By Steven Seinberg… When I was just a youngster, and still rising up through the US public school system, whoever was in charge of teaching my class-group its science stuff imparted a mnemonic device to us for learning the colors of the rainbow (or visible spectrum)…and that mnemonic device has always stayed with me. Maybe […]
Entropy Never Sleeps…
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” – from “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats Our Universe has a tendency toward disorder. Yes, sure, it also has some pretty sweeping laws built into it that seem to apply themselves consistently across the board. In that sense there’s some Order to be found throughout. For […]
Kabbalah and Tarot
TAROT TIP It’s pretty common knowledge that if you want to, you can mix Astrology into your Tarot practice. They’re two very different systems, but if you settle on some linkages to connect the symbols of one with the symbols of the other, then using them together can actually enrich your practices with both. The […]
The Fool: Tarot Trailblazer
Sometimes the human experience involves a leap into completely unknown territory. This can happen on the personal level (“I’m in love… I’ve never been in love before!”) or on the species level (“–say that they’ve named the sheep ‘Dolly’…”). Sometimes it can happen on both levels at the same time (“That’s one small step for […]
Initiation…
We got into a great bit of side-chatter in last night’s inaugural Tarot Toolkit session about initiations and initiatory rites: putting yourself through some kind of exacting ordeal so as to evolve and ascend. The Hanged Man always embodies this concept for me. In fact, in this deck, the equivalent card is even called “Sacrifice.” […]
Astrology is in our DNA…
Humans have been practicing Astrology in one form another for more than 3,000 years. That’s three millennia of turning our questing faces up to the sky in search of wisdom… Fast-forward from the the origins of astrological studies to April, 1953, when two scientists – James D. Watson and Francis Crick – published their discovery […]
The Four Elements: Links between Tarot and Astrology
When it comes to metaphysical disciplines, I’m a huge fan of Tarot and Astrology. Both are rich, fascinating, and deep as fractals, and they each provide their adherents with methods for peering into the very fabric of reality. However, beyond those overall similarities, the two are extremely different systems. One thing they do share, though, […]
Evolutionary Astrology: Past Lives in our Charts…
I can’t say I’ve ever been a pure believer in past life theory. I mean, I do absolutely believe that consciousness exists in forms we can barely guess at just beyond the walls of linear space and linear time that pen us into this 4-D existence of ours. Having said that, though, I was still […]
Inertia creeps…
To paraphrase the great Sir Isaac Newton: in the absence of some applied external force, a body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion… So, here’s why I bring this up: in my own immediate context, this here blog has been a body at rest […]
Morning pages…
Quite a few years ago now, I was put on notice about this book you may have heard of: The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron. It’s a self-help book designed to enable people with creative impulses to get in touch with their inner artistic selves and become more artistically productive. Ms. Cameron comes at the […]