sacredashes
Yeah. That's the one. I couldn't read the words too well because the images are sort of small and I wasn't familiar with the title. There are more too but she is the one that spoke about fear.
Ash
Ash
Archetypia (In Progress)
Ryan
Yes I remember drawing her. I had acquired a gf who suggested she model for me to help better my sloppy depictions of the human form. That card as done near the end of the tarot where I had realized the necessity of hips, curves, and subtle differences between men and women. When compared with the Mistress of Earth or High Priestess, the breasts are somewhat more realistic - though still look like implants 
much to my embarassment.
Unbound is probably the best female figure I've drawn so far - so different from the Naos set in fact that many people don't recognize the two tarots belong to the same artist. Which, I can fully understand. That occurs with a lot of my work.
Ry
incidentally, recently discovered a better reason why the Mousa of ONA is supposed to correspond with Cheetahs - at the time of drawing, I had a completely different set of ideas about these cards and what they depicted. The ONA's relations of Baphomet and the Sinister Feminine seem to be built on Near East and Greek influences - whereby the Cheetah coresponds to the Ancient depiction of the Mistress of Animals subduing powerful predators with her sexuality.
much to my embarassment.Unbound is probably the best female figure I've drawn so far - so different from the Naos set in fact that many people don't recognize the two tarots belong to the same artist. Which, I can fully understand. That occurs with a lot of my work.
Ry
incidentally, recently discovered a better reason why the Mousa of ONA is supposed to correspond with Cheetahs - at the time of drawing, I had a completely different set of ideas about these cards and what they depicted. The ONA's relations of Baphomet and the Sinister Feminine seem to be built on Near East and Greek influences - whereby the Cheetah coresponds to the Ancient depiction of the Mistress of Animals subduing powerful predators with her sexuality.
Ryan
Esoteric Meaning of "Unbound XV"
The following text is taken from a manuscript detailing the esoteric currents behind each card in Archetypia. This tract is for card XV and is the equivalent of explaining the connections between the images in the card and the images and the viewer, as with popular tarot decks.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
UNBOUND: ESOTERIC MEANINGS
So, Satanists, want Chaos?
Let me iterate what I think Chaos involves: and buckle up because this touches on a disturbing truth conditioned to be forgotten by men. A truth hideously feared.
First some points:
1. I believe undoubtedly that there is a distinct and unchangeable difference between the biological, physical, and spiritual essence of Men and Women.
Men, to whom the Logos is centred, understand via their intellect.
Women, to whom Eros is centred, feel via their emotions.
2. The ONA, have in the past, referred to their Order’s Tradition as run/orchestrated by Women.
3. Baphomet as depicted by the ONA is a Beautiful Woman.
4. If Satanists want Chaos: then thus far they are looking in the wrong quarters.
Almost all of my wisdom in life has come from that invisible force that provides all men with a dialectic more alien than any notion of the Acausal: of which, perhaps noticeably, I have written very little: Women.
The fact that I have neglected from issuing my insights regarding women in a similar written form to all the other varied topics to which I have turned my attention: is not because their involvement has been minimal in my transitions – but entirely the contrary.
The way women have helped me understand myself, them and the world is so far removed from being able to be understood via records and doctrines of interest to the egoic Logos - that I have, since I began writing, deliberately avoided insulting these forces by trying. But, it would appear that now is the time to pen some comments: pointedly, and unreservedly toward those whom are asking for, working toward, Chaos.
I should now like to make a few comments that concern “Satanism” to its very core.
~
The ONA’s recently concentrated efforts, (viz. MSS from Mythos/Wordpress) to supply women with an occult archetype, “the Sinister Feminine”, in order for women to escape what may be inevitably viewed as a Man’s concept of Women, is noble – but it is not enough. To try to supersede the mistakes of feminism is also noble – but it too is not enough.
Baphomet – for all her unearthly countenance and glory, is still, the supply of an archetype for women, by men. That there are Mistresses/Priestesses in magic – is testament to a fundamental problem with the way men see women – namely, from the point of view of men. Women in magic are only provided a secondary rank and position that cannot help but be controlled and channeled through male charity (however good-willed and intended) – because to place women in this role is to ask them to act as we do, to perform an act of ego, of control, of openly visible acts and prowess, strength and showy displays of force and energy. Though women innately possess the passion, violence and strength when necessary to act in the realm of men as men do - these are not the characteristics of women: these characteristics are the realm of men. And where, in rare cases - those characteristics are not performed by male agents - they are the result of women trying to copy him.
