Khnum in Esna
November 8, 2026If you thought I would not return to talking about Egypt in this space, you were mistaken. As I said a few texts ago, astrologically…
Blog
The Blog section is intended for the creation of texts that explore the processes of research and practice. It captures the questions and concerns that arise while investigating a given topic—insights that spark new reflections and deserve a space where they can be expressed.
Iara
November 1, 2026I was born on a Wednesday. A fine drizzle was falling—one of those that covers the city with an misunderstood melancholy, and the color of…
Samhain: the veil that opens and the memory that remains
October 31, 2026Samhain is generally celebrated on October 31 in the Northern Hemisphere and on April 30 in the Southern Hemisphere. It marks the end of the…
Beltane: the fire of life and the dance of fertility
October 29, 2026Beltane is generally celebrated on May 1 in the Northern Hemisphere and on November 1 in the Southern Hemisphere. It lies between spring and summer,…
Ancestry of Nanã
October 28, 2026There is an idea that runs through many traditions of African origin: nothing begins from nothing. Everything comes from somewhere. Everything is continuity. That is…
It’s Scorpio season
October 25, 2026At least on the astrological calendar. The period of the sign of Scorpio runs from October 23 to November 21. The sign of Scorpio belongs…
Recipe: bolinho de chuva (rain cake)
October 21, 2026In the previous texts, I told the story of the bolinho de chuva. How it was born in colonial kitchens, how it crossed the Atlantic…
Kitchens of the big houses
October 18, 2026Let’s talk a little about history and food. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, wheat flour was an expensive ingredient in Brazil. Imported from Portugal,…
The meeting of the forests
October 14, 2026There is a moment in Brazilian religious history that tends to receive less attention than it deserves. A moment when different traditions, coming from distinct…
Ancestry is not about religion, but it spills over!
October 11, 2026Whenever I write about Indigenous peoples, African cosmologies, or Celtic traditions, I imagine someone might think this is a blog about religion. Actually, it isn’t.…
Sugar exports
October 7, 2026Although it may not seem so, there are central themes that present themselves each month in the making of this blog’s posts. Elections aside, this…
Public policies
October 3, 2026Have you ever stopped to think that your daily life is shaped, all the time, by decisions you did not make? The bus that arrives…
The editing of reality
October 1, 2026We are in 2026, another election year in Brazil. And, as happens with every election, we have already begun to see circulating on social networks…
Impermanence in silence
September 28, 2026Silence is not static, it demands impermanence. And there is a kind of scream that is not born from fear. It is born when something…
Systems and Libraries
September 24, 2026Have you ever stopped to think about what it would be like to find a specific item in a library that holds over 184 million…
Ostara and spring
September 21, 2026Spring, like autumn, is marked by an equinox. It is an astronomical phenomenon in which the Sun shines directly on the Equator, causing both hemispheres…
JEM77FP-2
September 17, 2026This text overflows with Meraki. I have many capitalist consumer desires. Some can be classified as futile and unnecessary, and I agree. Considering the direction…
To dispose; is the verb we forgot
September 14, 2026“Essa canção é por você – (This song is for you) Que já cansou de escutar – (Who is tired of listening) Esteve vivo sem…
An embroidered system
September 10, 2026Let’s do a small exercise. Imagine cross-stitch as an analog computational system, not because embroidery is literally a computer, but because some of its characteristics…
Fairfarren
September 7, 2026“Fairfarren.” Some words seem to be born already expressing how much we miss someone. The expression became known in the film Alice in Wonderland (2010),…
Music, systems, and frequencies
September 5, 2026I am driven by music. That is a fact. I was analyzing my Spotify metrics and noticed that, for several consecutive months, my monthly average…
Hermes: the archetype of the messenger
September 2, 2026Throughout history, different peoples have imagined a figure capable of doing what few can: crossing boundaries. Hermes, Mercury, Thoth, Turms, Nabu, Exu, different names and…
Embryodead and Embroidery
August 28, 2026Sometimes, a text is born from a mistake. It’s been a while now, I was browsing through Spotify when I came across a song called…
Pallas, memory and thought
August 22, 2026Some time ago, I began studying astrology as a tool for self-knowledge. I like astrology because it offers images for thinking about ourselves, much like…
Where is this blog heading?
