by Gwen | May 3, 2022 | A Personal Aside, Thoth Tarot, Tree of Life
Each Sephira on the Tree of Life has several associations: colour, geometric shape, god or goddess energy, and a number, for example. Each Sephira is also associated with a group of angelic beings like the Seraphim, and with an archangel. I don’t usually mention these...
by Gwen | Feb 7, 2022 | Mystical Symbols, Thoth Tarot, Tree of Life
In the vast majority of Tarot decks, The Fool is the first of the Trumps and is numbered zero. From there decks move into number I for The Magician and II for the High Priestess, and so on. It’s all in order and makes perfect sense. Once upon a time, The Fool lived in...
by Gwen | Jan 4, 2022 | Thoth Tarot, Tree of Life
The Tree of Life has had different structures over the years, and interpretations of the structure can change depending on how you see its organisation and source. One interpretation that intrigues me is that Kether is still too divine to truly be a part of the Tree...
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...
