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Michael W. Ford began a path to Luciferian Witchcraft at an early age. Having resonated with the dark aspects of life and found a psychological interest in the ideologies of Nietzsche and Darwin, Mr. Ford began a practice of Satanism. Soon finding a deep spiritual connection with the spiritual aspects of the Adversary, Michael soon explored various Satanic Orders and the practice of Vampirism. In 1999, Mr. Ford, having practiced what is “Chaos Magic” began Book of the Witch Moon which was published in 2005-2006. Michael has studied at length the works of Austin Osman Spare, specifically his “Ugly Ecstasy” era illustrations and relates much of his initiation via artwork.

Mr. Ford is also a musician who has worked with numerous known bands, Black Funeral, Hexentanz, valefor, Psychonaut 75 and Ordo Tyrannus. Michael has produced ritual music albums and numerous other venues in music as well.

Michael resides near Houston, Texas with his fiancee, Hope Marie, who is his business manager and they are co-owners of Succubus Productions, the current publishing house and e-commerce operators of two websites. Mr. Ford is also presiding Magister of The Order of the Phosphorus and THE BLACK ORDER OF THE DRAGON.

Michael W. Ford is currently publishing THE LUCIFERIAN TAROT and Book, designed by him and painted by renowned artist Nico Claux. Mr. Ford is also continuing the path with numerous Luciferian works, including several on Vampirism and horror fiction as well as a Satanic Medieval Tarot.

• Succubus Productions at LuLu
• LuciferianWitchcraft.com
• Yahoo Group for Luciferian, Sorcery and News
• Luciferian Apotheca on Myspace

The Luciferian Tarot

78 Card Deck by Michael W. Ford and Nico Claux

A full 78 card deck, a beautiful and articulate expression of the Spirit of the Adversary from a trans-cultural perspective. This is the first Left Hand Path tarot deck published. Full color with a focus on the shadow or dark side of the feminine and masculine within the mysteries of the Luciferian Witchcraft gnosis.

THE FIRST BOOK OF LUCIFERIAN TAROT is the first published tarot based on Left Hand Path or Luciferian topics. This tarot book defines the practice and study of the Luciferian path of initiation, divination and the hidden or shadow aspects of the mind.

The First Book of Luciferian Tarot presents the Adversary Samael as the spirit of self-liberation, wisdom and power. The Adversary in the form of Lilith, the dark feminine instinct and motivation for humanity. Forecasting the future is only one possible use with the deck: a full grimoire of initiation is presented with this deck. You will find full descriptions, symbolism and methodology behind the Luciferian Tarot. You will find the Watchers and Grigori, the fallen angels who taught mankind the art of Witchcraft. The Various forms of the Adversary and the importance of balance with darkness and light. The daemonic feminine of Lilith, Hecate and Kali may be found here, how they relate to the Tarot and the associated Qlippothic Shadow forms corresponding to the deck.

Beautifully designed by Michael W. Ford and painted by Nico Claux, The Book of Luciferian Tarot gives full descriptions of the path of tarot. Descriptions of Major and Minor arcana, definitions and many tarot spreads makes THE FIRST BOOK OF LUCIFERIAN TAROT essential to any occult enthusiast and a darksome gift from the powers of the Adversary.

Cult of Zir

cult of zir is the primary auditory endeavour of portland-based artist nolon ashley, a performer whose applications and affiliations span a diverse spectrum, ranging from the accessible to the ineffible.

cult of zir’s sound depends heavily on abstract electronic soundscapes and textures countered with resonant melodic sequences, attempting a balance between intensity and sensitivity. a game-rule of intent is held in high priority, applied to a sonic medium often deliberately undisciplined.

in the barbarous tongue of the angels, “zir” translates to “i am.” such is described by dr. john dee and sir edward kelly, who pioneered the territory of enochian magick, a system of communication with spirit representatives of the divine.

• Cult of Zir Website
• Cult of Zir Myspace

Music Credits

Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones.

Closing Music: Requiem from the Cult of Zir. (a reflection on the loss inherent in refinement, in sacrificial discipline of yama. a goodbye kiss to attachments and aversions proven no longer useful.)

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Ginny Hunt is a Professional Tarot Reader from Virginia. Her interest in the spiritual and metaphysical has been a lifelong passion. She has been a practicing counselor, both professionally with adolescents and para-professionally as a volunteer with abused women. She offers professional reading services through 78 Notes to Self and reads professionally through Kasamba.com.

Jeanette Roth of the Tarot Garden

Jeannette Roth has been collecting and studying tarot decks for over 20 years, and has presented lectures on topics related to tarot evolution and imagery around the midwestern U.S. for nearly 15 years. She is the co-owner of The Tarot Garden, which maintains the largest publicly-accessible database of 20th and 21st century tarot and cartomantic decks in the world.

