Episode 52: Three of Swords

Fortune’s Wheelhouse

This week, as one must do eventually, we visit the Lord of Sorrow in his rainy palace. The 3 of Swords is a card few rejoice to see, and yet in its depths lie jewels worth mining despite their cost. Here Saturn rules over the middle decan of Libra, in the sign if not the degree of its exaltation. As he grinds the harvest of late September, the burden of his inevitability sits heavy on our hearts. Even as we seek Justice in our lives, we carry the weight of the World.

Here we discuss contracts and chains, heartbreaks and rejections; Saturn's power to crystallize, bind, and teach. We visit the Queen of Swords, Binah in Yetzirah, the Dark Mother and the Bright Mother, the seven sorrows of Mary, and the womb of Chaos. We consider the python and the Pythia, the enlightenment of the Buddha, the cracked heart jar, and the many purposes of rain.

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