Tag: interpreting symbolic language

The Art of Interpreting Symbolic Language: The Pinecone Courtyard of the Vatican

I chose the Pinecone Courtyard of the Vatican to demonstrate how to interpret symbolic language not only because it includes several different disciplines, but because the process it provides instruction for is profound in the spiritual sense. This interpretation is not based on religion, per se, but on the...

“17” – The Star, Hope, and Rebuilding after the Destruction of Illusion

In the Hermetic Arcane of the Tarot, the archetypal idea of the “starâ€, 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 the soul†as an identity crisis that...

The Intuitive Art of Interpreting Dreams

What we experience as dreams, whether nightly as we sleep, or as a form of daydream or internal vision as an intuitive mental impression, are formed naturally out of our subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind is both primitive and instinctual, and universal and intuitive in nature. Unlike the self-conscious...