watercolour and ink on paper

i the magician

The question is how to put in practice that the subtle rules the dense, the question that is the answer to magic.  I think those magicians work backwards, starting off with the dense, with the effect on the substantial and working back to the hidden forces that subtly encourage the desired vision.  Whereas my magic needs to start the other way, I need to examine the subtle, to truly understand my desires and drives to coordinate the actions with what I want, what I really really want, like a magician

the fool
Oh look at that fool, falling, floundering, crashing about breaking the rules and...

ii the high priestess
The High Priestess knows about secrets.  She knows how to keep secrets.  And...

iii the empress
But how does it feel, how does it really feel?  It may be the cleverest of things to...

iv emperor
But what is power and what does it mean to me, and how can I apply this to myself? ...

vi the lovers
The lovers have choices they can make, unlike a child the lover chooses the relationship...

vii the chariot
Willpower is a fantastic tool in the tasks of yokin those beasts and achieving a...

viii strength
There she goes again, our hero embarking on the quest, the mission, the journey, and the...

ix the hermit
Always in a state of flux, here comes the rational thoughts: this is a good situation, it...

xi justice
Seen to be done... well, perhaps on TikTok it does need to be seen as that is all there...

xiii death
Oh death, here you are with your melancholy and finality.  Last night I watched a...

xiv temperance
Everything, life is not a cartoon with dimensionless goodies and baddies that could be...

xv the devil
I have heard the devil is an oppressive experience that is, in least at part, from...

xviii the moon
And so began my week of lunar confusion.  The path I had trodden so casually...

xx judgement
We are limited in this human body with finite, and, indeed, quite small levels of...

Mark My Card
Are your cards a meditation or a prediction.  Do the cards know your fate, do they...