CONFESSIONS OF A (PRO) TAROT READER
- . // ๐.๐.๐.๐.๐.๐.๐ โ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ // In the tarot, ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ or ๐๐ซ๐ญ โ ๐๐ญ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ โ is associated with the alchemical maxim of ๐.๐.๐.๐.๐.๐.๐, bringing a much-needed ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ to the ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฑ ๐ค๐ถ๐ฃ๐ฆ of ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ซโs edgy wrestling with ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐บ in ๐๐ญ๐ฎ ๐๐. โ๐๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ข ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ข๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎโ Visita โ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ต Interiora โ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ Terrae โ ๐๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ (๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ-๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ-๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ) Recfificando โ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ง๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ / ๐๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ Invenies โ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ Occultum โ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ Lapidem โ ๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐.๐.๐.๐.๐.๐.๐ The Art of Sovereignty and the Sovereignty of Art.. The Self and its hidden Immensity must embark upon the Revelation of its constituents, located in ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐๐ฒ, and revealed through Alchemical โRectificandoโ, which is essentially a process like distillation โ the use of โheatโ (spiritual disciplines) on a โsolutionโ (the alchemist themselves) to โdistilโ the required constituents of โthe solutionโ through โevaporationโ (disintegration) and โcondensationโ (re-integration) and discard the โdrossโ โ the un-necessary โcontaminantsโ (neuroses and emotional / psychic programming) that hide the purity and beauty of โthe elementsโ (the soul, spirit and creative spark of the individual) within their stages of โputrefactionโ (ego death) and โrebirthโ (individuation). #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #alchemy #vitriol #philosophersstone #emeraldtablet #temperance #art #transformation #spirituality #occult #divination #divinationcommunity #digitalart #c4d #arnoldrender
- . // ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ // I saw Hermes sat beneath a tree, Trismegistus sure saw me! A club was rested โpon His knee, His smile of childish victory: Argus slain! (Or about to beโฆ) Clubbed to Death By a Deity. Sulfur, Salt and Mercury - Thrice Holy Key Of Alchemyโฆ How do you feel about the โ shall we say โshadowyโ? โ side of The Magus / The Magician / Thoth-Hermes / Mercury? ๐๐ญ๐ฎ ๐ in the Tarot? Itโs interesting that Mercury/Hermes was known in the Ancient world as ๐ถ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐น โ โcapable of either, or bothโ. Interesting because it implies that 1 has an inherentโฆdualityโฆ?! Does His/Her (capable of either or both, remember?) mythic penchant for criminals, murderers and thieves ever cross your mind when he shows up in tarot spreads? His/Her ability to โmagic awayโ evidence of mischief, wrongdoing, criminality, inconvenient facts, parts of the picture that donโt fit the story? The ability to just vanish โ Him/Her self, or, indeed, others? Remember, the Magus createsโฆTime & Space. He/She directes Power from ๐๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ. According to the suitability of the vessel. Lightning through a tree doesnโt usually turn out too well for the tree. The conduit must be suitable, or else...fireworks! A very complex figure in mythology, at once a cheeky child and a wise old man, a demi-God who finagled his way to full Divinity within a single afternoon, Zeus/Jupiterโs court jester (ie the Messenger and โplaymateโ of the Wheel of Fortune ๐๐ญ๐ฎ ๐, and you might like to meditate on that a bitโฆ) Alchemy posits Mercury as Spirit, the Breath of Life, the Mind/Description of the Soul, its Logos, or Word. And, remember, in Alchemy, โMercury is often called the Moonโโฆ The Mind is a Great Creator. Dual in its Unity, Unified in its Duality. Intimately involved with how we actually make sense of anything and everything, and a planetary Trump, free to 'wander'. A very interesting tarot cardโฆtell me how you work with The Magus / Magician in your tarot practice in the comments ๐โฆ #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #mercury #hermes #thoth #themagician #alchemy #caduceus #cd4 #digitalart #occult #sprituality #animation #crowley
- . // ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ // In the tarot, ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ซ โ ๐๐ญ๐ฎ ๐๐ โ can usually be seen to be prominently grasping the symbol for ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, associated as it is with judicious and wise execution of great Power โ or tyrannical and destructive abuses thereof. The Emperor is associated with the zodiacal sign of Aries (Natural ruler of the Ascendant) and with the Hebrew letter-intelligence โTzaddiโ โ meaning โfish-hookโ โ and the root of words throughout Indo-European languages that imply power or heraldry โ Caesar, Czar, Tsar, Tzar, and so on. It is clear in the modern World that few, if any, of those with responsibility to govern โ those โ๐ง๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏโ - have understood, let alone mastered, the Work of Antimony. Antimony is one of the most important metals in Alchemy, and despite its poisonous characteristics was used in many alchemical medicines throughout the development of the practice. Known for its virulent reactivity, it was dubbed โ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐โ due to its colour and its voracious appetite, โconsumingโ other metals in the athanor of an alchemical operation very violently โ all except Gold, with which it does not react. For this and other reasons, Alchemical Antimony is associated with the wild, savage, and difficult to tame aspects of the human condition. It is related to the visceral animal-nature of Being, which defies domestication, and even when tamed is still very dangerous, even after rigorous disciplines to bring it under the auspices and guidance of Spiritโฆ #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarotcommunity #alchemy #antimony #thegraywolf #spirituality #spiritualcommunity #magick #transformation #c4d #arnoldrender #digitalart
- . // ๐๐๐๐ // ๐จ ๐ป๐น๐ฌ๐จ๐ป๐ฐ๐บ๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐จ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด๐ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ถ๐ผ๐น ๐ท๐จ๐น๐ป๐บ ๐ท๐๐๐ #4 Weโve seen that in Alchemy, the terms ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐ and ๐บ๐๐๐ are codes for the more abstract concepts of ๐บ๐๐๐, ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ and ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐. Wait, is โbodyโ really an abstract concept?! Wellโฆthat depends. We all have one, right? Hereโs mine, typing this out, advanced digits capable of precise movements, a little hungry, but full of energy. Our body is obvious, it can be seen, felt, touched, smelt. Itโs our material vessel, the boat we sail in, the environment where we sense our mind and mind our senses, the beginning and end of our typical โexperience of ourselvesโ, including all the physical and mental manifestations of our emotional and physical comfort and wellbeing. But what do we mean by the broader term and itโs deployment in language? โBodyโ? One definition is โthe whole physical structure of a personโ, but equally as often can mean โthe majority of a physical person, excluding the head, and possibly limbsโ. Interesting. It can also refer to โa collection of disparate parts or individuals collected together for a specific purpose or through particular circumstances or for a particular purposeโ โ the student body, the body of water in the lake, the main body of the article. Finally, it can be โan amount of somethingโ โ the growing body of evidence. Alcehmists would have little dispute with these definitions, in as much as they assert that all bodies are, in fact, concretizations, crystallizations of thought emerging from soul, of Mercury coagulating Sulfur. They might say that the traditional view of the body is the first, but their view is the โincorporationโ of the body โ the coagulation of a Salt from the union of Sulfur and Mercury - which would be the 'abstract' sort of body, where a glomming together of parts for a purpose or by circumstance takes place, following a design or principle. Sulfur is the principle, Mercury the design, and Salt the resulting body. ...๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ #alchemy #salt #solveetcoagula #occult #occultism #symbols #tarot #tarotreadersofintagram #magick #transformation
- . // ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ // ๐จ ๐ป๐น๐ฌ๐จ๐ป๐ฐ๐บ๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐จ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด๐ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ถ๐ผ๐น ๐ท๐จ๐น๐ป๐บ ๐ท๐๐๐ #3 Alchemists were wise to secrete their teachings behind veils of โJibberishโ and carefully coded manuscripts โ the religious sanctimony of the times meant that experimenting and discussing the Nature of Consciousness could cost you your life if it were determined to be apostasy, or sacreligious โ a very real threat. These days, there are fewer reasons for secrecy in most parts of the World. The mission of the Adepts has, in many ways, succeeded, and religious doctrine has been superseded by empirical transparent processes of knowledge, albeit 'the baby may have been thrown out with bathwater', somewhat. Of all the nomenclature and jargon used in alchemical writing, none is perhaps as confusing as ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐. From the alchemical perspective, ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐ is the ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ of any given material. Paracelsus explains: โ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐.