Tonight I lighted a purple candle in honor of the Feast of the Holy Innocents ( Read more... )

Today I’ve put the jester, the puppet that symbolized the “Feast of Fools” in the workshop about the Twelve Days, under the Christmas tree. While doing that I realized that the jester, which is being sold during Christmas time as decoration, not only stems s from the Saturnalia, the feast of the Romans in which slaves become masters and masters ( Read more... )

I did a very interesting spread today with a friend, who is a therapist using arts. We began by both writing down our goal in our work. My courses were on my mind at the time, and I wrote down something like: I want people to become more independent and I want to give then instruments for that (the tarot).

After that we picked a card, having in ( Read more... )

                
                           
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I have looked forward very much to do this one-card spread, and although it is already late in the evening, and my husband is complaining lately that “he did not imagine marriage would to be like this, I did do it tonight.


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This is my last entry in the series of The Twelve Days of Christmas. I must give my undivided attention now to a course in the Inner Child Cards I teach for therapists this winter. I’ve worked on this course mainly in busses and trains. Now it’s time to look and see what I have thought up and I must write it all down.

So, this is the last spread, ( Read more... )

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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The days between Christmas and the Festival of the Three Kings on January 6 seem not to fit in the ordinary. The old year comes to an end and a new begins. It calls for introspection, looking back to the old and expecting the new. These days are called “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. I try to post a spread for each of these days, for each day has a ( Read more... )