symbolism
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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.…
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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…