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The Tetrahedron is the first point at which volume may be realized. Plato ascribed it to the element of fire in his dialogue, the...

The power of four is to lay out a table - an altar - a foundation for all that is to come. The fourfold directional compass establishes...

It's Friday, and Mercy Week begins now on the Forest of Life Venus Calendar. Take time this week to focus on the Fours- These are all...

The Queens of the Thoth Deck. I see the Queens as the mutable signs of the Zodiac - Wands is Sagittarius, Cups is Pisces, Swords is...

It is therefor the function of poetry (and of song), both to close and to open, seeing as it is of a coin with the very forces that draw...

The Visionary faculty lies hidden in plain sight - reason was always a special form of intuition. For true intelligence to be possible,...

We live in the thick of it, and it pervades us- the idea that time is money - that success is a personal triumph, and that we own it, and...

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.

Kings and Twos from my personal, DIY tarot. Have you made a Tarot Yet? You can! Sign up to the 10,000 Tarots newsletter – You will get weekly spread ideas, and more. https://mailchi.mp/b0a5d2e57687/theforestoflife

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

"When we encounter a series of events in the world, our bodies sense them first and foremost. Following from this encounter, we tend to link aspects of those events by means of likeness. Increasingly we form metaphors which link and network those events in terms that are informed by our growing stockpile of metaphors. First, they are simple, but they grow more complex. Our thinking then, begins to range across those associations we have already formed. It begins to deepen its