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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 29, 20241 min read
The Sun - Manifestation!
Manifestation. The Sun is the crossroads of time. In this golden moment we see across the ages. Behold your path. When the Sun comes up,...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 29, 20241 min read
The Shem Ha Mephorash
The phrase "Shem Ha Mephorash" means "name of extension" and it refers to a 216-letter string of 72 sacred names of God which were...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 23, 20242 min read
Week of the Sun!
It's Friday, and the time of the Sun is now. This is the brightest, most radiant moment in the Tarot - it is a time of joy, of...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 22, 20241 min read
When Poems Fail...
When poems fail, For lack of fire, And armies are neutral, For lack of hope, And words are empty, For lack of grip, And struggles are...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 22, 20241 min read
The Timewave!
Regardless of whether you are moving from the Fool towards the world, or from the world towards the Fool (as we are), the Tarot is a...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 22, 20241 min read
Judgement & the Magician
The fact that Judgement's Athbash partner is the Magician should feel very comfortable to esoteric Tarotists. The Magican is the Word,...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 22, 20241 min read
Apocalypse!
What is Apocalypse? The root of the word is from the Greek - Apokalupsis - which means "removing the cover", or "removing the veil". If...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 22, 20242 min read
Shin
In the Qabalistic Tarot, Judgement is assigned to the Hebrew letter Shin. Shin is fascinating and filled with meaning. Its meaning is...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 22, 20241 min read
The Sound of the Trumpet
Judgement is a sounding call - a trumpet that awakens the sleeping ground. In a sense it is not different in kind than the world, but...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 16, 20241 min read
Judgement Week
It's Friday, and the pheonix rises today. The Path of the Judgement breaks out into realization once the sleeping world begins to awaken....
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 15, 20243 min read
The Proximity Principal
Those of you who are adept at the Qabalistic Tarot will know that the paths between the spheres are numbered 11-32, in what is known as...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 15, 20241 min read
Footprints
When his disciples asked him what kind of images they should use to represent him, Siddharta Guatama, the Buddha, replied that it was...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 15, 20241 min read
The Gate
The World is also known as the Gate - and this relates it to Malkuth. In truth, this path and that sphere can be felt almost as a single...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 15, 20242 min read
Athbash: the Fool and the World
There are a variety of ways to subdivide the Majors of the Tarot. I tend to split them into two groups: an upper group (Trumps 0-X) and a...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 15, 20242 min read
The Universe is the Hexagram
"The Universe is the Hexagram" So goes a cryptic aphorism attributed to the XXIst Tarot Trump - the World. What does it mean? In part, it...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 15, 20241 min read
The Well of the World
The world is a gateway. When this card appears it signifies fullness of engagements. It is at the beginning of things and at the end. It...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 9, 20241 min read
The Week of the World
It's Friday, and and the critical turn has happened. We now round the corner from the minor arcana and court cards (on the spheres of the...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 8, 20241 min read
The Taro as Color
The work of Ithell Colquhoun is very interesting - especially her work on color combinations, the tarot, and the tree of the Sephiroth....
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 8, 20242 min read
Malkuth
The Tens and Pages all operate in the sphere of the element of Earth - called "Malkuth" in the Qabalistic system. The four elements of...
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Peter Duchemin, Phd
Aug 8, 20241 min read
The Tetractys
The Tetractys of the Decad is an arrangement that is useful for detecting the layers beneath the surface of a set of events. After...
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