Tarot University ArkLetters

ArkLetter 45

By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 45, November 27,  2008

IN THIS ISSUE:

I. Navigating our Cultural Singularity...I have been having a feeling very strongly the entire month of November, as if we were in the trough of a retrograde.  There's a sense of standing still and grinding gears, but in fact we are turning around internally to face an entirely new direction. A more active analogue could be drawn to the alchemical process of putrefaction, meaning the disassembly of old forms before re-assembling them anew. It's a messy, imprecise, challenging process, certainly not a job for sissies. Whew!  No wonder it has been nearly impossible to concentrate on 'normal stuff'!...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/navigating-our-cultural-singularity.html

II. World Servers' Spread,  November,  2008...Along with the other synchronicities that have offered themselves up over the last month, one of them was the arrival of the book Art and Arcana; Commentary on the Medieval Scapini Tarot by Ronald Decker, published by US Games Systems, Inc.   The Medieval Scapini Tarot has been one of my workhorse packs over the years. Luigi Scapini is the artist to whom was granted the prestigious commission to replace the missing cards of the Visconti-Sforza and Cary-Yale Visconti packs, so they could be reproduced for sale.  Meanwhile, Ronald Decker is one of a small group of researchers that virtually all Tarot historians respect.  I had no idea that this book existed until recently, but now that I know, I want to share the news in case there's still some copies kicking around, available to be snatched up. ...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/world-servers-spread-november-27-2008.html

III.  New Moon Notes - November, 2008 ... Looking at this wedge chart defined by the mutable signs, there's a feeling of great force focused upon a narrow target. By  'great force' I mean the chain of 9 planets and Lights from NewMoon in Sagittarius to Uranus in Pisces. By 'narrow target’ I mean Saturn in Virgo, the tip of the wedge....
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/new-moon-notes-november-2008-.html

By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 45, November 27,  2008

IN THIS ISSUE:

I. Navigating our Cultural Singularity...I have been having a feeling very strongly the entire month of November, as if we were in the trough of a retrograde.  There's a sense of standing still and grinding gears, but in fact we are turning around internally to face an entirely new direction. A more active analogue could be drawn to the alchemical process of putrefaction, meaning the disassembly of old forms before re-assembling them anew. It's a messy, imprecise, challenging process, certainly not a job for sissies. Whew!  No wonder it has been nearly impossible to concentrate on 'normal stuff'!...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/navigating-our-cultural-singularity.html

II. World Servers' Spread,  November,  2008...Along with the other synchronicities that have offered themselves up over the last month, one of them was the arrival of the book Art and Arcana; Commentary on the Medieval Scapini Tarot by Ronald Decker, published by US Games Systems, Inc.   The Medieval Scapini Tarot has been one of my workhorse packs over the years. Luigi Scapini is the artist to whom was granted the prestigious commission to replace the missing cards of the Visconti-Sforza and Cary-Yale Visconti packs, so they could be reproduced for sale.  Meanwhile, Ronald Decker is one of a small group of researchers that virtually all Tarot historians respect.  I had no idea that this book existed until recently, but now that I know, I want to share the news in case there's still some copies kicking around, available to be snatched up. ...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/world-servers-spread-november-27-2008.html

III.  New Moon Notes - November, 2008 ... Looking at this wedge chart defined by the mutable signs, there's a feeling of great force focused upon a narrow target. By  'great force' I mean the chain of 9 planets and Lights from NewMoon in Sagittarius to Uranus in Pisces. By 'narrow target’ I mean Saturn in Virgo, the tip of the wedge....
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/new-moon-notes-november-2008-.html

By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 45, November 27,  2008

IN THIS ISSUE:

I. Navigating our Cultural Singularity...I have been having a feeling very strongly the entire month of November, as if we were in the trough of a retrograde.  There's a sense of standing still and grinding gears, but in fact we are turning around internally to face an entirely new direction. A more active analogue could be drawn to the alchemical process of putrefaction, meaning the disassembly of old forms before re-assembling them anew. It's a messy, imprecise, challenging process, certainly not a job for sissies. Whew!  No wonder it has been nearly impossible to concentrate on 'normal stuff'!...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/navigating-our-cultural-singularity.html

