The Fortunate Mage in the Mirror

Much Maligned and Ready to Set the Record Straight ...

Death Would Like a Word!

Hush now, don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream spinning in your head

Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day, your dream is over
Or has it just begun?

In The Thoth Tarot, one card fills me with terror and dread like no other. The Cruelty Card (9 of Swords) captures a state of mind and implies the actions that follow. It illustrates the issue with an image of nine blood-dripping swords and a history lesson.

This card represents the degeneration of the mind (the seat of our perceptual reality) to such a degree that "acceptance of martyrdom," "passive resistance," and "implacable revenge" are the only solutions Aleister Crowley suggested.

Maybe we can do better!

The Cruelty Card represents Seth (Mars) in Akeru (Gemini). So, this is where duality (in modern astrology) and the mind come together in a grand illusion of torment. But Akeru, ruled by Thoth (the greater scribe and messenger), also implies the "profoundly bad idea" I referenced earlier.

We have built up that BAD idea into a narrative, disseminated, expressed, and concretized it.

The BAD idea established a grand imbalance. By bad I mean dysfunctional, unworkable, unproductive, deadly ...

The BAD IDEA: God is male and white.

God is a white man wasn't much of a leap!

That one idea has led to immeasurable cruelty because it has also led to the Reign of Disproportion that is the Domination System (or was). We have built global systems with everything from stately buildings to government agencies to concretize this imbalance in power, resources, position, access, and order.

This is not a religious imbalance, at least not entirely. But it originally manifested via a fanatical, religious obsession to eradicate everything that didn't submit to and uphold the imbalance.

The Swords no longer represent pure intellect so much as the automatic stirring of heartless passions. Consciousness has fallen into a realm unenlightened by reason. This is the world of uncionsious primitive instincts, of the psychopath, of the fanatic.

The celestial ruler is Mars in Gemini, crude rage of hunger operating without restraint; although its form is intellectual, it is the temper of the inquisitor. ∞ The Thoth Tarot

I don't think I need to detail the practices of the Inquisition. But I believe a little history lesson on time and place might be in order, so I asked ChatGPT for a quick refresher.

The Inquisition, referring primarily to the Spanish Inquisition, officially began in 1478 and lasted until it was abolished in 1834. It was established by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms, initially targeting converted Jews (conversos) and later expanding to include other groups.

The broader term "Inquisition" also refers to various other inquisitorial movements within the Catholic Church, including the Roman Inquisition, which started in 1542 and focused on enforcing doctrinal orthodoxy throughout the Papal States, and the Medieval Inquisition, which began around 1184 to combat heresy in Southern France and Italy. Each of these had different scopes, targets, and timelines, but they all functioned under the same fundamental principles of enforcing religious conformity.

Like the Witch Trials and colonization efforts, which overlapped somewhat, the various inquisitions turned death into a form of religious and political control. Ideas and people who posed a challenge to the established order were branded as heretics and punished for their lack of conformity.

Death, and his good friend Pain, are here not only to set the record straight but to re-establish their original purposes and demolish the Reign of Disporportion.

Today, at 10:16 PM CST, Seth (Mars) will conjunct Nu (Neptune) at 28 degrees, 7 minutes of Sepdet (Pisces).

Seth is the principle of death and destruction. Seth, however, in his purest, alchemical expression, is death and destruction driven by the renewal of a new cycle.

Seth's purpose is not to torment people with the specter of being assassinated for heresy, witchcraft, or simple difference. His purpose is not conquest and murder. The inquisitor has no right to wield Seth as part of his institutionally backed position of power.

Pain is not meant for any of these things either. Pain is meant to alert us that something is wrong.

Death, in particular, is intrinsically linked to flourishing life. Seth is, therefore, part of the perpetual golden spiral of life.

In practical terms, Death opens the gateway to renewal and evolution. Without it, life could not progress.

The death of an older generation makes room for the INnovative ideas (heresies) of the next generation to come forth. The pruning of a garden allows new flowers to grow. Apex predators like wolves play a major role in the health of their territories. Healthy ecosystems depend upon death.