When not given/living/fitting a pre-designed feminine role, whether priestess, waitress, or goddess by men – what, really, is the natural predisposition of women? When they are not occupying a male expectation of what they should be that is forced upon them, socially, psychologically, spiritually, physically, legally, mentally, financially, visually, what and who, are they?
Something extremely important pointed out to me by one of THEM is as follows: “The kicker is this, when men do understand the role and restrictions placed on women – they still miss the point by trying to fix it. All women want is for men to Understand the lot of Women. Because through understanding the lot of women, this would be enough for men to change the World subtly and inevitably through their empathy with us.”
The recent fascination with emulating for example, some aspects of the extremist factions of the Islaamic Religious Community by becoming involved in Terrorism to hasten the end of the Magian Power-Structure - is when all is said and done: a male concept driven by Ego – and, here’s the thing, a concept imprisoned within a masculine (restricted) mindset. Blowing people to pieces either with guns or bombs is not only needlessly destructive, it is a far more serious symptom of collectively increasing Self-Hate, inverted and projected outwards. Whereas, one simple, but extremely uncomfortable, indeed terrifyingly adept move – in line with causing Chaos, with increasing Satanas and the Dark Gods, with imbuing personal and collective Adeptship, Acausal foresight and a practical initiative resulting in moving hard and fast Against Time is an understanding of the Power-Structure of the Magian and its Male-Oriented Dominance and the depth and variety of One’s (Both men and women) own unconscious projections onto Women, leading to empathy, sympathy and a genuinely open dialogue.
This does not imply a duty as men to try to change Women’s lot either with Feminism or even with further enmeshment via such noble, but in my view, similarly blinded notions of yet another Archetype for women to fulfill (for men) viz. Baphomet, whose archetype is a parody of the crux of the problem in the first place. All this questing I’ve witnessed by others for Aliens, Dark Gods, Demons, Satan, Extra-Terrestrials, and, laughably, “Intelligent life-forms” has been performed by people completely unaware that their very own unconscious projections onto this mysterious other half of our species are hiding the very thing they seek for.
Women, very rarely get recognition – not because they don’t deserve it, an estimate is beyond the ken of any living being – but because they don’t want it. The writing in Mvimaedivm IV by the Sorceress Sor Terrosa as she shared her wisdom on the LHP is an extremely rare case in point – most women do not express themselves through the written word. Women are more connected to the Earth than any token Lord of the Earth could ever be. It is they who carry life, who have life ripped from them, and who secretly, subtly control the movements and decisions of their men, whom in isolation, are as soft, insecure and afraid as any of the women they publicly claim to protect (or exploit).
Of the creation of Life, Men penetrate and withdraw - and biologically, can only observe and watch life force. It is not their lot to have wombs or to bear children. I will return to this in future commentaries but it is one of the things that truly divides men and women – to pretend there is no difference is as ignorant/arrogant to believe we are completely different. Men, for all their wisdom, simply cannot understand why women do not write to express themselves like men, since logic and reason, intelligence is the language of man. Men do not understand why women don’t wish to be willing priestesses or fulfil the roles those men believe can empower (“their”) women – including the archetype of Baphomet. They do not understand why women do not seek to wear the crowns of authority or fight the wars for all those self-important abstracts man convinces himself of, or comprehend women’s complacency not to strive to be seen, recognized, forcefully visible or openly intellectual tour de forces engaging in ‘constructive’ debate and logical rational with men or with other women.
Some Men have lost consciousness of Women and many others are in increasing danger of doing so in the future. The Magian power-structure has all but exhausted Women and distorted their inherent attributes into virtual non-existence – men no longer see Women as they are but in the roles that women must play if the world is to keep going – albeit without the recognition of their role in this. Man is mostly blind to Women as they Are, just as they are blind to the Dark Gods, or Acausal, as it Is. It is no wonder there is so much confusion and angst in the Occult when the Mysteries stand before Man only to be overlooked and dismissed, if seen at all. A shame then, that more have not had the education I have, by the women I have shared my life with.
If, we are to be honest, and perceptive before our Time – magicians must understand this: If we are to withdraw everything we project upon women we will have to recognize that everything we withdraw is everything that Man has placed upon them.
