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Sacred India Tarot Archive – Creation of 9 and 10 of Staves/Wands
.. Glancing through this series, I am reminded how the suit of Staves or Wands develops the astral weaponry of the suit of Swords/Arrows into a martial art, or dance form. This seemed fairly...
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Sketches of Beethoven and Minona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C3TIr2bBo0 – Barenboim’s noble rendering of the Appassionata Sonata .. http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Famille/FamilyTree-Minona.html#Midi .. Beethoven profile – xerox of a...
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Human Landscape – Children of Syria
.. Here are three sketches I did recently, feeling the pressure at the gates of Europe of thousands, millions of individuals, who seek in desperation, a safe place for their young, and for their...
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Sacred India Tarot Archive – Page(s) of Staves: The Ashwins
” Buddha, 2008 .. This post contains Rohit Arya’s inspiring reflection on the Ashwins. Through last week’s dark events in Paris which bring close to home, hearth and empathy, the shocking daily...
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Arcanum Seven – Shabat Shalom Baruch
.. This post waited in my Drafts for some considerable time! I was kept busy with my book of the Tarot Arcana (from which this writing arose), and with finding out, and with living. Now I recall...
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The Golden Tripod of Basil Valentine – Reflection
“ .. Alchemy is child’s play, God’s game in the garden. The human physical and existential organism is wondrously subtle and infinitely textured, more to be breathed, yearned and died with, than to be...
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Character in Birdsong – by Peter Adams
Among my late father’s writings, I found two essays to post here in his memory, this one on Bird-songs, and another: ‘Mutterings from a Back Desk’ (among first or second violins in the orchestra). His...
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The Mellowing
Woodland 1986 .. Walking in the beech woods near Great Missenden, I was thinking about being the childhood, and I wrote this down: Elder age is not only four hop skip jump, but the Mellow just as good....
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The Beech Forest
Trees in conference, Alet 1986 .. When the brook begins to flow, a barque of impassioned words appears. At first, there is no bark, there is the naked pipe of a silver soaring tree beyond my speech....
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Resurrect the Star
.. Tarot Keys Tower, Star and Moon, representing the paths on the Tree which converge on Netzach These three Tarots tell me a story: the cracking of the seedcase, the watering of the shoot, the...
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Sound the Horn
.. Tarot Key 20 – the resurrection .. For me the solidarity awoke when I opened another greenpeace email. It used the word ‘we shall defeat …’ This stirred me deep inside. I’ve been feeling...
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Sketches of Pallas Athene
.. .. Athene was the Greek warrior goddess. She might correspond to India’s Durga. Her magnificent grey eyes were filled with light; she came across the seas, larger than life, to inspire Perseus...
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A Walk with Easter Bluebells
.. Happy Easter! On a long walk in Hertfordshire with camera – which cannot capture that deep purple fiery glitter coming through the ground, so let’s just imagine it. .. World turns upside down: sky...
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As we become still and look
.. My tarot reading last week – see Aquariel Thrice Great Hermes said, “For never … can an embodied soul that has once leaped aloft, so as to get a hold upon the truly Good and True, slip back into the...
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Friendship Poem
Let my face cave into your SELF. Every picture of my thought spills out of being wordless. Let my fear of you go, let lion talk. Let the lion see. The sun doesn’t bother what goes on when it rises...
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What is Ascension?
A reading from Caitlin & John Matthews’ Arthurian Tarot (cut deck once into centre of pile, right and left hands) Re-reading some old writings in 2005 about 2012 and the ending of the Mayan...
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Castling for Old-Timers
Climbers on the rope – 1964 – a left-handed belay! Early this year I took a few climbing lessons at the age of 69 – inspired by family developments. I used to be a fair tree-climber and sea-cliff...
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The Coin of the Sages
The Coin of the sages is an alchemist’s gift from heaven. It turns up in any crucible of life and relationships. We polish our old copper coins (Venus) till they shine as the golden Sun. In an old...
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Kali in the Spring – a Contemplation
In this free improvisation on a pair of Kali Yantras, Western and Eastern Mandala traditions alike share the sacred geometric form and its Tantric alchemy. My next post will feature my original...
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‘Shakti Rising’– the original Drawings
The Sanskrit words Maha and Vidya translate to “Great Wisdom”. Dr Kavitha Chinnaiyam’s book “Shakti Rising” was published in 2017 and you can find it on Amazon. Earlier that year she asked me to do...
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