“17” – Interpreting the Star Key of the Tarot
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...
Transforming Fear and Isolation into Compassion and Community
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...
We Only Cultivate Spiritual Powers through Live Experiences
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...
“16” – The Lightning Struck Tower, Destruction of Illusion, and the Dark Night of the Soul
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...
How We Create Ourselves through Our Life Experiences
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...
How to Become Aware of Yourself through Your Reaction to Everything Else
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...
The Art of Introspection: Self-Knowledge, Awareness, and Tools for Transformation
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...
“15” – The Archetype of the Devil: Overcoming Weaknesses, Material Attachments, and Transcending Illusion
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...
Self-Empowerment – The Relationship Between Choice, Will, and Creation
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...
Personal Existence and the Relationship Between the Subconscious and Self-Conscious Mind
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...
