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...
by Gwen | Jul 16, 2021 | Deck Reviews, Mystical Symbols, Tree of Life
Kabbalistic Tarot | Deck Review by Eugene Vinitsky and Frater North Tarotmania, 2018 Say we want to consciously apply Kabbalah to our Tarot reading. How can we possibly remember all the associations that are there? Or even know what we’re possibly missing or...
by Gwen | Jul 6, 2021 | Deck Reviews, Mystical Symbols, Rider Waite Smith Tarot, Tree of Life
Golden Dawn Magical Tarot | Deck Review by Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero Llewellyn, 2020 (1991) In The Original Rider Waite: Key to the Tarot, A.E. Waite goes to great lengths to tell his reader what he’s not telling us. He will give us a key to his...
by Gwen | Jul 2, 2021 | A Personal Aside, Mystical Symbols
There is so much to wonder about the nature of Tarot and Tarot cards. One question that’s really interesting is whether or not the cards are magic in and of themselves, or if they are ‘just cardboard’. Initially I leaned toward the idea that they were just paper and...
