The Ace of Swords

I'm pleased to say that the first analysis of the Ace of Swords has now been completed. We will be proceeding with the subsequent small cards in the Suit of Swords immediately, so please do check back, or even better, subscribe to this blog so that you can receive notifications of our latest analysis.
As always, your feedback would be tremendously appreciated. So once you've had a look, how about popping back here and letting us know what you think? All constructive criticism gratefully received.

Keith

Four More Cards Completed

Just a note to say that our Tarot Analysis has just been updated with the following cards:

The Two of Cups
The Three of Cups
The Two of Wands (at long last)
The Empress

You can find the Suit of Cups here, the Wands here and the Atu here.

Please enjoy and give us feedback when you can. And please come back soon.

Keith Rowley

In sequence or not?

A most interesting question was posed to me on the Aleister Crowley Society Web Site on the forums. The essence of the question was whether the cards should be placed in sequence before a reading is done. My own feeling is that the universe that the tarot mirrors does as it pleases and that the cards need not be re-ordered. But I am definitely not the world's most experienced reader. Any opinions on this? Has anyone got some verified experimental results?

The Ten of Cups

On request, I have just written an analysis of the Ten of Cups. Now this was not easy, as it threw me completely out of sequence in my thought processes. It required that I introduce a brief introduction to number systems, which I had intended to place in our Introduction to the Kabbalah. Ah well! Such is life. The problem with the Tens is that they sit right at the heart of the return journey to the deity, and as such, they are points of both realization and change. And so, they are even more difficult than the other small cards (excepting the Aces) to explain without a solid metaphysical understanding of the Kabbalah. To see the Ten of Cups Analysis, just click here.
I love this work!

Keith Rowley

The Suit of Cups

What a major undertaking the analysis of Aleister Crowley's Tarot is! I guess I knew this even when I summoned the audacity to start. Anyway, I've made a start on the Suit of Cups, whose root power is Alchemical Water. It's turning out to be much more complex that I anticipated, and my understanding of Crowley's constant dilemma becomes ever clearer - how to convey in terms comprehensible to the average student the meanings of symbols and structures whose nature morphs under every act of scrutiny and interaction?
It's actually quite like the lessons we learn in engineering and physics concerning non-linear systems. What we find in that domain is that we can NEVER get an answer for all possible situations that is consistent and predictable. We thus call these systems non-deterministic - that is to say that we haven't a clue what they'll do next! Furthermore, it's all but impossible to make these systems repeat their behaviour at any time because they are so sensitive to starting conditions that they diverge wildly from what we would expect them to do even if we are one part in a trillion out in the information we feed them under analysis. That's why we can't predict the weather, or repeat a snooker shot by the way. Anyway, if you're new here, have a look at our site and you'll easily find our Tarot Pages. Join us! Contribute! We'd love to hear from you.

Fraternally in Thelema,
Keith Rowley