The Forest of Life

She is the all-mother and her love is unconditional and total. When we witness this energy, it begins a process where we ourselves integrate and become whole.

Character is normally understood as being a consistency with principles and values that hold together, and people of character are viewed as fair, consistent, and trustworthy. One of the reasons that math is compelling to the human mind is that it is trustworthy. Math, essentially has character. That is its strength.

Strength and struggle are married, it is clear. There is something about "rising to the occasion" that brings this path to its mature stage. It is not force of violence, in my opinion, but rather courage. In a sense, Strength manifests at its most profound when we face into that which terrifies us the most. Fear is a good indicator. Turn towards it. Face, it. Hold. The term Hormesis refers to good stress which makes the body stronger. I think this path involves a Hormesis of

The lemniscate, or "infinity symbol" references the power of the eight, the Ogdoad. In numerous pantheons and philosophies, 8 is a symbol of stability, strength, and eternal recurrence. There is something inherent to the number itself - the way we find it in nature by pushing the concept of 4 directions one step further. This same logic is also how we can proceed from the 4 natural stations of the Sun (Solstice-Equinox-Solstice-Equinox) to the idea of an eightfold "Wheel of

There comes a time however, when a greater abyss looms before us - this is the gap between the personal and the transpersonal, and it is traversed essentially by offering the adept consciousness as a gift to eternity - as a sacrifice. We relinquish control to the divine plenum having obtained that control for (and of) ourselves. We turn our will and our lives over to the ultimate horizon of reality. It is wise to take one's time in preparing this gift.

It's Friday, and the time of Strength has arrived. The hero emerges victorious from the darkness. The gold begins to crystalize in the vessel. The terrible monster is tamed, harnessed, and turned towards a new purpose. Strength is the power of character. Strength is the power of music. Strength is heroism, and also gentle intensity. Strength is the golden rose that blooms out of the dank soil. Be Strong. Feel your strength - accept it, channel it, manifest it. It is real, Thi

It's Friday, and the time of The Wheel is now. Fortune is an amplification and an entrance into another dimension. So, for most, this is "good" fortune, simply because it is an expansion of the investments which we have made in terms of our labors, our interests, our works - they find expression in a plane that is exponentially greater than they themselves (as investments) were. There is a "return" on our investment - what we have sowed, we will reap. But it is also important

Disguised in the folds of the Temperance Angel's robes are the four Hebrew letters of the name of God YHVH. This divine name should not be viewed in the same way as we view the names of beings and things outside of ourselves. YHVH is no thing. Neither alone should we name ourselves thus. YHVH is beyond the dichotomy of within and without.

If language functions referentially in most ordinary circumstances and nonreferentially in the case of magical language, barbarous names, and nonsense - then it's fair to say that nonsense is a potent creative agent - the mother of sense. Comics represent a hybrid textual medium - like hieroglyphics, but also like alphabetic text - anyways all text is implicitly magical, some -the weird stuff- is explicitly magical. So how about some surreal comics as primordial, sense-birthi

That which we create, that which we think - deliberately or not, is an action upon the world - and no matter how sleight its effects, it nevertheless exerts a force on what becomes. Magi Train themselves to be mindful of what their attention brings forth in the world. Sigils are a key means of rising above "scattered" thought energies, and beginning to resonate creatively with the universe as a whole. Often the key is to forget the intent of the sigil, and yet "abide" with it

When we speak about 'the' unconscious, we have already deluded ourselves twice. First, by telling ourselves that it is a region (of our minds?) that can be summarized in a single word, treating so many differences as a single integratable idea, and second, with the implication that it is 'within' us, either personally or collectively. It is not necessarily either. Consider unconsciousnesses at different depths (or heights), unconsciousnesses that are without (objective uncons

It's Friday, and Understanding Week begins now on the Forest of Life Venus Calendar. Take time this week to focus on the Threes- which all indicate spaces and forms which we will experience as undergoing transformation and interaction. These are Virtue (wands), Abundance (cups), Sorrow (swords), and Works (pentacles). As a ritual, place the threes on top of their Queens- wands with wands, cups with cups, swords with swords, pentacles with pentacles. This symbolic action will

The sword is a volatile faculty - capable of cutting through illusions and solving problems rationally. It is very useful. The trouble is, that swordly solutions often create more problems. The 2 of swords is known as the Lord of Peace Restored, and uniquely among the swords, shows us the capacity to recover equilibrium within rational thought so that the intuitive can also have a voice. We see this in the Rider Waite image of a woman seated in front of a tidal shoal, blindfo

Two of Disks - Sola Busca The material is also in a state of flow... a patient and attentive mind learns to harness the cycles of change harmoniously.

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Here is wisdom: art is magick. Know this, apply this. Success to your Work.

The Wheel of Wisdom spins. Now is the time when things get set into motion. The 2's and Kings, ruled by Chockmah.

Initiation understands that there is no retraction - you must learn the language of gnosis or dissolve. Dissolve you will, either way - but into gnosis there is a recovery sublime. There is study - but that is not enough. There is observation - but that is insufficient. There is sacrifice - but that is a gift. There is death - but that is where grace hides. There is a tree of return and a thousand year echo. There is a bridge from which the one fishes the many. There is a uni

"Enchanted things and bodies seem to be immersed in limpid water beneath which they glitter like diamonds or pearls… their nimbus dazzles us and protects them. To make them radiate thus, we content ourselves most often with immersing them in the transparency of language or in the brilliance of style and we sometimes succeed: we see them shine behind clear words or stiffen or settle beneath their rigor when they do not shrivel up beneath the ugliness or dryness of terms… to pe

🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲It's Friday, and Wisdom Week begins now on the Forest of Life Venus Calendar.Take time this week to focus on the Twos - which all indicate actions moving towards infinity: dominion (wands), love (cups), peace (swords), and change (pentacles).As a ritual, place the twos on top of their Kings - wands with wands, cups with cups, words with swords, pentacles with pentacles. This symbolic action will unconsciously connect the power of the twos to their root Zodiac si