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May 27, 1626: Willem II, Prince of Orange, was born in The Hague to Prince Frederick Henry and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels. A grandson of William the Silent, he married Mary, Princess Royal in 1641, and he succeeded his father in 1647, taking on the responsibility for the Eighty Years' War against Spain for the Netherlands' independence. His only child, William III, was born posthumously and would become King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [Portrait by van Dyck]

Gematigdheid en zwaarden 9! Zorgen brengen je uit balans. Je bent je zorgen aan het maken over een bepaalde situatie. Dit komt omdat je er teveel over nadenkt. En dat eist energie. Daardoor ben je uit balans. Voel wat de situatie met je lichaam doet. Voel wat de situatie met je emoties doet. Voel wat de situatie doet met de connectie naar jezelf. Ga naar binnen en kies de weg die jouw hart je wijst. De weg waar jij blij van wordt. De weg die jou rust en balans brengt. ---------------------- Temperence and 9 of swords! Worry is getting you out of balance. You are worrying about a certain situation. This is because you think too much about it. And that is draining your energy. That is why you are out of balance. Feel what the situation is doing to your body. Feel what the situation is doing to your emotions. Feel what the situation is doong to your connection to yourself. Go inside and choose the path your heart is pointing towards. The road that makes you happy. The road that brings you...

  Russell Crowe explained why he said yes to "Gladiator' (2000): "They said, 'It's a $100 million film. You're being directed by Ridley Scott. You play a Roman General.' I've always been a big fan of Ridley's." Crowe later admitted that he initially felt unworthy of all the praise and the Oscar for Best Actor that he got for this movie. After seeing the completed movie, he felt it was a "director's film," and that the Oscar should have gone to Scott instead. Scott cited "Spartacus" (1960) and "Ben-Hur" (1959) as influences on the film: "These movies were part of my cinema-going youth. But at the dawn of the new millennium, I thought this might be the ideal time to revisit what may have been the most important period of the last two thousand years – if not all recorded history – the apex and beginning of the decline of the greatest military and political power the world has ever known." It was M...

May 27, 1819: George V, King of Hanover, was born Prince George of Cumberland, the only son of Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover, and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as well as grandson to King George III of the United Kingdom. After Queen Victoria's accession to the British throne, Duke Ernest Augustus became King of Hanover as women were barred from inheriting there, making George the Crown Prince. He succeeded to the throne in 1851and reigned for fifteen years before his reign ended with the unification of Germany, making him the last King of Hanover. He never renounced his rights to the throne or acknowledged Prussia's actions, but his appeals to the Great Powers were in vain, and he remained in exile for the remainder of his life.

  Gary Cooper, born Frank James Cooper (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961). His career spanned thirty-five years, from 1925 to 1960, and included leading roles in eighty-four feature films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. Noted for his stoic, understated style, Cooper found success in a number of film genres. Cooper began his career as a film extra and stunt rider and soon landed acting roles. After establishing himself as a Western hero in his early silent films, Cooper became a movie star in 1929 with his first sound picture, The Virginian. In the early 1930s, he expanded his heroic image to include more cautious characters in adventure films and dramas such as A Farewell to Arms (1932) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935). During the height of his career, Cooper portrayed a new type of hero—a champion of the common man—in films such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), Sergeant...

  VERLEDEN Voel je gelukkig met je lichaam en je geest. Je blijft zitten in een oud verdriet waaraan je niets meer kunt veranderen. Zoek iets nieuws en probeer het verleden te verpakken. Geef het een plaatsje in je hart. Je zult er altijd mee worden geconfronteerd, maar kun jij je voorstellen dat je niet steeds opnieuw de pijn hoeft te voelen? Het universum laat je zien dat je mag proberen weer te genieten van het leven. Dit kan alleen als jij dit toestaat. Probeer weer te genieten van kleine dingen. Voel het weer sprankelen in je hart. Dit verdriet hoort bij jou. Je mag ervan leren. Je weet in ieder geval wat je niet meer wilt. Niemand oordeelt over jou zolang jij niet meer over jezelf oordeelt.

