The tenth card of the Tarot is associated with Jupiter. It reflects times changing, new cycles beginning, unexpected doors opening. It’s movement, travel, adventure, expansion, good fortune. It can suggest a period to take risks and have more faith in the power of our beliefs. It represents apparent luck that comes through preparation, openness, wide circulation and clarity of purpose. This energy recognizes what feels dynamic, invigorating and right, and pursues it. The tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Yod, is associated with the divine, omnipresent energy of God and creation.
Wild rocket, or arugula, symbolizes energy and initiative. It’s linked with Mars (hot + dry/head, muscular system, blood, immune system, libido). It’s said to be a good tonic and detoxifier. It can aid eye, skin and respiratory health. It contains fiber, iron, copper, potassium, vitamins A, C and K.
Kenneth Anger (February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the “Magick Lantern Cycle.” His films variously merge surrealism with homo-eroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing “elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle.” Anger himself has been described as “one of America’s first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner,” and his “role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate,” with several being released prior to the legalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults in the United States. He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the English gnostic mage and poet Aleister Crowley, and is an adherent of Thelema, the religion Crowley founded.