Death is also meant to provide a natural end to creative endeavors and systems that are no longer fruitful.

Death is the gateway to metamorphosis and progress.

But in the hands of people who wish to impose their way of life, establish state power over citizens, eliminate dissent, conquer territory, and enact vengeance (via the death penalty), and so on and so forth, Death becomes a weapon. Our relationship to the natural cycles of life and death becomes distorted.

Tonight, Death and the original waters of Nu will meet.

Nu was conceived to be the primordial water, the deep and boundless watery mass of energy in the sky. The terrestrial counterpart was the river Nile--its symbolic of the fluidic, astral current necessary for all magical and spiritual work ... Nu is the origin and the end of creation--he is totality ... the possibility of every creation ... There was no duality but rather a great unity in which different levels of being were defined as the various differentiations of primary energy. ∞ The Book of Doors

Nu's divinatory meaning in The Book of Doors includes, "The beginning of a potent transformation, with far-reaching possibilities."

As Seth and Nu unite this evening, The Fortunate Mage sees something else reflected in the primordial waters of Nu. In her reflection, the dual powers/principles of Life and Death suddenly come into balance.

Death is liberated from the inquisitor's hands.

Death comes in peace as one of the twin powers of movement. With Death comes Life.

Until now, Death has been trapped in the faulty logic of the Reign of Disproportion and within the structures and systems of the Domination System that supports it.

NOW!

All the fear is gone.

With this one last stretch, we have REDSHIFTED into Renaissance.

This Renaissance will not rhyme with or repeat history.

Where the first Renaissance grew up in concert with the witch trials, and in the name of art and reason, besmirched the name of Death, this Renaissance is a restoration of the wild, dynamic vastness and the balance of Sepdet.

She, like the Shechinah of Kabbalah, is the whole that unites fire and water (in this conjunction, Nu and Seth). From their union in Sepdet, Death is renewed and liberated into his natural, original state.

A new creative movement begins NOW.

This INner metamorphosis arises from the INternalization of Ma'at or Tiphereth, the central pillar of the Tree of Life that balances the expansive and contractive forces of creation.

In this way, we become Sepdet, the one who contains withIN her all the polarities in dynamic balance.

Disproportion is part of the creative process when it is in a state of dynamic balance that allows all to move freely from one state to another as an idea (or energy) evolves into matter and matter transforms with time.

Therefore, we are no longer to be Panic Born in the desolate places as we were before we stretched into this REDSHIFT.

The panic was associated with the co-option of Death as a weapon people, institutions, and nations use against one another. It was the wall of fear that was meant to effect the primal occupation that silences heresy and commands obedience.

From NOW on, we (those of us who choose to claim our full creative power) live in the creative dynamism of our wild, unruly, evolving lives.

We are free to create. We both live within the grand, Divine creative movement of the golden spiral and create endless spirals ourselves.

Nothing that ever takes form lasts forever.

But our eternal purpose is clear from everything we observe around us. We are here to become and become and become again.

Anything that holds us for too long in a stale order or an outmoded, unproductive creative movement is inherently unstable and even dangerous. It defies the law of becoming.

Just look at what the Reign of Disproportion has created! It's hitting its crescendo now.

It violates the most basic tenets of even Divine will. It goes against Divine nature.

In the 2018 documentary, Moses, on Netflix, Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, an American-born Israeli Torah scholar and author discusses the meaning of God's name and its interpretation as a verb.

Here's a quote from Zornberg in the series (via Claude):

What is striking about the name of God is that it's a verb. It's not "I am," as it's often translated, but it's "I will be what I will be." And that opens up a kind of dynamic understanding of God, in which God is not a static being, but a becoming.

I asked Claude (AI) to elaborate on this and explain it more fully.

The idea that the Hebrew name of God is a verb meaning "to become" comes from the interpretation of the divine name "YHWH" (יהוה), often rendered as "Yahweh" or "Jehovah" in English. This name is considered the most sacred name of God in Judaism.

In the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 3:14), when Moses asks God for His name, God responds with "I AM THAT I AM" (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה, 'ehyeh 'ăšer 'ehyeh). The word "ehyeh" is the first-person singular form of the verb "hayah," which means "to be" or "to become."

