A merry end to the old year

[Scandinavianhermit]

Hello,

 

 

I've chosen the username 'Scandinavianhermit', and I'm new here.

 

I'm not sure what you want to know. I'm fond of CBD Tarot, Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot and Oswald Wirth's original trumps from 1889, but less fond of other decks. Please ask me, if you want to know more.

 

If I were able to dream about an ideal tarot deck, it would have a Wirth Empress (with recoloured eagle), an Emperor including a sea in the background (in order to allude to the blue field found in some Marseilles decks), a Payen style Devil and Moon, water by the foot of the Tower, a Jerusalem flag hanging from the angel's trumpet in the Judgement trump (not the Swiss one by Wirth or the English one by Waite and Colman Smith), a Piedmontese Fool, a Belgian-Dutch World, the 2-5 cards in the Coin suite inspired by the Aluette deck (because the tulip in Marseilles decks from the 1940s onward isn't traditional) and the 2-3 cards in the Cups suite also inspired by the Aluette deck. 

 

As Boxing week proceed, and the old year draws to its conclusion, I wish you a merry end to the old year!

[Eugenie]

Hi, @Scandinavianhermit! Welcome! What an enchanting description of an ideal deck!

Happy New Year to you and yours, too!

[Scandinavianhermit]

Thank you very much, indeed! Are you writing from Kiribati or Aotearoa-New Zealand, perhaps? If so, I wish you a happy new year! Or perhaps I'm experiencing a cultural gap ... if so I'm sorry for writing such a confused answer.

[Eugenie]

27 minutes ago, Scandinavianhermit said:

Thank you very much, indeed! Are you writing from Kiribati or Aotearoa-New Zealand, perhaps? If so, I wish you a happy new year! Or perhaps I'm experiencing a cultural gap ... if so I'm sorry for writing such a confused answer.

 
Hi, no, it is okay! I just thought it was okay to wish a happy new year in response, sorry if I was mistaken lol, but I guess all is good anyway. I am in Uzbekistan, we are celebrating New Year arrival today and tomorrow. And Christmas for most of people who celebrate it here will be Russian Orthodox although we have some Catholics and Baptists and their Christmas has passed this year. And then there will be Nauruz on the 21 March for those who celebrate it (based on the Zoroastrian calendar); our Muslims observe it. Lots of holidays!

Edited December 31, 2023 by Eugenie

[Scandinavianhermit]

Thank you for your patience with my confusion, Eugenie.

 

The reason, why I wished everyone a merry end to the old year, is that I'm used to wishing a merry end during the last few days of December, and wishing a happy new year from 00.00. on January 1 and the following few  days. Traditions obviously vary a lot. Anyhow, you will celebrate the new year several hours earlier in Uzbekistan, than we do here in Scandinavia.

 

I'm too sleepy in these early morning hours before dawn to calculate if anyone has already begun the new year, but that's the reason why I guessed about Kiribati and New Zealand.

[Raggydoll]

Välkommen och Gott Nytt År på dig med!
 

As you probably guessed, I’m a fellow Scandinavian 😁 Which Scandinavian country are you from? 

[Scandinavianhermit]

Svensk som du, Raggydoll (såvida du inte är finlandssvensk eller en talangfull person från Norge eller Danmark).

Gott slut!

 

Swedish as you are, Raggydoll (unless you are a Fenno-Swede or a linguistically talented person from Norway or Denmark).

Merry end to the waning year!

[Raggydoll]

1 hour ago, Scandinavianhermit said:

Svensk som du, Raggydoll (såvida du inte är finlandssvensk eller en talangfull person från Norge eller Danmark).

Gott slut!

 

Swedish as you are, Raggydoll (unless you are a Fenno-Swede or a linguistically talented person from Norway or Denmark).

Merry end to the waning year!

Kul med ytterligare en svensk!

[Scandinavianhermit]

I saw that you specialise in the runes. With the exception of a very superficial knowledge of mediaeval rune poems, Havamal, Johannes Bureus' weird 16th century runology and Sigurd Agrell's slightly eccentric ideas about runes, I know NOTHING about runes. I'm very impressed by your field of knowledge.

[DanielJUK]

Hej @Scandinavianhermit, welcome to the community 😀 Glad you have found us here and Happy New Year to you as well! 🥳

[joy]

Hello @Scandinavianhermitwelcome to the TT&M Family

[Libra 58]

Hej @Scandinavianhermit ännu en svensk här! Välkommen!

 

Hi another Swede here! Welcome!

Edited January 1, 2024 by Libra 58

[Scandinavianhermit]

@DanielJUK @joy

 

Thank you for this warm welcome.

 

Now, when the new year has arrived in my time zone, I wish a happy new year to all whom it may concern, but, if you live somewhere in North America, the east Pacific in general or Baker Island in particular, please re-read this wish in a few hours.

 

After reading old threads during the underwhelming New Year's Eve, and suffering from a bad cold, I came up with a joke describing which sort of hypothetical tarot deck I wouldn't buy, if it had existed: The Real and Authentic Matrix Cricket Cat Tarot of Ancient Lemuria: Now with extra tinsel. Of course, I have to accompany this insufferable joke, with another one about which sort of hypothetical tarot deck I would buy, if it had existed: Woodblock Tarock according to the very rare East Ruritanian pattern, Rhine Confederation edition from 1807, carefully tidied up by French, Italian and German experts, with carefully reconstructed exact shades of colour. 🤪

[Scandinavianhermit]

Hej @Libra 58! Tack för välkomnandet. Gott nytt år! 

[Libra 58]

@Scandinavianhermit Gott Nytt År! Happy New Year to all of you!