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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...
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Aug 12, 20204 min read


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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Aug 4, 20204 min read


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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Jul 22, 20204 min read


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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Jul 15, 20204 min read


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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Jul 7, 20204 min read


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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Jun 23, 20205 min read


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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Jun 16, 20204 min read


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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Jun 10, 20204 min read


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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Jun 4, 20204 min read


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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Jun 1, 20203 min read
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