Another great tarot resource I’ve come across today, via the moderator of the Thoth tarot FB group I’m a member of is this clickable Kabbalah diagram at https://nofaithinthehumanrace.com/777/index.php?deck=crowley&show777=1&key=1 An interactive diagram of the Tree of Life, it will show the placement of the cards upon the tree, and give an in-depth overview of the cards […]
In looking for more background on alchemy and tarot I stumbled upon this podcast with Robert M. Place the originator of the Alchemical Tarot deck. An accomplished historian of the tarot, he goes into a lot of detail about how the tarot can be an alchemical manual, despite not being the ancient work of wisdom […]
While most decks consider this card to be called Justice with its associated blind goddess weighing guilt and innocence and implying legal action and the courts, the Crowley deck takes a more Karmic view and associates the card with a different type of balance. In the scales of this goddess are Alpha and Omega, creation […]
The traditional image of The Chariot depicts the return of the conqueror to the great fanfare of the village. It is a card of victory and looked at on the path to enlightenment starting at the world, precedes the alchemical wedding of the lovers. In Rider-Waite and some other decks, the chariot is pulled by […]
The Lovers is interesting, because as a glyph it references the original vision/hoax responsible for almost all modern occult traditions. It is an artistic representation of The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkruetz, one of the three original Rosicrucian manifestos. See previous article on Rosicrucianism. It is one of the alchemical cards, but much more highly […]
The mysteries of The Hierophant are a further elaboration of the alchemy described in the cards. The Holy Father or Pope bestows the secrets of the occult upon the Emperor and Empress leading them to their Great Work. There are many symbols in the card that reinforce this, but the primary symbolism in the Crowley […]
If The Empress is the higher representation of the feminine within tarot, then it stands to reason that The Emperor should be a very high representation of the masculine. Where she represents the mysteries of the vagina, then he logically represents the mysteries of the phallus. His color is that of flame, to represent the […]
The Empress is the complete embodiment of higher femininity within the deck and must be considered in her partnership with the masculine Emperor. She is Hera and Freya, and all the married goddesses of the male high Gods of their respective pantheons. She is also, considered in an exalted sense the Shakti of Shiva. […]
The symbol of the High Priestess is one of the most silent and inscrutable cards in the deck, but we may be able to discern a little about her by her position on the tree of life. She has the path from Tiphareth to Kether. This is one of the most significant paths as it […]
This will have to be another explanation leaning on the Crowley/Harris deck as they have provided the most in-depth symbolism for the card. The Magician has been described as a mountebank, a trickster and con artist who performs sleight of hand for money. Supposedly this indicates skill on the part of the practitioner. This distracts […]
