Its been a while since our last visit to Temple of the Secrets, so I figured it might be good, to give a little (re)introduction to the series.

Back in the 1990s I ran a museum in my hometown in southern Germany. The theme was ancient Egypt, and I had tried to find or at least create a connection between this theme that appeared to be a bit "exotic" in this area and today's Bavaria. Since there is no real connection between ancient Egypt and our area, and we couldn't find conclusive evidence, that the Egyptians learned brewing beer from our ancestors, something different had to be found.

By chance I discovered Tarot. A deck of cards, created by ancient Egyptian priests, to preserve their knowledge for all eternity. Ok, I know its also possible, that the cards were made by alien reptilians to bring down the pope and that there are a few hundred other stories about the origin. For me the Egyptian story worked perfectly and today's card has a somewhat special position.

As you can see, in the Temple of the Secrets, there are three rows of glass paintings, with the major arcana, the trump cards of the Tarot in the middle row:

In the bottom row, I illustrated a mostly fictional story, of how the Tarot cards were created in ancient Egypt and how they later found their way to Europe and also to southern Germany, were similar decks are still used to play cards today.

"X - The Wheel of Fortune" corresponds with the part of my story, where the cards were actually created. The whole work is unfinished, but I'm adding this, to give you an idea, of what the "chapter" of the story looks like:

The "Wheel of Fortune" represents the everlasting up and down of life and a constant stream of new challenges. It seems, as if we are to meet the sphinx in every turn, which gives us a task that appears unsolvable. That's when we feel like being thrown into the down turn, but here we also learn, that there is always sunshine after the rain. We are taught, that life doesn't follow a straight line, and that the ups and downs are always a natural part of it.

To find out your Personal TAROT Card, just add day, month and year of your date of Birth:

dd + mm + jjjj = xxxx.

Now add the four digits of the resulting number:

x + x + x + x = nn

If the resulting number is greater than 22 please add n + n again.
Any result equal to or smaller than 22 is your personal number with 22 representing 0

If you are interested in the aspects of divination, please make sure to
visit @mystikmoongypsy and @tarotbyfergus

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