Happy Thanksgiving

     Today is Thanksgiving where we get to spend time with our families and pig out on turkey and pumpkin pie. It is an all around good time for most. I just wanted to say a few things about the true meaning of this holiday which some seem to forget.

   I have chose the 4 and 9 of Cups to represent what I see in my travels and dealing with people. There are basically two approaches to the holiday which we call Thanksgiving. I do think it also describes the prevailing spirit of  two types of people, the purely materialist and the spiritual. I have already spoke to people about what they are going to do for Thanksgiving and have got the two most common answers.

    First, I represent the four of Cups type as the people that are not really thankful. They see it as the start of the Christmas race to get things they don't have. More and more stores are opening on Thanksgiving day to start their incessant sales so they will finish the year in the black. The guy on the four just does not look like he cares at all with what he has or even what is being offered to him. How many of us are like this? Instead of of being grateful for all that we have, we are focused more on what we want. This does, in my opinion, rob us of the good feelings that being thankful give us. How many people are like the four? I dare say millions. They are just waiting for the countdown till tomorrow. This day is when we tear at each other and trample one another to get the things we want after the day that we are supposed to be thankful for what we have. Crazy isn't it?

    The 9 of Cups represents those that are truly thankful for what they have. He looks satisfied with what he has. It might be just nine cups but he looks happy with them. These are the people who are first and foremost grateful for time to spend with loved ones and just feelings of good will to one another. Thanksgiving is supposed to give us those feelings so that when we do enter the spirit of Christmas we are joyful in our giving. How many times have we seen the grumpies out there during the shopping season? Like it is some chore and burden. It is my theory that Thanksgiving and our approach to it set the stage of our giving and receiving of the Yuletide season.

    After this look at these two cards in relation to the spirit of Thanksgiving I have to ask: Are we truly thankful? If so, I believe it sets the tone of cheerful Holiday season. Or are we just going through the motions knowing that we have about a month where we have to get all the shopping done, watch our bank accounts diminish, and fight and struggle against the maddening crowds? It is all about our attitude we have today that carries us through till Christmas. I hope everyone has a thankful Thanksgiving!

ORAT Blessings!

Key 3 The Empress

     The next card is Key 3 The Empress. The number 3 denotes multiplication, development, growth, unfoldment, and expression. 3 signifies the actual outworking of the principles reflected from 1 by 2.

    Daleth is the Hebrew letter attributed to Key 3. It means door and as we have already seen Beth from Key 1 is the house. A door either bars or admits so some writers say Daleth represents the womb, as the door of life. It is said by the Ancient ones that mental imagery is the doorway to the higher knowledge. This goes back to the ouworking principles of Keys 1 and 2 because imagination is attributed to this key. She is the form builder because she is pregnant and the female is the one that gives form to the child within.

     Venus is the planet attributed to this Key as we can see the glyph for Venus emblazoned on the shield that sits on the ground beside her. Venus is the planet of love and affection and there is no greater love than mother to child. Therefore, the picture has a woman as the central figure.

    Imagination is the psychological function of this Key. When we pay attention (Key 1) and then recollect or remember (Key 2) we then imagine (Key3) the possibilities. After the first two functions, imagination fills in the blanks that we need to see the full picture.

     Some put down imagination as something like fantasy and most parents put a stop to this when children are growing up. They don't realize the importance of imagination. Without it there would be no works of art, nothing created. Imagination is crucial in the creative process. Everything that was made was first the product of imagination. This whole cosmos was a product of the creators imagination.

     If one is having a hard time with turning on their imagination meditation on this Key will work wonders. I can attest to this in my own life. I was a very imaginative child but my parents got me to where I didn't use it as I grew older. Then when I discovered Tarot many years later I got on the road to recovering it once again. I have used this Key to create clear mental images of what I desire and the more clear I could make them the faster they materialized. This Key will work wonders on bringing back one's imagination. Let us all see what our imagination can create for our lives!

     I was hanging out with the Pentacle family today. The Royals are real down to earth and practical rulers over the ten spirits at their command. They are serious about being fruitful and multiplying in the realm of elemental earth.

    Then there are the spiritual overlords that over see the Royals, so don't think they can just run amok without some spiritual force over them. These are the Majors that administer stellar emanations into the earthly realm. For this family it would be The Hierophant, The Hermit, and The Devil. Taurus, Virgo, an Capricorn respectively. They are the guiding Lights that shine into the earthly realm so that this family of spirits can function and carry out their work.

     This brings to mind, What is over seeing the Overlords? That is the great secret of Tarot. What Divine being is overseer of the whole Tarot? Is it our conceptual view of our creator? The phrase that most Tarot people know is; the Wheel of Tarot Speaks the Law of Hathor(Nature). Some say it is the long forgotten knowledge of our Goddess. I think it is something on a different level yet!

    The presiding Spirit that permeates the Sacred Tarot is You!! That's right!! When one picks up the deck, they are telling themselves that this is the Book of Me. The Tarot is like a vault or could be a tomb whichever way you see it, and in this is the total mysteries of yourself. You are in control of the spirits of the Tarot. Not the other way around. People who are asleep think they are in control but in reality they are under the control of the spirits they're supposed to control. Those of us who do not want to be spirit controlled pick up the deck of Tarot with the goal of taking control of their destiny.

     I suggest to all people who are students of Tarot to get to know their deck in this manner. Treating the cards as individual spirits that are working either for you or against you. Getting to know the families in this way gives greater depth and scope to using Tarot predictively, psychologically, or in an occult manner. The spirits of the Tarot are there to work for us when they know who is in control.
So, the question is: Are you controlled by the spirits or are you in control of them?

ROTA Blessings!

The backward and crazy world of Christianity

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I haven't posted here in a while and I am changing up things so bear this in mind. I have to apologize beforehand of getting up on my soapbox, but that's what blogs are for right?

I just read where Pat Robertson has a necklace that repels homosexuals and everything that goes along with them. He also went on to say that gay folk have these rings whereby they infect others by shaking hands with them and the ring scratches their hand. After reading this I wondered to myself has the world really gone mad or am I looking at it all wrong?

I looked at this article and then I thought of Key 12 Hanged Man. The world is a topsy-turvy world and in order for me to make sense of it and things like the above, I need to look at it all from a different perspective. Look at the world upside down and I look at the world in the right way. 

When I did look at this article from and upside down perspective, I the sense of this man's karma. He bilks millions of dollar from his followers and preaches hate when Jesus' message and teachings were about love. I got to see Pat's backwards ways and the Karmic debt he is building up for himself. So instead of me hating him back I am comforted in knowing he will pay for his karma in this life or the next.

This all led me to believe in the amazing power and wisdom of the Tarot. I was full of hate and rage at this guy and immediately Key 12 came to mind that transmuted that hate into indifference because of the karma of it all. It helped me to not act out in hate but to get to a point where it longer bothers me. I am always amazed at the power of the esoteric principles that the Tarot contains. Somewhere someone said that in all of life of all people that there is a Tarot card for it. I am starting to believe this wholeheartedly. I am thankful for the Tarot entering my life many years ago!

ATOR Blessings!