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Legacies of Egypt
This is a text to talk about the origins of the tarot. The association between Tarot and Thoth did not begin with Aleister Crowley when he conceived the Thoth Tarot as we know it today together with Lady Frieda Harris this connection was already being woven for at least 150 years. Crowley did not start…
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Embroidery: the oldest in the world
The history of embroidery is older than any written memory. Among the stitches still used today, cross-stitch is often pointed out as one of the oldest techniques. But even before fabrics existed, early humans were already joining hides and leathers with natural fiber threads. Needles were made of bone, some up to 30,000 years old,…
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Thoth: the sorcerer of Egypt
Why does Thoth remain one of the figures that fascinates me most? The answer has changed over time. At first, I saw him primarily as the god of magic, writing, and knowledge. Today I continue to recognize these attributes, but I have come to see something even more interesting, because Thoth represents one of the…
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Speaking of serpents…
Previously, I wove some reflections on the cyclical nature of becoming and on one of the images that fascinates me most when I think about processes of transformation the spiral and the Ouroboros, the serpent that bites its own tail. Today I want to continue this conversation along a different path, introducing another serpent from…
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Horus and Matinta
The more I observe the world, the more I find images that speak about transformation in different cultures, mythologies, and symbolic traditions. Not because they tell the same story, but because they seem to try to answer, each in their own way, a deeply human question: how do we transform without ceasing to be who…
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Is becoming cyclical?
It depends. When we speak of becoming, we are speaking of transformation, but transformation does not mean a straight path. Many processes in life return continuously, though never in the same way, and that is precisely why I also understand becoming as a cyclical movement, yet without ever closing the circle, more like an ascending…
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What is becoming?
Devenir is a word describing a concept coined by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze to characterize a way of thinking about processes of change. It indicates a process of transformation. For me, it is a very succinct way of describing my life. In English, the chosen term is “becoming.” Now, as a true Scorpio, I…
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Why Do I Embroider?
People who embroider often have an answer ready, and the vast majority will say it was to occupy their time, but there is a portion who will mention mental health. I have the impression that embroidery has always been a part of me, not because someone taught me; sometimes I feel as if I was…