EXCITING NEWS! TAROT PROJECT UNDERWAY!

We are very excited to announce that Pino and the artist Torey (Torey is an administrator of the Magicka Forum and creator of MagickaSpace) have now begun a Tarot design project. If you would like to follow the latest developments please join Pino Longchild's Facebook page or watch out for news on MagickaSpace.

As anyone familiar with the Tarot will realise, this is a huge and ambitious undertaking that is scheduled to take around 4 years to complete.

The Major Arcana cards will be the first to be designed, starting with the Fool, the Hanged Man and Judgement (to find out why visit Pino Longchild on Facebook).

UPDATE! Phase 1: The Fool
The first phase of the project is now underway! Pino has now completed his vision of the first card in the project, The Fool.

Notes on The Fool by Pino Longchild - September 20, 2009
“The whole picture is a glyph of the creative light” Aleister Crowley, Book of Thoth, p.69.

I have deliberately tried to keep the symbolism of The Fool uncomplicated. This is because the essence of The Fool is innocence and simplicity.

The task of representing The Fool is a bit like explaining a Zen koan…The koan is simple and perfect, with a meaning that can be understood by those who are intuitive, yet, when trying to explain it rationally, the original meaning is lost in a blizzard of words…

I have done my best to write a light snow shower…and when [Torey] depict(s) the card it might be best if [he] tries to do the same…

A Number of Important Things
Perhaps the most important thing about The Fool is that the card represents zero. This is the zero from where come all things; the Kabbalistic zero above the Tree of Life.

Because it represents zero it is also in a sense the beginning and end. It is where all things start and ultimately what all things become.

As the Beginning the card should have an overwhelming sense of freshness, and yet, as it is also the End, there should be a hint of finality (this is difficult to put into words…it’s not exactly a sense of death, more an air of unknowable nothingness, beyond existence…

(Read more here and see the first sketch!.....................)

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Religion/Dark Ages
by Little Bear
Before, we began to eat our meal, like many other dinners a prayer is said. As the prayer began it suddenly occurred to me, in a very abrupt way….the person saying the prayer assumed that all who attended the party were of the same faith.

As I raised my head, the lady sitting directly across from me and her husband (co-worker) was of a different faith, they are Ba’hai. Now, I don’t want to get into the differences in religion but I want all to remember everyone has a belief and it may not be the same as yours. I don’t want to get into great details, but if there are more than one religion (and there are), at a company function is it not a bit rude to assume that your faith is the only one.

In fact, assuming your belief is the one and only is that not a fault…. As many religions out there all seem to say no one person is better and that we are equal. That all are to work as one, to create a better earth, and to live together in harmony.

I started looking into this and discovered that as time has progressed and civilization has grown, it appears that people are still in the dark about religion and that their religion is the only way to worship. People are more tolerant of nationalities and race than about religion. They can not see beyond there own religion that there are many ways to worship the Heavenly Deities. This may be the biggest problem that remains in today’s’ world, and it seems no one is willing to acknowledge that this even exists.

I don’t understand the ….when we all want the same, just have different ways to worship.

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