A few weeks ago I had the chance to see the tarot exhibition at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. It was a beautiful day, with many rare tarot decks and paintings on display. It was so moving to see all these original cards under the same roof: the Visconti Sforza, Noblet, Sola Busca, Oswald Wirth, Leonora Carrington, and Niki de Saint Phalle. A real feast for any tarot lover. Among them was a portrait of the Italian author Italo Calvino. He was posing as Le Bateleur. Seeing this photo took...

Numerology is fascinating. Many of us see numbers and can draw meaning from them. For some, it’s an easy thing to do, and for others, it takes a bit of work. It took me a long time to make them part of my spiritual and everyday practice. As a teenager, I was much more at ease with French, English, and Philosophy classes than with Mathematics or any science, as a matter of fact. I simply couldn’t understand why I had to accept that one and one had to equal two. And after all, what was the...

It’s Thursday, my stomach growls, lunch time is near. I finish writing my email, walk to the kitchen and open the fridge. As I stare into...