The World

The World XXI

Divinatory Meanings: A pregnancy – A pregnant woman – Birth – Rebirth – Favorable things – Renewal – Getting it right – The sum total of a matter – Everything you need is there for you.

Yes or No: Yes.

Numerical Value: 21.


9 out of 10 times that I have pulled this card for a young lady, she was pregnant. I have learned to trust this card to mean that a new person is about to arrive. In the Raider-White deck, the world has a woman surrounded by the four beasts that stand next to the throne of God in the book of Revelations. I am certain, beyond a doubt that the person who was painted in that deck was pregnant at the time.

Why else would this card mean the arrival of the stork?

Perhaps because life must go on. If we look at the picture of our planet, what we see is a little round ball, kind of the same as you would find on a Christmas Tree. There are no boders, no lines, no squares. It’s all neat and round, like an egg. Perhaps that’s what the world really is: an egg. A very round and blue egg that some day might give birth to a universal consciousness reaching out to the creator of us all.

I can’t think much more about this card. It is simply complete as is.

Judgment

Judgment XX

Divinatory Meanings: Legal matters, court cases, being sued or suing someone. Also: resolving an issue with an arbiter as a Judge. Finaltiy. Being judged or judging someone.

Yes or No: No.

Numerical Value: 20

I chose the figure of Kalki, the last Avatar of Visnu in this age of Kali-Yuga as the principal figure of Judgment because he represents the Judgment of God against the sinners at the end of the age. The Hindu religion is incredibly more compassionate in it’s profound teachings than any of the western religions. When Kalki slays a demon or sinner, that sinner or deamon is immediately freed from the bonds of his or her Karma.

Meaning: if God comes down and kicks your ass, it is seriously kicked.

Kalki is the ultimate cleansing, the utter result of perfect, Divine Justice. Neither the living nor the dead can excape this ultimate judgment. In a sense, it is what we all pray for when we pray for a God that is Good: chastisement of the wicked.

It is important to understand that we are the wicked. There is only one person we can really be ashamed of: ourselves. Judging others is strickly verboten by the Bible and by many other sacred texts, sine we never can really understand the profound motivations of anyone other than our selves. Therefore, if we spend our time judging others, we are incuring the judgment of God. I am certain the good folks at the Supreme Court understand this little dilema – and they still choose to act as Pharises and Saducces and judge folks. But then, there must be some perks worth the risk.

What to do when someone trespasses against us?

Well, the Biblical response is: turn the other cheek. Forgive and forget. But what if someone murdered all our family and raped our pets? How can we forgive that! In fact, we can’t, can we? So.. Laws are made necessary – and where there are laws, there are judges and juries. Folks who will use those laws to determine who is right and who is wrong.
These thrid party-judges are humans who will commit errors. I wonder how many innocent men are on death-row for murder. One thing is certain: there are over 300,000 prisoners for smoking pot or weed-related offences in the USA. In certain Islamic countries, being a homosexual (Sodomite to you Christian fundies) is punishable by death. Jews used to stone adulterers. Europeans burt midwives as witches.

There is a great deal of mis-judgment by human beings on human beings. History is the record of stupid decisions by stupid judges. Some day, the Judgments at Nurnberg will be known as utter infamy. Some day, Charlie Manson might be found innocent. In the camp of Law and Order, nothing is certain except one thing: people do terrible things to each other and many times, they use Laws to do it.

So, the Final Judgment is not man’s but God’s.

Woe to they who have not learned to forgive.

The Sun

The Sun XIX

Divinatory Meanings: A bright new day. Good things. Warmth, love, tranquility. The best possible result. The best of all worlds. A boy.

Yes or No: Yes.

Numerical Value: 19.

Every time I look at the sun, I know God is looking at me too. In fact, I consider the Sun God’s Eye – perfect, and utterly devastating. Nobody can look at God in the eye for long. In this world, God looks at us with two eyes: the Sun and the Moon. Perhaps in other worlds, God looks at us with 3 or 5 or 8 eyes, but in this one, it’s two, just like ours.

You call him whatever you like: I look at the Sun and I know I am looking at God’s Eye. Light is the source of our vision, looking at things requires the interaction of light in our retina with sensory nerves that detect fluctuations in the intensity of light. So, if the sun is both energy and light, and there is no other source near to us that is as bright or energetic, doesn’t it stand to reason that it’s a kind of visual-thinnie of our Creator to check in on our little insignificant lives?

The Sun gives us warmth, makes us grow, in fact, makes the very life in our bodies possible. No Sun means no life. Of course, it’s only a little part of it, and life requires a host of other elements, but in essence, the Sun is the spark that makes it all possible.

Some good friends of mine consider the Sun an inhabitted planet and feel that the life-forms inside the sun are all based on energy and light. Not a bad idea: life as pure energy would require a world made of pure energy – therefore the Sun could be the ultimate planet of energy-life-forms and all our scientific friends would be utterly wrong in saying life is not possible inside the Sun. In fact, life “as we understand it” is not possible, but we understand so little of what it means to be alive that it’s an insult to other planets to say there’s no life in them!

My own relationship to the Sun is a bit like the relationship between me and my dad. In my bones, I know instinctively that some day I shall return to the Sun as the prodigial son. It is the light-at-the-end of the tunnel of death. I am certain of this. But to return to the world of all-light, first I must let go of this water-earth-air body. Not something I am in a hurry to do.

The Sun represents all that is good. It represents our Creator.

The Moon

The Moon XVIII

Divinatory Meanings: The Queen of Heaven (careful, only in very specific readings!), lies, occult teachings, hidden things.

Yes or No: No.

Numerical value: 18

When I look at the “moon” I call her Radharani since that is, in my view, her most wonderful name. In truth, that name belongs to the reflection of the moon as seen by Krsna. The moon herself is a bit colder and darker than Radha, and in fact, in Tarot it represents lies, that which lies beneath.

As Queen of the Tide Waves, she manages all liquid flows, including women’s mensuration. God forbid she forget some day to do her duty and women all got PMS at the same time forever. Oh, well. Her light is not her own, scientists tell us, and thus she lies to us about her true nature, which is cold and lightless.

She is, a piece of rock suspended above us, kind of not really caring about anything that she doesn’t.

To some, she is as a rabbit, jumping here and there to evade the powerful jaws of some Coyote somewhere. To others she is made of Cheese.

Nobody smiles quite like her, that is certain, but her smile might appear sardonic to some, because after all, she smiles only at night, and mostly at our own stupidity. Is she mocking us? Perhaps. Perhaps.

Any warewolf worth his salt knows that she deserves at least one howl when she comes round to see us completely. Warewolves, after all, are not stupid at all. They stay alive long after others less lucky have left their bodies. Of course, they have temper problems.

Perhaps her greatest secret is that she doesn’t lie to us at all. We only lie to ourselves.

The Star

The Star XVII

Divinatory Meanings: Triumph, Love, Good Luck, Good Magic, a good person. A lucky person. Affirmations. Finding the way.

Yes or No: Yes.

Numerical value: 17.

Who is your lucky star? That special person who you know will always arrive at the nick of time to save the day? Now think this: if you look into the sky with the naked eye at night, what is the brightest star you see in the horizon?

Venus.

Folks don’t know it, but there “he” is, Lucifer, by some names. Venus by others. If you look up, the meaning of old things becomes apparent, but sadly, most folks are always looking down. At night, guiding yourself, first by the Moon and then by Venus is elementary, as elementary as finding the Big Dipper and Orion’s Belt.

If we all thought as mariners, we would not have to loose ourselves so easily in the infinite laberynths of Karma’s wheel. And yet, here we are, forgetting ourselves over and over to try to fulfill some egoic, absurd destiny which once you let go of such notions, becomes nothing less and nothing more than the light at the end of the tunel.

I told my niece today that one must remember the old names of things. Especially of Gods. Lets see, kids, what can you google about Venus for old uncle Robin? Among the few things I remember in my riddled brains are a certain Venus without head arms or legs, which is still considered by art-historians as one of the most beautiful women of all times.

Finding the way is still being a part of the laberynth.

The Tower

The Tower XVI

Divinatory Meanings: Force Majeure. Catastrophe. Accident. Loosing everything. Breaking up. A terrible event that changes one’s life forever. Ashes-to-ashes. Rising from the Ashes. No turning back. Destroying the old to make room for the new. A weak foundation will cause the house to collapse. A house of cards is blown by the wind.

Yes or No: No.

Numerical Value: 16.

The original tower was the tower of Babel. King Nimrod decided to build a tower that could reach heaven. Since all the people of the world spoke the same language, the Tower of Babel began to rise unopposed until it touched the very gates of Heaven.

Heaven did not like that much. So the tower came tumbling down and God confused the language of all the people so that they would never build a similar tower. Nimrod lost his Kingdom and his life and out of the ashes of the tower, ancient Babylon was created, beginning our adventures with modern civilization.

The moral of the story here is: do not be too proud. Another way of saying it would be: the bigger you get, the bigger you fall. Another story that comes to mind is that of Icarus. Icarus decided to build some wings to fly to the sun. He made the wings out of wax, so that as he began to climb higher and high, and get closer and closer to the sun, the wings melted and he plummeted to the sea to his death.

When 9-11 came around, I had a strong feeling that it was an inside job. Now, I am almost possibly convinced that 9-11 was actually a gigantic human sacrifice meant to bring about a New World Order. In order to bring in the New World Order, the old-world (represented by the World-Trade-Center and it’s Laws) had to come tumbling down.

The lives of the people inside the towers were a kind of blood-payment to the Gods of the New World Order. We are entering the age of Capricorn, the age of the Goat. 9-11 was the first event that ushered in this age, setting the sage for 1,000 years of peace and prosperity.

It remains to be seen what will come of this. But I suspect, Pax-Americana is come finally to and end and a new security arrangement will have to replace it. Another symbol of the tower is the Phoenix. The Phoenix is reduced to ashes by fire. But out of those ashes, the Phoenix is resurrected, Christ like.