For instance, if we withdraw their sexuality, their arts of making themselves beautiful, their role as housewives, girlfriends, business partners, mothers, sisters, - if we withdraw all of man’s projections upon women to reshape her as he sees fit – then we are to understand, (if we are strong enough to stomach this Abyss), suddenly, sadly and horribly, that we know next to nothing about the pure emanations that ARE the force that is Women because everything they are, and that we are told they are, that they are told they are, is modeled after man’s expectations, man’s tools, man’s glass ceiling.
In one aspect concerning the Sinister Feminine the ONA is, in my opinion, misguided. And that aspect, is that they have made Baphomet beautiful - and that her beauty, alone, makes her Sinister, Desirable, Powerful. This is a fundamental flaw that any serious magician should be warned to take more discerning note of – for it is in a restoration of dialogue and appreciation of women as they Are, that a similar serious quest for destroying the Magian power-structure is ignited. For at this Time in our mortal coil - difference, divides, and appearance, conquers.
In my depiction of Baphomet – unlike that of ONA, the Goddess is not a skinny blonde woman but a full-hipped, curvaceous faceless beauty.
In her hand, she holds a kitchen knife. This is not an arbitrary depiction or a pro-feminist symbology – it addresses the very serious endemic that men have no concept of more than half the population – and, it is an oversight, instituted by the Magian patriarchy, that will kill them if they do not realize this aspect of their Deep Sleep.
Nor do they - though they can be seen to struggle against every visible “man-made” prison of words, flesh or time in order to “transform”, or “breakthrough”, or “mutate”, or “Become” - seek to extract themselves from the essence that is their own doing. That is not Self-Honesty it is Self-Deception.
More concerning is how few Occultists, Satanists and men have ever noticed this particularly silence-inducing problem AND tried to fix it. Most of those that have been vocal - have been silenced by force. Were Women for instance, to be paid for their unpaid ‘duty’ of domestic housework, the payment owed would bring down the entire economy of the Western World. Without the compliance of women to perform the free labour system of domestic ‘duty’, child-rearing, etc on which the Western World depends - the illusion of strength and power exhibited by man and their flashy displays of ego within the Matrix, AS the Matrix, would come to naught.
The Baphomet I have presenced is a force of the faceless self-projection of man’s insecurities and neurotic inadequacies and who represents the silent tolerance of billions of women with whom no genuine dialogue has taken place regarding their own essence as a separate people. The face of women has faded from man’s perception – and only the superficial myth of Beauty is in danger of remaining. On such I refer the reader to ‘The Beauty Myth’ by Naomi Wolf.
Behind Baphomet stand imperfect women of all shapes and sizes, a countless army of faceless, knife-wielding dark goddesses, rising up - representing a tremendous actual, magical and figurative torrent of one sinister and sickening blood payment. Unbound contains a Nile of frustration and silence exploding forth in a voice that modern and deaf man can understand – a visually explicit and intellectually cognizant cry of violence and exasperation at the grotesque distortion imparted daily by the enormous injustices characteristic of male arrogance.
But all this injustice… all the slavery, low-paid work, unpaid domesticity, child-rearing, horseshit farce about equality and meritocracy, glass ceilings, the legalized cruelty and torture of women and their place in society is, it must be said, to some extent tolerated by women. Not because they enjoy it or because they cannot rise above it but because of their subtle and stronger connection to the Earth, to the Moon, to Life incarnate: and because they let Man have his way on the Surface, have his toys and his fun, while Women run the underground.
For a Man to learn how to “Feel In the World” as a woman does, rather than “Think Of the World” as a man is accustomed to do - is arguably an unattainable goal. And yet, it is the greatest Satanic and thus the most heavily buried and forcibly forgotten magical exchange there is – an exchange that would rip the Magian structures down irrevocably and irreversibly.
To re-learn such exchanges – to understand how to listen and hear again (without intellect – that is, to surpass our biological intellectual limitation and be a super-man) and comprehend what lies beneath the shells on which we project our self-image as men thus imprisoning and encapsulating women within our own illusion - is without doubt the greatest Heresy, the most forbidden Taboo - not of the Western World – but of the Eastern too, and for that matter, largely for all Time.
The temporal fascination with, once again, the affairs of men in typically male ways/matrixes of warfare and ego to overcome the Self-Hate we feel by rushing toward Oblivion in nihilistic defeat by emulating the symbology of annihilation with bombs, guns and pissing contests is representive only of our blindness, our ignorance, and our lack of courage to understand who WE are, not, just who MEN are.
