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"Abracadabra: An incantation very commonly used in magical tricks, Abracadabra is an ancient alchemy symbol that was used for curing lethal illnesses and augmenting healing. Another view is that it originated from an Aramaic phrase that meant ‘I create as I speak’."

#abracadabra

08.02.2025 14:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A tumblr post descriping tarot as an improv play with a stranger and a deck of cards. The person who posted it says "Sometimes the cards write something interesting and relevant, sometimes they don't."

Tarot as an improv play with a deck of cards and a stranger

#tarotsky #tarotreading

08.02.2025 14:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A monochrome print on beige paper showing a fairytale image of a man holding a candle and two women behind him in their nightclothes, entering a room and being startled by the sight of several cheerful looking witches flying into the fireplace and up the chimney on brooms. Below the image is text that states Grandpapa's Story or The Witches Frolick.

Unknown artist, 'Grandpapa's Story or The Witches Frolick', 1838, public domain

Etching, Yale Center for British Art, Yale BA 1960, B1995.29.2. #WitchSky #art

05.02.2025 11:33 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Feeling something like this today – afloat and well aware of the absurdities of current matters taking place in the distance...

René Magritte, Our Daily Bread (Le Pain Quotidien), 1942

#renémagritte #surrealist

06.02.2025 17:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Spirituality is not necessarily religious. Spirituality is the feeling that the world is inhabited, that there is something else than just the absolutely concrete ... It is a dialogue with the unknown, the invisible. It is not a rational dialogue."

#spirituality #mysticism

06.02.2025 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some rules about portals ꩜
1. portals must be built together.
2. portals must be opened together.
3. you can only discover a portal if you are already looking for it...

via Julie Choo on are.na

#portal #are.na #witchsky

06.02.2025 17:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An illumination from Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias showing Hildegard receiving a vision, dictating to the monk Volmar and sketching on a wax tablet.

A fascinating illumination from Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias (1151 or 1152), a written and illustrated work describing her religious visions. This particular one shows Hildegard receiving a vision, and dictating to the monk Volmar while sketching on a wax tablet.

#HildegardvonBingen #mysticism

03.02.2025 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would love to be included – thank you !

31.01.2025 11:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An old photograph titled "Revealing the Future" from 1897 showing three women lying on a decorative mat and reading cards

An old photograph titled Revealing the Future, from 1897 – wonder what the cards told them...

#tarotsky #1800s

31.01.2025 10:58 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

1877 Mourning outfit

welcome to your 1800s feed... channeling bygone times and reading cards for the future

#1800s #tarot #victorian

31.01.2025 10:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0