Author: Patrick Forse

Last week was given over to the contemplation of the generation of demons in the shadows of the subconscious mind. This week we contemplate the destructive role of pride in …

The New Testament reading for the fifteenth Sunday after Trinity reminds us that we cannot serve two masters, God and mammon, while the Collect for the day speaks of our …

Once again, the consonance between the sequence of the Upper Arcana and the weeks of the Trinity season can be seen in the focus this week on the virtues, of …

The Gospel reading for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity is from the tenth Chapter of Luke, the story of the Good Samaritan. It will be noted that the parable begins …

Last week we noted that the woman who gently tames the lion in the arcana of (11) Strength is a personification of Intelligence and works with masculine energy, which Oswald …

The eleventh week after Trinity is one of the most dynamic of the year. It usually occurs when the sidereal Sun is in Leo. The seasonal arcana for Trinity is …

The themes of New Testament reading for this the tenth Sunday after Trinity, in which we visit the arcanum of the (10) Wheel of Fortune, have to do with the …

On arriving at the (9) Hermit’s cell on the ninth Sunday after Trinity, we are confronted with a perplexing parable, that of the Unjust Steward (Luke 16: 1-9) whose worldly …

The eighth arcana of the traditional Tarot is (8) Justice, which is the operation of “never-failing providence” which “ordereth all things both in heaven and earth” as the collect for …

One aspect of the (7) Chariot is that it may be seen as an image of Hermes presiding over a square “field” which represents the front face of the cube-shaped …