Soon it is Halloween. In the shops pumpkin- and spider-candles are for sale, little dolls that look like witches, cobwebs, and rubber bats. Halloween is a tradition I know nothing of, and what better way to explore it than with tarotcards? So today I use The Halloween Tarot for my card. My question is: "Who am I today?"

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Today Autumn starts officially. John Keats wrote a poem about the fall, called “Ode to Autumn”. Because it is the beginning of Autumn, I ask a tarot-question inspired by it. Keats describes in his poem how the sun and the Autumn are bosom-friends, working together to produce its riches: the vines, the swelled gourd and sweet hazelnuts, the cottage- ( Read more... )

It is still difficult for me to work on the computer in a relaxed way. I cannot yet get in a 'knight of Pentacles-routine'  that I want so badly (August 15). It seems I cannot do both things: relaxing, and working on the computer. Yesterday I got excited, like so often, forgot to relax, and that gives me pain (I showed my mother a little picture of ( Read more... )

Because it is Sunday I pulled a card from the Golden Tarot of the Tsar; a tarot inspired by Russian icons. My question was: "Who am I today?" To my surprise my card was The Hanged Man.

This afternoon I am "summerguest" in Leeuwarden, in a parish belonging to the Lutherian church. I shall tell them about tarot and God, something I like to do very ( Read more... )