"Big wheel keep on turnin'"- from Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival AUTHOR'S NOTE: Several years ago I posted a high-level overview of my personal reassignment of some of the Golden Dawn's astrological correspondences for the tarot's Major Arcana (I'm an experienced astrologer and some of them just didn't sit well with me). I've linked … Continue reading Musings on the Major Arcana: The Chariot and the Wheel of Fortune
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The Emperor and Jus Ad Bellum: Moral Rectitude or Just a Shot of Arrogance?
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I just came across a term I had never seen before, in this case regarding the Emperor card of the tarot. Jus ad bellum means being justified in one's reasons for taking on a fight. (It sounds like "the ends justify the means" to me.) It is usually applied when presenting an argument … Continue reading The Emperor and Jus Ad Bellum: Moral Rectitude or Just a Shot of Arrogance?
A Non-Esoteric View of the Trump Cards
AUTHOR'S NOTE: When I published my Tarot de Marseille guide a couple of years ago, my grasp of the traditional symbolism in the TdM trump cards was only moderate, so for those cards I felt compelled to fall back on the metaphysical assumptions with which I'm most familiar. But I've always had reservations about this … Continue reading A Non-Esoteric View of the Trump Cards
Papus and the “Formula of Tetragrammaton”
AUTHOR'S NOTE: In The Tarot of the Bohemians, Gerard Encausse (aka "Papus") spends the first 20% of the book playing with the numerology of the cards and relating them to the four Hebrew letters of the "ineffable Name of God" (euphemized as "Tetragrammaton"). Papus stacked up the trump cards in "quaternaries" (four-card sets) following the … Continue reading Papus and the “Formula of Tetragrammaton”
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 