Episode 12: The Rigging of Justice
This episode is inspired by Justice, the card that speaks not of punishment but of measure and critical thinking: of the precarious balance between forces that never fully coincide. It is the Justice that does not judge from above, but holds the world upright by weighing relationships, shifting burdens, actions and consequences. As guide and […]
Episode 11: The Barbary Pirates
This episode grows out of a piece of news: while I was visiting Naples, a flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to Rome was diverted there because of a technical malfunction. No injuries, a great deal of fear — on board, alongside the usual tourists, were journalists and members of Giorgia Meloni’s team returning from a summit […]
Episode 10: The Procession of the Peripatetics
With this episode I wanted to attempt an impossible reconciliation.Don Giovanni — in Mozart’s version, which at ten years old I knew by heart — was one of the heroes of my childhood. Together with Christopher Columbus, but that’s another story. As an adult, I fell out of love with him, to the point of […]
Episode 9 – The Strength of Women
Strength is the card of calm courage — the kind that does not seek to dominate passions, but to contain them. In its most widespread iconography, that of the Marseille Tarot, a woman holds open the jaws of a lion with her bare hands — she does not force its bite, she accompanies it. It […]
Episode 8: The train to S. Gennaro
This episode tells of a journey back: it is a homage to the places, the communities, the living and the dead who made me who I am. It is dedicated to the arcane of the Chariot, which speaks of movement, of taking back the reins, of finding one’s direction even when one isn’t sure of […]
Episode 7 – ¡El sionismo no pasará!
To represent the arcana of the Lovers — a card that speaks of relationships and choices, and that carries within itself a fertile ambiguity — I chose to focus on two fundamental relationships: the one between body and spirit, and the one between human and digital.The two themes are different, but intertwined: artificial intelligence is […]
Episode 6: The meeting of two fathers
This story was born from a challenge. My friend Adnane Mokrani — accomplice in many theological contemplations and many bursts of laughter — wrote to me one evening: “Why don’t you ask ChatGPT to write a progressive sermon? Let’s see what happens.” The provocation came from an intuition we shared: that artificial intelligence, when it touches […]
The banquet of the stone gods
Among all the Major Arcana of the tarot, the Emperor is without doubt the one I feel the least sympathy for. Because he represents “Law,” “Order,” and the temptation of control — in a word, the pillars of what gender studies call male power, or patriarchy. To tell his story, I chose Cassandra as the narrator: […]
Episode 4: A pilgrimage for power
This story tells of a pilgrimage that truly took place — though with a few poetic liberties. One October day, I boarded a train to Siena, neither for tourism nor blind devotion, but to test a hypothesis: that praying, today, might still be a political act. I had decided to pay homage to Saint Catherine […]
Episode 3 – Lou’s Dream and the Two Songs
Ever since I began writing about ghosts, I’ve wondered what it really means to be a psychopomp. Not in the mythological sense of one who ferries souls across a river, but in the more human, forgotten sense: the one who cares for death. Not only to the dead and their tombs, but to everything that dies — […]