The portrait of Aleister Crowley

Sometimes labeled a Satanist, nominated in the tabloid press of his time as “the wickedest man in the world” and targeted as public enemy number one, Crowley was definitively a controversial figure and an interesting man. He enjoyed all that buzz and attention and fueled it to keep himself in the spotlight. While before – and even after – him most of the Magicians (Occultists) were extremely discrete and kept their activities hidden (occult means...

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Fortune Telling – meaning of the playing cards

Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of fortune-telling since the 18th. In English-speaking countries, the standard English (Anglo-American) deck of bridge/poker playing cards of four suits and 52-card – the jokers not included – are the most frequently used deck. The 52 card deck include the Ace’s (as 1) with all of the 2s through 10s and the court cards: the Jack, Queen and King. Other card readers (fortune tellers)...

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Oh, the Devil!

I know, I told you there is no good and evil, there is no Devil, although we all know that “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist” – quoting the French poet Charles Baudelaire. No, no! It was not Roger “Verbal” Kint! I was saying that there is a natural balance of “good” and “evil” and we can learn to dancing on this rope and eventually get advantage from the both end of it. It might be just a nice...

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All the 72 Angels and Demons associated with the Minor Cards of the Tarot

I think knowing the angels and demons ruling each Tarot card it’s important to have a better understanding of the meaning of the cards, to have an extra insight of the energies behind the cards, to know more precisely what is the substance of our issues and what’s the driven force behind it and eventually to interact with those spirits to fix issues. But invocation it’s a very dangerous act and should be the very last option in any cases. People...

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The Tarot and the four elements

In the ancient traditions the four elements earth, water, air, and fire frequently occur; sometimes including a fifth element or quintessence (after “quint” meaning “fifth”) called aether in ancient Greece and akasha in India. The concept of the five elements formed a basis of analysis in both Hinduism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, particularly in an esoteric context, the four states-of-matter describe matter, and a fifth element describes that which...

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