August 15, 2026When this space was born, I simply called it a blog. Today I am no longer so sure that this word is enough. There is…
16 and No Man's Sky
August 12, 2026During my undergraduate studies, I had the honor of working alongside Professor Marco Antônio de Almeida, a researcher in the fields of mediation and cultural…
Lammas: the harvest that feeds the soul
August 8, 2026In the Southern Hemisphere, the beginning of February marks the celebration of Lammas, also known by the Celtic name Lughnasadh (pronounced loo-na-sah). It is the…
Imbolc: the flame of Brigid
August 1, 2026In the Southern Hemisphere, August 1 marks the celebration of Imbolc, one of the minor sabbats of Celtic tradition. Located between winter and spring, this…
July 30: the day the world embroiders!
July 30, 2026July 30. Somewhere in São Tomé and Príncipe, someone starts a new embroidery. In a library in Canada, a group gathers to sew and chat.…
The sunflower of three worlds
July 27, 2026The sunflower appears in very different places. In Van Gogh’s painting. In the Queen of Wands of the Rider-Waite Tarot. In the legend of Cabocla…
While the journal reviews, the world changes
July 24, 2026There is a curious feeling that accompanies those who do research in areas linked to technology. You write about the present knowing that, when the…
Siamo arrivati: the cards we like to see
July 22, 2026After writing about the cards we fear finding in a reading, I found myself thinking about a question. Are there really good cards? I don’t…
Botanical embroidery
July 19, 2026This year, almost all of my embroideries have been botanical. Leaves, flowers, branches, roots. It wasn’t a conscious decision. It just happened. Today I think…
The conflict between academic identity and personal identity
July 17, 2026During my undergraduate studies, my professor Dr. Silvia used to start some classes with music. It wasn’t to analyze the melody or figure out who…
Attraversiamo: crossing the cards we are afraid of
July 15, 2026The other day I had a tarot reading. The question was about matters of the heart. And, for the second time, the Three of Swords…
Oxóssi and Ossaim
July 12, 2026I have already spoken of the forest as a monument a landscape built over thousands of years by the hands of Indigenous peoples. Today I…
Token and Tolkien
July 10, 2026The other day I went to approve blog comments. In the middle of the messages, two curious comments appeared: knwqmtkwzhyeesvrwvgfueqojtpruv mjhxlkketykipjjuhllffxvxvrivqdo It wasn’t Portuguese. It…
July 8: Researcher and Science Day in Brazil
July 8, 2026July 8 brings together two important celebrations: National Science Day and National Scientific Researcher Day. The date honors the founding of the Brazilian Society for…
The forest is not virgin (and never was)
July 5, 2026When we think of the Amazon, what comes to mind? Dense forest. Giant trees. Untouched nature, far from human presence. For a long time, that…
Celts
July 2, 2026I have written quite a bit about the Celts on this blog. But I realized I never explained who these peoples were and why they…
Meraki
June 30, 2026Anyone who has studied Library Science knows that classifying is never a simple task. And I had a classification problem that reminded me of my…
Moths and orixás
June 27, 2026For a long time, science believed that several moths belonged to the same species. They were found in different regions of Brazil and received a…
The rabbit, the moon, and the plane that fell from the sky
June 23, 2026Preamble: When this text was written, it worked with an expression that no longer reflects the direction that the Becoming Embroidery project has taken. However,…
Yule and winter
June 21, 2026Winter begins with a solstice. In the Southern Hemisphere, it takes place around June 20 or 21 and marks the longest night and the shortest…
The wisdom of seasonality
June 19, 2026If you follow the texts here, you’ll remember me expressing my feelings about the ponkan. Every time I go to the market and see a…
Recipe: apple cake with Brazil nuts