The undeniable empirical evidence for these assertions is in the fact that so few women involve themselves with the Occult in an open, flashy, visible way. Rather, it is with endless understanding behind the scenes that they support, nurture, guide, instruct, admonish, and advise the men who ‘run’ it.
To be an effective agent of Chaos – one need only open a genuine dialogue with our mysterious other half.
Agios O Feminata
ISS
The following text is taken from a manuscript detailing the esoteric currents behind each card in Archetypia. This tract is for card XV and is the equivalent of explaining the connections between the images in the card and the images and the viewer, as with popular tarot decks.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
UNBOUND: ESOTERIC MEANINGS
So, Satanists, want Chaos?
Let me iterate what I think Chaos involves: and buckle up because this touches on a disturbing truth conditioned to be forgotten by men. A truth hideously feared.
First some points:
1. I believe undoubtedly that there is a distinct and unchangeable difference between the biological, physical, and spiritual essence of Men and Women.
Men, to whom the Logos is centred, understand via their intellect.
Women, to whom Eros is centred, feel via their emotions.
2. The ONA, have in the past, referred to their Order’s Tradition as run/orchestrated by Women.
3. Baphomet as depicted by the ONA is a Beautiful Woman.
4. If Satanists want Chaos: then thus far they are looking in the wrong quarters.
Almost all of my wisdom in life has come from that invisible force that provides all men with a dialectic more alien than any notion of the Acausal: of which, perhaps noticeably, I have written very little: Women.
The fact that I have neglected from issuing my insights regarding women in a similar written form to all the other varied topics to which I have turned my attention: is not because their involvement has been minimal in my transitions – but entirely the contrary.
The way women have helped me understand myself, them and the world is so far removed from being able to be understood via records and doctrines of interest to the egoic Logos - that I have, since I began writing, deliberately avoided insulting these forces by trying. But, it would appear that now is the time to pen some comments: pointedly, and unreservedly toward those whom are asking for, working toward, Chaos.
I should now like to make a few comments that concern “Satanism” to its very core.
~
The ONA’s recently concentrated efforts, (viz. MSS from Mythos/Wordpress) to supply women with an occult archetype, “the Sinister Feminine”, in order for women to escape what may be inevitably viewed as a Man’s concept of Women, is noble – but it is not enough. To try to supersede the mistakes of feminism is also noble – but it too is not enough.
Baphomet – for all her unearthly countenance and glory, is still, the supply of an archetype for women, by men. That there are Mistresses/Priestesses in magic – is testament to a fundamental problem with the way men see women – namely, from the point of view of men. Women in magic are only provided a secondary rank and position that cannot help but be controlled and channeled through male charity (however good-willed and intended) – because to place women in this role is to ask them to act as we do, to perform an act of ego, of control, of openly visible acts and prowess, strength and showy displays of force and energy. Though women innately possess the passion, violence and strength when necessary to act in the realm of men as men do - these are not the characteristics of women: these characteristics are the realm of men. And where, in rare cases - those characteristics are not performed by male agents - they are the result of women trying to copy him.
When not given/living/fitting a pre-designed feminine role, whether priestess, waitress, or goddess by men – what, really, is the natural predisposition of women? When they are not occupying a male expectation of what they should be that is forced upon them, socially, psychologically, spiritually, physically, legally, mentally, financially, visually, what and who, are they?
Something extremely important pointed out to me by one of THEM is as follows: “The kicker is this, when men do understand the role and restrictions placed on women – they still miss the point by trying to fix it. All women want is for men to Understand the lot of Women. Because through understanding the lot of women, this would be enough for men to change the World subtly and inevitably through their empathy with us.”
The recent fascination with emulating for example, some aspects of the extremist factions of the Islaamic Religious Community by becoming involved in Terrorism to hasten the end of the Magian Power-Structure - is when all is said and done: a male concept driven by Ego – and, here’s the thing, a concept imprisoned within a masculine (restricted) mindset. Blowing people to pieces either with guns or bombs is not only needlessly destructive, it is a far more serious symptom of collectively increasing Self-Hate, inverted and projected outwards. Whereas, one simple, but extremely uncomfortable, indeed terrifyingly adept move – in line with causing Chaos, with increasing Satanas and the Dark Gods, with imbuing personal and collective Adeptship, Acausal foresight and a practical initiative resulting in moving hard and fast Against Time is an understanding of the Power-Structure of the Magian and its Male-Oriented Dominance and the depth and variety of One’s (Both men and women) own unconscious projections onto Women, leading to empathy, sympathy and a genuinely open dialogue.
