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Spread of the Week 10: the Tree of Life
This week we will be focusing our attention on the number Ten . Ten represents the full manifestation, or display, of the world . The...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Mar 186 min read
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Spread of the Week 9: the Rose of Nine Destinies.
This week we will be focusing our attention on the number Nine . Nine represents foundations - deep, integral structures that support and...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Mar 136 min read
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Spread of the Week 8: The Cauldron of 8 Chambers
This week we will be focusing our attention on the number Eight . Eight represents circulation within closed systems, circuitry,...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Feb 285 min read
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Spread of the Week 7: The Octahedron Spread
This week we will be focusing our attention on the number seven . Seven represents Passion, intensity, and abundance. This spread pattern...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Feb 228 min read
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Spread of the Week 6: The 6-card Cross
Every week in the Forest of Life, focus on a different Tarot theme. Using that theme, we explore a different spread pattern. This week we...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Feb 145 min read
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Spread of the Week 5: The Five Element Star
This week we are focusing our attention on the number five . Five represents a breaking of stasis and the engagement of evolutionary...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Feb 77 min read
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Spread of the Week 4: The State of the Aces!
This week we are focusing our attention on the number four . Four represents a stabilization - as in four directions, or four legs of a...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 314 min read
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Spread of the Week 3: Three Card Triangulations
This week we are focusing our attention on the number three . Three represents a formal state of affairs- It triangulates three meanings...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 243 min read
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Spread of The Week 2: The Crossroads
Two represents motion - it puts two meanings into tension and results in a new energy - a “becoming” that results from the combination....

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 173 min read
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Spread of the Week 1: the Singleton
This week we are focusing our attention on the number one . One represents a dimensionless point of purity - and reminds us of the Aces....

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 162 min read
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Laughter is the true medicine.

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
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The Fool and the World
The Fool and the World are the ultimate dyad of the Tarot. They in a way, represent the most fundamental level of the entire system. In...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
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Tzimtzummim
"Recognize this: orality is a mode of transmission in intimate contact with the world. It draws its meaning from the sensible. Literacy,...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
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Dionysus
Crowley's fool is Dionysus - god of primordial revelry. It is of interest that the Fool carries a sack containing all the symbols of the...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
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Intaglio
"Here, then, is a possibility: the “forms,” or general definitions of Plato are not above the world but are spaces, hollows, gaps in...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
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Openings
Openness opens its openings like a porous skin to absorb eternity. The opaque shells of name and form fall away into the vast air that is...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
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The Week of the Fool
On Friday, the time of the Fool arrived. The Fool is the path of openness, of innocence, and of the emptiness of the child. At the same...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read
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The Ape of Thoth
The Magus speaks, and it creates worlds. Truth is a black fire hidden within a tongue of rainbows. The ape and the magus are necessary...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read
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The Magician and the Judgement
The significance of the magician's pairing with the Judgement lies in the manner in which the former's voice creates worlds through...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read
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The Magic Cube
Of all the magically significant cultural objects that are hidden in plain sight, one of the most potent is the ubiquitous magic cube...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read
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