence of the community there for you, collectively going deep into the same mysteries, building the field together in real time.
What might take years (or never) to grasp on your own, can unlock in this environment. The books gave you the keys. The Order is where you actually walk through the doors.
Every live gathering is recorded and available for replay inside your portal for Flight of Somlipith members and above.
That said - there is something about being there live that replay can never replace. Ana’s transmissions are responsive to those present. The lineage moves differently in real time. When you can be there - be there.
It’s the greatest gift of the Order.
Trust your gut. If you’re drawn to the flame but not ready to go all in - start at Drawn to the Flame. Let the system compel you. If you already know you’re all in - come straight to Flight of Somlipith. That’s where the full living tradition lives. That’s where Ana is.
There’s no wrong door - only the one you’re called to walk through right now.
Log into your account at blackaceacademy.com and click your profile picture in the top right corner. Go to Account, then Billing or My Memberships. There you’ll find your active Order of the Black Ace membership with options to cancel, upgrade, or downgrade - all in the same place.
If you cancel, your access continues through the end of your current billing period. And if you change your mind before that date - there’s a Renew button waiting.
Upgrading: you’ll be charged the prorated difference right away and get immediate access to the higher tier. Downgrading: you’ll keep the current (higher) tier until the end of your billing cycle, then automatically switch to the lower tier.
And remember - if you’re a Flight of Somlipith member or above, your community forum access stays with you forever, even after you leave. That never goes away.
You’ve had that sneaking feeling for years - through every deck that didn’t fit, every system that scratched the surface and left you hungry, every reading that felt like you were trying on someone else’s clothes.
The alternative to saying yes right now is yet another year that slips through your fingers, that old nagging feeling whispering in your ear: “There must be something more.”
Or.
You step through the door into something that was always yours. Ancient. Precise. Alive. A practice that finally meets you at the depth and authenticity that’s become your new standard.
You’re finally claiming it. And there’s no going back.