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...
by Gwen | Jun 23, 2021 | Coffee With Crowley, Mystical Symbols, Thoth Tarot
In the Thoth Tarot, four cards relate to Capricorn: the 2 of Disks, the 3 of Disks, the 4 of Disks, and The Devil. Knowing that Aleister Crowley referred to himself as ‘the Beast’, can we see anything of him in the 15th Trump? The 2, 3, and 4 of Disks are of course...
by Gwen | Jun 18, 2021 | Coffee With Crowley, Mystical Symbols, Thoth Tarot
My method for getting to know the Thoth Tarot might seem a little random, but I have two guiding principles that help me choose which card to look at next. Sometimes a card just comes into my mind and it stays there and I take that as a hint! That’s how it...
