Ursi's Eso Garden

Wonderful ideas - unfortunately small pictures only ... there are also some tarot sets on page 2.

Have fun with the reading ...

The Star

[intepretation]
She oozes with hope and balance inward and outwards. She embodies the giver of hope in our lives.

[reversed]
She turns her back on the world for she has lost all hope. She cannot give what she does not have within herself.

[symbols/images]
The concept of the Aquarian water bearer being the giver of life plays a symbolic role in the card. The sign of Aquarius also is one of air, and not water, dealing with matters of the mind and thought. The card plays towards the hope one can have in their mind and not necessarily in their heart.
The stars illuminate around her and serve a metaphor for dreams and hope which we look towards to.

In the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn one was expected to copy one's own tarot deck from a master copy and to color it; however, in only a few contemporary orders, such the Builders of the Adytum (BOTA), are students expected to even color their own decks. Although I enjoy and respect many commercial tarot decks, I believe that at some point each serious student should design his or her own deck embodying their understanding of the Arcana. Indeed, as one's understanding evolves over a lifetime, it's not unreasonable to expect to design and construct several decks. On the basis of these beliefs I started work on the Pythagorean Tarot.

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The first step in understanding rune lore is the understanding of the concept rune. Runes were in use by the Nordic and Germanic tribes of Northern Europe. A rune is not merely a letter in an old Germanic alphabet, but it bears the primary definition of "secret" or "mysteries." There were many different runic alphabets in use throughout Northern Europe over the centuries. The most common is the Germanic or Elder Futhark. This system may have begun as early as 200 B.C.E. The Elder Futhark contains 24 letters divided into three groups of eight, called Ætt (aettir, plural). The first eight is called Freyja's Ætt, the second Heimdall's Ætt and the third Tyr's Ætt.

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... One of the popular, newly expanded “rooms” at Villa Revak is A Beginners’s Guide to Tarot, (formerly Selected Resources for New Students of Tarot), which now includes a much expanded discussion of decks (with plenty of new images) and a glossary. It’s your key to learning Tarot ... Villa Revak offers a variety of additional resources and articles for students of Tarot at all levels ... If you want to learn about traditional divinatory meanings commonly assigned to the cards, delve into Tarot Divination: Three Parallel Traditions, which includes excerpts from works by three Tarotists of historic importance: Papus, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, and A. E. Waite.
If you are an advanced student and have an interest in the history of Tarot, I encourage you to turn to The Influence of Etteilla and His School on Mathers & Waite. This research report details the impact which the eighteenth-century French occultist, Etteilla, and his disciples had on later Tarotists, especially with regard to divinatory meanings espoused by Mathers and Waite.

The term "talking board" is the generic name for a message board with numbers, letters, and a movable message indicator. The message indicator, touched lightly by one or more persons, slides or pivots along the surface of the board to spell out words. Hence, the name "talking board." There is debate about whether the messages come from supernatural entities or are some form of psychological phenomenon originating from the players. Boards using pendulums, fixed spinners, or rolling balls, are not technically "talking boards" although they may have the

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Das I Ging – oder "Buch der Wandlungen" – ist ein Juwel chinesischer Weisheit. Es ist auch hilfreich beim Treffen von Entscheidungen. Es gibt zwei Orakelformen: das Stäbchenorakel und das Münzorakel. Das Stäbchenorakel der Schafgarbe geht von 49 Elementen aus, das Münzorakel von 2 und 3 als Zahlen. Der Himmel hat die Zahl 3, die Erde die Zahl 2.

Diese Seite empfielt das Schafgarbenorakel:
I-Ging.org mit dem kompleten Richard Wilhelm Text. (German only)

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The picture at the top comes from the classical Rider-Wight-Tarot. The picture at the right side is from an Angel-Tarot.

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