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 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...
by Gwen | Aug 16, 2021 | Coffee With Crowley, Mystical Symbols, Thoth Tarot, Tree of Life
On the Tree of Life, we start in Malkuth. Our job is to work our way back up to the top: The business of the aspirant is to climb the Middle Pillar from Malkuth to Kether; and though the other Pillars must be grasped firmly as aids to equilibrium, he should in no wise...
by Gwen | Jul 21, 2021 | Coffee With Crowley, Mystical Symbols, Thoth Tarot, Tree of Life
In essence, there are not really twenty-two trumps, there is only one – the Fool. All the other trumps live inside (and issue from) the Fool. ~ Lon Milo DuQuette God is characterized by a “nameless nothingness.” Nothingness lies at the heart of Divinity — and maybe...
