Tarot cards received as a gift. Or not.
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Published 28 August 2026 by

Tarot cards received as a gift. Or not.

Is it necessary to receive a tarot deck as a gift? This is not a new question and is the subject of much debate in the tarot community. Some people insist that a tarot deck will only work for divination purposes if you received it as a gift from someone. If you bought it for yourself, it is worthless. Others believe that this is an outdated idea, invented by those who do not want the tarot community to be "diluted". Those who want to limit who has access to tarot divination, want to dictate, control, and hierarchically regulate when and how others can start and do the tarot card reading. In

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Published 01 July 2026 by

About art, tarot, witchcraft, about the subjective and objective assessment of those things

How can we determine if an art piece is good or bad? How do we define art at all? And what all these has to do with tarot and witchcraft? In this text, you'll find more questions than answers, and you'll find only opinions (that are my own) not facts. What makes a 100 year old art piece worth $10 million? Why do we think that the works of Bach, Beethoven, Leonardo, Tolkien and other renowned artists are invaluable, important and good? Do we have an objective measure, some "art-standard" with which we can decide "Yeah, that's a good art". What is art anyway? Art needs to be somewhat

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Published 22 April 2026 by

The paradox of tolerance

One of the fundamental principles of free democracies under the rule of law is tolerance, the acceptance of values ​​different from our own without adopting them or following them.

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Published 05 February 2026 by

Some of my links you might find useful

Here are some of my links you might find useful: Online presence Bluesky: OliverB Forum run by me: All Kinds of Magic Forum (you need to registered to join) Creative works Made by me: Toki Pona Tarot deck (2025) by OliverB (US based company, usually 2-3 weeks till you get your deck!)

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lipu toki pona pi ken tenpo tan jan Oli
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Published 09 October 2025 by

lipu toki pona pi ken tenpo tan jan Oli

The toki pona 'book' of the possibilities of time I had been thinking for a long time about making my own tarot deck. However, due to my lack of drawing skills, I had given up on making one for myself. Then I came across the Toki Pona language. 120 words, simple grammar, and unique glyphs. At first, it seemed like a mere curiosity, and I didn't delve into it. Later, an idea occurred to me: each tarot card encompasses an entire concept, not just a single word or phrase, and Toki Pona works in a very similar way. Is it possible to create a combination of the two? The answer is that it was

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The new and improved homepage
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Published 09 February 2025 by

The new and improved homepage

The moment has come, finally the main page of allkindsofmagic.com is up and running. Basically just a navigation page with some graphics and video. But of course it still took me several hours of work to put it together. I hope you will like it as much as I do.

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Welsh Witchcraft by Mhara Starling
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Published 07 February 2025 by

Welsh Witchcraft by Mhara Starling

Oliver's Very Brief Yet Perfectly Unprofessional Book Review Get your cauldron ready, because a real modern witch will guide you through the magical realm of Welsh. Coincidence - if you believe in such things - is the reason I came across this book. I had no previous knowledge of the traditions, legends and myths associated with Welsh witchcraft, so I was about to embark on a great adventure once I had immersed myself in the book. I must admit that I was very surprised because, despite its apparent brevity, the book is very ‘dense’. Every page is full of legends, exercises, the author's own

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SteganoMagic 2.0 - Digital magic to enhance the focus on our goals
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Published 01 February 2025 by

SteganoMagic 2.0 - Digital magic to enhance the focus on our goals

I first heard about digital photo steganography a few years ago and was instantly fascinated. The possibility of hiding secret information in the data content of an image has continued to interest me ever since. There have been several versions of the software - some of which even allow you to hide a coloured image. The current version includes a “new twist”: the masking image. Beyond the technical curiosity, I wondered what magical use such a program could have. Consider that we are talking about 5 separate images - condensed into one picture. Here is one possibility for use in magic: energy

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An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will - A difficult-to-follow rede
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Published 28 January 2025 by

An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will - A difficult-to-follow rede

At first glance, it seems really simple: as long as you are not harming anyone else, there is no limit, no rule, no doctrine to what you are allowed to do and how you should do that. But if we start to delve a little into the possible interpretations of this guide, we may find ourselves looking at the infinite depths of conditional circumstances. How do we define an absolute definition of what it means to be a harm to someone? What we - based on our current moral guidelines, our knowledge and experience of the world - consider to be right and harmless, may be downright harmful to someone

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My 5 minutes in the morning
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Published 25 January 2025 by

My 5 minutes in the morning

After waking up, my first move - after turning off the alarm - tends to be to browse social media portals. Although I grew up at a time when we didn't have social networks, mobile phones - let alone smartphones - or even internet access, yet in just a few years it became an almost vital part of my life to regularly check "what's going on in the world". Of course, these social networking sites only show me a very small slice of reality - this is obviously because it is people who share information, who filter and share it on their own channels according to their own discretion, as we all do.

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