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Mystery is Energy


Sphinx, Mystery is Energy Sphinx, Mystery is Energy, a life journey. Oil on canvas, 48 inches by 72 inches, 2010. Buy Original Painting from Saatchi Art She expresses that Mystery is Energy, and when she loses her mystery, she dies. Also represents the mystery of our life journey. In the background is written the riddle of the Sphinx, in jumbled Greek letters, and in the foreground are the dead bodies of her previous lovers. The aesthetic comes to her passively in contemplation, and she meets him as dynamic energy issuing from this contemplation. She confronts us to make us think, […]

Sphinx, oil on canvas, 72 inches by 48 inches by Minneapolis visual artist Roger Williamson

Tarot Cards Available Online


Morning Star Tarot Cards, Available Online Tarot cards available online, Tarot of the Morning Star, second edition, available from Amazon,  Magus Books and Herbs   Second expanded and revised edition deck is also available directly from Gamescrafter    Seventy Eight Card Deck with booklet, $44.95 ISBN: 978-0-9993813-0-4 Morning Star Tarot Cards,  available online from Amazon and Magus Books. Originally published in 2007 as a major arcana deck only limited to 75 signed hand numbered copies, this edition is a 78 card deck. Introduction If you don’t create your own reality, you are condemned to live in someone else’s. Morning Star, […]

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Orpheus Eurydice


Orpheus Eurydice: Don’t Look Back Orpheus Eurydice, Oil on canvas, 36 inches by 72 inches, 2011 Buy original painting from Saatchi Gallery The most famous story in which Orpheus figures is that of his wife Eurydice and her attempted return from the underworld. While walking in tall grass at her wedding, Eurydice was set upon by a satyr.  In her efforts to escape the satyr, Eurydice fell into a nest of vipers and suffered a fatal bite on her heel. Her body was discovered by Orpheus who, overcome with grief, played such sad and mournful songs that all the nymphs […]

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Sun Enters Gemini, Tarot Card Lovers


Sun Enters Gemini, Tarot Card Lovers The Sun in Gemini, tarot card Lovers, represents the duality of our brain at the point of becoming conscious. The union of the Maiden and the Serpent illustrates the duality of the human brain. The figure descending from the sky represents the rise of human consciousness and self-awareness. Inspiration for my depiction of the Lovers card came from Paolo Uccello’s  painting of Saint George and the Dragon. The Influence of Paolo Uccello’s Painting Upon the Lovers On a first glance at Paolo Uccello’s painting, it seems the male hero rescues the maiden from the clutches of a […]

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Princess Pentacles, Princess Earth


Princess Pentacles Princess Pentacles, Princess Earth, Princess, representing the Earth aspect of Earth. Taken from the Tarot of the Morning Star deck, Tarot Princess Earth Pentacles is the sixteenth and final Tarot Court Card and as such represents a hidden spirit or Goddess. She is the culmination and synthesis of the previous 15 Court Cards. Princess of Earth, Princess of Pentacles, representing the Earth aspect of Earth. Taken from the Tarot of the Morning Star deck, Tarot Princess Earth Pentacles is the sixteenth and final Tarot Court Card and as such represents a hidden spirit or Goddess. She is the […]

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Tarot Seven Pentacles Seven Earth


Tarot Seven Pentacles, Failure, Minor Arcana, Third Decan Taurus Tarot Seven Pentacles Each of the Minor Arcana cards numbered Seven express attributes of Netzach, whose title is Victory, the seventh sphere corresponding with Venus on the QBL Tree of life. Seven Earth, Pentacles is associated with Earth, Pentacles and major arcana card Hierophant. Sephirothic Planetary Correspondence The planetary correspondence of Netzach is Venus and each of the minor arcana cards numbered “Seven” express its quality colored by their elemental suit: fire, water, air and earth. These four suits correspond to the four worlds of the QBL: Fire Atziluth, Water Briah, […]

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Tarot Six Pentacles Six Earth


Tarot Six Earth Six Pentacles, Second Decan Taurus Tarot card meaning of Six Earth, Six Pentacles, second decan Taurus. Each of the Minor Arcana cards numbered six expresses attributes of Tiphareth, whose title is Beauty, the sixth sphere corresponding with Sol on the QBL Tree of Life. Sephirothic Planetary Correspondence The planetary correspondence of Tiphareth is the Sun, and each of the minor arcana cards numbered “Six” expresses its quality colored by their elemental suit: fire, water, air and earth. These four suits correspond to the four worlds of the QBL. Fire Atziluth, Water Briah, Air Yetzirah and Earth Assiah. […]

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Leda Zeus Trojan War


Leda Zeus root of the Trojan War Leda Zeus and the Swan, Trojan War, oil on canvas 72 inches by 48 inches 2012  Buy Original Painting from Saatchi Art Leda in Greek mythology, was the daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius, and wife of the king Tyndareus of Sparta. According to the myth, Zeus appeared to her in the form of a swan, seducing and impregnating her. Leda produced four offspring from two eggs: Castor and Clytemnestra from one egg, and Helen and Polydeuces from the other. As the mother of Helen of Troy, she is root of the “Time […]

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Taurus Sun Hierophant


Taurus Sun Hierophant Taurus Sun Tarot Hierophant represents a quality within us that registers an awareness of phenomenon. It is not the elucidation of the phenomenon but the bringing to our attention that there is something of which we are not cognizant. Admitting we are in the dark about a subject is our door to learning about it. Overcoming fear to enter the dark is our next step on the path to cognition of the paradox. See Tarot Hermit and Tarot Devil In the foreground of the card the scroll of life unfolds and as it does so the Duat, symbolic of […]

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