The World This Week

This Week, with Babylon the Great facing increased attacks from her nemesis ISIS, her bi-polar
boyfriend America's two main political parties finally decided on their Presidential candidates, the
choice of which could not be more polarizing!  So without further ado, and free from any innate
prejudice or bias, I give you my late scribe and prophets description of the two candidates as excerpts 
from "The Book of Thoth".

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE:  Knight of Wands (aka King of Clubs)

  The moral qualities appropriate to this figure are activity, generosity, fierceness, impetuosity, pride, impulsiveness, swiftness in unpredictable actions.  If "wrongly energized" he is evil-minded, cruel, bigoted
and brutal. He is in either case ill-fitted to carry on his action; he has no means of modifying it according
to circumstances.  If he fails in his first effort, he has no resource.

  In the Yi-King, the fiery part of Fire is represented by the 51st hexagram, Kan.  The signification there given is entirely in accordance with the doctrine of the Tarot, but great emphasis is laid on the startling,
perilous and revolutionary character of the events cognate. The Knight(King) is advised to be apprehensive
yet cool, resolute and energetic; to beware of untimely action, but to go forward with tense confidence in
his own abilities.


DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE:  Queen of Wands (aka Queen of Clubs)

  The characteristics of the Queen are adaptability, persistent energy; calm authority which she knows
how to use to enhance her attractiveness.  She is kindly and generous, but impatient of opposition. She
has immense capacity for friendship and for love, but always on her own initiative.

  There is as much pride in this card as in the Knight(King), but it lacks the spontaneous nobility which
excuses that error.  It is not true pride, but self-complacent vanity and even snobbery.

  The other side of her character is that she may have a tendency to brood, come to a wrong decision
thereon, and react with great savagery.  She may be easily deceived; then she is likely to shew herself
stupid, obstinate, tyrannical. She may be quick to take offence, and harbour revenge without good cause.
She might turn and snap at her best friends without intelligible excuse.  Also, when she misses her bite,
she breaks her jaw!


                                                      STUPID HUMAN TRICKS

  As it now appears both aforementioned candidates and their mainstream parties have managed to drag
the current Russian leadership into the depths of their political pigmire, here is another unprejudiced and
unbiased description in the form of an excerpt from "The Book of Thoth".


CURRENT RUSSIAN LEADER:  Prince of Cups (aka My Man Vlad)

  The moral characteristics of the person pictured in this card are subtlety, secret violence, and craft.
He is intensely secret, an artist in all his ways.  On the surface he appears calm and imperturbable, but
this is a mask of the most intense passion. He is on the surface susceptible to external influences, but he
accepts them only to transmute them to the advantage of his secret design.  He is thus completely without
conscience in the ordinary sense of the word, and is therefore usually distrusted by his neighbors.  They
feel they do not, and can never, understand him.  Thus he inspires unreasonable fear. He is in fact perfectly
ruthless.  He cares intensely for power, wisdom, and his own aims.  He feels no responsibility to others,
and although his abilities are so immense, he cannot be relied upon to work in harness due to overweening
ambition.


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                                                Have a Nice Day.