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By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 80, October 26, 2011
IN THIS ISSUE:
I. New Moon Tarotology -- October, 2011 .Wowee! Talk about the witching hour! This Scorpio NewMoon before Halloween is showing some edge this year. In my location, the NewMoon peaks right at the midheaven, and Pluto sits on the Ascendant. X-ray specs, anyone? In other places the orientation will of course be different, but with Jupiter opposing the Sun bundle from Taurus no matter where one lives, we should all be feeling a little bit "haunted" right now. The sense of being stretched across widely diverging extremes is palpable. Lucky for us, we have the secret weapon of Tarot, so we can open up the issues beyond their either/or appearances...http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2011/10/new-moon-tarotology-report-october-2011.html
II. Order our new Tarot of the Holy Light Deck ...You can order our new Deck at http://www.tarotuniversity.com!
III. FEATURED NEWS...Bonnie Cehovet and Stefan Laluna have given us very kind reviews at their blogs and at Aeclectic Tarot, and also a thread has been launched at Aeclectic to talk about the deck.
AECLECTIC, 2011 -- http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/holy-light/review.shtml
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Our publication date and time corresponds to the New Moon each month. This month the Moon is conjunct the Sun on Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 3:57 PM (EDT) / 12:57 PM (PDT). As an astrologer-symbolist, I habitually tie my activities to the cycle of the Moon. If you would like, you can use the Tarot University ArkLetters to help you track the moon's phase:
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CURRENT STAGE OF THE MOON - OCTOBER 2011
NewMoon at 3+ Scorpio on Wednesday, October 26th, at 3:57 PM (EDT) / 12:57 PM (PDT). From this moment, the Moon begins to wax, or increase.
FUTURE STAGES:
2nd Quarter, Waxing Half Moon at 9+ Aquarius on Wednesday, November 2nd, at 12:39 PM (EDT)/ 9:39 AM (PDT).Daylight Savings Time ends at 2:00 AM of Sunday, November 6th.
Full Moon at 18+ Taurus on Thursday, November 10th at 3:17 PM (EST) / 12:17 PM (PST). From this moment, the Moon begins to wane, or decrease.
4th Quarter, Waning Half Moon at 25+ Leo, on Friday, November 18th at 10:10 AM (EST) / 7:10 AM (PST).
Next NewMoon Solar Eclipse at 2+ Sagittarius, on the night of Thanksgiving, over the midnight hour of November 24th, 10:11 PM (PST)/ November 25th, 1:11 AM (EST). From this moment, the Moon begins to wax, or increase.
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ArkLetter 80
October 26, 2011
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-If only Abraham von Franckenberg could have held this deck brought forth by Christine and Michael!
"And since undertaking the fine-tooth-comb investigation required to complete the Tarot of the Holy Light, it has become clear that the oldest Continental variation I could find, that of Etteilla, is also the most comprehensive system to be had from among this group's variants.
In terms of passing on functional correspondences rather than just thinking about them abstractly, Etteilla was clearly sharing a key that subsequent exponents nicked and tarnished; this is my conclusion. A first introduction to the overview of what came to Etteilla through Masonic Theosophy from the pen of Boehme and his students will be found in my book, never fear."
---We await this discourse with keen anticipation .
"I've done the heavy lifting for you, by systematically restoring the numbers, elements, signs, planets and alphabetic ordering of the Trumps back to the older Tarot model again, from which it was originally taken."
---Thank Sophia that Christine has stuck to her guns all these years, through flak and fraternity; continuing the research, digestion and synthesis of the past to carry into the present and future the rubedo of Alchemy's projection, bringing us buried secrets of the Wise.
I am a proud card-carrying member of her Gun Club. She not only knows the target but her aim is true and she's got the ammo, folks.
-john aka drdee, somewhere out beyond the Cuiper Belt on a big green bookmobile, idling in gyres around the significance (or not) regarding the "error" of the seven & eight typo....
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Posted by: John Meador | Saturday, 29 October 2011 at 05:31 PM
Aho! John, longtime Knight and student of Sophia --
Wonder you might about the so-called "mistake"! Mayhap there's method to this madness, but still it was not consciously constructed. I have fantasized how this re-arrangement might make the Wheel around Tiferet turn in the opposite direction temporarily, that was quite illuminating to experiment with in fact. We know the Protestant Sophianics worked both directions on the Father Pillar, they couldn't always just take the energies "up". Food for thought at least! But if it is brilliant, or revelatory, or even simply useful, I still can't claim it. A pure manifestation of Tao, don't ya know!
The remedy, which I am already at work on, will be to design a one-page diagram in wheel form, that will demonstrate all the ingredients of the deck, imposed upon the Zodiac arranged as the Hermetic Cosmos. All the correspondences will be there, preferribly in color if we can do it, all keyed to the Zodiac and the decans and the signs/planets/elements. A user of the THL, if they wish, will be able to load their birthchart and transits into the grid and mark which cards came up under these skies. It should make the process of co-ordinating the Astro-alpha-alchemical-kabalistic-numeric values (and their related Remedies) much more obvious and easier to remember. Wish me luck!
Posted by: Christine Payne-Towler | Monday, 31 October 2011 at 10:53 PM