Today I have drawn a card to look back on the past moon month. The moon is dark, It is the festival of Yom Kippur Katan, a moment to reflect on what is behind me, to start anew tomorrow. My card is Seven of Teacups from the Tarot of Jane Austen.


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Today it is Yom Kippur Katan, the Jewish Festival before the new moon. It is a day to look back to the month that is past, in order to start with a clean slate when the moon begins a new round.

It was almost Halloween last month and I pulled my card from the Halloween Tarot. It was Seven of Bats (Swords). Looking back on my past month I see myself ( Read more... )

It is Yom Kippur Katan today, the Jewish kabalistic festival of repentance to look back on the month that is passed in order to begin with a clean sheet at Rosh Chodesh. I have drawn Lord of Teacups (King of Cups) from the Tarot of Jane Austen in order to look back on this month. Charles Bingley is a character from Pride and Prejudice. He raises ( Read more... )

The card that I pulled for last month with the question what I could renew (as the moon that renews itself each month) was the Lady of Teacups (Queen of Cups) from the Tarot of Jane Austen.


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It is Yom Kippur Katan, the day before Rosh Chodesh, the Jewish festival of the new moon. Yom Kippur Katan is a day to look back at the past month, with the accent on Teshuva, the Jewish word for the act of repentance, what literally means ‘returning’. I asked for my most important Teshuva this month. This was Ten of Candlesticks from the Tarot of ( Read more... )

Last Rosh Chodesh (Jewish festival of the new moon) month I have picked the King of Cups from the tarot of Jane Austen, Charles Bingley from the book Pride and Prejudice.


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I also pulled a card today in honor of Yom Kippur Katan, the day before Rosh Chodesh (the Jewish Festival of the new moon), a day of atonement in order to turn our feet and begin the upcoming month with a clean sheet. The card that I have pulled for this is Death from the Tarot of Jane Austen.


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The day before Rosh Chodesh is called Yom Kippur Katan and is a day of repentence. Repenting makes it possible to begin the new month with a clean sheet. My question was: “What was my sin this last month?” The answer came as Ace of Disks from the Tarot of the Crone.


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It is Yom Kippur Katan today, the day before the new moon. In the Kabalistic tradition this is a day of atonement. I skip this. In the train towards Amsterdam I read Christine Kenner’s book on journaling and the Celtic Cross. In the chapter about “What crosses you” she warns not to use the journal to put yourself down. I need to be on the lookout ( 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... )