Abysmal Tarot

22 Major Arcana based on the theme of the Prince of Darkness. 10 Artist contributed using a variety of techniques. The first edition was published by Collection Palestrina June 6, 2006 in a limited luxury edition of 333 copies. Images from the Abysmal Tarot are used with permission. (Abysmal Tarot at the Tarot Garden)

Vanessa Tarot

Taking their inspiration from pop culture, the sassy but sage characters of Vanessa Tarot playfully reinterpret traditional female roles as they share all their arcane secrets. Presented in a keepsake tin, Vanessa Tarot includes 78 cards with 30-page instruction booklet. Cards measure 2″ x 3.5″. (Vanessa Tarot at the Tarot Garden)

Love Tarot

(50 Ways to Divine Love by Liz Dean)

In “The Love Tarot”, Liz Dean shows how this ancient system of divination can be used to explore and predict love. The card pack and colour book draw upon the traditional division of the cards at card X, The Wheel of Fortune. Choose from cards 0 to IX to divine the nature of your lover. By choosing from the higher-numbered cards you divine your past, present, or future situation. The cards present 50 ways to receive true guidance in matters of the heart. This kit includes 1 96-page paperback book and 25 cards. (Love Tarot at the Tarot Garden)

Hermit’s Journey with Bonnie Cehovet – Symbolism of the Hierophant and Lovers

Welcome to the Hermit’s Journey. My name is Bonnie Cehovet, and today we will be continuing on our journey through the symbols in the Major Arcana. As I noted in the first Pod Cast of this series, that of the Fool, the imagery and symbolism in the Tarot is what connects us to its archetypal qualities and wisdom. It acts as a gateway between our conscious and our unconscious worlds. Each deck carries with it its own unique brand of imagery and symbols. For the purposes of this discussion, I will be referring to the Waite-Smith Tarot (also known as the Rider-Waite Tarot), as it is a traditional reference, and quite often used for teaching purposes. Interpreting the imagery and symbols is done in two ways: through the intent of the author/illustrator (and here we need to remember that the background for the Rider-Waite deck is that of the Golden Dawn), and how the Seeker sees it through the veil of their own personal life experiences.

Let’s continue our journey through the symbols of the Hierophant and the Lovers. The major theme for the Hierophant is that of the inner teacher, that part of ourselves that questions authority, makes us think, and helps us to develop our own core beliefs, the beliefs that act as the foundation for our lives.

In many ways, the Hierophant, through the auspices of formal religion, helps us to place the teachings of the Emperor into our lives. Where the High Priestess represents the esoteric and the hidden, or mysterious, the Hierophant represents the antithesis of this, the exoteric, ritualistic side of life experiences.

Music Credits

Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones.

Hermits Journey Music: Dark Moon by Suzanne Teng from Enchanted Wind (Magnatune)

Closing Music: Acceptance by Jeff Wahl from Meditative Guitar (Magnatune)

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It is available for purchase at shop.tarotconnection.net in the Year One Archive mp3 DVD.

My guest is Mary Carter who’s latest book Accidentally Engaged protagonist Clare Ivers is a psychic tarot reader. Clare ignores her intuition which is telling her to decline reading for a woman who is getting cold feet about her upcoming wedding. Clare is asked to give a phony reading in favor of the wedding (by the sister-in-law) and to break the engagement (by the future bride). Clare obliges her customer and comes into possession of a 3 carat wedding ring that needs returning.

Accidentally Engaged

By Mary Carter
PROLOGUE

It all started that fateful evening when I allowed myself to turn over the first card. It was from the Major Arcana, Trumps Zero, The Fool.

He’s the grinning idiot, the class clown, the one who eats oysters despite the Red Tide warning, the guy who lowers his car for increased speed and agility, despite the fact that it’s a Saturn.

Most Tarot card decks show The Fool standing at the edge of a cliff, not watching what he’s doing. He’s daydreaming, he’s staring off into the sky, he’s mentally composing his grocery list. In other words, he’s terminally out of milk.

He’s also one step away from plunging thousands of feet to his death.

And it’s not like anyone didn’t warn him. (Hence, his name.)

If a non-foolish man were carefully and strategically walking down a path and suddenly plunged to his death due to large foliage, overgrown trees, or poor city planning, we’d all feel sorry for the guy, maybe even drop a bundle of flowers or light an outdoor-only non flammable candle at the accident site. Maybe even shed a few tears. We’re reasonable people. And even if we didn’t go that far, we certainly wouldn’t blame the guy for dying.

But if there were clues pointing to the impending disaster scattered along the way, such as small forest animals running at top speed in the opposite direction, a strange, stale feeling of doom hovering about the suddenly stilled air, or a large, neon sign blinking Danger! This path ends in a perilous cliff!, we probably wouldn’t be so sympathetic when The Fool blindly forged ahead and plummeted off the face of the earth. Most likely we’d say, I told you so.

In my defense (because a fool always has one), at the time I thought I was doing the reading for someone else. It’s only now as I stand at the edge of the cliff, one step away from taking the fatal plunge myself, that I can see everything so clearly.

