Le Monde - On Entering The Rose-Garden
You can’t just walk on into the Rose-garden, you need a key, and that key is revealed in the Cathar Code hidden in the symbology of the...
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Russell Sturgess
- Aug 4, 2020
- 4 min
The Judgement - The Final Test
In just the same way the Fool had the test of the flaming sword after their sojourn through the Dark Night of the Soul (Hanged Man, Card...
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Russell Sturgess
- Jul 22, 2020
- 4 min
Le Soleil - The Wedding Invitation
Rebis was an alchemical term that was typically represented as one body having two heads, one being masculine and the other feminine....
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Russell Sturgess
- Jul 15, 2020
- 4 min
La Lune - The Tarot Christmas Card
The Moon card is full of surprises. There are four key symbols, the crustacean, the dogs, the buildings, and the Moon herself. We saw in...
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Russell Sturgess
- Jul 7, 2020
- 4 min
L’etoile - Entering the Treasury of Light
The Fool is now passing through the outer portal of the House of God, which in the Temple of Solomon lead from the the Court of the...
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Russell Sturgess
- Jun 29, 2020
- 6 min
The House of God or The Tower?
That its name was changed from the House of God to the Tower is a good indication that this was one of the more misunderstood cards in...
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Russell Sturgess
- Jun 23, 2020
- 5 min
Le Diable - Buddha’s Second Poison
The Buddha taught that there where three poisons, essentially equivalent to how the seeds were sown in Jesus’s parable of the sower. As...
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Russell Sturgess
- Jun 16, 2020
- 4 min
Temperance - Leaving the World of the Magician.
The Cathar were dualists, meaning that in their beliefs there were two worlds, each ruled by a different God. They saw this world as...
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Russell Sturgess
- Jun 10, 2020
- 4 min
Card XIII - The Card With No Name
This card may not actually be about physical death, thus why it has no name...it may well be the death of human consciousness.
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Russell Sturgess
- Jun 4, 2020
- 4 min
Le Pendu - The Pruning
The Cathar had made “…the Sermon on the Mount the essence of their ethics…” (Durrant, The Age of Faith). The two parts of this sermon...
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Russell Sturgess
- Jun 1, 2020
- 3 min
La Force - A Billboard
Like the Magician Card, La Force, or Strength as she is sometimes called, is essentially a billboard at a crossroad.
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