Zwaarden 7 (politics) en staven 4 (participation)! Zet het masker af. Je hebt je altijd aangepast om te zorgen dat niemand je raar aankeek en dat je de goedkeuring kreeg van je ouders. Omdat als kind je ouders de belangrijkste personen zijn in je leven. Welk voorbeeld je ook van hen gehad hebt, je ziet nu hoe jij je leven wilt leven. Dat jij de maskers waarachter je geleegd hebt, af kan zetten. Waarbij je zegt: dit ben ik. Sta in je eigen kracht, wat er ook gebeurd. Er zullen mensen op je pad komen die dat ook doen of willen doen. Vertrouw op je eigen ziel. ---------------------------- 7 of swords (politics) and 4 of wands (participation)! Take your mask off. You have alawsys been adaptive to make sure nobody would thought you were weird and you got the approval of your parents. As a child your parents are the most important persons in your life. Which conditioning you had from them, you now see how you want to live your life. That you can takd off the nasks you have been living behind...

May 27, 1820: Mathilde Bonaparte, Princesse Française, was born in Trieste to Jérôme Bonaparte and Catharina of Württemberg. Her paternal uncle was Emperor Napoléon I, and her maternal grandfather was King Friedrich I of Württemberg. Although originally engaged to her first cousin, the future Emperor Napoléon III of France, she broke the engagement and instead married a rich Russian nobleman, Anatole Demidov, a marriage which turned out to be stormy and unhappy almost from the beginning. After her separation from her husband, she lived in Paris and was a hostess to men of arts and letters as a salon holder. [Portrait by Édouard Dubufe]

  Tony Randall, born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) His first major television role was as history teacher Harvey Weskit in Mr. Peepers (1952–1955). He then starred in an NBC-TV special The Secret of Freedom which was filmed during the summer of 1959 in Mount Holly, New Jersey, and broadcast on the network during the fall of 1959 and again in early 1960. He returned to television in 1970 as Felix Unger in The Odd Couple, opposite Jack Klugman, a role lasting for five years. The names of Unger's children on The Odd Couple were Edna and Leonard, named after Randall's sister and Randall himself. He starred as nearly all of the leading characters in the 1964 classic film 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, which was based on The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney. His other film roles included Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), The Mating Game (1959), Pillow Talk (1959), Let's Make Love (1960), Boys' Night Out (1962), The Bra...

  "Libelle" Wist je dat ’n Libelle ‘n extra paar vleugels heeft? er gaat 'n legende de ronde dat die dubbele vleugels bestemd zijn zodat een engel op de rug meereizen kan Dus mocht je komende dagen in welk formaat of kleur dan ook een Libelle zien weet dan dat 'n engel jou persoonlijk vanuit 't engelenrijk komt bezoeken Let bij het zien ervan wat door jou heen stroomt dit kan een emotie, gevoel, herinnering of gedachte zijn zie dit als groet van een dierbaar overledene waarvan op dát moment de naam door je brein schiet Ervaar hoe dat kostbare moment nog dagenlang nagalmt en magisch aanvoelt alsof je gedragen wordt.

Ridder van zwaarden en koningin van pentakels (coins)! Laat los. De gedachtes die in je hoofd blijven rond draaien gaan over aardse stabiliteit. Je vraagt je al een tijd af of je de stap in het onbekende wel wil en kan zetten. De onrust die dat met zich mee brengt zorgt ervoor dat je twijfelt. De stap is gezet, de beslissing is genomen. Het enige wat jij nu hoeft te doen is loslaten van de beperkende gedachtes die je in je hoofd hebt. En je over te geven aan dat wat er op je pad komt. Vertrouw op de overvloed die voor jou bestemd is. ----------------- Knight of swords and queen of pentacles (coins)! Let go. The thoughts that are spinning around in your head are about earthly stability. For a while now you ask yourself if you want and can take the step into the unknown. The restlessness that comes with these thoughts are making you doubt. The step has been taken, the descision has been made. The only thing you need to do is get rid of the limiting thoughts in your head. And surrender to...

May 27, 1848: Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom died at age seventy in Vicarage Place, Kensington. The twelfth child of King George III and Queen Charlotte, she was closest to her father, who preferred his daughters over his sons. Though she never wed, rumors spread that she became pregnant by Thomas Garth, an equerry of her father's, and gave birth to an illegitimate son in the summer of 1800. In her last years, she resided in the household of her niece Princess Victoria of Kent (the future Queen Victoria), at Kensington Palace. [Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence]

  Gerrit Graham has talked about the infamous "musical chairs" casting, for "Phantom of the Paradise" (1974) where William Finley almost wound up with no role to play. The studio considered casting Paul Williams as Winslow Leach, Graham as Swan and Peter Boyle as Beef. Williams turned down the role not only because he did not feel physically well or menacing for the role, but he did not want to use the role as a slam against the recording industry. Boyle was unavailable, Graham took the role of Beef and Finley ultimately took the role of Winslow Leach. In fact, director Brian De Palma actually wrote the role with Finley in mind. Finley said in a recent interview that Jon Voight was at one time considered for the role of Swan. Graham's singing voice in the film was dubbed by Ray Kennedy. Graham attended but did not graduate from Columbia University. At Columbia, he was the head of Columbia Players, the college theater company. His future co-worker, Brian De...

