Posts Tagged ‘Tarot’

HOLY SATURDAY AND HARROWING OF HELL After Good Friday, Holy Saturday teaches about Christ’s harrowing of hell, the descent into the underworld. Thus Christ in mind and soul, while His body was buried in the sepulchre, went into hades, Olam Haba, to fight against the Devil and Death, rescue good souls and ascend to heaven.…

DEATH JAR or TRIUMPH13 against CORONAVID19 FOLK MAGIC/SUPERSTITIONS THAT WORKS In those troubled times often people ask me something to do to ensure protection for themselves and their beloved ones. Here comes a simple but effective method. Many of you have a tarot deck at home with missing cards. That’s the moment to use it.…

The Rethoric Figures, the Tarot and the post modern esoteric movements have a common feature in the famous koan of Crowley:”Let the Woman be girted with a sword before me” ! How appealing are those words to modern feminists and thelemites looking for the Holy Grail?! Besides the statues of the Goddess Athena The Rethoric…

0 “Tarot’s Fool! where are you going?” “Hell-0! Going to deal with the “reading responsability!”. Every time you ask the Tarot there’s a responsability involved caressing, touching or shaking various planes, from the material to the spiritual. A simple spread is so complicated! A burden, kept by the Fool, with the fees of the reading,…

Magickal squares were used since the latest antiquity to know, hold, use a power, an energy, a person. In this picture a magickal square for obtaining more understanding and wisdom from Tarot. A thing I learned many years ago when I have started my journey and that I still teach to my Chelas. May the…

Tarot or rather a machine for the imagination…

For some folk etymologysts, Ngang means Fool. Phra Ngang, a Venerable Fool. The immediate reaction would be to link it to our western concepts of madness and feel good to tie our “demented smurf” to the Tarot’s Fool, the Atu O. The Thai Fool is a Yogi and owns Fool-ness by emptiness. Any Ajarn would…

The Sibilla deck is quite interesting, it has the cards of both love and death. Where’s LOVE in Tarot? 😉 Richard Mí¼ller (1874 – 1954) ~ Love and Death, oil on canvas 1918

Tarot decks and cards still remind Us those stories, based on human’s greatest values…

Arcanvm means hidden, misterious, concealed within an ark, a treasure box, related to the past, the mystical and magickal, Archetypical. The cards of Tarot are called Arcanas. I was taught, since the very beginning, by Wise Ones, to keep my Tarot within a little treasure box, of precious carved wood, with other items, to resurrect…