Hermetic Laboratory

Witch-moon, upon the beck of blood afloat The Midnight Beetle's brave prophetic Boat! Let the Illusion of the world pass over thee, unheeded, as thou goest from the Midnight to the Morning. Mr Mojo Risin'... Crestation / Shell-Fish evolving into animal towers indicate a construct of a higher level of thought The process is under the dispassionate observation of the Moon, reflected light of the Sun.  Intellect is implied by the 16 rays large emanating from the moon. 16 = 8*2 where 8 is Hod, Intellect, and 2 implies reflection.  Also 2 is the Sephira Hokhma implied by the 15 יs in  the Waite deck.  15 is the number of  יה which is the divine name of Hokhma. The 16 smaller rays imply another level of reflection of the 8 BOTA: 18 י's 18 יs adds to 180 18 יs reduces to 9 stating that the path goes to the Hermit (י) The path goes to the unknown. Waite: 15 יs: 15 יs adds to 150 15 יs reduces to 6 implying...

What strikes me most about this work is the self-referential nature of these paths... sometimes it is more stark than others... also due to the magic involved, one begins to feel like s/he is grasping the elusive essence of the path at the very end... the hope is to try again in the next round which may or may not come... basically this is it.  This is the one and only time the first pass will be made on this path. The letter of the path, צ, seemed more significant than the card or the astrological attribution of Aquarius... צ (Tzaddi) means fish hook or fish hook sink, as a method of descending into the depths of the waters to catch or retrieve something.   In my case its usually ideas related to work, or to this pathworking itself... On the 2nd week of focusing on the card and the letter I began to feel that the sink of the fishhook is pulling me deeper and deeper into the present moment, whatever it may be.  By allowing this to happen I found that a sense o...