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I can't tell you how amazing the Tarot Trip to Italy with 30+ other tarotists is turning out to be. We went to the Palazzo Schifanoia two days ago to see the signs and decanates painted there. What an incredible room it must have been, and obviously one that was expected to have an effect on the psyche. But the next room was the real killer. It is similar to the inner sanctum of an Egyptian temple, in that Borzo d'Este could retire there to align himself with the virtues and absorb their energy in a kind of apotheosis, after traveling through the seasons and all the gods in the previous room.
Today we visited the Isis Temple in the Church of San Stefano in Bologna. It's hard to give the sense of how the alchemists, masons, Templars and Jews were all integrated in these cities - especially from around the 13th to 15th centuries. In Ferrara there were 5 Synagogs each created for Jews from different places who came together in a relatively small town for a period of around 300 mostly prosperous years before they were driven out in 1567. By masons - I'm referring to the guilds of builders, but they put their special marks on everything.
This is to say nothing of Osvaldo Mennegazzi's shop or the Museo die Tarocchi were we had a party with Hermann Haindl and his wife and a group of Italian tarotists.
Ricardo came by our hotel in Milan from Lo Scarabeo with a couple of others and brought presents. He'll be joining us at the castle where we will be staying for six days.
I'll try to get photos when I can figure out how to load them from my iPad. Oh, and we saw the hanged men near the Devil who is devouring men from The Basilica di San Petronio. It's hard to keep track of all the amazing sights or remember which photo is from where. We are seeing so much!
Mary
Today we visited the Isis Temple in the Church of San Stefano in Bologna. It's hard to give the sense of how the alchemists, masons, Templars and Jews were all integrated in these cities - especially from around the 13th to 15th centuries. In Ferrara there were 5 Synagogs each created for Jews from different places who came together in a relatively small town for a period of around 300 mostly prosperous years before they were driven out in 1567. By masons - I'm referring to the guilds of builders, but they put their special marks on everything.
This is to say nothing of Osvaldo Mennegazzi's shop or the Museo die Tarocchi were we had a party with Hermann Haindl and his wife and a group of Italian tarotists.
Ricardo came by our hotel in Milan from Lo Scarabeo with a couple of others and brought presents. He'll be joining us at the castle where we will be staying for six days.
I'll try to get photos when I can figure out how to load them from my iPad. Oh, and we saw the hanged men near the Devil who is devouring men from The Basilica di San Petronio. It's hard to keep track of all the amazing sights or remember which photo is from where. We are seeing so much!
Mary
