ArkLetter 23

Arkletter 23
This NewMoon issue of Christine Payne-Towler's
"Tarot University ArkLetters" is online February 17, 2007, NewMoon

IN THIS ISSUE:
I. Masonic/Martinist Tarot, or Was Etteilla an Initiate? ... Among the Tarot decks made in Continental Europe from the late 1700's until into the early 1900's, there is a very strong thread that can be classed as Martinist Tarots.  This stream was publicly inaugurated by Etteilla, is epitomized in the Papus tarot, and has been supported in print by commentators from de Gebelin and de Mellet (le Mond Primitif) through Paul Christian, Levi, Papus, Wirth, Tomberg (writing as 'Anonymous'), Zain, Valcourt-Vermont (writing as Saint Germain), Mouni Sadhu, Haich and Hall....
http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/masonic_martini.html

II.   February 2007 -  World Servers' Spread; a 3-Card Reading for the Now ....  Make it all new!  This is the motive and the method for this time of the year. All the old, outworn forms are being recycled, dismantled, melted down and recombined. It's an alchemical free-for-all, and nothing will go untouched. ...
http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/world_server.html

III.  New Moon Notes - February, 2007 ...   I wish I had more time to devote to this chart, but as the circumstances would have it, I'm in the wrap-up cycle of a year of change and movement myself. The lion's share of my energy this month will be spent on the section about retrograde planets.  But here are a few comments to tide you over this period, between the last of the old and the first of the new.... http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/newmoonnotes.html

IV. Inner Planet Retrogrades of 2007... Retrogradation isn't "real". This is to say, the planets never, ever, under any circumstances stop in their tracks and go backwards. This is not a phenomenon of fact, but of apparentcy.  From the ground level, under our atmosphere, given the limitations of our optic equipment, it appears to the witnessing eye as if one planet or another has reversed course for a few days or weeks.  Therefore the planetary paths are described from Antiquity as wandering, variable, inconstant...
http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/retrograde_plan.html

II.   February 2007 -  World Servers' Spread; a 3-Card Reading for the Now ....  Make it all new!  This is the motive and the method for this time of the year. All the old, outworn forms are being recycled, dismantled, melted down and recombined. It's an alchemical free-for-all, and nothing will go untouched. ...
http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/world_server.html

III.  New Moon Notes - February, 2007 ...   I wish I had more time to devote to this chart, but as the circumstances would have it, I'm in the wrap-up cycle of a year of change and movement myself. The lion's share of my energy this month will be spent on the section about retrograde planets.  But here are a few comments to tide you over this period, between the last of the old and the first of the new.... http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/newmoonnotes.html

IV. Inner Planet Retrogrades of 2007... Retrogradation isn't "real". This is to say, the planets never, ever, under any circumstances stop in their tracks and go backwards. This is not a phenomenon of fact, but of apparentcy.  From the ground level, under our atmosphere, given the limitations of our optic equipment, it appears to the witnessing eye as if one planet or another has reversed course for a few days or weeks.  Therefore the planetary paths are described from Antiquity as wandering, variable, inconstant...
http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/retrograde_plan.html

II.   February 2007 -  World Servers' Spread; a 3-Card Reading for the Now ....  Make it all new!  This is the motive and the method for this time of the year. All the old, outworn forms are being recycled, dismantled, melted down and recombined. It's an alchemical free-for-all, and nothing will go untouched. ...
http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/world_server.html

III.  New Moon Notes - February, 2007 ...   I wish I had more time to devote to this chart, but as the circumstances would have it, I'm in the wrap-up cycle of a year of change and movement myself. The lion's share of my energy this month will be spent on the section about retrograde planets.  But here are a few comments to tide you over this period, between the last of the old and the first of the new.... http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/newmoonnotes.html

IV. Inner Planet Retrogrades of 2007... Retrogradation isn't "real". This is to say, the planets never, ever, under any circumstances stop in their tracks and go backwards. This is not a phenomenon of fact, but of apparentcy.  From the ground level, under our atmosphere, given the limitations of our optic equipment, it appears to the witnessing eye as if one planet or another has reversed course for a few days or weeks.  Therefore the planetary paths are described from Antiquity as wandering, variable, inconstant...
http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/retrograde_plan.html

IV. Inner Planet Retrogrades of 2007... Retrogradation isn't "real". This is to say, the planets never, ever, under any circumstances stop in their tracks and go backwards. This is not a phenomenon of fact, but of apparentcy.  From the ground level, under our atmosphere, given the limitations of our optic equipment, it appears to the witnessing eye as if one planet or another has reversed course for a few days or weeks.  Therefore the planetary paths are described from Antiquity as wandering, variable, inconstant...
http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/retrograde_plan.html

IV. Inner Planet Retrogrades of 2007... Retrogradation isn't "real". This is to say, the planets never, ever, under any circumstances stop in their tracks and go backwards. This is not a phenomenon of fact, but of apparentcy.  From the ground level, under our atmosphere, given the limitations of our optic equipment, it appears to the witnessing eye as if one planet or another has reversed course for a few days or weeks.  Therefore the planetary paths are described from Antiquity as wandering, variable, inconstant...
http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2007/02/retrograde_plan.html

USE THE TAROT ARKLETTERS TO ATTUNE WITH THE NEW MOON - read "New Moon Notes" every ArkLetter:

Our publication date and time corresponds to the New Moon each month. This month the Moon is conjunct the Sun on Wednesday,  February 17, 2007. As an astrologer-symbolist, I habitually tie my activities to the cycle of the Moon. If you would like, you can use the Tarot University ArkLetters to  help you track the moon's phase:

Current Phase of Moon:

NewMoon at 28+ Aquarius, Saturday February 17, midmorning. From this moment, the moon begins to wax, or increase.
2nd Quarter, Waxing Half Moon at 5+ Taurus, Saturday February 24th/ Sunday February 25th, over the midnight hour.
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse at 13 Virgo, Saturday March 3rd, midafternoon. At this point the Moon begins to wane, or decrease.
4th Quarter, Waning Half Moon at 21+ Sagittarius, Sunday March 11th, in the hours before midnight.
NewMoon and Solar Eclipse at 28+ Pisces, Sunday March 18, midevening. From this moment, the moon begins to wax, or increase.

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