Welcome to the Garden...
- Janne de Jong

- Jun 30, 2024
- 1 min read
This is a quiet portal dedicated to the study and practice of historically rooted European esoteric traditions, with particular attention to cartomancy, plant knowledge, ritual practice, and the slow cultivation of inner understanding.
The texts gathered here move at an unhurried pace. They are shaped by repetition, observation, and time — by the belief that depth is not reached through constant movement, but through attentive presence and return.
Much of the work I do, of which some is shared with you here, unfolds in the spaces between light and shadow, knowledge and intuition, the outer world and the inner life. These thresholds have long been tended in monasteries, in quiet corners of old gardens, in the shadows of the land and in secret ritual spaces — places where reflection and contemplation was considered a form of practice, not retreat.
Echoes of Old Gardens is not intended as a comprehensive guide to these corners of practice, nor as a display of certainty. This is a dwelling place for those who value study over spectacle, contemplation over speed, continuity over novelty and practice over performance.
You are invited to move through the texts slowly, to read selectively, and to linger where something resonates. Welcome to The Garden where the Echoes of Old Wisdom will be heard for those who are able to listen.





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