Our decan walk enters Gemini decan 2, with the Sun’s passage through ten to twenty degrees of Gemini. The tarot card shown above is from Telos Tarot of 777, for the second decan of Gemini, known as the Lord of Cruelty. Crowley’s 777 gives the decan image description as “An eagle headed man, with a […]
We are now most of the way through the Gemini 1 decan, which corresponds to the Eight of Swords, Interference, so some Part II updates on the ways this decan has manifested so far are in order. To recap, Gemini and Eights are Mercury ruled, the Gemini 1 decan is Jupiter ruled. The first few […]
Crowley’s 777, roughly based on the Picatrix description, gives us a great image to work with for Gemini decan 1: “A beautiful woman with her two horses.” TWO: Gemini. HORSES: Jupiter, ruler of the decan. Some inspiration for this illustration was also drawn from Ibn Ezra, who says that the beautiful woman is “standing in […]
This is Part II to the Decan Walk post for the third decan of Taurus and the Seven of Disks, introduced in Part I. As of today we are about 85% through this decan. Though the Seven of Disks is called “Success Unfulfilled” or “Failure,” there have been no real failures to report as of […]
Taurus decan 3, in which warm and loving Venus is frustrated by cold indifferent Saturn…”Phase I, in which Doris gets her oats.” The image described in Crowley’s 777 for Taurus decan 3 is a challenging one: “A swarthy man with white lashes, his body elephantine with long legs; with him, a horse, a stag, and […]
This is the Part II update for the Taurus 2 decan which began with the prior post. This decan has been really great so far, and it is only halfway through. We found this statue above in a pile of composted leaves at the start of the decan. I think it is Joseph holding lilies […]
