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Hope, and Rebuilding After the Destruction of Illusion In the Hermetic Arcane of the Tarot, the archetypal idea of the star, which is Key 17, follows the the Lightning Struck Tower (Key 16) which represents the destruction of illusion (Key 15) and is what prompts the the dark night of...

What I have come to realize in my lifetime is that all true change only seems to come through extreme situations. The greater the intensity of the situation the more pronounced the emotion it elicits in me, the greater my ability to transform myself and my way of thinking as...

Fear is one of the most powerful spiritual forces there are due to how it functions on the human psyche and within the mind-body relationship. While fear comes instinctively as the means of warning us of an actual danger and immediate threat, allowing us time to prepare or by producing...

One of the greatest forms of self-delusion that we're all prone to comes through our natural tendency to create a false image of ourselves as we'd like to be seen instead of as we truly are. This image starts in childhood and is set into place through our conditioning and...

The major Arcane of the Tarot, also known as the Hermetic texts, is comprised of 22 Universal Archetypes that operate simultaneously on multiple planes through the creative process conducted through the utilization of the 10 primary Universal Laws that govern all material manifestation. The first 11 principles involve the dissension...

Interpreting symbolic imagery is an art-form that only comes from an in-depth knowledge of the principles and cultural icons being illustrated. I wanted to use this famous Egyptian/Sumerian hieroglyph as the means of demonstrating how to translate symbolic imagery because it portrays a very basic principle and I have seen...

Once we gain a fundamental understanding of how consciousness as an energetic flow works, we can acquire the self-awareness necessary to create in a much more meaningful way. The principle represented in Sacred Geometry by the Monad is the toroidal energy system that operates within the material world as an...

One of the easiest ways to gain awareness around the hidden aspects of yourself that are actively creating in your life is by realizing that all outer stimuli only serves to awaken what's alive within you as correlated qualities. As inherent aspects of us are activated and brought out by...

The cornerstone of all spiritual growth and psychological healing comes through the motto "know thyself" as attaining deeper forms of self-awareness that brings realization and insights into your true nature and why your life is the way it is. The whole basis of healing in the psychological sense comes naturally...

In all forms of Esoteric Sciences ideas are communicated in the universal language of Archetypes, numbers, and symbols. We're given a grand formula as a composite image or idea that must be intuitively interpreted in order for its hidden knowledge to be apprehended. All actual learning takes place through our...

This idea can seem confusing in terms of being able to actually employ it at the practical level because it involves different functions of different aspects of our own mind working in harmony with each other to produce the same outcome as an experience of reality. We have to understand...

In our modern world of excessive materialism we've lost the essential meaning of life as a soul. Rituals and festivals of various kinds are designed to take us deeper into the hidden meaning of things where we can tap into the spiritual powers involved. Anytime we have a unique combination...

All numbers represent laws and principles as creative processes and archetypal patterns that are acting to organize and orchestrate the entire material world. There's no such thing as chance, and nothing ever comes randomly without a reason. Every single effect has a cause as the reason why it exists. What...

What we refer to as our personal (bodily) existence comes through our ability to perceive ourselves as a "whole reality", rather than a fragmented part of an even greater reality that exists independent of us. Our perception of reality is formed as a manifestation of the relationship between the subconscious...

In order to intelligently consider this idea we have to start by defining what we mean by 'God', because this idea is different for everyone. The word God is being used in this context to represent a higher power of universal consciousness as the laws and principles that govern the...

The symbolic interpretation of the Tarot card 14 - Temperance by Dr. Linda Gadbois

There's an interesting thing about beliefs that make them hard to realize as not being true. Anything that we belief to be true, and therefore real, we create through our ability to see it in any situation. We see it not as an actual reality in and of itself, but...

This process is very important to understand in order to heal psychologically and in order to intentionally evolve our soul to higher levels of conscious empowerment by stepping into our true identity as higher creative beings. What we refer to as both our mind and soul is 3-fold in nature....

Many of us spend our whole life a slave to the attitude, behaviors, and opinions of other people. We're in a constant form of reaction from one moment to the next, beings jerked around like a puppet on strings, often crushed by a rude comment. If someone is hateful or...

Working with what we refer to as the subtle body in an intelligent and effective way can be difficult in the most basic sense, because, like the mind that produces it, it's invisible to the physical senses and operates according to complementary laws. The most fundamental universal law that provides...