“17” – The Star, 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 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...
The Secret Language of Metaphor, Analogy, and Allegory
The greatest secrets throughout human history have been concealed in a universal or metaphorical language, historically written as ancient hieroglyphs or symbolic images that convey whole ideas through the details inherent in a single composite image. What we call written language originated as symbolic images that required interpretation in...
