Today I was watching a video recorded by the astrologer Robert Corre in 1979, from the period when he, like many other brilliant minds, was studying with Zoltan Mason in New York City. The lesson focuses on a weather a doctor would have the capacity to become an astrologer, to change career and relinquish her…
I decided to draw a Tarot card to exercise the art of analogy (from the Greek ἀναλογία, analogia, “proportion”, “correspondence of relations”) before leaving the house to drink a glass of wine in a bar nearby. The King of Wands appeared. Here we have the Fire of Fire in one of the sixteen archetypes symbolised…
It’s Monday, so I’ve decided to check the Tarot to see how my week will go. I drew three cards: one for the beginning, one for the middle and one for the end. That gives a nice trine of cards. The 7 of Pentacles came out as the beginning of the week. It is a…
Just today I was considering the possibility of opening up a thread on SkyScript to check something on my own natal chart. Then I looked at one of my Tarot decks and decided to do something I have been considering for some time. Splitting the deck in two: Minor Arcana to one side, Major to…
In Latin, spes is the noun “hope”. It names a state of orientation toward a future good. From this noun also comes the verb sperare. The verb means “to have hope”, “to trust”, and “to wait for with expectation”. The ideas of hoping and waiting belong to the same linguistic and conceptual field. One word…
Éliphas Lévi claimed that Arcane IX, The Hermit, symbolises initiation. There are solid grounds for this, and we can extend this reading to the Aristotelian concept of hylomorphism. To begin with, this card is associated with Mercury. Some say that, in the Rider-Waite, the monk is Hermes Trismegistus. Be that as it may, the presence…
I have been meditating on the 8 of Swords, as I mentioned in a previous article. While also reading about the question of Will, in spiritual, magical, and theological contexts, I keep finding the same rule. Will requires the reduction of options and possibilities. In the Spiritual Exercises of Loyola, in the Rule of Saint…
The word fetish enters modern European languages through the French fétiche, derived from the Portuguese feitiço, which in turn comes from the Latin facticius, meaning something made, fabricated, artificially produced. In the Portuguese colonial encounters along the African coast, feitiço designated objects believed to be charged with symbolic and magical power, capable of acting upon…
Yesterday, by chance, I caught a UFC fight between Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes. I had not watched a martial arts bout for many years. Martial arts. Arts of Mars, obviously. Strife, contest, dispute, the imposition of bodily force, brute strength, the cult of the body itself as a machine for self-defence and for the…
Over the last two days, the cards that I drew as daily meditation were the 8 of Swords and the 4 of Swords. They are both cards of the rational and mental plane, the intermediate sphere of Yetzirah, and are also associated with Jupiter. This is relevant because. in any context, what does Jupiter enjoy?…
