Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Michael Smith, author of Base-12 Numerology: Discover Your Life Path Through Nature's Most Powerful Number. I'm the author of Base-12 Numerology: Discover Your Life Path Through Nature's Most Powerful Number. This poem uses the metaphor of a voyage at sea to explain the base-12 numerology cycle, perhaps a comforting message for how adrift we all feel lately. 0: The voyage of Numerology begins at the zero of potential Where any forecast is possible from clear to torrential. Thus how hopeful or fearful your departure to sea Is how fair or foul the weather likely will be. 1:Upon leaving safe port you embody the one, Of new

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Michael Smith, author of Base-12 Numerology: Discover Your Life Path Through Nature's Most Powerful Number. We’re surrounded by numbers all the time, so much so they tend to become background noise in our busy lives. Still, occasionally a number jumps out at you and catches your attention—sometimes again and again. Maybe it's the time on a clock, a date, a license plate number, a sales slip total, or a certain number of butterflies flying together. Whatever the case, rest assured that the number is showing up for a reason. If you believe in the Law of Attraction as I do, that your thoughts attract your reality, then that curious

One of the many things I love about Anthony Louis’ Beyond the Basics is his overview of the historic evolution of so many of the facets of tarot. This really helps modern card interpretations make more sense. For example, in his chapter Number Symbolism and the Tarot, his explanation of how the Golden Dawn numerology is based on the Sephirot made more than any I’d ever read. Usually books just give the Sephirot meanings without making it clear how these associations developed to a numerological symbolic system. Tony provides the list that we are probably all familiar with: 1. Kether: Supreme crown 2. Chokhmah: Wisdom Etc. But then he explains that the Golden Dawn

When beginning a study tarot, one of the first things students learn about are correspondences. For some reason, tarotists love and the cards lend themselves to correspondences. Correspondences are other systems or symbols that, well, correspond to tarot cards. Common pairings include astrology and tarot as well as kabbalah and tarot. As for me, I don't use those very often. However, I do tend to use some numerology. Not really with the Majors. Lately, I have deep concerns about assigning numbers to the Majors at all because I keep thinking of the original Renaissance-era decks in which the Majors were unnumbered. But I do like to use numerology with the Minors. I do this in three ways: