Do you still have old diaries ? When you re-read these records of your life story, do you recognise yourself in what you wrote down maybe decades ago? I find old journals can hold surprising revelations, describing life lessons that had yet to reach their full potential at the time they were recorded, yet already …
The Tarot of Marseille the Nan Yar Who Am I cards are based on, depicts card number V as The Pope. Seeing the Marseille Tarot came into the world at the end of medieval times, when the pope in Western Culture had been regarded as the representative of God on earth for more than a …
While the numerology of the number 4 is all about balance, as written on the 4 of Insights card, it can also be a bit limiting, like is stated on the 4 of Challenges when set patterns get the better of us; or even boring to an a certain extent, when we start doing things automatically …
The third card of the 12 day challenge of the winter solstice contemplation, explains a bit more about the 3 of Tools: a cord of the minor arcana, also known as the lesser secret, that mirror your stand in daily life. While the 22 cards of the major arcana – also known as the bigger …
The Popess, the card carrying the roman numeral II, is all about the wisdom we all carry within as life-travellers on earth. She comes right after card I: the Illusionist. While the Illusionist can still paint a different picture diverting things from what they really are, the inner wisdom wisdom card characterised by the archetype …
What does the word potential summon up for you when you look back at 2024? Which Challenges came your way? Did they come for a reason? What did they have to tell you? How did you respond ? Which position did you take? What change did they encompass? Yesterday, December 21st, I chose my first …
Text: Ingrid Schippers Picture: Juliet Dreyer I once heard a story that came from a 200 year old little booklet , holding records of real life court cases from the 18th century. The particular story I am going to tell you about, always stayed with me as it so pointedly shows how following Fate, rather …
Throughout the ages, all the way to this very day and age; certain life-stories have proven themselves capable of capturing people’s imagination. Some, like Alexander the Great, were born centuries ago, Some are mythical or legendary figures like Odysseus or King Arthur. Others appear in literary works; Hamlet,Scrooge or Bilbo Baggins. Even in modern day …
Don’t Offer the Good Biscuits; Abridged version of the spoken end-of-the-program-blog of June 11 2019 for Dutchbuzz; the radio broadcast for Internationals on The Hague FM, every Tuesday from 9-10 when in season. a 3 minute listen to. In the world around me I see a lot of angry people. Angry at their governments for …
What do we teach our children when we offer them plastic hair-dye toy horses in advance of a ceremony commemorating the people that perished in the second war? I was thinking that when I was watching television on the evening of May fourth just before 8 pm, waiting for the annual broadcast of the ceremony …
