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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

Tetragrammaton - the four letter name of God is a blueprint for working across the four stages of manifestation: intent, imagination, planning, and taking actions. These letters code the four elements of fire, water, air and earth, and operate in an intricate ecology of four "worlds" unified by a fifth. This four plus one structure also resonates with the observations made by Jean Gebser - that human history is identifiable in five key structures: the archaic, the magical, th

"An “occult” magical system is typically a taxonomy of possible events, ordered and arranged with a hierarchical element, and also with a method by which components of the schema can be randomly selected, as in divination. It is in a sense a random-access ontology. Because the taxonomy comprises a whole, it serves to provide interpretations for virtually any event that can arise. It is not a taxonomy of specific things or objects; it is not exact, but rather loose. Each level

"Language is the first, most fundamental magic. It reveals worlds, just as it conceals them. Consider this: words themselves, once we know them, appear to come out of nothing, fully formed and granting their meaning to our thought as if it were always, already there. Linguistic meaning arises as fiat and epiphany, after which we cannot imagine the prior state. The archetypal creation ex nihilo begins with a word. Order is brought to chaos by means of a vibrating breath. Once

Think this- the Tarot is an oral tradition, delivered by cue cards. The pictures on the cards suggests modes by which the imagination can compose forms - forms which on one vector of development distill into intentions, and on another - evaporate into concepts. Intentions and concepts co-mingle to birth physical objects that preserve the visions, and actions that unify the Tarot as a circuit of temporal becoming. This is how it goes - so turns the wheel TARO.

"When we consider that worlds of meaning (nationalities, identities, social narratives, calendrical devices, metaphors, idioms, etc.…) are crafted rather than discovered, we are thinking as magicians. When we accept them as natural, we are essentially fools, in the sense that a fool is the audience, the innocent, the enchanted. There are no pure magicians, and there are no pure fools: life is a turbulence of guile and belief. We need folly on one level to entertain the idea t