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Application, Separation, Frustration… Is It All About Aspects?

Are interrogation or horary charts as simple as finding an aspect or not? If the Lord of the Ascendant is in the Seventh, will your lover propose? Quite a few people think horary charts are as simple as looking for an aspect and saying yay, or nay. However, aspects have several layers of interpretation which must be considered: application or separation, dominance, prohibition, and so on. Let…

Just a quick update due to technical difficulties tomorrow’s article will be postponed until next week. I apologise.

Thou Art the Mars of Malcontents

Sect refers to the division of charts, signs, and planets into two, groups: day (diurnal) and night (nocturnal). In the day-time, the Sun will be found above the horizon but will be located below it at night. The Sun and the Moon preside over day and night (the sect-light), respectively. Saturn and Jupiter are diurnal, and Venus and Mars are nocturnal. Mercury is neutral becoming determined…

The Earth and the Fire: On Elemental Dignities 02

The World with its four elements we see;Within, a naked Goddess dances free.The water and the wind, the earth and the fire,All That which doth beyond them all aspire.Doreen Valiente, The Tarot Trumps LAST week’s article explored the concept of elemental dignities. Our focus was on how such dignities affect cards’ ability to function via MacGregor Mathers’ triads. Here we turn our focus to the…

The Picturebook of Fate: The Fortune-Teller’s Tarot 005

Fate has decreed for each person the immutable working out of events, reinforcing this decree with many opportunities for good or bad consequences– Vettius Valens, The Anthology (Riley Trans.) IN the days of yesteryear, dignity was common phrase to be found in Anglo-Saxon Tarot literature. Despite its commonality, few texts offered a clear explanation of this concept. Consequently, dignity was…

The Water and the Wind: Elemental Dignities 001

The World with its four elements we see; Within, a naked Goddess dances free. The water and the wind, the earth and the fire, All That which doth beyond them all aspire. Doreen Valiente, The Tarot Trumps, THE first tarot cards I saw was an early Ancien Tarot de Marseille. The first tarot cards I owned was the Caroline Smith and John Astrop The Elemental Tarot. Smith-Astrop’s cards proved…

The Picturebook of Fate: The Fortune-Teller’s Tarot 00

  Coming events cast their shadows before DESPITE the emphasis on so-called psychological interpretation in English Tarot literature, the Tarot cards were primarily seen as a fortune-telling method for much of the twentieth century. Outside of the Anglo-American literature, the Tarot remains a divination tool in both the exoteric and esoteric sense. The associations with Jung et al. is a…