โ This just gives us an even more weaselly word to try to get to grips with โ โSpiritโ. Oh dear! Spirit can be defined as the ๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐of a person, place or thing. In people, this would be the seat of emotions, character, and the source of mind and ego. Also 'spirit' can mean 'will' - keep your spirit up, she lost the spirit for the thing, etc. Itโs a slippery slope, language, isnโt it? Now we have โpersonโ, โcharacterโ, โmindโ, โegoโ and 'will' to define, to better get to what we mean by 'spirit'. ๐ณ๐คฏ Okay, letโs have at it: ...๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ #alchemy #mercury #solveetcoagula #occult #occultism #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #asabovesobelow #wisdomofsolomon #qabalah #emeraldtablet #tabuadeesmeralda #witchcraft #spirituality #transformation #magick #digitalart #c4d #arnoldrender
- . // ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ // ๐จ ๐ป๐น๐ฌ๐จ๐ป๐ฐ๐บ๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐จ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด๐ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ถ๐ผ๐น ๐ท๐จ๐น๐ป๐บ ๐ท๐๐๐ #2 In the 8th Century, a Persian alchemist by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan (a.k.a Geber) wrote a mysterious treatise on 2 alchemical principles: Sulfur and Mercury. This would revolutionize alchemical studies and become synonymous with the language of alchemy thereafter. He โ and most alchemists โ wrote in extremely cryptic prose, secreting their teaching in a coded cypher that veiled the sacred secrets from those unfamiliar with the terminology. Our word โJibberishโ has its origins here, referring directly to this style of writing, which was impenetrable to the casual, uninitiated observer. Once we understand that โSulfurโ does not refer to brimstone, the smelly volcanic yellow element, nor โMercuryโ to quicksilver, we can begin to decipher the real intention behind the cryptic codes. Paracelsus, in his work โConcerning the Nature of Thingsโ, writes simply and directly that: โ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐โ. Alchemists who had studied the works of Jabir knew Sulfur to be โan oily substanceโ, one which could be extracted and concentrated out of any selected material (animal, vegetable, mineral or metal โ the โfour elementsโ of the alchemists). Although we know that alchemists view Sulfur as โan oilโ, which contains the โessenceโ of that which it has been procured from, it resonated much more profoundly as a deeper symbol to the alchemical mind. โSoulโ can be defined as: โThe immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual lifeโ. You can look in the dictionary if you donโt believe me. To alchemists, the ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ meant exactly that: this oily extract, this ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, which could be separated and studied, was the ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ of the specific manifestation of the material โ animal, plant or mineral โ being studied. ...๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ #alchemy #sulfur #solveetcoagula #occult #occultism #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #asabovesobelow #wisdomofsolomon #qabalah #emeraldtablet #tabuadeesmeralda #witchcraft #spirituality #transformation #magick #digitalart #c4d #arnoldrender
- . // ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ // The Philosopher's Stone The Medicine of Metals #alchemy #alchemysymbols #occult #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #thegreatwork #transformation #temperance #witchcraft #thothtarot #sagittarius #art #digitalart #c4d #arnoldrender #divination #divinationcommunity #sacredarts
- . // ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ // ๐จ ๐ป๐น๐ฌ๐จ๐ป๐ฐ๐บ๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐จ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด๐ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ถ๐ผ๐น ๐ท๐จ๐น๐ป๐บ ๐ท๐๐๐ #1 What is Alchemy? In the simplest possible terms, Alchemy is a praxis which seeks to understand the relationship between Consciousness (โI AMโ) and Matter. Easy to dismiss as either pre-scientific chemistry, concerned only with bubbling potions in vain attempts to โtransmute metalsโ from lead to gold via the famed โPhilosopherโs Stoneโ, or as poetic New-Age nonsense referring only to allegories and metaphors about โpersonal growthโ, that are best discarded for more modern technologies of the psyche, it is in fact something more profound and coherent than either. Alchemy throughout human history has been concerned with the essential relationship between the ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ and the ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ the ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ and the ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. It has sought to bring about โ via experimentation - understanding of how human beings can fully participate in the tremendous ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ apparent in Nature. โ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐โ ~ ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ That miraculous โOne Thingโ spoken of in the Emerald Tablet is, in fact, you. Consciousness * The Point in the Circle, infinitesimally contracted and Infinitely Expanded ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. Pulsing out Time and Space, in, out, create, maintain, destroy, 1-and-2-and-1-and-2-andโฆ These are both considered to be essential aspects of the Self. You, as a cartographer between the Infinite and the Infinitesimal, making your own maps of meaning, and seeking your own progress. ...