After the last post, two people asked if I could share more about the process and the materials used. So for this time, I will show you some of that. You will see some of the ugly in-between stages of the coloring process. Don’t judge anything by those; the final ones look good. What you […]
Swiftness – the speed of light Glad to be on the wings of momentum. Here is an “in progress” picture : The Eight of Wands combines the Art card with the Magus. Color Scales for the Eight of Wands: King Scale for Hod: Violet Four Scales for Sagittarius: Blue; Yellow; Green; […]
The heart of the Wands suit is the fixed fire sign of Leo, spanning the middle of the Tree of Life, the 5,6, and 7. Here is contained one of the four Royal Stars of Heaven, Regulus, called also Cor Leonis, the heart of the Lion and the Watcher of the North, seen on Tabula Mundi’s Universe […]
The Tabula Mundi Tarot Colores Arcus edition is in progress! I have the three decans of Aries completed in color. Right after I finished painting the Major Arcana, and was about to start creating the Minor Arcana, I had a dream about finding an instrument that played colored lights instead of sound. It seemed like […]
Happy Crowleymas to you all! In the trickster spirit, I thought the Beast might appreciate some joking. Here is poking a little fun at AE Waite, a favorite pastime of his: And a joke: How many Thelemites does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two, if they fit. For tonight, I hope to toast Uncle […]
October Ode to Pan, Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan! blue black grapes purpling fragrant, fallen high the devil lived hickory nuts, swollen white gold crystals as yet unlived potential existence is pure joy honeycomb, torrential
The number 4 gets little glamour. It’s rep is stability, squareness which isn’t all that exciting on the face of it. But really it is everything there is, come forth from the One. Four is the number of wholeness and completion of a created thing, in that nearly every complete thing can be divided into […]
Someone asked me an interview-type question the other day about sacred animal symbolism in the Tabula Mundi tarot. Specifically, they said, “You use a lot of symbolic/sacred animals – bees, snakes. Would you say they’re part of a personal cosmology?” It’s true, they are part of a “personal cosmology” system and always have been. As part […]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΓ (23) SKIDOO What man is at ease in his Inn? Get out. Wide is the world and cold. Get out. Thou hast become an in-itiate. Get out. But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest in. The Way out is THE WAY. Get out For OUT is Love and […]
If you are a Kickstarter backer for the Tabula Mundi Nox et Lux edition, you should have received an email survey July 1 that asks you to verify your shipping address. I can’t send your decks and books without it, so please reply. The project is all consuming and going well. The decks and books are […]
