The Spiritual Roots of the Tarot

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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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

La Force - A Billboard

Like the Magician Card, La Force, or Strength as she is sometimes called, is essentially a billboard at a crossroad.