De zegewagen en staven aas! Geen snelle oplossing. Je hebt duidelijk wat je aan jouw situatie wil doen. De karmische les die naar boven is gekomen is duidelijk voor je. Nu is het zaak om de oplossing te laten komen door inspiratie en daarnaar te handelen. Vraag je bij elke stap af wat je erbij voelt en of het je gaat brengen waar je naar verlangt. Hou je eigen balans in de gaten. Sta open voor de tekens op je pad en neem de teugels van je eigen leven in handen. Laat je leiden door je hart. --------------------- The chariot and ace of wands! No quick fix. You are clear about what you want to do about the situation you are ik. The karmic lesson that has come up is clear for you. Now it is important to let the solution come up through inspiration and take action through the inspiration. Ask yourself, with every step you take, how you feel and is it going to bring you what you desire. Keep an eye on your own balance. Be open to the somigns on your path and takd the reigns of your own life ...

May 27, 1941: "President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces a state of unlimited national emergency in response to Nazi Germany’s threats of world domination on this day in 1941. In a speech on this day, he repeated his famous remark from a speech he made in 1933 during the Great Depression: the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. In a radio address delivered from the White House, FDR tried to rally isolationists to his philosophy that aid to Europe was purely in America’s self-interest. In March 1941, he had successfully pushed through the Lend-Lease Bill, which gave military aid to any country vital to the defense of the United States. Roosevelt recounted for his audience how German submarines were boldly attacking British shipping and threatening American shipping in the Atlantic and how Londoners endured nightly raids of German bombers. He painted an almost apocalyptic vision of a Nazi-controlled Western Hemisphere where American workers would be enslaved by Germany, godle...

  De meesten van ons zijn een heel belangrijk spiritueel geschenk vergeten dat nu nauwelijks gebruikt wordt. Een geschenk waarbij je nooit voor de gek gehouden of gemanipuleerd wordt en je altijd de waarheid krijgt. Het voelen van de energie die een persoon omringt vanuit zijn ziel liegt nooit, en het is hun aura signatuur voor zijn emoties. We zouden niet hoeven te communiceren of naar hun acties te kijken om eindelijk te weten dat ze ons bedriegen of manipuleren, want het voelen van hun zielsenergie geeft je alles wat je over die persoon moet weten via hun emoties. We hebben zoveel spirituele gaven verloren naarmate de tijd verstreken is, en nu zijn we gevoeliger om slachtoffer te worden van anderen die misbruik van ons willen maken. Want het voelen van energie is de geest of aura van die persoon en het wordt gevoeld door je ziel, want wanneer je van deze realiteit overgaat en doorgaat naar de volgende wereld, is energie de manier waarop je met een andere ziel communiceert. Energ...

  11.26.1917 - Adele Jergens was born in Brooklyn, of Norwegian descent to Christian and Haren Jurgenson. Adele first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair. She was a chorus girl at the Brooklyn Fox Theatre and a model for the John Roberts Powers Agency, In the early 1940s, she worked as a Rockette, and was named the Number One Showgirl in NYC. After a few years of working as a model and chorus girl, including being an understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee, Adele debuts in Hollywood with an uncredited bit part in "Jane Eyre" and landed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944, with brunette Jergens becoming a blonde. Her chorus girl past came in handy when she played an exotic dancer in "Armored Car Robbery" (1950). She was usually cast as blonde floozies and burlesque dancers. She once played Marilyn Monroe's mother in "Ladies of the Chorus" (1948) despite ...

