Category: Lore
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The Emperor – Tarot
The Emperor is the male counterpart to the Empress card, many of the cards have a partner. In earlier decks such as Visconti-Sforza and the Marseille the Emperor is side on where as the Empress is facing the viewer. Earlier versions of this card feature the emperor side-ways on with crossed legs, and according to…
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The High Priestess – Tarot
So the real question in my mind is what Waite, who seems the least womanly of all the Golden Dawn men, would have to say about this card. I mean you had the men who adored women in the Golden Dawn, but couldn’t quite get them. The men who raised women up but then also…
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The Magician – Tarot
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The Magicians Sometimes called the Magus and sometimes the Juggler this card often features a man at table. Frequently on the in front of him are a series of tools. In the Smith-Waite-Rider deck the cools before him are the suits, but older cards have a variety of different tools. In the Smith-Waite-Rider deck he…
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The Fool – Tarot
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This is often treated like the first card of the Major Arcana. When the other cards were traditionally numbered, the fool was not, leading some to call it “card zero”. Similarly to the Joker of a normal playing deck, the card was part of the deck, but not part of it at the same time.…
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The Tarot
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For a Brief History of the Tarot click below. Composition of the Smith-Waite-Rider deck This deck consists of 78 cards. 22 of them are called Trumps, Atus or the Major Arcana. The remaining 56 are the Minor Arcana. The Minor Arcana is divided into 4 suits: Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. Each suit has 10…
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The Energy Dictionary
When looking at something, if the image is blurry your eyes rely on pattern recognition in the brain to generate the image we see. What we see can often be 75% generated in our mind and only 25% based on the information we are receiving from our eyes. This can be quite interesting when we…
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What is Energy?
Energy is the substance that you move around when you do Energy work. Well then, what is energy work? Well, it’s moving around energy. Okay… that’s not the most helpful definition, but it is probably the most honest one. Energy is a spiritual substance that can be moved around, moulded and used for a number…
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What is a Theurgist?
A Theurgist is a practitioner of Theurgy. The origin of this word is “Theos-ergy” (or “god-work” in Greek). That’s often where most books on magic leave the definition. Theury is a belief that follows Neoplatonic ideas and seeks to achieve mystical ascent by association with forms of deity. It is mostly written about by Neoplatonists…