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Spread of the Week 5: The Five Element Star
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

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Feb 77 min read


Cartoons are Time Machines
Cartoons are framings of time - there are many ways that time is modified when the panels of a cartoon are offered in "nonstandard ways"....

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jul 4, 20241 min read


Platonic Solidity.
Awaken the Five! The pentagram shows how quintesscence animates the four directional elements. By breaking symmetry, it sparks movement....

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jul 4, 20241 min read


Art is the only thing that preserves...
Deleuze and Guattari wrote "Art preserves - art is the only thing that preserves". I've been thinking about that for decades, but it...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jul 4, 20241 min read


TENET
Tenet means "to hold" and has a powerful effect of fortifying one's energy when used as a mantra. The fact that the N - which is related to the number 5 in many ways, (via Hebrew Nun= 50, via English 14= 1+4 = 5). This is a spell of quintessential power. It is excellent protection, and acts like a support beam for your energy fields.

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jul 4, 20241 min read


The SATOR Pentagram
The Pentagrammic TENET formula is similar to the square, but shows how there are in fact five nested pentagrams within the pentagram....

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jul 2, 20241 min read


Toroidal Quintessence Bloom!
Quintessence charms a circulation into the block-like stability of the four - from here on in, things are dynamic, as spirit explores two...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jul 2, 20241 min read


The Week of Severity!
It's Friday, and Severity Week begins now on the Forest of Life Venus Calendar. The five energy breaks up the stasis of four. Being odd,...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jun 28, 20242 min read






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