To US cops, 9-11was a wake up call. After all, what do we do when we have an emergency? We dial 9-11. Osama Bin Laden was created by the CIA to defeat the Russians. When the Russians were defeated, there was only one thing standing in the way of a One-World-Order: The USA.

Now, this problem is beginning to unravel. The world has come to realize that US national security means nothing if it does not support World-Security. The Islamic world has awoken to the fact that there are forces trying to bring Islam to an end. A Jihad has been called for and the very nature of Islam demands that the call of Jihad be answered by those who believe in the Koran.

The rest of the religions have been warned: Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism… They are all now calling for a savior. To many Christians, the writing is on the wall, and the End is Near. To Muslims (the natural adversaries of Jews and Christians) Judgment Day looms very close in the distance. Buddhists and Hindus, a little older and wiser than their Judeo-Christian brothers are trying desperately to sit this one out. But they know better. Many Buddhists claim Mayatreia is here already. Besides, India will have to rescue the Kashmir. And the Dalai Lama will have to rescue Tibet.

And atheists worldwide are calling for an end to Religious violence. All this because three little towers went down in New York City.

The Devil

The Devil XV

Divinatory Meanings: Something evil. Darkness. Black magic. Bad news. Something bad that happens to people. Accidents. Crime. Doing the wrong thing. A very bad person. A bad relationship. A bad situation. Evil intentions. Evil actions. Evil thoughts.

Yes or No: No.

Numerical value: 15.

Choosing the right card for the Devil was easy: what is the most possibly evil thing that man can do to others? A nuclear bomb. There is nothing intrinsically evil about nuclear power. The sun uses it to warm the earth and make life possible. There is nothing evil about fire in general. Fire is one of the four prime elements that make reality possible.

But there is no redeeming factors to a Nuclear Bomb. No excuse can be given for unleashing such destructive force on planet earth. When Oppenheimer decided to create the bomb (and all the members of his team), they were trying to beat the Germans to it. But then, Germany was defeated, and Japan was left alone, and would have surrendered… Except, President Truman decided to make an ‘example’ of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the entire world, making the United States of America the most evil Nation in the world. Was the knowledge of how to make the bomb evil? No. Was making the bomb evil? Yes.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The most sinister thing about the devil is that he comes as a savior. The devil is the daily compromise we make with the evil in our own person. I am a kind of expert on this theme. The nature of evil has intrigued me since I was a child. Often, I recognize the evil in my own heart, but I find myself powerless to defeat it.

The devil is the one that feeds us. Every time we eat a hamburger, a cow had to be brutally slaughtered. When we have a cheeseburger, we are cooking the cow in her own milk. What is the difference between a Cheeseburger and a Nuclear Bomb? In terms of evil, none at all. The expediency of milking and killing a cow to eat a hamburger is no different of the expediency of slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians in a few minutes in order to defeat the Japanese Empire in WWII. But then, the results are quite different. The hamburger might give us indigestion. Harry S. Truman might very well have known that his deed had released hell-on earth.

The devil convinces us that he is necessary, that he is the only one who has the answer to our problem. But that’s a lie. From the very first murder, when Cain killed Abel, the devil has been trying to convince us that he is not real. But when we begin to look closely, we see our inescapable debt to the devil. The devil owns our bodies. Every time we eat, we are eating murder, and even if we were vegetarians, there are a zillion ways to fall into the devils’ claws.

The basic duality of our human existence makes it impossible to live outside of ‘sin’. That was really the message of Jesus when he said we are born into sin. The very condition of existing on this planet requires that we cause the destruction of other sentient beings. Well, not exactly. There are those enlightened beings who cause no extinction to other sentient beings. But they are so few and far between as to be almost non-existent.

Ordinary men and women don’t even know they are evil. They can’t see the murder behind their hamburger. They don’t really care about Hiroshima or Baghdad. They get up, go to work, come back home, eat, watch some t.v. and sleep only to start their cycle once again, utterly unaware and asleep of the daily mayhem their lives cause to others. They don’t really consider themselves particularly sinful or evil, but they are unable to see beyond their own limitations and they can’t fathom the cause and effect, the karmic causes of their daily activities.

The devils’ primary objective is not to destroy us, however, but to separate us from that which is most essential: our deeper connection to God. The devil is the Casino, where we go to pray to the God of Money. Or he is the television where we pray to an infinite number of Idols.

Once you are aware of the devil, you begin to realize that everything has a tint of evil. The most innocent things: puppies and ice-cream, at the very least cause children to get fleas and cavities. It is almost impossible to escape the devil because he is everywhere always. And worst of all: he makes us feel good.

But in fact, we all end up paying the piper. Be it Oppenheimer, trying to beat the Germans to the bomb, or your local preacher, worried about the mortgage of his church, sooner or later, all of us find that whatever we tried to do in this planet that was not of God, for God and by God… Was for his darker-side: the devil.

There are really only two roads. Many are called, but few are chosen.

Know the devil in your own breast and make peace with him. Perhaps then God’s true illumination will come through. When all else fails: pray.