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 Others believe that this is an outdated idea, invented by those who do not want the tarot community to be "diluted".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