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The State of This Blog

I only update this blog sporadically. I still may from time to time, but to stay up to date on my latest releases, free days and other news, follow me on my Facebook page. I use that one a lot more often.

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Kenzi, exploring my recently-arrived copies of The Minister's Cord.

Awhile back, I noticed that when I would do readings, the card on the bottom yielded important information, sometimes as much as the card on the top. This is yesterday's reading. The six of cups is a card of happiness and pleasure in its beginning (and can mean pleasure of the romantic sort, though not exclusively). Decks like the Rider-Waite often misattribute the meaning as nostalgia, when in fact, it's very much a card of immediacy. It's water at Tiphareth, a point of balance and beauty on the Tree of Life, and in this case, the happiness it indicates makes no promise of continuing. 

Underneath it is the 9 of Swords. This is a card of mental anguish. Depression, agonizing, and sometimes even cruelty come with this card. I'd say that yesterday, the bottom card was more accurate than the one on top. It's anyone's guess whether that was because the 9 of Swords marred my ability to see the 6 of Cups manifesting in my life, or whether my intuition was blocked at the moment of drawing from the deck. 

Late-night editing

Chapter of the beast.

The Seven of Cups

Today's card of the day is 7 of Cups.

Sevens correspond Qabalistically to Netzach. Netzach is a place of emotion and everything that entails. On the high side, it can have all of the positive aspects of emotion--love, creativity, empathy and so forth--but on the low side, it can have all of the negative aspects of emotion, such as anger, sadness, envy, and so forth.

Cups rule water, which also corresponds to the emotions. That means, when you get an already emotional suit in the place of Netzach, you get an emotional overdose. This brings forth a lot of those negative emotions, to the point where the person is completely mired in them. The excess corrupts the higher emotional qualities, and the person makes a mess of things by virtue of having taken the feeling too far.

For those of you who are interested in the enneagram, I always consider this card the point of the passion. Lust, envy, wrath, debauchery, all of these are in its purview. When this card comes up, they've been completely indulged. In a reading, I take it to mean that the passion of the type is now firmly in the driver's seat of the personality.

And yet, in spite of all of that, I don't mind this card coming up. I think it's because I have such a soft spot for Netzach. After all, it's from Netzach that we make art that can speak to some sort of collective experience, and it's Netzach that gives us the emotional push we need for our magickal work to be effective. Its neighbor, Hod, is the realm of intellect and language but if we get stuck in Hod, then we'll say a lot of empty words in our rites and daily practices that do nothing because they lack any driving sentiment, and the next point up on the tree is Tiphareth, a place of beauty, harmony and illumination. The card simply serves as a reminder to not get too excessive with our emotional excess.

Updated webpage

I've updated my webpage with links to all of my books on Amazon. Eventually, I want to set it up so that you can order print copies from me as well, and give more detailed descriptions of the books, but for tonight, reacquainting myself with HTML after not having used it in six years is sufficient. You can see my webpage here.

Does this mean I can get back to the actual writing now?