Category: Tarot
The Ace of Swords is the moment when the Word separates itself from the flesh in order to know it. It is the blade of discernment, the first gesture of light cutting through the undifferentiated mist. To separate the wheat from the chaff is an apt image: the sword cleaves the field of consciousness to…
The Justice card as the work of Tikkun: Venus in Libra, path of Lamed between Geburah and Tifereth, restoring divine balance through learning and light. I. The Sign of Libra and the Breath of Equilibrium Libra opens one of the four gates of creation, as it is Air Cardinal, the first impulse of the mind…
All Saints’ Day (1 November) and All Souls’ Day (2 November) form a liturgical diptych, an axis between Heaven and the Christian Underworld. I. A Liturgical Descent Historically, the first liturgical date of November was established in the eighth century as Solemnis Omnium Sanctorum. Pope Gregory III consecrated a chapel in St Peter’s Basilica to…
We are now in the season when the Sun moves through Scorpio. All Souls’ Day, and Dia de Los Muertos all mark the same threshold. Nature begins to withdraw, light fades, the days grow shorter, and roots feed on the fallen leaves. I. The Transformative Water of Scorpio Scorpio is the densest point of water.…
After considering astrologically this Mercurial movement through Scorpio, the sign attached the eighth house of the zodiac, with all its aspects, we now turn to the divinatory art of the Tarot to interpret the meaning of this passage. The word divination comes from the Latin divinatio, derived from divinus, meaning “divine”, which itself originates from…
If interested in a personal liturgy, please consult this portal. The sky has just unfolded a rare cycle. Two new moons were born in Virgo, both between eclipses. This seldom seen two-fold beginning marks a labour that cannot be resolved in one attempt. The firmament ponders that the question bound to the sign involved requires…
Every year the ingress of the Sun into Libra marks the descent of light into balance and measure. At the equinox, day and night weigh equal upon the scales of the sky. But the same Libra that proclaims equilibrium is also the place of the solar fall. In Leo the Sun is exalted in its…
If interested in a personal liturgy, please consult this portal. Mars entered today into Scorpio, his house of rulership. He comes in silence after crossing the exile of Libra, where his sword was forced to move according to the mirror of the Other. During that stay, Venus in Leo held him under her regal and…
If interested in a personal liturgy, please consult this portal. Venus crosses today from the fixed fire of Leo into the mutable earth of Virgo. The ancients placed the sixth house under the name of Misfortune, of labour, illness and service. Venus enters here in her fall, as beauty is pressed into detail and desire…
If interested in a personal liturgy, please consult this portal. Mercury has just stepped into Libra, the seventh house of the zodiac, the Descendant. He leaves behind his own exalted quarters in the mutable earth of Virgo. Called Hermes by the Greeks, Thoth by the Egyptians, and Raphael by the mystics, he shifts his emerald…