This does not imply a duty as men to try to change Women’s lot either with Feminism or even with further enmeshment via such noble, but in my view, similarly blinded notions of yet another Archetype for women to fulfill (for men) viz. Baphomet, whose archetype is a parody of the crux of the problem in the first place. All this questing I’ve witnessed by others for Aliens, Dark Gods, Demons, Satan, Extra-Terrestrials, and, laughably, “Intelligent life-forms” has been performed by people completely unaware that their very own unconscious projections onto this mysterious other half of our species are hiding the very thing they seek for.
Women, very rarely get recognition – not because they don’t deserve it, an estimate is beyond the ken of any living being – but because they don’t want it. The writing in Mvimaedivm IV by the Sorceress Sor Terrosa as she shared her wisdom on the LHP is an extremely rare case in point – most women do not express themselves through the written word. Women are more connected to the Earth than any token Lord of the Earth could ever be. It is they who carry life, who have life ripped from them, and who secretly, subtly control the movements and decisions of their men, whom in isolation, are as soft, insecure and afraid as any of the women they publicly claim to protect (or exploit).
Of the creation of Life, Men penetrate and withdraw - and biologically, can only observe and watch life force. It is not their lot to have wombs or to bear children. I will return to this in future commentaries but it is one of the things that truly divides men and women – to pretend there is no difference is as ignorant/arrogant to believe we are completely different. Men, for all their wisdom, simply cannot understand why women do not write to express themselves like men, since logic and reason, intelligence is the language of man. Men do not understand why women don’t wish to be willing priestesses or fulfil the roles those men believe can empower (“their”) women – including the archetype of Baphomet. They do not understand why women do not seek to wear the crowns of authority or fight the wars for all those self-important abstracts man convinces himself of, or comprehend women’s complacency not to strive to be seen, recognized, forcefully visible or openly intellectual tour de forces engaging in ‘constructive’ debate and logical rational with men or with other women.
Some Men have lost consciousness of Women and many others are in increasing danger of doing so in the future. The Magian power-structure has all but exhausted Women and distorted their inherent attributes into virtual non-existence – men no longer see Women as they are but in the roles that women must play if the world is to keep going – albeit without the recognition of their role in this. Man is mostly blind to Women as they Are, just as they are blind to the Dark Gods, or Acausal, as it Is. It is no wonder there is so much confusion and angst in the Occult when the Mysteries stand before Man only to be overlooked and dismissed, if seen at all. A shame then, that more have not had the education I have, by the women I have shared my life with.
If, we are to be honest, and perceptive before our Time – magicians must understand this: If we are to withdraw everything we project upon women we will have to recognize that everything we withdraw is everything that Man has placed upon them.
For instance, if we withdraw their sexuality, their arts of making themselves beautiful, their role as housewives, girlfriends, business partners, mothers, sisters, - if we withdraw all of man’s projections upon women to reshape her as he sees fit – then we are to understand, (if we are strong enough to stomach this Abyss), suddenly, sadly and horribly, that we know next to nothing about the pure emanations that ARE the force that is Women because everything they are, and that we are told they are, that they are told they are, is modeled after man’s expectations, man’s tools, man’s glass ceiling.
In one aspect concerning the Sinister Feminine the ONA is, in my opinion, misguided. And that aspect, is that they have made Baphomet beautiful - and that her beauty, alone, makes her Sinister, Desirable, Powerful. This is a fundamental flaw that any serious magician should be warned to take more discerning note of – for it is in a restoration of dialogue and appreciation of women as they Are, that a similar serious quest for destroying the Magian power-structure is ignited. For at this Time in our mortal coil - difference, divides, and appearance, conquers.
In my depiction of Baphomet – unlike that of ONA, the Goddess is not a skinny blonde woman but a full-hipped, curvaceous faceless beauty.
In her hand, she holds a kitchen knife. This is not an arbitrary depiction or a pro-feminist symbology – it addresses the very serious endemic that men have no concept of more than half the population – and, it is an oversight, instituted by the Magian patriarchy, that will kill them if they do not realize this aspect of their Deep Sleep.
Nor do they - though they can be seen to struggle against every visible “man-made” prison of words, flesh or time in order to “transform”, or “breakthrough”, or “mutate”, or “Become” - seek to extract themselves from the essence that is their own doing. That is not Self-Honesty it is Self-Deception.
