Il Museo

Il Museo è collocato in un suggestivo palazzo storico del 1600, completamente restaurato, posto tra Bologna e Pistoia, immerso nel verde. Questa struttura, oltre ad una ricca collezione permanente, offre una serie di eventi culturali e mostre che saranno organizzate all’interno del Museo, ma anche in altre sedi.
Ogni visita sarà una vera sorpresa, anche perché è personalizzata. Infatti Morena ed Ernesto Vi accompagneranno all’interno di questa foresta di simboli, tutta da scoprire… e per questo motivo ricordate che occorre la prenotazione.
VI ASPETTIAMO!

The Museum is set in an enchanting historical building of 1600, completely restored, situated between Bologna and Pistoia, among the woods.
This building, apart from being a rich permanent collection, offers a series of cultural events and exhibitions which will be organized not only inside the Museum, but also in the other centres.
Each visit will be a real surprise, also because it is personalized. In fact, Morena and Ernesto will accompany you inside this forest of symbols, all to discover….and for this reason please remember that reservation is needed.
Looking forward to seeing you!!!!!

giovedì 28 maggio 2015

Lunaea Weatherstone

LITERATAROT
LA TEMPERANZA

XIV Temperance
Sense and Sensibility
When I interpret the Temperance card, it is usually in one of two ways. First, there is temperance in the sense of tempering a blade or other tool for strength, putting it first in fire, then in water, then in fire again -- the process of stressing and blessing creating something that endures. The other way I look at Temperance is in terms of moderation, finding a balance between extremes. In many decks, such as Rider-Waite-Smith, an angel or woman is shown standing partly on water and partly on land, pouring from a blessing vessel, symbolizing what seems to be a synthesis between these two interpretations: moderation, balance, blessing, strengthening.
For my Temperance card in the LiteraTarot deck, I chose the book Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen. The story of the two Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, seems to me to capture both senses of the Temperance card. The emotional stresses and challenges strengthen and transform both women, bringing them to a balanced, temperate center. Dreamy, romantic Marianne grounds herself in more realistic views of love, and achieves "an apparent composure of mind. . . which must eventually lead her to contentment and cheerfulness." Elinor, on the other hand, who perhaps erred too far to the other extreme of correctness and propriety, allows her loving heart to have the full expression it longs for. Marianne becomes less selfish, and Elinor comes to accept that her own needs and desires are valid as well. At the end of the book, the sisters are happily married, both their families blessed by the angel of temperance. In my card, Elinor attends to the practical duty of the moment, while Marianne loses herself in romantic reverie. The traditional vessel pouring forth blessings is here represented by the teapot, from which flows a brew that brings calmness, strength, and harmony.

Bio (CV)

Lunaea  is the creator of the Full Moon Dreams collage tarot deck. Her artwork has been published by Amber Lotus Publishing, Art Doll Quarterly, ARTitude, and other publications. Lunaea is a writer, teacher, priestess, jewelry maker, and tarot counselor who has been working with tarot for more than 35 years. She lives in the redwood forest in northern California.