Eileen Agar (Argentine-British 1899-1991), Ladybird, 1936. Gelatin Silver Print With Gouache And Ink,

IO represents the underlying reality—the boundless immutable principle….The principle contains a duality—the I and the O—Absolute Self and Absolute Space. Neither is dominant for neither exists without the other.

Cosmic ideation is the product of the coming together of this primary duality to produce consciousness or the world soul—the sense of ‘self in manifestation’. For the Self to be conscious it needs a sheath to become self-aware in.

Bruce Lyon, Occult Cosmology

Major Arcana Tarot Card Meanings

The Major Arcana cards include 21 numbered cards and one unnumbered card (the Fool). The Fool is the main character of the Major Arcana and makes his journey through each of the cards, meeting new teachers and learning new life lessons along the way, and eventually reaching the completion of his journey with the World card. This is known as the Fool’s Journey.

When you see a Major Arcana card in a Tarot reading, you are being called to reflect on the life lessons and themes that are currently being experienced at this time. A Major Arcana card will often set the scene for the entire Tarot reading, with the other cards relating back to that core Major Arcana meaning.

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Agnes Denes. Studies of Time—Explorations of Time Aspects, 1970

"Burning Rhapsody"

Vampire Night (Namco/Sega/WOW Entertainment - PS2 - 2001)

In 1561 an innkeeper called Hew Draper was imprisoned in the Tower of London for sorcery. Whilst incarcerated he made these carvings in the walls which displayed astrological symbols and numbers.

Alchemical drawings from Sapientia veterum philosophorum, sive doctrina eorumdem de summa et universali medicina (18th c.) BnF

Roberto Assagioli’s Consciousness Egg

The Self is a transpersonal center, a source of essential being, an inner counsellor guiding us to truth, meaning, and purpose. The Self is represented as a star, and appears at the top and bottom at the top of the diagram.

Evaluating Integral Metatheory

In Gurdjieff’s cosmology, The Universe is represented by the symbol of the Enneagram. The Enneagram itself is composed of three symbols

Russell A. Smith, Gurdjieff: Cosmic Secrets