A common myth or misconception is that you have to be psychic to read Tarot. This simply isn’t true! You don’t have to have some sort of supernatural power that allows you to see into the future or know what people are thinking in order to find a lot of meaning in the cards. ...
However, the roots of the star as a spiritual symbol go back as far as ancient Egypt. Because it has been used in so many cultures and religions, its spiritual meaning is complex and varied. In Hindu temples in south India, for example, the six-pointed star (or ‘hexagram’) has come...
Pentalpna. The triple triangle, or the pentalpha of Pythagoras, is so called from the Greek Tots, pente, five, and a\Antiochus Epiphanes, and a writer in Notes and Queries (3 Ser., ix., 511) says that he has found it on the coins of Lysimmachus. On old British and Gaulish coins...
The work of the musician and artist Robert Blatt is rooted in explorations of expanded sonic situations through varying frames and gradations of environment, notation, object, performance, text, and tone – a practice between the borders of experimental music, visual arts; between installations and...
But later on I’ll be talking about, at some length, the idea of both plus more, meaning how conceptually you put A and B together, so you can move on to more, because more matters. A and B is generally pretty trivial. Like, for example, the difference between being a Republican ...
THE NAME of the hexagram, Chun, really connotes a blade of grass pushing against an obstacle as it sprouts out of the earth – hence the meaning, “difficulty at the beginning.” The hexagram indicates the w...
The original eight trigrams are used to form the hexagrams of the I Ching and correspond to the three levels of existence: The uppermost line represents heaven; the middle line, humanity; and the lowest line, earth. These trigrams are very ancient and even predate the creation of the I Chi...
So what's the real meaning of yin and yang? The yin yang symbol represents a variety of different principles, each of which is important in Taoism and behind. Below we explain five of the most important. #1: Together, Yin and Yang Form a Whole ...
To hold firmly to great creative powers and store them up, as set forth in this hexagram, there is need of a strong, clear-headed man who is honored by the ruler. The trigram Ch’ien points to strong creative power; Kên indicates firmness and...
Eliphas Levi's Baphomet, is a controversial symbol of the occult. The image depicts a half-human, half goat hybrid that has one hand pointing up and one down, reflecting the balance of the universe and ultimately embodying the phrase, “As above, so below.”[4] The hexagram is another...