Perhaps the ultimate Tikkun Olam is achieved in this one simple shift: the liberation of Death from the hands of our tormenters.

In this way, we can fulfill the creative blueprint of heaven to evolve throughout our lives in the natural order of things without fear of intervention via war, witch hunts, and inquisitions.

With Beginningness (B'reshit) WE.

The Jewish tradition is not the only one that prizes movement and the creativity of constant becoming or generation.

Centeotl (of Cinteotl): The original creative force of energy in the universe (from cen "one," "unity" and teotl, "energy"), that essentially represents evolution, movement, and change, but for the Aztecs represents the force, the beginning or the sacred energy, self-generated, unique and dynamic, that created the universe and that generates, permeates, and governs the univserse to this day.
∞ The Toltec Secret, Sergio Magaña

Likewise, Death as a gateway into transformation is not my original idea. In ancient Mexica or Toltec practices, the Red Tezcatlipoca or Xipe Totec is the Lord of Shedding and renewal. He drives the forces of change, renewal, life, and death.

The Black of Obsidian Butterfly is also "used to bring death to something such as a tumor, a virus, or a problem through dreams."

Death in dreams is explicitly transformative.

Death in a dream refers to a sudden change in life. Often when we die in a dream it denotes a favourable change in our life, even if the death occurs in a violent manner and our conditioning leads us to interpret the dream in a negative way ... Of the dreaming while awake places in the tradition, the first one is the Mictlan, the land of the dead, but we have said that death means change and it also means what is not in movement, or taking place at the moment, i.e. the past or the future.   ∞ The Toltec Secret, Sergio Magaña

Thus, The Fortunate Mage steps forward today as a part of the great creative movement to give death to the false, co-opted, connection between Death and all the terrors named here.

Accept the change and be free.

Then revise your understanding of the theme song to indicate that great change is upon you and upon us all.

Death walks with us through greater change, allowing us to see what is already dead (no longer in movement) so that we might seed that which will soon be in movement, namely the future, with the changes we desire and value.

Now I understand why my attention was drawn to an aspect I rarely analyze: the semisquare.

Sobek (Saturn) in Sepdet is in a semisquare with Osiris (Pluto) in Satet (Aquarius). The semisquare tells us the actions that will not be fruitful. In fact, they will cause frustration and delay if we undertake them. Satet is the water bearer of the Egyptian pantheon. She puts things in motion by pouring out. Her divinatory meaning in The Book of Doors, includes, "Sending one's energies outward."

Osiris is the soul in a state of metamorphosis and re-establishment within a new creative movement. As Osiris prepares to station retrograde, we are being told that until we can receive the new blueprints and rules for the neXt creative movement, we cannot perceive how to act upon the external structures that have, until now, supported the Reign of Disproportion. Do they require death, transformation, or INnovation?

What will take their place?

To be clear, we require a banking system, a shipping system, a manufacturing system, a food production system, etc.

If everything fails immediately, the result will be suffering.

Too many people are desperate for relief. The temptation is to destroy (unleash Seth against) everything we believe is causing our pain. Life on Earth has become extremely distressing and it is easy to believe we can release the pressure in a grand fit of destruction. This is both a personal temptation to quit, for instance, jobs, with no idea what we will do to support ourselves. But it is also the temptation to blow out the collective tensions with war and devastation.

Right NOW, unless we are directly fighting for our lives, we must be still until this reclamation of Death integrates. Without Death's trained eye, we do not know what to do. We cannot see what is and is not in motion.

But we also must wait until the retrograde cycle, which lasts until October and returns to the late degrees of Khenmu (Capricorn) concludes. More will be revealed.

In the meantime, there are some very fruitful paths forward that can bring the Point of Fortune alive around us thereby making the REDSHIFT Renaissance a matter of physical reality rather than a mere INner adjustment. That physical reality can support us as the old reality falls away.