II. World Servers' Spread,  November,  2008...Along with the other synchronicities that have offered themselves up over the last month, one of them was the arrival of the book Art and Arcana; Commentary on the Medieval Scapini Tarot by Ronald Decker, published by US Games Systems, Inc.   The Medieval Scapini Tarot has been one of my workhorse packs over the years. Luigi Scapini is the artist to whom was granted the prestigious commission to replace the missing cards of the Visconti-Sforza and Cary-Yale Visconti packs, so they could be reproduced for sale.  Meanwhile, Ronald Decker is one of a small group of researchers that virtually all Tarot historians respect.  I had no idea that this book existed until recently, but now that I know, I want to share the news in case there's still some copies kicking around, available to be snatched up. ...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/world-servers-spread-november-27-2008.html

III.  New Moon Notes - November, 2008 ... Looking at this wedge chart defined by the mutable signs, there's a feeling of great force focused upon a narrow target. By  'great force' I mean the chain of 9 planets and Lights from NewMoon in Sagittarius to Uranus in Pisces. By 'narrow target’ I mean Saturn in Virgo, the tip of the wedge....
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/new-moon-notes-november-2008-.html

By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 45, November 27,  2008

IN THIS ISSUE:

I. Navigating our Cultural Singularity...I have been having a feeling very strongly the entire month of November, as if we were in the trough of a retrograde.  There's a sense of standing still and grinding gears, but in fact we are turning around internally to face an entirely new direction. A more active analogue could be drawn to the alchemical process of putrefaction, meaning the disassembly of old forms before re-assembling them anew. It's a messy, imprecise, challenging process, certainly not a job for sissies. Whew!  No wonder it has been nearly impossible to concentrate on 'normal stuff'!...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/navigating-our-cultural-singularity.html

II. World Servers' Spread,  November,  2008...Along with the other synchronicities that have offered themselves up over the last month, one of them was the arrival of the book Art and Arcana; Commentary on the Medieval Scapini Tarot by Ronald Decker, published by US Games Systems, Inc.   The Medieval Scapini Tarot has been one of my workhorse packs over the years. Luigi Scapini is the artist to whom was granted the prestigious commission to replace the missing cards of the Visconti-Sforza and Cary-Yale Visconti packs, so they could be reproduced for sale.  Meanwhile, Ronald Decker is one of a small group of researchers that virtually all Tarot historians respect.  I had no idea that this book existed until recently, but now that I know, I want to share the news in case there's still some copies kicking around, available to be snatched up. ...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/world-servers-spread-november-27-2008.html

III.  New Moon Notes - November, 2008 ... Looking at this wedge chart defined by the mutable signs, there's a feeling of great force focused upon a narrow target. By  'great force' I mean the chain of 9 planets and Lights from NewMoon in Sagittarius to Uranus in Pisces. By 'narrow target’ I mean Saturn in Virgo, the tip of the wedge....
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/new-moon-notes-november-2008-.html

By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 45, November 27,  2008

IN THIS ISSUE:

I. Navigating our Cultural Singularity...I have been having a feeling very strongly the entire month of November, as if we were in the trough of a retrograde.  There's a sense of standing still and grinding gears, but in fact we are turning around internally to face an entirely new direction. A more active analogue could be drawn to the alchemical process of putrefaction, meaning the disassembly of old forms before re-assembling them anew. It's a messy, imprecise, challenging process, certainly not a job for sissies. Whew!  No wonder it has been nearly impossible to concentrate on 'normal stuff'!...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/navigating-our-cultural-singularity.html

II. World Servers' Spread,  November,  2008...Along with the other synchronicities that have offered themselves up over the last month, one of them was the arrival of the book Art and Arcana; Commentary on the Medieval Scapini Tarot by Ronald Decker, published by US Games Systems, Inc.   The Medieval Scapini Tarot has been one of my workhorse packs over the years. Luigi Scapini is the artist to whom was granted the prestigious commission to replace the missing cards of the Visconti-Sforza and Cary-Yale Visconti packs, so they could be reproduced for sale.  Meanwhile, Ronald Decker is one of a small group of researchers that virtually all Tarot historians respect.  I had no idea that this book existed until recently, but now that I know, I want to share the news in case there's still some copies kicking around, available to be snatched up. ...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/world-servers-spread-november-27-2008.html

