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Siamo arrivati: the cards we like to see
After writing about the cards we fear finding in a reading, I found myself thinking about a question. Are there really good cards? I don’t think so. Or perhaps there is another way of looking at it. Because, if some cards ask us for courage to cross through a difficult phase, there are others that…
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Attraversiamo: crossing the cards we are afraid of
The other day I had a tarot reading. The question was about matters of the heart. And, for the second time, the Three of Swords appeared. The famous “broken heart” card. My first reaction was to negotiate. “But do I really have to go through this?” “Isn’t there an alternative path?” The answer came almost…
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Token and Tolkien
The other day I went to approve blog comments. In the middle of the messages, two curious comments appeared: knwqmtkwzhyeesvrwvgfueqojtpruv mjhxlkketykipjjuhllffxvxvrivqdo It wasn’t Portuguese. It wasn’t English. It also wasn’t Sindarin. For a few seconds, I thought some elf had tried to get in touch. Then I imagined an orc had tripped over the keyboard.…
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Symbolism of birds
You know when you start noticing the same symbol appearing in completely different stories? That is exactly what happened to me while researching the Eye of Horus and Mati-Taperê, because both draw upon the image of the bird. Horus, the Egyptian god of the skies, is represented as a falcon, or as a man with…
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The scribe of the moon
Have you ever noticed that some people feel there is a connection when they look at the moon? This perception has accompanied humanity for thousands of years. In different cultures, the proximity between the average length of a lunation (about 29.5 days) and the menstrual cycle, which varies naturally from woman to woman and from…
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Horus’s Incompleteness
Have you ever stopped to think that even the most ancient symbols carry a philosophy of incompleteness? The Eye of Horus, one of the best-known symbols of Ancient Egypt, holds a detail that often goes unnoticed. And it was precisely this detail that transformed the way I think about the idea of being “whole.” Egyptian…
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Teaching tarot gossip version: part 4 – finale!
Have you already read part 1 of this little story here? And part 2 here? Part 3 was the most interesting! Here So let me finish this journey! The Tower collapsed. The Fool stood in the middle of the rubble, covered in dust. He didn’t know where to go. But then, in the darkness, a…
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Teaching tarot gossip version: part 3
Have you already read part 1 of this little story here? And part 2 here? Alright! So let’s continue… because now things get intense! After the Wheel spun and the Fool almost fell, he needed to put things in order. Then Justice appeared. Sword in one hand, scales in the other. No nonsense. “You reap…
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Teaching tarot gossip version: part 2
Have you already read part 1 of this little story? So let’s continue… After the Fool learned about tradition and let go of what no longer served him, he arrived at a crossroads—the Lovers. It’s not just about romantic love, no. It’s about choice. The Lovers card is like that conversation between Alice and the…
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Teaching tarot gossip version: part 1
Before we begin… The so-called “Fool’s Journey” is one of the best-known contemporary readings of the Major Arcana. It organizes the 22 cards (of the tarot’s major arcana) as symbolic stages of a single human trajectory. In this series, I invite you to follow this interpretation as if we were listening to a good story.…