More concerning is how few Occultists, Satanists and men have ever noticed this particularly silence-inducing problem AND tried to fix it. Most of those that have been vocal - have been silenced by force. Were Women for instance, to be paid for their unpaid ‘duty’ of domestic housework, the payment owed would bring down the entire economy of the Western World. Without the compliance of women to perform the free labour system of domestic ‘duty’, child-rearing, etc on which the Western World depends - the illusion of strength and power exhibited by man and their flashy displays of ego within the Matrix, AS the Matrix, would come to naught.
The Baphomet I have presenced is a force of the faceless self-projection of man’s insecurities and neurotic inadequacies and who represents the silent tolerance of billions of women with whom no genuine dialogue has taken place regarding their own essence as a separate people. The face of women has faded from man’s perception – and only the superficial myth of Beauty is in danger of remaining. On such I refer the reader to ‘The Beauty Myth’ by Naomi Wolf.
Behind Baphomet stand imperfect women of all shapes and sizes, a countless army of faceless, knife-wielding dark goddesses, rising up - representing a tremendous actual, magical and figurative torrent of one sinister and sickening blood payment. Unbound contains a Nile of frustration and silence exploding forth in a voice that modern and deaf man can understand – a visually explicit and intellectually cognizant cry of violence and exasperation at the grotesque distortion imparted daily by the enormous injustices characteristic of male arrogance.
But all this injustice… all the slavery, low-paid work, unpaid domesticity, child-rearing, horseshit farce about equality and meritocracy, glass ceilings, the legalized cruelty and torture of women and their place in society is, it must be said, to some extent tolerated by women. Not because they enjoy it or because they cannot rise above it but because of their subtle and stronger connection to the Earth, to the Moon, to Life incarnate: and because they let Man have his way on the Surface, have his toys and his fun, while Women run the underground.
For a Man to learn how to “Feel In the World” as a woman does, rather than “Think Of the World” as a man is accustomed to do - is arguably an unattainable goal. And yet, it is the greatest Satanic and thus the most heavily buried and forcibly forgotten magical exchange there is – an exchange that would rip the Magian structures down irrevocably and irreversibly.
To re-learn such exchanges – to understand how to listen and hear again (without intellect – that is, to surpass our biological intellectual limitation and be a super-man) and comprehend what lies beneath the shells on which we project our self-image as men thus imprisoning and encapsulating women within our own illusion - is without doubt the greatest Heresy, the most forbidden Taboo - not of the Western World – but of the Eastern too, and for that matter, largely for all Time.
The temporal fascination with, once again, the affairs of men in typically male ways/matrixes of warfare and ego to overcome the Self-Hate we feel by rushing toward Oblivion in nihilistic defeat by emulating the symbology of annihilation with bombs, guns and pissing contests is representive only of our blindness, our ignorance, and our lack of courage to understand who WE are, not, just who MEN are.
The undeniable empirical evidence for these assertions is in the fact that so few women involve themselves with the Occult in an open, flashy, visible way. Rather, it is with endless understanding behind the scenes that they support, nurture, guide, instruct, admonish, and advise the men who ‘run’ it.
To be an effective agent of Chaos – one need only open a genuine dialogue with our mysterious other half.
Agios O Feminata
ISS
Kiama
I like these cards. They remind me of one of my favourite decks, the Book of Kaos Tarot.
However, the card you've replaced the Devil with disturbs me on intellectual grounds. And I'm speaking as a woman in the "LHP" myself here (although I'm really not too keen on the definition of LHP itself).
To me, the faceless, silent woman is not the end of it. The faceless, silent PERSON is. One of the causes of this faceless, silent woman is a continued emphasis on the difference between men and women, and so I fear this card may simply be perpetuating the problem.
I'm very much with Crowley on this one, when he writes about women in Magick Without Tears (online at http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/mwt/mwt_38.html):
Otherwise, I can see where you're coming from with this card. It doesn't encapsulate entirely the divinatory meanings I usually associate with the card, but I like the new perspective, even if I have a theological difference with it!
However, the card you've replaced the Devil with disturbs me on intellectual grounds. And I'm speaking as a woman in the "LHP" myself here (although I'm really not too keen on the definition of LHP itself).
To me, the faceless, silent woman is not the end of it. The faceless, silent PERSON is. One of the causes of this faceless, silent woman is a continued emphasis on the difference between men and women, and so I fear this card may simply be perpetuating the problem.
