"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

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

#tarotsky #tarotreading

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

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

"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

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

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

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

#tarotsky #1800s

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

#1800s #tarot #victorian