Hermetic Tarot Deck

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This deck is one of the few that easily reveals the planetary influences at work in a matter, or the overall spread and thus lends itself to shades of meaning relevant to the seeker's own elemental nature and birth sign. When I got it and started sifting through the cards to connect with the deck… well, let’s just say I wasn’t very impressed.

Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig is the recommended book that goes along with this, especially for beginners in the Occult Sciences.

Instead, Dowson draws from the works of the more noteworthy names to have come from the Golden Dawn tradition: Mathers, Crowley, Levi, and others. A profound, profound thinker whose heart, burning with compassion for the world, gave us a manual of practical Christian transformation – a transformation that has undone my neuroses, strengthened my sanity, vastly enlarged my scope of feeling, vitalised my mind, melted my anger, fired my compassion, deepened my calmness.

It’s deeply rewarding, and beautifully drawn, but it is not for the faint of heart, and I cannot emphasize that fact enough. Yeats remained in the Stella Matutina until 1921, while Brodie-Innes continued his Amen-Ra membership in Edinburgh. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. This author dives deeply into the meanings of many deep traditions, as is his chosen methodoloy: Christian Hermeneutics. Not a perfect work by any means, but considering the ambitious scope I'd say it's fairly successful in setting out a compelling school of interpretation, not only of these cards, but also of ourselves and the world around us.

It’s really hard to review this deck for an audience that might not be familiar with all this mystical ghushmarush, because I don’t know how causally I can mention things like the fact that God has 72 names in Judaism. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.

It can be integrated into personal rituals, meditations, and ceremonies and in fact is probably far better suited for such work than, say, the Marseille, Rider-Waite-Smith, or even the Thoth decks. In this regard the endorsement and the forword and afterword by cardinal Hans Urs von Balthasar is noteworthy. Reference is made to the Four Worlds, and the Paths of the Tree of Life in the instructional booklet .At the end of this deck review are correspondence tables that compare the RWS with the Hermetic Tarot. It is an introspective deck, one that aids indispensably in harnessing your personal power or tapping into the universal unconscious, but I cannot imagine how exhausting it would be on the mental faculties to do a tarot reading party with the Hermetic. There are two things a child in an abusive, traumatized family learns quickly: don’t feel and most definitely don’t talk about it. Each description and the photo of the cards were eloquently woven and unveiled so as to whisper in the truth in a thunderous way.