I have an idea for a beginners course tarot using bible stories. It is hard to explain in English, and to be honest, also in Dutch. What follows is a part of it. I want to practice the swords cards wit a spread. The spread is meant to interpret the bible story. Each person in class pulls one card from his/her swords cards. Each one has a different ( Read more... )

This morning I have pulled the next card in my spread of the mouse, the rooster and the fly. I’ve discovered, while exploring the story with the cards, that me wanting to live as Christ in the wilderness is mereless soulless copying ( Three of Coins), and stealing (Seven of Quills). By pulling extra cards I discovered that what I am seeking is ( Read more... )

My card today was meant to interpret logion 4 of the Gospel of Thomas.
(4) Jesus said, "The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a small child seven days old about the place of life, and he will live. For many who are first will become last, and they will become one and the same."

What does this little child of seven days old know, what the old ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was all day in Amsterdam. Part of the time I have spent in the new library in the Oosterdokkade, next to the Central Station. It was exhilarating to be and read in this building. It is seven storey’s high. The front has a view on a river and behind the river is the centre of Amsterdam. On the front side of the building are windows from ( Read more... )

At the fourth station of the cross Jesus meets his mother. When something terrible happens to children, when they become serious sick for instance, mothers often say: “I wish it had happened to me. That would make it more bearable.” It is extremely hard to live your life while your child suffers, or to live on when they die. It is the same for ( Read more... )

Today I have pulled a card about the story in John which Jesus violently chases away people who are selling things in the Temple: “He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables. 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out ( Read more... )

It is a day before Rosh Chodesh, called by some Yom Kippur Katan (Minor Yom Kippur). This is a day of fasting and repentance as Yom Kippur is, but it is not Jewish law and by my knowledge it is not observed. The custom origins from the Safed Kabbalists.

It is the day before Rosh Chodesh, the Jewish festival of the new moon, on which a new Jewish ( Read more... )

It is a day before Rosh Chodesh, called by some Yom Kippur Katan (Minor Yom Kippur). This is a day of fasting and repentance as Yom Kippur is, but it is not Jewish law and by my knowledge it is not observed. The custom origins from the Safed Kabbalists. Their view is that originally there was harmony between sun (seen as Tifaret) and moon (seen as ( Read more... )

The Jewish holiday Sukkot has started. This week I invite seven foremothers in my blog which changes in a virtual sukkah. Each day another mother comes visiting to teach me something of relevance. Today I have invited Sarah, a picture of her is hanging right here on my blog-wall.


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It is already a long time ago that I started doing “Picture the Pain” spread by Christine Jette. For some time I posted one card a day. Then Pentecost came and the full moon, and I was distracted from my goal. I still have to post the last card, card five. The card represents a turning point. It shows what is needed for healing. The card that I ( Read more... )