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 Others believe that this is an outdated idea, invented by those who do not want the tarot community to be "diluted".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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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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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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