I'm very much with Crowley on this one, when he writes about women in Magick Without Tears (online at http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/mwt/mwt_38.html):
Otherwise, I can see where you're coming from with this card. It doesn't encapsulate entirely the divinatory meanings I usually associate with the card, but I like the new perspective, even if I have a theological difference with it!
Ryan
Political Correctness
Hello,
Thank for your comments on Unbound. Certainly I can appreciate your view: and Crowleys, but there is a problem with taking this equality of the sexes too far: in that a) it doesn't exist, b) while person might be more correct, it is also more correct to refer to myself as We, or Us - but wherein, the world is not ready for such truisms, it must yet still deal with the unconscious split of people refering to one sex or the other. Moreover, if we are to correctly define and encompass everyone in everything, and such logic and over-sensitivity in excess would lead to that; then I would have a great many issues with many words, phrases, and references made both out of political correctness, which is just political bollocks, (IMHO) used daily by people without an afterthought. Wherein i should need to challenge so many people on so many levels of their language it would become untenable.
If you wish the card to be representative of people and not just women, by all means, please feel free to treat it as such. The above are my own convictions, for better or worse, designed to represent our own understanding (THEM's) of certain elements relating to Women and pertaining to the manuscripts of the ONA. Perhaps it has not gone as far as it can in extending such a message to both genders officially: but it is quite clear from our point of view that women, first, need the leg up, not men.
Regards,
Ryan
Hello,
Thank for your comments on Unbound. Certainly I can appreciate your view: and Crowleys, but there is a problem with taking this equality of the sexes too far: in that a) it doesn't exist, b) while person might be more correct, it is also more correct to refer to myself as We, or Us - but wherein, the world is not ready for such truisms, it must yet still deal with the unconscious split of people refering to one sex or the other. Moreover, if we are to correctly define and encompass everyone in everything, and such logic and over-sensitivity in excess would lead to that; then I would have a great many issues with many words, phrases, and references made both out of political correctness, which is just political bollocks, (IMHO) used daily by people without an afterthought. Wherein i should need to challenge so many people on so many levels of their language it would become untenable.
If you wish the card to be representative of people and not just women, by all means, please feel free to treat it as such. The above are my own convictions, for better or worse, designed to represent our own understanding (THEM's) of certain elements relating to Women and pertaining to the manuscripts of the ONA. Perhaps it has not gone as far as it can in extending such a message to both genders officially: but it is quite clear from our point of view that women, first, need the leg up, not men.
Regards,
Ryan
Ryan
Progress
Hello all,
just wanted to drop a line regarding the progress of Archetypia, of which 10 images have now been completed of 21. I'll probably post a few links to some pics of it here in January.
Cheers,
Ryan
Hello all,
just wanted to drop a line regarding the progress of Archetypia, of which 10 images have now been completed of 21. I'll probably post a few links to some pics of it here in January.
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan
Seasons Greetings Aeclectic
An alternate pencilled version of the Naos Deck was just published on Oto Anorha. (the preview is free.)
http://www.lulu.com/content/5475873
Cheers
Ryan
An alternate pencilled version of the Naos Deck was just published on Oto Anorha. (the preview is free.)
http://www.lulu.com/content/5475873
Cheers
Ryan
Ryan
Lulu update
Sorry, the lulu link above is no longer active. The Black Glyph Society store was closed down.
Sorry, the lulu link above is no longer active. The Black Glyph Society store was closed down.
sacredashes
Ryan
I saw the picture a year ago. I knew it said something but I could not completely grasp the message.
I am now in the midst of completing a dream chronicle artwork for a dear, dear friend. I cannot share much; only that it was very specifically related to a dream of Liliath. It was something I was supposed to do months ago but I had to finish something else so it was put off until now.
It is strange that on the verge of completing my personal deck; I recently had a dream of Liliath. Not the version I was supposed to draw for this gentleman months ago but a version I had already drawn for another friend who adamently insisted his dream vixen was Liliath. Both dreams were told to me about the same time.
I have now drawn 3 very different faces of the same entity. The first picture is a vision of horrific erotica; then I drew Liliath as the Prophet of Death because I read something about her homicidal tendencies (another story for another time) and am now etching the her with a face of beauty.
Its a habit of mine to read up as much as I can on the subject. Sometimes that triggers a vision in my head. Can't say I've read everything there is to read on Liliath; mostly its what can be easily attained by anyone looking for general information.
