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Peter Duchemin, Phd
7 days ago7 min read
Spread of the Week 5: The Five Element Star
This week we are focusing our attention on the number five . Five represents a breaking of stasis and the engagement of evolutionary...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 314 min read
Spread of the Week 4: The State of the Aces!
This week we are focusing our attention on the number four . Four represents a stabilization - as in four directions, or four legs of a...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 243 min read
Spread of the Week 3: Three Card Triangulations
This week we are focusing our attention on the number three . Three represents a formal state of affairs- It triangulates three meanings...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 173 min read
Spread of The Week 2: The Crossroads
Two represents motion - it puts two meanings into tension and results in a new energy - a “becoming” that results from the combination....
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 162 min read
Spread of the Week 1: the Singleton
This week we are focusing our attention on the number one . One represents a dimensionless point of purity - and reminds us of the Aces....
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
The Fool and the World
The Fool and the World are the ultimate dyad of the Tarot. They in a way, represent the most fundamental level of the entire system. In...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
Tzimtzummim
"Recognize this: orality is a mode of transmission in intimate contact with the world. It draws its meaning from the sensible. Literacy,...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
Dionysus
Crowley's fool is Dionysus - god of primordial revelry. It is of interest that the Fool carries a sack containing all the symbols of the...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
Intaglio
"Here, then, is a possibility: the “forms,” or general definitions of Plato are not above the world but are spaces, hollows, gaps in...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
Openings
Openness opens its openings like a porous skin to absorb eternity. The opaque shells of name and form fall away into the vast air that is...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
The Week of the Fool
On Friday, the time of the Fool arrived. The Fool is the path of openness, of innocence, and of the emptiness of the child. At the same...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read
The Ape of Thoth
The Magus speaks, and it creates worlds. Truth is a black fire hidden within a tongue of rainbows. The ape and the magus are necessary...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read
The Magician and the Judgement
The significance of the magician's pairing with the Judgement lies in the manner in which the former's voice creates worlds through...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read
The Magic Cube
Of all the magically significant cultural objects that are hidden in plain sight, one of the most potent is the ubiquitous magic cube...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read
I, Inner Mage
The i-mage-iner is master of a type of knowledge which does not submit to facts - but which is not false. Science produces scientific...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read
The Price of Power
Language is where magick intercepts the open. The price of power is displacement. The price of return is self relinquishment.
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 22 min read
The Magus
Mercurial, adaptable, quicksilver reflexes, and a silver tongue. The world may create words, but the words create worlds. On the table...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read
Week of the Magician
On Friday, the time of the Magus arrives. The Magician is the path of intelligence, of brilliant strokes of genius - of skill,...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 26, 20241 min read
Between Two Lights
From the Tarot of the Holy Light Between two lights is a secret way. The Priestess initiates reflections that open the door to true...
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