๐ ๐ฌ๐ซ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ข๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ด #alchemy #solveetcoagula #occult #occultism #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #asabovesobelow #wisdomofsolomon #qabalah #emeraldtablet #tabua #tabuadeesmeralda #digitalart #c4d
- . ๐โ๐ผ โ๐๐๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐ผ ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ TRAILER #๐ See the whole film at ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐.๐๐จ๐ฆ/๐ญ๐ก๐-๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ข๐-๐ฃ๐จ๐ค๐ It could have had more jokes, I guess...?! ๐ If the Fool is, or even has characteristics of, Ouranos, or Dionysus, or the pantheon of Tricksters from all and every culture, or even if the Fool is a Romantic personification of Sunyatta and Nirvana, then it's perfectly OK to have a little shudder, grin at the seriousness, and treat with the greatest of irreverent reverence... Those Outer Planets and Older Gods are not playthings. Divine Madness may not be all the fun it's cracked up to be. 'Follis' - 'Bag of Wind': I certainly found that out! Possessed by a hurricane of ideas and doggerel rhymes. LOL Instagram destroys video quality, so if you want to watch the actual short film itself in glorious 4k, head on over to the website linked in my Bio, and just add /๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐ at the end of website URL in your browser. How did I do? Does it capture some of the Mystery of the Mystic Naif, the Wanderer, the Holy Fool, and the Wyrdness of Everything Being a Whole Load of Nothing At All? There are subtitles on the film in both English and Portuguese, because these are the languages I speak, so if you wan't to follow the blather, go ahead and check 'em out ๐ I guess I subscribe to the idea that Tarot cards represent states of consciousness, and this one is the wackiest, if not the weirdest. And that's pretty much all I have to show and tell about this particular Mystery, for now!! ๐คก #tarosophia #thecosmicjoke #tarot #tarotcards #tarotreadersofinstagram #witchcraft #witchesofinstagram #occult #occultism #qabalah #thoth #thefool #thefoolsjourney #holyfool #clown #parsifal #digitalart #animation #c4d #3d #mysteriescoventgarden #tarotart #magick #spirituality #inspirational #consciousness #esoteric
- . ๐โ๐ผ โ๐๐๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐ผ ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ TRAILER #๐ See the whole film at ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐.๐๐จ๐ฆ/๐ญ๐ก๐-๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ข๐-๐ฃ๐จ๐ค๐ The Tarot Mandala I have created here is inspired by a somewhat haphazard (Fool-ish) mash-up of ideas from Jodorowsky, Crowley, Foster-Case, Allen-Hulse, the Cube of Space, Rosicrucianism, some of the esoteric astrology of Monique Pommier, and a sprinkling of my own weird ideas, and those of the invisible tutors... It all hangs together, if you'd like me to show my working ๐ Do you work with Tarot as a structured system, or just vibe on the colours and symbols and go with your gut? Does the Fool make you shudder when popping into your readings, or smile with delight? Innocence, or Insanity? #tarosophia #thecosmicjoke #tarot #tarotcards #tarotreadersofinstagram #witchcraft #witchesofinstagram #occult #occultism #qabalah #thoth #thefool #thefoolsjourney #holyfool #clown #parsifal #digitalart #animation #c4d #3d #mysteriescoventgarden #tarotart #magick #spirituality #inspirational #consciousness #esoteric
- . ๐โ๐ผ โ๐๐๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐ผ ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ TRAILER #๐ See the whole film at ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐.๐๐จ๐ฆ/๐ญ๐ก๐-๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ข๐-๐ฃ๐จ๐ค๐ What does The Fool mean to you? How does the archetype of the Jester or Clown manifest in your day-to-day? Are you fearful of this derangement, or is it your go-to resource for creativity and inspiration? How Divine is your Ecstasy? How Wise is your Folly? ๐ I mean, make no mistake - sometimes folly is just folly, nothing wise about it! ๐ But many people abandon their best ideas because, well, good idea and all, but come on, it just sounds too crazy... #tarosophia #thecosmicjoke #tarot #tarotcards #tarotreadersofinstagram #witchcraft #witchesofinstagram #occult #occultism #qabalah #thoth #thefool #thefoolsjourney #holyfool #clown #parsifal #digitalart #animation #c4d #3d #mysteriescoventgarden #tarotart #magick #spirituality #inspirational #consciousness #esoteric