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The Ferry Piers in Central HK My wife and I - she 9 months pregnant - had decided to go into the city to see an exhibit on the Surrealists. This was peak Covid mind you, so things were a little strange, and a little strained. Hong Kong went into covid on the tail-end of about a year of serious civil unrest, and between the pandemic and the protests, a lot of expats had decided to leave. Kowloon side. At the same time - it became extremely expensive to ship one's belongings ou

The Mercury Calendar offers a unique way to understand the flow of time and energy over the coming days. By synchronizing with the symbols of the Tarot, we can gain practical insights into how to plan activities, make decisions, and navigate challenges. This 11-day forecast breaks down what to expect, highlighting key moments and offering guidance to help you make the most of this period.

The Mercury Calendar offers a unique way to understand the flow of time and energy over the coming days. By synchronizing with the symbols of the Tarot, we can gain practical insights into how to plan activities, make decisions, and navigate challenges. This 11-day forecast breaks down what to expect, highlighting key moments and offering guidance to help you make the most of this period.

I began to use NASA's database to refine the system. Using Abrahadabra, I developed a system that could be compared to a magickian's blockchain: a series of countably infinite discoverable magical cubes (EBPSes: Emirp Bracketed Palatial Systems:) that could assist in hosting the magickal fields that my calendrics emmitted and which also was usable for memorizing starmaps.

As above, so below! It's true - I was awarded the doctorate in 2019 for this thesis (you can read it!) Anyways the whole thing was a whirlwind: it took me 10 years to write. I think that as with all PhD work, it became kind of a battery: it is my definitive statement on magic? Hardly - but is it important? Definitely. In a nutshell I decided to tackle the problem of a universal definition of magic - and I failed - but I failed really well, and in the process invented a syst

And it begins with an accident... In 2021, two days before my son was born, a change encounter set into motion a series of events that has changed the course of my life, and will soon bear fruits in the world in the form of a series of massive, powerful Bronze Sculptures that monumentalize the esoteric Tarot in a way that has never been done before. The light shines through. It began in Hong Kong. We were living there at the time - in the beautiful seaside community called Mu

This week we will be focusing our attention on the number Ten . Ten represents the full manifestation, or display, of the world .  The Tree of Life is the architecture of the Qabalistic Tarot - so this spread can be viewed as a fundamental register of how our energy is integrated with this system of working with Tarot. In other words, it is about the health of our “nodes and channels” as they are developed by meditation and practice within the model. This spread pattern is “

This week we will be focusing our attention on the number Nine . Nine represents foundations - deep, integral structures that support and enable our growth - when they are properly constructed. A destiny is a type of foundation. We will be using a nine-card spread to lay a foundation for a major project - and give ourselves several options on how to approach it. This can even be a general “life-journey” spread. Any large, long range arc of development that has a beginning, a

This week we will be focusing our attention on the number Eight . Eight represents circulation within closed systems, circuitry, waterworks, intelligence, cleverness, language, the bridling of the passions, and the arts of magic and alchemy. Accordingly, this spread pattern is alchemical in nature. Throwing it will instigate a movement towards integration of 8 key life energies: Illumination , Communication , Individuation , Wealth , Grit , Adventure , Family , and Lear

This week we will be focusing our attention on the number seven . Seven represents Passion, intensity, and abundance. This spread pattern is similar in appearance to the six card cross pattern (which I wrote about last week) although it differs in concept. The method is ideal for reading environments where the clients don’t really know what their question is. Its refined form was developed while I was reading in a bar - Employees Only - where it was necessary to determine wha

Every week in the Forest of Life, focus on a different Tarot theme. Using that theme, we explore a different spread pattern. This week we are focusing our attention on the number Six. Six represents harmony and resonance. This spread pattern  appears in the center of the very popular “celtic-cross spread”. It explores a situation or person and that situation or person’s past-present-future, as well as the conscious and unconscious influences that are in play. This is the idea

This week we are focusing our attention on the number five . Five represents a breaking of stasis and the engagement of evolutionary stresses. Fives are “hormetic”, meaning that they are the kind of good hardship that if you apply yourself to them carefully, will make you much stronger. Without the fives in the deck, we would languish and become corrupt. Fives are the key to breaking out of static cycles, and achieving something new. The Key Question, then, is “how do I achie

This week we are focusing our attention on the number four . Four represents a stabilization - as in four directions, or four legs of a table. While there are an enormous amount of 4-card spreads possible, here is one that I find instructive. I call it “State of the Aces.”

This week we are focusing our attention on the number three . Three represents a formal state of affairs- It triangulates three meanings to pinpoint the nature of situation. Three-card spreads are incredibly versatile. Here we will look at two applications:  “past, present & future” spreads, and “pros, cons, & compromises” spreads.

Two represents motion - it puts two meanings into tension and results in a new energy - a “becoming” that results from the combination. The spread for the number two is the two-card crossroads .

This week we are focusing our attention on the number one . One represents a dimensionless point of purity - and reminds us of the Aces. The spread for the number one is that most basic - yet most essential of all Tarot spreads, the single-card draw .

Laughter is the true medicine.

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 its essence, the Tarot speaks of encounters of consciousness - the fool - with eternity - the world. That is all it is. Of course there are many varieties of encounter - as the other trumps will attest - but this is at the core of each and every one. The world and the fool are the tacit companions of every card, every reading, every situation

"Recognize this: orality is a mode of transmission in intimate contact with the world. It draws its meaning from the sensible. Literacy, on the contrary, draws its meaning from an increasing depth of distance from the world. It builds off of text, building off of text, building off of text. But text stops at the threshold of the sensible. The modeling of ideas and idea networks as hollows (Tzimtzummim) lends itself to the generation of deeper and deeper spaces, all of which p