Living
Christmastide
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“What if,” I say idly, “I started celebrating Christmas again, but in an Arthurian sort of way?” “Camelot is the Christian wart on the face of pagan England,” my husband grumps.
Australia
Scientists may have found a way to measure meditation effectiveness
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New research finds previously elusive clues on how to track success in implementing mindfulness meditation.
Arts & Culture
“Ah, potential customer”: a review of the World of Warcraft Tarot
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TWH’s Guildmaster, Manny Tejeda y Moreno, reviews a new Warcraft-themed tarot from Insight Editions, which brings the computer game’s characters and lore to the major and minor arcana.
Living
What Goes Up Must Come Down
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Like the god, Janus – we are able to look forward and backward at this time. Whether it is the cold, turn of the calendar pages, or just the break in time when we can simply sit and be with ourselves – we see who we are, where we have been, and where we wish to go.
Arts & Culture
“Oracles, Omens, and Answers” explores history of divination from tarot to TikTok
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A new exhibit at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library explores thousands of years of practices in divination and prediction, from oracle bones to horoscope apps – and even includes demonstrations of the spider divination carried out by the Mambila people of Cameroon and Nigeria.