The oldest known deck with a fully illustrated Minor Arcana is a deck called the Sola Busca Tarot. This deck was created in Italy, but it resists attempts to accurately date when it was made, with most scholars providing a range of possibilities from 1471 – 1598. Even more frustrating is the revelation that the deck was engraved and printed at one time and then painted with additional details at a later date, making it almost impossible to know the author's intention behind i

As I began working on the Tarot of Satan , I realized there is no universally-accepted summoning sigil for invoking Satan. The few Renaissance-era occult manuscripts which provide instructions for invoking Satan fail to provide a specific sigil to aid in the invocation. Even the modern grimoire, The Satanic Bible , relies on the Sigil of Baphomet for facilitating its magical workings, while providing a symbol for Leviathan (the "black sulfur" symbol) as an alternate device fo

The most common question I get about the Angel Tarot is “why are there five days missing from the calendar? I was born on one of those days and I don't know who my guardian angels are!” Yes, it's true. There are five days (March 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) missing from the Angel Calendar, which demonstrates the ruling days of the 72 Kabbalistic Angels also called the Angels of the Shem HaMephorash . It is predicated on the idea that every person has three guardian angels assigned at

A critical examination of the name Lucifer as it appears in translations of the Bible from 300 BC to the present day. Part 1 – Where Does Lucifer Come From? While doing research on the Goetic demons and undertaking a deep-reading of both the Old Testament and the Sefer HaBahir (Book of Light) , I stumbled upon the name Lucifer in Isaiah 14 :12 . When I read the verse in Hebrew, I was surprised to discover that the Hebrew word for Lucifer is spelled He-Yod-Lamed-Lamed (HYLL o