Clare speaks in her Third Letter about Mary who carries Christ in her tiny womb, while the heavens could not enfold him. This is the focus of the cards for day 21 to 25.

“(18) May you cling to his most sweet Mother, who gave birth to the kind of Son whom the heavens could not contain, (19) and yet, she carried him in the tiny enclosure of her ( Read more... )

I have pulled the Squire of Swords today to look back on my day. Depicted is St. Martin from the Tarot of Saints.


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I am working on a spread about the Child of Swords, Pinocchio (Page of Swords), a card from the Inner Child Cards.


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People keep on pulling the Five of Swords; time after time again. Today I thought to ask why that is. I used the Fantastic Menagerie Tarot to give me an answer and I have pulled the Page of Swords.


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I did manage to do some work on my course on psalm 119. I had to do it; it feels as if time slips as sand through my fingers (sorry for the worn out metaphor).

Today I have pulled a second card in the spread “Picture the Pain.” Yesterday I pulled my first card. Card Two is called “Awareness”. It shows an insight or a hunch, feeling or gut reaction ( Read more... )

                           
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Somehow I lost all my energy. But I did took a peek in the material for the bible and tarot course, just a peek. I mainly copied pages from the book, so that I do not have to leaf through the pages, back and forth all the time, loosing the overview. I still feel ambivalent about it.

I wanted to ask a wisdom-question about the Magician, associated ( Read more... )

                                                      


Today, on the last Sunday of Advent and for this year the last day of Advent the old Roman Breviary has a text by Isaiah with beautiful parts in it (Isa.35:1-7). It speaks of a desert that once will blossom as a rose. It speaks of the lame who shall walk and of the deaf who shall hear. It ( Read more... )

Tarot and dreams, quite challenging. This fall I teach a course on it. Today I've wielded my sword: the too big and too heavy sword from a Page of Swords, my Card of the Day. But I could handle it.


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