Category: Tarot Projects
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Scorpio III: The Tempter
In the final decan of Scorpio, Martian intensity hosts Venus, whose natural inclination towards pleasure, attraction and union must operate within the conditions of her detriment. Where Mars seeks to overcome resistance, Venus seeks to dissolve separation, yet in Scorpio these impulses become entangled. Desire acquires a particular urgency, intensified by the fixed nature of…
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Scorpio II: The Keeper of Secrets
In the second decan of Scorpio, the Sun illuminates the nocturnal domicile of Mars, bringing authority to a realm more accustomed to concealment, intensity and guarded power. Far from his home ground in Leo where he expresses authority through visibility and recognition, the Sun in Scorpio develops new ways of exercising influence. Here, knowledge becomes…
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Scorpio I: The Adversary
The Adversary teaches that our strength can be measured by the ability to endure what cannot be changed. We need not abandon our protective shell, but can gradually discover that enclosure is not the only means of survival. Lowering our weapons does not surrender the dignity of what has been suffered; we do not relinquish…
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Libra III: The Wanderer
The ass, an animal of patient endurance, carries its rider through a rocky terrain, suggesting that this journey is perhaps morally ambiguous; a passage through the world’s pleasures led by an appetite that knows what it wants and is not particularly interested in the rider’s reservations. The serpent of the older tradition implies the body’s…
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Libra II: The Benefactor
The Benefactor reveals one of grief’s more difficult paradoxes: sorrow and peace can coexist. Healing asks that sorrow be given a durable place within a life large enough to contain it. Here Saturn’s restriction becomes a blessing, for what cannot be changed is accepted, what remains valuable is protected, and what is sufficient is recognised…
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Libra I: The Mediator
The ancient images present twin, upright figures, standing on scorpions, holding water jugs from which fine pipes release their contents in a continous, regulated flow. The justice portrayed here, is an ongoing practice, a steady, measured distribution, maintained against disruptive forces. The scorpions beneath the feet are symbolic of the venomous reactive impulse standing beneath…
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Virgo III: The Examiner
We praise this knowledge like a final benediction, the insight grief most needs and most resists, that what was essential in the one who is gone has already been released into the world. The Mercurial sorting of the permanent from the perishable reveals an indestructible residue that no gate of any underworld can finally confiscate.…
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Virgo II: The Petitioner
Venus in fall in Virgo has lost access to her most reliable gift, the quality of being simply received, of attracting without having to argue, of moving toward what she loves with the confidence of one who has rarely been refused. What she finds in Mercury’s exacting realm, in the mutable atmosphere of Virgo’s middle…
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Virgo I: The Harvester
The First Decan of Virgo marks a profound transition in the zodiacal journey. Having passed through the fullness and generosity of Leo, consciousness now turns from an outward demonstration of vigour, towards stewardship. The question is no longer how life may be enjoyed, but how it may be tended so that its blessings endure.
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Leo III: The Feast Lord
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the king who went out into the wilderness in lion skins, who crossed the waters of death and asked the oldest question a grieving creature can ask- What survives? What endures? Where does the beloved go? Can the loss be undone?- returned to his city with that question unanswered in…