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Tarot Concept: Four of Swords
He is the Tarot guy who reminds us that we don't have to answer the phone or the door, that we don't have to be part of what's going on around us at all. We can just sleep through it. Don't join in, don't react to rudeness. He also means to stay or remain, to just be...
Tarot Concept: Temperance
Temperance applies pouring water and wine together to the blending of two into one (not to moderation or abstinence in alcohol). Two parties who are very close, who are intimate, is a main application for this pouring back and forth, and so is responding, including...
Tarot Concept: Queen of Cups
Queen of Cups principally is the woman or wife who understands her man when it is being a person. Otherwise, it is likely to very broadly refer to a woman who knows, because she is studying that funky Cup so intensely as a flood is rapidly developing right where she...
Tarot Concept: Page of Swords
You feel they are out to getcha, and they get on your nerves as the coast is clear but you whirl around looking at the empty space for the approach of something that matches the threat you feel. Page of Swords comes up for adrenaline rush of any kind: thrill, fear,...
Tarot Verbatim: The Story Behind the Method
The Laws of Random Distribution are ironclad statistics that control whole industries (anything to do with prediction: risk management, insurance prices and policies, gambling, weather, etc.). There should be NO exceptions. Ten or eleven times, I forget which it is,...
Tarot Concept: The High Priestess
A little corner of High Priestess The creators of what we call the Rider Waite deck never intended it to be public; it was their private thing. Some of the Golden Dawn Society's meanings haunt some of the cards in its deck. High Priestess, for instance, as the 2 in...
A STUDY IN PAGE OF SWORDS
EXERCISING ADRENALIN Exciting and thrilling things: Those are the things we want to get excited and thrilled about. That’s the good list. Then there’s this other list of things that could give us pretty much the very same adrenalin rush … annoying things that we...
Tarot Concept: Strength
(This is a Rider Waite Tarot card that shows a lady in a white frock with flower belts, and an eternity sign as a halo, petting a lion and holding its mouth shut.) A female adept has such presence the beast who comes to attack ends up purring while she holds his big...
Tarot Concept: Ace of Pentacles
The illustration is ‘the Right-hand Path’ in esoteric realms, as the Moon is ‘the Left-Hand Path.’ Here we have ‘the way,’ the straight and narrow (Christianity), the Middle Way (Buddhism), and some others I’m surely not informed of. The hand with the gold suggests...
Tarot Concept: Nine of Pentacles
Nine of Pentacles as 'enough.' Here we have the woman craving the life of self-sufficiency who is content with what she has and content to be where she is … so content with it that she is staying there in a nice routine boring existence that suits her just fine. And...