This week we are focusing our attention on the number three . Three represents a formal state of affairs- It triangulates three meanings to pinpoint the nature of situation. Three-card spreads are incredibly versatile. Here we will look at two applications:  “past, present & future” spreads, and “pros, cons, & compromises” spreads.

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