A must-have for any of a Christian background who might be looking for the connection between the Tarot and the faith you grew up in. The anonymous author—who insisted that his French original be published posthumously—delivers his perceived insight and transcendent guidance from beyond the grave, in a manner of speaking, via epistolic essays on the twenty-two Major Arcana of the Tarot. Cabalistic and Hermetic symbols that lead one into deeper understanding of the Tree of Life and the Golden Dawn appear on many Tarot.

As far the minor arcana, the court cards are really great and the pip cards are too, this deck is in my opinion a sort of hybrid: in many sense similar to a Marseille deck but also has references to the RWS, Thoth tarot and Golden Dawn style. Which isn’t to decry Tarot per se, intuition, feminine wisdoms and feeling the universe all around at any moment. My next book is Zhuan Falun and he says in there this will be our 82nd extinction level event, so we got that going for us, which is nice.Read in this angle, this book becomes about opening one's awareness to the salience of what could be relevant, of what is true; the balance of which will be brought to bear differently as things around us change and our life's direction can take us in ways. The symbolism of the cards is taken as a springboard for discussing and describing various aspects of Christian spiritual life and growth. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

and in that sense the tarot card is a psychotechnology for calibrating awareness for what relationships might be salient. It can also represent the three parts of the Freudian psychic apparatus, the ego, superego, and the id.Really great deck, the first instance you look at them it is very overwhelming at just how much information there is on every card, so many symbols and shapes to wrap your head around. folks can think that printing words or images on to a bunch of papers or cards can imbue them with demonic (or angelic) powers. The artwork is all hand drawn in black and white, and the images – as you can see – have a crazy amount of detail to them.

Much of the wonder I experience while studying this book is due to the unusual truth-telling, truth from an era when the Great Chain of Being had not yet got a stake through its heart, courtesy of the scientific revolution.

Because this deck is so heavily influenced by the Golden Dawn and so obvious about it, in a way it pre-dates Waite’s conception of the Tarot. It can be integrated into personal rituals, meditations, and ceremonies and in fact is probably far better suited for such work than, say, the Marseille, Rider-Waite-Smith, or even the Thoth decks. The Aspirant to a Grade received instruction on the metaphysical meaning of each of these Elements and had to pass a written examination and demonstrate certain skills to receive admission to that Grade.

Each card of the Minor Arcana is marked with the planet and Zodiac sign that rule it, as well as with the names of a pair of angels assigned to it using some complicated astrological whoo-daddy involving the 72 names of God in the Jewish tradition. According to occultist Israel Regardie, the Golden Dawn had spread to the United States of America before 1900 and a Thoth-Hermes temple had been founded in Chicago. The tone of the deck and Dowson’s artwork invokes the full spectrum of powers within the tarot practitioner for spiritual divinatory work. Of interest is his take on the relation between non-fallen Nature, Mary, Sophia, the Virgin, being Chaste and his views on the notion of the holy trinity illuminated by this fourth element. I would never ever make a decision based in total reliance on what a tarot deck said to me (or what I think it said to me) just like I would never render a legal opinion on whether to invest in a particular startup by relying solely on the corporate due diligence.I’ve found that the most informitave and true to fact and religion decks are the Rider-Waite deck, the Hermetic Tarot, the Golden Dawn Tarot, and the Thoth Tarot. To be fair Gates and Fauci have patents on both the vaccine and the renal failure drug Remedesivir-ethics be damned. The Knight of Swords, for example, represents Fire (for the Knight) on Air (for the suit of Swords). According to sources that differ regarding the actual date, sometime between 1901 and 1913 Mathers renamed the branch of the Golden Dawn remaining loyal to his leadership to Alpha et Omega. The intricacies of the Hermetic Tarot almost serve as a meditative scrying mirror -- and if you enjoy the art of M.