Tarot University ArkLetters

ArkLetter 18

ArkLetter 18
This NewMoon issue of Christine Payne-Towler's
"Tarot University ArkLetters" is online September 22, 2006, NewMoon high-noon to mid afternoon, PST

IN THIS ISSUE:
I. The Continental Tarots, Part  2 "Divination: Highest Expression of the Magi's Art"
(A continuation of the August 2006 ArkLetter essay) ...Fascinating!  Words, numbers, times, symbols, images, letters and seals, in short occult philosophy as a whole (including the traditional hierarchies of Angels, Planets, Spirits and other potentized Names) are parts of "mathematical magic", and partake of both natural and supernatural characteristics...
http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2006/09/magi_divination.html

II. September, 2006 -   World Servers' Spread; a 3-Card Reading for the Now ..." Turnabout is fair play...What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander...When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." These are phrases that we hear all the time, but how do we apply them when life bends around suddenly and pulls a 180-degree turn on us, when the shoe is suddenly jammed onto the other foot?...
 http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2006/09/world_server.html

III.  New Moon Notes - September 22, 2006  .NewMoon, Solar Eclipse AND the Equinox ...Ahhh, eclipse weather again!  Isn't it exciting? The last time we were in this position was during the two weeks between the FullMoon and NewMoon of March... http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2006/09/new_moon_notes.html

Continental Esoteric Tarot, Part 2; Divination: Highest Expression of the Magi's Art

By Christine Payne-Towler
[Originally published in July of 1999; abridged and revised for TarotUniversity in August 2006, Part 1 and September 2006, Part 2]

Ioan P. Couliano, in his sublime Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, analyzes the categories of magic made by Giordano Bruno in the late 1500's (Couliano p. 157-8):

"Of the categories of magic in the Renaissance, the most interesting is undoubtedly that of Giordano Bruno. He lists nine categories: sapientia, magia naturalis (medicina, chymia), praestigiatoria, a second form of natural magic, mathematica or occulta philosophia, a magia desperatorum, which is demonomagic, also called transnaturalis seu metaphysica or theourgia, necromantia, maleficium (of which veneficium is a subcategory), and divinatio or phophetia (De Magia, III, pp. 397-400) ...

World Server's Spread - September Equinox, 2006

A 3-Card Reading for the Now
By Christine Payne-Towler
For an introduction to the World Servers' Spread, see Arkletter 5
September Equinox, 2006

"Turnabout is fair play".... "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." ... "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade."    These are phrases that we hear all the time, but how do we apply them when life bends around suddenly and pulls a 180-degree turn on us, when the shoe is suddenly jammed onto the other foot?...

NewMoon Notes - September 22, 2006

By Christine Payne-Towler
NewMoon September 22, 2006

NewMoon, 2nd one in Virgo, 4:45 am
Solar Eclipse 5:07 am PDT
Equinox 9:03 pm PDT

Ahhh, eclipse weather again!  Isn't it exciting?   

The last time we were in this position was during the two weeks between the FullMoon and NewMoon of March.