When Seth conjuncts Nu, The Part of Fortune will be at 00 degrees of Hathor (Taurus) but conjunct Isis (Venus) in the last degrees of Kheper-Ra. In short, we must use our magic and our movements in a forward-focused way to build the new as it is revealed to us. We must pour out the waters that will allow the neXt movement to flourish.

Satet also has a spiritual function. She pours out the spiritual waters that allow us to thrive and grow in that dimension. We can become her vessels for the living water of the Spirit that is so needed now.

Osiris sextile Neith (Pallas Athena) in Ptah (Sagittarius) presents an opportunity - another water-fire, yin-yang interaction.

This suggests that we must prepare something for an opportunity that will arise of its own accord. We must be ready. This could be as simple as working intentionally with the polarities as this is what Neith does. She crosses and weaves energies consciously. But I have a sneaking suspicion there's more.

Both Horus (Jupiter) and Udjit (Uranus) in Hathor are trine Neith. Horus and Udjit together in Hathor are also conjunct the Light Moon. This suggests the activation, invigoration, and expansion of a novel idea. The Light Moon represents the electric or currency power of the new idea.

Think again about electromagnetism. If the idea is an electric current, it will evoke a magnetic field once it comes in contact with a conductor and begins to move. It will draw things to itself. You and your left brain are the conductor.

Hathor emanating through Horus and Udjit implies a potential direction The Fortunate Mage (aka you) might undertake, especially with the Part of Fortune conjunct Isis at 00 degrees of Hathor and 29 degrees of Kheper-Ra, respectively. Also, on April 29, 2024, at 4:14:08 PM CST, Isis will be at exactly the same point the Part of Fortune will touch tonight: 00 degrees, 33 minutes of Hathor.

Three is the original creative triad (mother, father, child). It is also the number of Seth and Udjit. The two zeros remind me of that old double-slit experiment. But I am way to late in this process to figure out why. I will leave that to you.

Hathor, also known as Het-Hert is a cosmic principle.

... she represents the influence of the stars upon the earth ... She personified the power of nature that is continually bringing new life to earth and that nourishes all things ... In the Duat, she nourished the dead and brought joy to the souls who successfully passed through the hall of Maat ... As the goddess who brought love, pleasure, and happiness to all, Het-Hert presided over everything beautiful, especially art, wine, and dancing. To worship Het-Hert was to worship the goddess in woman ...

∞ The Book of Doors

Hathor's divinatory meaning is "Love, pleasure, and beauty."

In other words, bring the influence of the stars to life in and around you as love, pleasure, and beauty.

Now you've got the upper hand.

Or more to the point, when your hands are consigned to bringing the influence of the stars to life in the world of matter as love, pleasure, and beauty, your hands are the upper realm's hands.

Life was never meant to be constant torment.

Life as constant torment is part of the profoundly bad, now-dead idea!

It's only the weaponization of Death and Pain that made it so. Tonight the torment of weaponized pain and death has itself died. You might not be able to see it yet. But you will as soon as you build accordingly.

The REDSHIFT Renaissance and the Fortunate Mage are co-emergent, interdependent realities. It takes your magic and your movement to activate the current and start magnetizing all the resources you will ever need.

More than enough.

The REDSHIFT Renaissance is the eternal Blessing Synergy of Dynamicly Balanced Creativity, Love, and Prosperity. It's in your hands now. It's the Flourishing Fusion of a Fortunate Future.

A new frame is coming into being where the old frame shattered!

Make the view beautiful!

I know it's a hell of a time to say so. But it's the only way.

Does this mean you stick your head in the sand as to the unnaturally sorrowful circumstances and often terrifying conditions through which humanity is living?

No.

It means you refuse to bear their likeness ever again.

It means you dare to make your mark!

Now you know who Death really is and you know who's telling lies because Death and Pain have set the record straight. You have received the WORD.

At the right time and at the right place, your brave stand (and that of other Fortunate Mages) will alter the structures to match this neXt creative movement.

In the meantime, be INspired by the stars and to give and receive the blessings. That's how blessing synergies start.

Oh, and follow your PRIMAL, ORIGINAL INSTINCTS. You are going to need them. Someday I will explain what original means. But right now it's time to sleep. Goodnight.