De duivel en koning van pentakels! Bevrijd jezelf. Je hebt jezelf vast gezet met gehechtheden om te kunnen leven met de conditionering die uit jouw jeugd is mee gegeven. Dit kan een verslaving zijn, gedachtes die je gevangen houden, beperkende overtuigingen of gewoontes waar je aan vast houdt. Jij hebt de kracht om je te ontdoen van deze afhankelijke gewoontes. Besef dat jij degene bent die de touwtjes in handen heeft. Maak de keuze om voor jezelf te gaan. En voel de kracht die deze beslissing je geeft. ------------------------ The devil and king of pentacles! Free yourself. You have chained yourself with co-dependancies in order to be able to live with the conditioning you have brought with you from your childhood. This can be an addiction, thoughts that keep you going in circles, limiting beliefs or habbits you hold on to. You have the power to get rid of these habbits. Realise that you are the one that is in control. Choose you. And feel the power this choice is giving you.

May 25, 1919: African-American millionaire hair care mogul, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist Madam C. J. Walker died from kidney failure and complications of hypertension at 51 years old. "In 1911, pioneering entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker invested $10,000 of her own money to incorporate the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company. During a time when black women suffered from ailments such as severe dandruff, she sold her products door to door and taught other black women how to groom and style their hair. Walker recruited sales agents in major cities across the nation. Her efforts provided African American women with steady employment and a career that they and their communities could take pride in. She opened training programs through her “Walker System,” which gave her national network of licensed sales agents healthy commissions. After relocating to Indianapolis, Walker eventually built a factory, hair salon, a beauty school to train her agents, ...

  Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985 Hamilton was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939). A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actress in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image. The Wicked Witch of the West was eventually ranked No. 4 in the American Film Institute's 2003 list of the 50 Best Movie Villains of All Time, making her the top ranking female villain. In later years, Hamilton made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. She also gained recognition for her work as an advocate of causes designed to benefit children and animals, and retained a lifelong commitment to public education. Hamilton's career as a film actress was driven by the very qualities that placed her in stark contrast to the stereotypical Hollywood glamour girl. Her image was that of a New England spinster, ext...

  TROTS Je bent erg gericht op perfectie en daarom mag je van jezelf geen fouten maken. Je geeft dan ook veel aandacht aan wat niet klopt, wat er misgaat, waar je in blijft stilstaan, etc. Je veroordeelt jezelf en het gaat soms nog verder dan dat. Je voelt je snel schuldig, want wat je ook doet: je doet het nooit helemaal goed. Vanuit dit schuldgevoel ga je compenseren door anderen te behagen, want je wilt niemand teleurstellen of tekort doen. Al deze gedragspatronen saboteren jouw eigen succes. Onbewust stel je je levensplan uit, omdat je jezelf blijft veroordelen. Het keerpunt zit 'm in trots zijn. Het leven als mens is niet altijd gemakkelijk. Constant moet je keuzes maken en zeker als je onder druk staat, kan het zijn dat je voor iets kiest dat niet uitpakt zoals je zou willen. Weet dat niets fout is en dat je niks hoeft te compenseren. Belangrijk is om trots te durven zijn. Wees trots op alles wat je doet en gedaan hebt, of het je nu vooruit heeft geholpen of niet. Dan kan de ...

Schildknaap van bekers (chalices) en zwaarden (athems) 6! Helderheid in gevoel. Steeds meer beperkende gedachtes verlaten je systeem. De helderheid die je in je hoofd krijgt zorgt ervoor dat je gevoel ook duidelijker wordt. Hierdoor komt de liefde die je in je hebt steeds meer naar buiten. Je staat stil bij wat je voelt en je maakt de keuze waar je wel je liefde wilt geven en waar niet. Jouw authentieke zelf komt met elke stap die je naar liefde maakt, naar boven. ---------------------- Page of cups (chalices) and 6 of swords (athems)! Clearity in feelings. More and more limiting beliefs are leaving your system. The clearity that you have in your head is the cause of clearity in your feelings. That is why your love is coming out more and more. You are aware of what you feel and where you want to give love and where you don’t want to give love. Your authentic self is coming up with every step you take towards love.

The Birth and Death The infant mortality rates of the medieval period were high, with over a third of boys and a quarter of girls dying at or soon after birth. That is why baptism was of overwhelming importance to the family of the child; if not baptized, the infant would go into the indeterminate eternal world of limbo and be denied the bliss of heaven. In the event of imminent death the midwife was permitted to sprinkle water over the child and pronounce I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.' If the mother died in labour, the midwife was obliged to cut the child from the womb in order to save its soul. In extreme cases the infant was baptized even before birth, given a name such as Vitalis' or 'Creature' or 'Child of God'. The room of birth was supposed to be warm and dark, with a scent of rose petals somewhere in the air, but of course not all births could be performed in ideal conditions. That accounts for a large number of the deaths....