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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

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 Tarot on coins, all jumbled up. This is due to the fact that the beginner - the child - already has all the wisdom inherently within them - but it cannot be deployed, it has not yet been made available. The Tarot is thus no more than a map of classes and categories operating in a certain organization, which activates those latent potentials

"Here, then, is a possibility: the “forms,” or general definitions of Plato are not above the world but are spaces, hollows, gaps in immanence’s continuous flesh, caused by a semantic incision. They are borings-through the Ain Soph, and also tunnels for it, because what is caused to happen is that pure difference is differentiated from itself by the application of the tautology as if a spotlight shone upon the stream. Pure difference Tzimtzums from itself, opening up number-a

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 the breath of forever. The Fool's freshness lasts, in each instant, for only as long as awareness remains unsullied at the furthest Horizon of experience. The blessed Fool is innocence The cursed Fool is ignorance. Do not tarry in folly. The way opens, the path is shown. Be aware of the helpers - they may seem as innocuous as the little whi

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 time, its a path of surprise, of potential, and of Grace. There are holy fools and damned fools and the difference appears to be the ability to learn. Those who would use folly as a cover for designs of any kind will be destroyed by it. Folly cannot be contrived - yet it is the natural condition of the human soul. Do not make it the goal - bu

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 dance partners. Crowley wrote 'the word of wisdom weaves the web of lies - weds irreducible infinities'.

The significance of the magician's pairing with the Judgement lies in the manner in which the former's voice creates worlds through vibration. In effect, the power of the utterance to open up an entire domain of potentiality is a trumpet sounding that awakens the dead from their graves. If the magician represents the House, then the Judgement represents that House's Hearth. It is what gives life, warmth, and fire to it. Find in yourself the voice of fire.

Of all the magically significant cultural objects that are hidden in plain sight, one of the most potent is the ubiquitous magic cube puzzle. Did you know that the 26 facings can be assigned to the alphabet in a magical way? If you want to learn this cool technique, I teach it in my course on Metamagic Scrying with @perseusarcaneacademy   Check here: https://courses.perseusarcaneacademy.com/b/metamagick

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 knowledge - a jewel to be sure - but those who would say that this is the only knowledge are misguided. If facts are like bricks, the i-mage-iner's knowledge is like mortar - it slides in between the cracks and helps the cracks cohere into a form - a shelter. The magus is a shelter-maker, their stories are a house. Such is what allows us to thi

Language is where magick intercepts the open. The price of power is displacement. The price of return is self relinquishment.

Mercurial, adaptable, quicksilver reflexes, and a silver tongue. The world may create words, but the words create worlds. On the table...

On Friday, the time of the Magus arrives. The Magician is the path of intelligence, of brilliant strokes of genius - of skill,...

From the Tarot of the Holy Light Between two lights is a secret way. The Priestess initiates reflections that open the door to true...

I leave this for your consideration. To know more, I suggest taking my course - look here: Meta Magick Tarot - Part 1 .

One of the truly beautiful symmetries of the Qabalistic Tarot is disclosed in the relationship between the Sun, and the High Priestess -...

The Tree of Life is normally shown to have 10 Sephiroth with 22 interconnecting paths. Interestingly, something I learned from Aryeh...