by Gwen | Dec 14, 2021 | A Personal Aside, Thoth Tarot, Tree of Life
I’m spending time meditating on Gevurah this week. It’s part of the work and study I’m doing as I practice ‘Counting the Omer’, from Tarot and the Gates of Light by Mark Horn. At first I resisted allowing myself to dive too deeply into Gevurah because I thought, “I’m...
by Gwen | Dec 3, 2021 | Coffee With Crowley, Thoth Tarot, Tree of Life
The Thoth Tarot and the RWS are sister decks. They were both created by members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and used that organisation’s principles and aims; for example, both decks are based on the Tree of Life and the Qabalistic system behind it. One...
by Gwen | Nov 19, 2021 | Deck Reviews, Mystical Symbols, Tree of Life
In 1855, Eliphas Levi published Dogma et Rituel de la haute magie, in which he assigns the letters of the Hebrew alphabet to the Tarot Major Arcana. The correspondence was first mentioned in 1781 by Antoine Court de Gébelin, but Levi arranged the associations more...
by Gwen | Nov 5, 2021 | Coffee With Crowley, Thoth Tarot, Tree of Life
When Aleister Crowley was working with Lady Frieda Harris to create the Thoth deck, he was careful to include references to each card’s place on the Tree of Life in its imagery. In the Major Arcana, it is the Hebrew letter in the bottom frame that tells you where the...
by Gwen | Oct 12, 2021 | Coffee With Crowley, Mystical Symbols, Thoth Tarot, Tree of Life
I thought I would have a look at some of Aleister Crowley’s birth cards, to celebrate his 146th birthday today. For his Major Arcana card we have The Chariot. On the Tree of Life, the Chariot connects the 3rd Sephira with the 5th (there’s a Tree of Life image...
by Gwen | Aug 19, 2021 | Coffee With Crowley, Mystical Symbols, Thoth Tarot, Tree of Life
The Cups are pomegranates: they are filled bountifully to overflowing from a single lotus, arising from the dark calm sea characteristic of Binah. There is here the fulfilment of the Will of Love in abounding joy. It is the spiritual basis of fertility.[1] The Thoth 3...
