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Card XIV: Queen Elizabeth I

Write your myth

Sep 15, 2025
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What if your writing wasn’t just a form of expression…

…but a form of authority?

What if it didn’t just share who you are…

…but shaped how history would remember you?

This is the spirit of Card XIV: Queen Elizabeth I.

She was a ruler, yes.

And she was also rhetorician.

And a myth-maker.

She wrote her power into being, line by line, speech by speech, signature b…

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