Episode 58: Nine of Swords

Fortune’s Wheelhouse

Be afraid, be very afraid! We have arrived at the Lord of Cruelty (or if you like your fear extra crunchy, the 'Lord of Cruelty and Despair'), the 9 of Swords. In this swordsiest of swords cards, Mars governs the middle decan of Gemini. The portentous moment we faced in the 8 has reached critical mass, and something must be cut away. One twin dies that the other may live, but oh how cruel the choice!

In our discussion we look once again at Biblical and mythic twins, at the Tower and the Lovers cards, at stories of disastrous affairs and the fall from Eden. We discuss psychopaths and fanatics, lunatics and philosophers, Romeo and Juliet, religious zealotry, sorrow's magnification into cruelty, the threefold law, resignation and courage, cutting cleverness, mockery, sleeping draughts, waking nightmares and guilty consciences, Yesod as the foundation and the blueprint for reality, and sympathetic magic.

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