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Month: December 2018

Medieval Cat Tarot Deck Interview

December 30, 2018July 31, 2020 / parsifalswheeldivination / Leave a comment

I should be clear up front that I'm not a huge fan of animal decks, unless they're a little (or a lot) quirky like the Tarot of the Magical Forest, the Marseille Cats or the Baroque Bohemian Cats (which I unfortunately missed buying when it was still in print). But I was gifted the utterly charming Medieval Cat Tarot for … Continue reading Medieval Cat Tarot Deck Interview

Moving Day

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 / parsifalswheeldivination / 5 Comments

Tomorrow we will be moving out of our temporary home and relocating across the State to our new one. New posts from me will be scarce for about a week as we get settled in.

The Force

December 12, 2018December 14, 2018 / parsifalswheeldivination / Leave a comment

There is a premise in esoteric philosophy that envelopes the entire field of Hermetic theory: the "Descent of Spirit into Matter." This key concept underlies the principle of spiritual "adaptation" (as described in the Emerald Tablet) that links the "above" to the "below," mediating between the most subtle regions (the Divine) and the grossest (the … Continue reading The Force

Omar’s Picture Book, Episode #3

December 11, 2018December 11, 2018 / parsifalswheeldivination / Leave a comment

Here is the third installment of  my "Rubaiyat as Tarot Cards" visual narrative. I have a hunch this is going to get difficult due to the sheer number of iterations. As expected, I'm finding more situations where the pictorial story-telling vignettes in the RWS minor cards dovetail at least as vividly with the text as … Continue reading Omar’s Picture Book, Episode #3

Omar’s Picture Book, Episode #2

December 10, 2018December 10, 2018 / parsifalswheeldivination / 3 Comments

This is the second of my episodic attempts to translate the quatrains of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into the visual language of the tarot cards, approximately one card per quatrain. I'm looking for logical transition points in the flow of the text so I can limit these posts to four or five related paragraphs … Continue reading Omar’s Picture Book, Episode #2

“Better a Live Sparrow”

December 9, 2018December 11, 2018 / parsifalswheeldivination / Leave a comment

In my ongoing (and lately intermittent) attempts to transform classic English-language poetry into visual narrative via the tarot cards, one work stands out as the "Holy Grail" of my lofty aspiration: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It is one I have been reluctant to tackle because it is so heavily laden with metaphysical imagery (the … Continue reading “Better a Live Sparrow”

Earth Abides*

December 8, 2018December 9, 2018 / parsifalswheeldivination / Leave a comment

(*Thanks to George R. Stewart for the title of his 1949 science-fiction novel and its main character "Ish," the word for "Man" in biblical Hebrew.) For most of us, at any given moment the one thing we can rely on in our experience of objective reality is the ground beneath our feet. The element of … Continue reading Earth Abides*

Air Apparent

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 / parsifalswheeldivination / 1 Comment

I put the Book of Thoth's slant on elemental Air under the microscope next. In his discussion of the Ace of Swords, Crowley called Air "all-embracing, all-wandering, all-penetrating, all-consuming."  He also said "In nature, the obvious symbol of Air is the Wind, 'which bloweth whithersoever it listeth.'" Taken together, these observation could be seen as … Continue reading Air Apparent

Water, Water Everywhere

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018 / parsifalswheeldivination / Leave a comment

Expanding on my analysis of elemental Fire as described in The Book of Thoth, I examined Crowley's observations regarding the other two "primal" elements ("completely spiritual forms of pure energy"), Water and Air, and the special case of Earth, which represents a "crystallizing out" or coalescing of the other three in order to effectively impinge … Continue reading Water, Water Everywhere

Love at First Insight

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 / parsifalswheeldivination / Leave a comment

A comment I encountered on Facebook recently caused me to revisit and reaffirm my reasons for working with the tarot. The woman was arguing against its use for divination, and said "We all know that the original purpose of the tarot was self-improvement." Well, no, actually we don't. Clearly this person doesn't have a clue … Continue reading Love at First Insight

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