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Le Monde - On Entering The Rose-Garden
You can’t just walk on into the Rose-garden, you need a key, and that key is revealed in the Cathar Code hidden in the symbology of the...
Russell Sturgess
Aug 12, 20204 min read
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The Judgement - The Final Test
In just the same way the Fool had the test of the flaming sword after their sojourn through the Dark Night of the Soul (Hanged Man, Card...
Russell Sturgess
Aug 4, 20204 min read
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Le Soleil - The Wedding Invitation
Rebis was an alchemical term that was typically represented as one body having two heads, one being masculine and the other feminine....
Russell Sturgess
Jul 22, 20204 min read
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La Lune - The Tarot Christmas Card
The Moon card is full of surprises. There are four key symbols, the crustacean, the dogs, the buildings, and the Moon herself. We saw in...
Russell Sturgess
Jul 15, 20204 min read
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L’etoile - Entering the Treasury of Light
The Fool is now passing through the outer portal of the House of God, which in the Temple of Solomon lead from the the Court of the...
Russell Sturgess
Jul 7, 20204 min read
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Le Diable - Buddha’s Second Poison
The Buddha taught that there where three poisons, essentially equivalent to how the seeds were sown in Jesus’s parable of the sower. As...
Russell Sturgess
Jun 23, 20205 min read
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Temperance - Leaving the World of the Magician.
The Cathar were dualists, meaning that in their beliefs there were two worlds, each ruled by a different God. They saw this world as...
Russell Sturgess
Jun 16, 20204 min read
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Card XIII - The Card With No Name
This card may not actually be about physical death, thus why it has no name...it may well be the death of human consciousness.
Russell Sturgess
Jun 10, 20204 min read
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