I have pulled the Star from the Inner Child Cards as the theme of my day.


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The card in my daily draw of five cards that I pulled for the "Unexpected" was the Star from the Gay Tarot. On the card a male figure hovers above a village.

I liked the Tower and the Four of Swords and Three of Pentacles (did not post that one) from the Gay Tarot very much, I do not like this one. Maybe I am so used to women on this card that it ( Read more... )

The feathers of the willow
Are half of them grown yellow
Above the swelling of the stream.
And ragged are the bushes,
And rusty are the rushes,
And wild the clouded gleam.
The thistle now is older,
His stalk begins to moulder,              
His head is white as snow.
The branches all are barer,
The linnet’s song is rarer,
The robin pipeth now.
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I was planning to pull another card today, not the one of the spread I created for the Tarot Magazine. Yesterday I recommended Tarot for all Seasons by Christine Jette to someone, and I remembered there are spreads for the Esbats in this book. Since it is almost Dark Moon now, I thought it would be nice to pick a card from the Dark Goddess, the ( Read more... )

                             
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Today I have picked a card from the Tarot of the Secret Forest with the question: “Who am I today?” As an answer to that question I have pulled the Star.


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Day four of the Twelve Days of Christmas is the Feast of Fools. It is derived from the Saturn days in Roman times. During these days the social order was reversed. The masters served the slaves. This was to show that the normal order was the best in the end, but it also relieved the slaves from the tension of their roles for a few days.

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Yesterday I have pulled a card -inspired by a painting of Velázquez- to the question: “What is at the centre of my life?” I have pulled the Seer from the Fey Tarot (the equivalent of the High Priestess) and I came up with three issues: the search for balance, (inner) wisdom and integrity. Today I delve deeper into that.


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I pulled The Star today from the Fairytale Tarot, with the question: "Who am I today?" The story that goes along with the card is about a prince who goes out to fetch water from the spring of the Fairy of the Dawn in order to heal the weeping eye of his father.


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