June 17, 2026We’ve already made the tea. The warm cup in hand, the smell of cinnamon throughout the house. But tea alone is sad. It needs a…
Recipe: apple cinnamon tea
June 14, 2026As autumn comes to an end and the days grow cold, the body asks for something warm. The soul does too. Apple cinnamon tea is…
Open letter
June 12, 2026Preamble: When this text was written, it expressed a perspective that no longer reflects the direction the Devir Bordado project has taken. However, the content…
Cooking and transforming
June 11, 2026Before sharing any recipe here, I want to tell you something. For a long time, the kitchen was the heart of the home. Before electricity,…
The hidden star
June 9, 2026When I think of autumn, what comes to mind is not just the falling leaves. It’s smell. Cinnamon, apple, and cake baking in the oven.…
Mabon and autumn
June 7, 2026Autumn, like spring, is marked by an equinox. It is an astronomical phenomenon in which the Sun shines directly on the Equator, causing both hemispheres…
Wheel of the Year
June 5, 2026For a long time, I wanted to write this text. The ideas would linger around my thoughts, but some more urgent matter always came up.…
Handmade and marketing
June 4, 2026Sometimes, a piece of news goes beyond the field of consumption and forces us to reflect on memory, culture, and labor. That was what happened…
Symbolism of birds
May 31, 2026You know when you start noticing the same symbol appearing in completely different stories? That is exactly what happened to me while researching the Eye…
The scribe of the moon
May 27, 2026Have you ever noticed that some people feel there is a connection when they look at the moon? This perception has accompanied humanity for thousands…
Horus’s Incompleteness
May 24, 2026Have you ever stopped to think that even the most ancient symbols carry a philosophy of incompleteness? The Eye of Horus, one of the best-known…
Teaching tarot gossip version: part 4 – finale!
May 19, 2026Have you already read part 1, and part 2 and 3? Was the most interesting! So let me finish this journey! The Tower collapsed. The…
Teaching tarot gossip version: part 3
May 17, 2026Have you already read part 1 of this little story, and part 2? Alright! So let’s continue… because now things get intense! After the Wheel…
Teaching tarot gossip version: part 2
May 15, 2026Have you already read part 1 of this little story? So let’s continue… After the Fool learned about tradition and let go of what no…
Teaching tarot gossip version: part 1
May 13, 2026Before we begin… The so-called “Fool’s Journey” is one of the best-known contemporary readings of the Major Arcana. It organizes the 22 cards (of the…
Tarot and the legacies of Egypt
May 10, 2026This is a text to talk about the origins of the tarot. The association between Tarot and Thoth did not begin with Aleister Crowley when…
Embroidery: the oldest in the world
May 6, 2026The history of embroidery is older than any written memory. Among the stitches still used today, cross-stitch is often pointed out as one of the…
Thoth: the sorcerer of Egypt
May 3, 2026Why does Thoth remain one of the figures that fascinates me most? The answer has changed over time. At first, I saw him primarily as…
Speaking of serpents…
April 29, 2026Previously, I wove some reflections on the cyclical nature of becoming and on one of the images that fascinates me most when I think about…
Horus and Matinta
April 26, 2026The more I observe the world, the more I find images that speak about transformation in different cultures, mythologies, and symbolic traditions. Not because they…
Is becoming cyclical?
April 22, 2026It depends. When we speak of becoming, we are speaking of transformation, but transformation does not mean a straight path. Many processes in life return…
What is becoming?
April 20, 2026Devenir is a word describing a concept coined by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze to characterize a way of thinking about processes of change. It…
Why Do I Embroider?
April 19, 2026People who embroider often have an answer ready, and the vast majority will say it was to occupy their time, but there is a portion…