Stumbling back into your thread now; reading what I wrote slightly more than a year ago... reading what you wrote. The faceless woman in the cave reminds me of the stories associated with Liliath.
It is only now that I can say with honesty that I appreciate your thoughts on the matter and what you have written **very much**. I think you have successfully transfered the energy into your artwork.
A friend once told me that anyone can draw; but to transfer energy into art and so the viewer feels it too when they see the finished piece... that is not easy.
Ash
I saw the picture a year ago. I knew it said something but I could not completely grasp the message.
I am now in the midst of completing a dream chronicle artwork for a dear, dear friend. I cannot share much; only that it was very specifically related to a dream of Liliath. It was something I was supposed to do months ago but I had to finish something else so it was put off until now.
It is strange that on the verge of completing my personal deck; I recently had a dream of Liliath. Not the version I was supposed to draw for this gentleman months ago but a version I had already drawn for another friend who adamently insisted his dream vixen was Liliath. Both dreams were told to me about the same time.
I have now drawn 3 very different faces of the same entity. The first picture is a vision of horrific erotica; then I drew Liliath as the Prophet of Death because I read something about her homicidal tendencies (another story for another time) and am now etching the her with a face of beauty.
Its a habit of mine to read up as much as I can on the subject. Sometimes that triggers a vision in my head. Can't say I've read everything there is to read on Liliath; mostly its what can be easily attained by anyone looking for general information.
Stumbling back into your thread now; reading what I wrote slightly more than a year ago... reading what you wrote. The faceless woman in the cave reminds me of the stories associated with Liliath.
It is only now that I can say with honesty that I appreciate your thoughts on the matter and what you have written **very much**. I think you have successfully transfered the energy into your artwork.
A friend once told me that anyone can draw; but to transfer energy into art and so the viewer feels it too when they see the finished piece... that is not easy.
Ash
Ryan
Dear SacredAshes
My apologies, I did not see this reply, until today so please forgive my belated reply.
Dreams have always played an important part in my journey as an artist and writer, not to mention occultist and sorcerer. I would be very interested to see your visions of Lilith privately, and welcome any further correspondence regarding this topic.
You wrote:
"It is only now that I can say with honesty that I appreciate your thoughts on the matter and what you have written **very much**. I think you have successfully transfered the energy into your artwork.
A friend once told me that anyone can draw; but to transfer energy into art and so the viewer feels it too when they see the finished piece... that is not easy."
I am in agreement here; perhaps because I am male, a definite tendency to rely on intellect shadows much of my earlier work. It is only now, approaching 30, that I have come to embrace the emotional sensitivity and empathy latent within that can evoke such connections to be made of their own accord. Connecting to the numinous in order to increase natural reception to the Mysteries has been a life-long goal of mine - and has now passed from the realm of the intellectual into a practice of body-based sorcery.
What the Naos Deck lacked in artistic skill, I always felt it made up for in the intent behind it that gave it that certain something.
The images of Archetypia, and any -mss- associated with them, have been uploaded to a new site where they can be viewed by anyone. I can pm you the link if you don't notice the new threads I have started concerning them.
Thank you, very much, for your kind comments, SacredAshes.
ISS,
Ry
My apologies, I did not see this reply, until today so please forgive my belated reply.
Dreams have always played an important part in my journey as an artist and writer, not to mention occultist and sorcerer. I would be very interested to see your visions of Lilith privately, and welcome any further correspondence regarding this topic.
You wrote:
"It is only now that I can say with honesty that I appreciate your thoughts on the matter and what you have written **very much**. I think you have successfully transfered the energy into your artwork.
A friend once told me that anyone can draw; but to transfer energy into art and so the viewer feels it too when they see the finished piece... that is not easy."
I am in agreement here; perhaps because I am male, a definite tendency to rely on intellect shadows much of my earlier work. It is only now, approaching 30, that I have come to embrace the emotional sensitivity and empathy latent within that can evoke such connections to be made of their own accord. Connecting to the numinous in order to increase natural reception to the Mysteries has been a life-long goal of mine - and has now passed from the realm of the intellectual into a practice of body-based sorcery.
What the Naos Deck lacked in artistic skill, I always felt it made up for in the intent behind it that gave it that certain something.
The images of Archetypia, and any -mss- associated with them, have been uploaded to a new site where they can be viewed by anyone. I can pm you the link if you don't notice the new threads I have started concerning them.
Thank you, very much, for your kind comments, SacredAshes.
ISS,
Ry