Mary Carter

Mary Carter is a freelance writer and certified sign language interpreter. She’s a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (NYC) and Rochester Institute of Technology/NTID. Her first novel, SHE’LL TAKE IT, will be re-published by Headline Books/Little Black Dress in the UK in November 2006. Her second novel, ACCIDENTALLY ENGAGED, a comedy about a tarot card reader who messes up the engagement of a very prominent bachelor, will be released in March of 2007 by both Kensington Books and Little Black Dress. Mary currently lives in Manhattan where she is busy writing her third novel.

• Mary Carter Books (Visit Mary’s Website)

Hermit’s Journey with Bonnie Cehovet – Ritual and the Aces

Welcome to the Hermit’s Journey. This is Bonnie Cehovet, and today we will be talking about ritual and the Aces. Webster defines ritual as something done in accordance with religious law, social custom, or normal protocol. That is a pretty wide range of thought! I personally see ritual as something that can be either formal or informal something that marks the passage of time, and the important events in our lives. Ritual is a marker that we use to make sense of life.

For me, an important, if informal, ritual is my morning coffee. When the weather is nice, I sit on my porch and gaze into the back yard, which is filled with all kinds of plant and animal life. In bad weather, the ritual takes place indoors, but the result is the same … I have connected with my soul, and with the life that surrounds me.

The Aces represent a world of opportunity. They are unexplored elemental energy waiting to be manifested, waiting to be put into use. What do you wish to manifest in your life? Which Ace, or combination of Aces, will assist you on your path?

Caution: do not listen to this episode in situations requiring alertness such as driving a car or operating machinery. Journey work is designed to put you in to a state of relaxation and an altered state of consciousness.

Tarot by the Numbers: The Twos by Ginny Hunt

I have a very conflicted relationship with numbers. I’m hopeless with math but I can do symbolism. That may seem a contradictory statement, for what are numbers but abstract symbols themselves? I can grasp the conceptual meaning of the symbols easily, but for some reason I will add 2 + 2 and come up with 5. Hey, that’s just me thinking outside the box, ok? Numbers and their symbolism inform a great deal about the meaning of tarot, and there is very little, if any, mathematical skill necessary to understand them. While the suits each have their attributes, so do each number.

There’s a whole field of spiritual and divinatory study called Numerology that goes well beyond the realm of tarot. However, tarot numerology differs in some ways from what has been developed in Numerology numerology. In Tarot, we primarily keep the symbolic meanings of the numbers in mind as a reference to sorting out the meaning of the cards. Understanding these symbolic numerical associations becomes more critical when working with non-scenic pip decks, such as the Marseilles-based decks, where pictured on the card may simply be 4 cups or 7 swords and not much else to go on.

The Major Arcana is numbered 0-21 and the Minor Arcana is numbered 1 (or Ace)-10 in each of the four suits. Each of the Minor numbers are associated with a Major. For example, as we take a look at the Two’s in Tarot, they all connect in some way to the Major Arcana II — The High Priestess. Each number also has a planetary association, so there’s some crossover with Astrology here as well.

The number two first and foremost represents dualism which is the existence of two fundamental principles, concepts, things or energies, that are in opposition to each other. It is where thought begins to actually take form. Human minds are geared towards seeing the relationships between two things, usually opposite things. We often express ourselves in this way, using opposing concepts to get at what we mean. We say something is good/bad, light/dark, male/female, sweet/sour. It is said we could not know happiness if not for having experienced its opposite, sadness. So, in that way two’s represent that dichotomy of thought that allows coherent expression of the initial idea begun in the Aces. (read the full post)

Music Credits

Opening Music: time release by the Droney Tones.

Hermits Journey Music: Dark Moon by Suzanne Teng from Enchanted Wind (Magnatune)

78 Notes Music: Steamy River by Rhonda Lorence from Winter Moon (Magnatune)

Closing Music: Happy Accident from Mystery Repeats Itself by Michael Masley

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This Podcast Episode has been archived. It is available for purchase at shop.tarotconnection.net in the Year One Archive mp3 DVD.

This journey is part of Episode 42 and has been released separately for your listening convenience. Before beginning this journey spend a few minutes looking at and relating to the ace you wish to experience.

The Aces represent a world of opportunity. They are unexplored elemental energy waiting to be manifested, waiting to be put into use. What do you wish to manifest in your life? Which Ace, or combination of Aces, will assist you on your path?

Caution: do not listen to this episode in situations requiring alertness such as driving a car or operating machinery. Journey work is designed to put you in to a state of relaxation and an altered state of consciousness.

Music Credits

• Music: Dark Moon by Suzanne Teng from Enchanted Wind (Magnatune)

My fingers are so sore & sliced that shoelaces are a major obstacle. However, my entries to Tarot 2007 are almost complete and I wanted to share. This is what they look like right before applying the grout.

Three of Swords and Ace of Cups created from the Alchemical Tarot with permission of Robert Place. I enlarged scans of the cards in Photoshop to the size to fit the frame and then applied stained glass to the glass that came with the frame. I used nuggets, mirrored glass and ground some of the pieces to shape them.