As the sun’s visible path thru the sky becomes lower and shorter, and a winter blues is whistled by the northern winds, it’s up to our inner Sun to step up. Perhaps friends sitting across the table, or across the oceans of time and space, reflect that inner Sun back to us. When, in the […]
Jonah and the Whale
The chapter of our book for which Natasha drew this is about the Temperance card, and when I asked for a keyword Elias unexpectedly suggested Deliverance. I had to look that up and think about it. In traditional order of the trumps Temperance card is number 14, following Death at 13. So in card games […]
Beauty and the Beast
“The lion is drowning,” Naveed texted me upon seeing Natasha’s drawing of a lion and a water-pouring girl. Knowing my friend to be quite a lion himself, the joke struck a chord with me. “Or the girl is about to be eaten!” I replied. The drawing illustrates the predicament of opposition – opposite signs having […]
Emergence Day
Yesterday was my birthday, a.k.a. emergence day, so I picked a cute “Chick” drawing Natasha did for our book. In the chapter in question we discuss the Hanged Man, the card with rich and controversial interpretations from Haman of Purim story (see Stav Appel’s site), to Judas, to Jesus himself. We know that this is […]
September 11
When the first plane hit I just came up to WTC#7 22nd floor. I could have chosen to go for coffee across WTC plaza, in which case the hit would have been over my head, and I could have been injured. Maybe another version of me was, because I recall stopping and making an (unusual) […]
Roundup of Astrological Houses
Everyone knows their birth sign, the sign of their partners, children and dogs. But do you know your houses? Knowing a sun sign is great because, if you give the symbol the depth and breadth it deserves, there is nothing you do that doesn’t in some way reflect it. But adding the rising sign and […]
At last (вольный перевод)
Вот и свершилось! Я верила! Берег родной и маяк. Сердце окутано клевером – Выпала карта моя! Ты улыбнулся так солнечно, Рыцарь на белом коне. Мы говорили до пОлночи, Звёзды сияли в окне. Тучи развеяло. С севера Жизнь повернулась на юг. Сердце окутано клевером, Ангелы гимны поют. Photo by Igor Wang on Unsplash
Славяне
1987г, ВГУ, кафедра прикладной математики. Лекция по библиотечному делу, видимо близкому всякому математику и тем более программисту. Дремлю. Просыпаюсь от «ксероксы, разумеется, запрещены». Преодолев врождённую интровертность и приобретённое заикание спрашиваю «почему ‘разумеется’?» «Ну начнёте переснимать всякую индийскую философию или ещё хуже» отвечает профессор. Я раздуваюсь от нарастающей волны праведного возмущения и решаю бросить вызов системе. […]
Reading Invisible Cards
“Tarot is a treacherous art!” thoughtfully said Jean-François years ago as Natasha and I served tea in our south Brooklyn apartment. The adage sounded especially ominous since I just became a born again Tarologist a few weeks prior. JF already read professionally. His readings were as direct and structured as they were artful and profound. […]
ФермА и Ленорман
Из категории баловства. Просматривал свои записи и наткнулся на свой старый стишок. Не помню по какому поводу, может просто язык чесался. Но присмотревшись вдруг подумал что можно попробовать всю историю рассказать картами Ленорман. И вот результат, причем использованы все 36 карт без повторов: Великая Теорема ФермА Задаче, что оставил нам ФермА(Гора, Звезда, Лилии)Старик лукавый скрыл […]
