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This is a Substack for those who know that tarot is not just about symbols — it is a system, a spirit, and a temple. TARO: essays, rituals, invocations, and guidance drawn from The Book of Thoth
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Waite’s Secret Hierarchy of the Tarot (opens the original)
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Hi, I’m Paul, and today I want to look at A. E. Waite’s The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — specifically, the Preface.There are plenty of PDFs of the book floating around online because it is long out of copyright. The edition itself does not matter very much for what I want to discuss, because I want to concentrate on what Waite is actually telling us before we even reach the cards.The full title is important:The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of D
The Chariot: The Holy Grail in Motion (opens the original)
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The Chariot is probably one of the most important cards in Crowley’s Tarot, and Crowley explicitly tells us that its design was strongly influenced by the Chariot portrayed by Éliphas Lévi.That is an important distinction.A chariot is, of course, a vehicle of movement. But what we have here is not simply a picture of somebody travelling from one place to another. Crowley is giving us a symbolic representation of movement — and, more particularly, movement through the Qabalistic Tree of Life.Than
The Six Levels of Tarot (opens the original)
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Today I want to talk about something slightly different.I’m talking about Tarot, but not in terms of individual cards, card meanings, or anything like that. Instead, I want to try to give you an integrated picture of what Tarot actually is.And I’m going to do that through the idea that there are basically six levels of comprehension of the Tarot.Six levels? I bet you thought there were only two.Level One: RecognitionAt the simplest level, we’re talking about the basics. You know the cards. You k
The Tower... or War? (opens the original)
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Hi, I’m Paul. I’ve been doing this series of videos on the Major Arcana of Aleister Crowley’s Book of Thoth, and it has been something of a journey of discovery for me.I’ve written books on the Tarot and I’ve probably read The Book of Thoth hundreds of times by now, yet I’m always finding something new. One of the things I’ve discovered while making these videos is that I’m still learning as I’m talking about the cards. So you may have to forgive the occasional blank stare when I suddenly realis
The Sun and the New Aeon (opens the original)
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The Sun and the New AeonCrowley describes The Sun as representing Heru-Ra-Ha, Lord of the New Aeon, manifested to humanity as the Sun — spiritual, moral and physical.He is the Lord of Light, Life, Liberty and Love, and Crowley tells us that the purpose of the Aeon is nothing less than the complete emancipation of the human race.Hang on. I thought we were talking about The Sun?Crowley has suddenly moved into the territory of the next card, The Aeon. And I think there is a very good reason for tha
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