Just a random but vaguely interesting point that occurred to me whilst writing this post. We can imagine the amount of light at various times throughout the year as the function of a sine wave. From the vernal equinox to the autumnal equinox, the days are lighter than the nights, and so this portion of […]

M.H. Benders wrote: I’ve read a good deal of the essay [The Small Cards of the Tarot – EH] last night. It’s pretty good, exact and precise. There is one thing that suddenly caught my attention and which I have been pondering over. Why is it that the fire & water trumps From your comments […]

I have published some rough notes on the Planets in the resources section of the site, including description, correspondences and commentaries.

The random tarot divination tool in the resources section has been updated to include images of the selected cards.

I have added a new tool to the resources section enabling the display of some selected principal Qabalistic correspondences from Liber 777. Up to three correspondence columns can be selected for simultaneous display, allowing for quick access to the desired information and for comparison between columns which may be on different pages in the book.

Today’s hexagram is Lü, “Treading (Conduct)”, with no changing lines. The judgment refers to “Treading upon the tail of the tiger. It does not bite the man. Success”, and Wilhelm comments that: The weak follows behind the strong and worries it. The strong, however, acquiesces and does not hurt the weak, because the contact is […]

Tonight’s reading is I, “The Corners of the Mouth (Providing Nourishment), changing to Chia Jên, “The Family (The Clan)”. “Providing nourishment” refers to giving the proper sustenance to the proper things. Wilhelm quotes Mencius as saying: The body has superior and inferior, important and unimportant parts. We must not injure important parts for the sake […]

Tonight’s reading gives Ch’ien, “modesty”, moving to Shêng, “pushing upward”. Wilhelm comments on Ch’ien: It is the law of heaven to make fullness empty and to make full what is modest; when the sun is at its zenith, it must, according to the law of heaven, turn toward its setting, and at its nadir it […]

I’ve added a random tarot divination application to the resources section of the site. There is currently (and may never be) any interpretation of the cards, just a random selection of ten cards in a Celtic cross layout which can be used as a starting point.

“Divination”, according to American Heritage, is “the art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.” Almost all current and ancient systems of magick stress the importance of divination, and rightly so. This essay will examine the theories on which divination does — or […]