An end is always a beginning

For two days running, I’ve drawn Trump XX as my Tarot card of the day.  In the Waite-Smith deck and its variants, Trump XX is the Judgment, but in the Crowley-Harris Thoth deck that I’m currently using, it is called The Aeon.  If the Judgment is the end of the world (as we know it) and the beginning of a new era, Crowley said in The Book of Thoth, his Tarot commentary, then the Aeon is the new world, the new age that follows: In Thelemic terms, the Aeon of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child.

I am not a Thelemite, nor do I play one on the Internet.  However, I do think Crowley was right about the twentieth century ushering in a shift in the religious paradigm.  If the Age of Isis, as he called the prehistoric and early historic era (still believed to be universally matriarchal, in Crowley’s day), was one of receiving religious experience from the clan, the tribe, the maternal line, and the Age of Osiris (much of the historical era, up through the ascendancy of Christianity) was one of identifying with a savior deity who would take the devotee through and beyond death, our present age, the Aeon of Horus, is the era of the individual, when one’s spiritual and/or religious path becomes a personal choice worked out and achieved by each person.  ”Every man and every woman is a star.”

For me, the Trump of the new Aeon heralds a change in blogging.  I have decided to close up shop here and blog in a new format, with a slightly shifted focus.  As before, I’ll be making spiritual observations, talking about my personal practice (perhaps a bit more), and responding to what I read, hear, listen to, watch, and learn.  I hope my readers will join me henceforth at A Comfortable Oxymoron.  Thank you for having been present with me.