III.  New Moon Notes - November, 2008 ... Looking at this wedge chart defined by the mutable signs, there's a feeling of great force focused upon a narrow target. By  'great force' I mean the chain of 9 planets and Lights from NewMoon in Sagittarius to Uranus in Pisces. By 'narrow target’ I mean Saturn in Virgo, the tip of the wedge....
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/new-moon-notes-november-2008-.html

By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 45, November 27,  2008

IN THIS ISSUE:

I. Navigating our Cultural Singularity...I have been having a feeling very strongly the entire month of November, as if we were in the trough of a retrograde.  There's a sense of standing still and grinding gears, but in fact we are turning around internally to face an entirely new direction. A more active analogue could be drawn to the alchemical process of putrefaction, meaning the disassembly of old forms before re-assembling them anew. It's a messy, imprecise, challenging process, certainly not a job for sissies. Whew!  No wonder it has been nearly impossible to concentrate on 'normal stuff'!...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/navigating-our-cultural-singularity.html

II. World Servers' Spread,  November,  2008...Along with the other synchronicities that have offered themselves up over the last month, one of them was the arrival of the book Art and Arcana; Commentary on the Medieval Scapini Tarot by Ronald Decker, published by US Games Systems, Inc.   The Medieval Scapini Tarot has been one of my workhorse packs over the years. Luigi Scapini is the artist to whom was granted the prestigious commission to replace the missing cards of the Visconti-Sforza and Cary-Yale Visconti packs, so they could be reproduced for sale.  Meanwhile, Ronald Decker is one of a small group of researchers that virtually all Tarot historians respect.  I had no idea that this book existed until recently, but now that I know, I want to share the news in case there's still some copies kicking around, available to be snatched up. ...
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/world-servers-spread-november-27-2008.html

III.  New Moon Notes - November, 2008 ... Looking at this wedge chart defined by the mutable signs, there's a feeling of great force focused upon a narrow target. By  'great force' I mean the chain of 9 planets and Lights from NewMoon in Sagittarius to Uranus in Pisces. By 'narrow target’ I mean Saturn in Virgo, the tip of the wedge....
http://www.tarotarkletters.com/2008/11/new-moon-notes-november-2008-.html

Navigating Our Cultural Singularity

By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 45 -- November 27,  2008

I have been having a feeling very strongly the entire month of November, as if we were in the trough of a retrograde.  There's a sense of standing still and grinding gears, but in fact we are turning around internally to face an entirely new direction. A more active analogue could be drawn to the alchemical process of putrefaction, meaning the disassembly of old forms before re-assembling them anew. It's a messy, imprecise, challenging process, certainly not a job for sissies. Whew!  No wonder it has been nearly impossible to concentrate on 'normal stuff'!

World Server's Spread, November 27, 2008

By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 45, November 27,  2008 
World Server's Spread

For an introduction to the World Servers' Spread see ArkLetter 5 

Along with the other synchronicities that have offered themselves up over the last month, one of them was the arrival of the book Art and Arcana; Commentary on the Medieval Scapini Tarot by Ronald Decker, published by US Games Systems, Inc.   The Medieval Scapini Tarot has been one of my workhorse packs over the years. Luigi Scapini is the artist to whom was granted the prestigious commission to replace the missing cards of the Visconti-Sforza and Cary-Yale Visconti packs, so they could be reproduced for sale.  Meanwhile, Ronald Decker is one of a small group of researchers that virtually all Tarot historians respect.  I had no idea that this book existed until recently, but now that I know, I want to share the news in case there's still some copies kicking around, available to be snatched up.
 

New Moon Notes, November 2008

By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 45
NewMoon Chart, November 27,  2008

Looking at this wedge chart defined by the mutable signs, there's a feeling of great force focused upon a narrow target. By  'great force' I mean the chain of 9 planets and Lights from NewMoon in Sagittarius to Uranus in Pisces. By 'narrow target’ I mean Saturn in Virgo, the tip of the wedge. Printing out the chart on a 360-degree wheel and refraining from drawing aspects to the Angles or Nodes highlights the internal dynamics of the wedge, revealing its active principles no matter what orientation one might envision the structure having in space. Think of this chart as "an instant of God's thinking" and take the approach that the conversation among all these moving bodies in the Solar System is simultaneously lit up in super consciousness at the exact moment being pictured.   What we have to meditate on is a mathematical abstraction of the event as if it were 'painted on the sky' above/around us. That alone gives powerful food for thought, if we are so inclined.