Fourth pentacle of mercury.

In the week of my 33rd birthday, I received the fourth pentacle of Mercury, engraved in alpaca alloy. Since then, I have found that my ability to perceive and communicate with spirits has increased dramatically. In fact, I believe that receiving this pentacle has effected my initiation into a higher level of perception and understanding. I have had very clear and direct conversational exchanges with spirits in a way that I never had before, and the numerological synchronicity in my life has gone through the roof! 33 and 333 are everywhere all the time, as are 6’s and 9’s. I have also been having incredibly vivid dreams in which I communicate with spirits and entities and receive instruction in magical practice. I have had contact with Hecate in recent days (I carried the pentacle to a crossroads in the wilderness nearby and was approached there by a black dog) and just learned after communicating with her in dream last night that today is her feast day. After years of book-based learning and study, the months since I received the pentacle have been marked by a swift-flowing current of spirit communication that seems to be moving with a strong force of its own. I have also been receiving clear instruction in dream regarding the alchemical processes I have been working with. For example, in work to make fixed what is volatile, both materially and spiritually. There has also been a notable increase in the instances in which my wife and I share dreams, obviously both being affected by the same presences.

-Nick-

Here you can see pictures of the “leo” set talismans from Paracelsus. Very powerful talismans. I engraved them in the traditional way with a Burin.

Paraselsian sigil Leo.

Paraselsian sigil Leo.

The power of Saturn. Saturn pentacle together with my sickle. Sickle the tool and symbol of harvesting.

Reverse side

Two sigils from Paracelsus. These two belong together for the sign of Taurus. Very interesting powerful energy. Made from Alpaca (silver nickel). I will test those the coming time and also will make them in every astrological sign.

In this post I would like to write about the Magicians deck published by Quareia. The deck isn’t based on traditional Tarot archetypes. Its a 81 card deck that is divided in 4 realms.

“The Divine Realm (red borders), the Inner realm (blue borders), the physical world (green borders) and the realm of death and the underworld (black borders). The further away from humanity a being or place is, the less human it becomes. This is reflected in the deck, and can teach a magician a great deal about how beings function and why.”

(from the Quareia website). The deck comes with a small booklet with a description of the cards. The illustrations are very beautiful and they are very straight forward.

The cards describe processes and beings that are connected to the path of the  magician. In the booklet is a layout from 16 cards one can use to do a reading. On line there are also two other layouts what one can use. Obviously one can use a layout one is used to it or design one for oneself. Last week I obtained the deck and I did wo readings with it now. Its a time consuming work to do a reading with 16 cards but its very, very deep. Remarkable is that the cards are very blunt in their meaning and it can be very confronting. So its definitely a very good tool to see all the currents that influences the magician and his/her own pitfalls and weaknesses. So its not for the faint hearted. The traditional Tarot is much more forgiving in some ways as it seems. The deck is also very good to do path workings or other meditations with certain energies related to the cards. I really would like to experiment more with this deck and do more readings in order to understand the depth of it.

I can recommend this deck for every serious magician, Neophyte or Adept, to purchase a deck and test it out. For me its a very refreshing way to use this divination tool compared with the traditional decks.