Sign of the pigeon – why England failed in football

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As soon as I saw the pigeon sitting on the Algerian goal I knew what was going on – England were going to lose, and lose badly

That pigeon signified black magic mixed with arrogance, and it became clear that there were multiple levels of magical activity. Spirits to ensure the referee was biased to Algeria, boosts to the level of competence of the Algerians, a huge block in front of the Algerian goal, and spirits assigned to every England player.

Paradoxically, the commentator gave it away when he said about ‘the lack of spirit’. In practice before the game,  England were totally different. Fortunately, the magicians did not have it all their own way – Algeria did not score, and there were individual examples of Algerian vulnerability and lack of fitness towards the end.

Remember France’s abysmal performance in this World Cup? France still has a massive amount of influence in Algeria – they were colonial rulers, so I would not be surprised if a similar thing was happening.

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Chris Huhne’s palm reading

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A couple of years ago during the political conference season in Brighton, Radio 5live asked me to read a few palms at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton. John Pienaar took me around the Grand Hotel looking for ‘victims’, and very qucikly we found Chris Huhne. At the time Mr Huhne was shadow for the Environment; as I was looking at his hands, John Pienaar was goading me about green policies, but what I was a powerful configuration of political fate coming up in a few years time, and that was what I focussed on.

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Events in the last few days in the British election shows what that political fate might be. Chris Huhne was central to the negotiating team for the coalition with the Conservative Party.  As I type, there is a rumour that Mr Huhne’s portfolio could well be Environment in the new coalition government.

There is a joke about the Lib-dems never having to seriously worry about political office in the UK, and that was the case when I read those palms the expectation was that they would have no influence. How times have changed.

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Gordon Brown’s leakage

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The events of Bigotgate and a car crashing as Lord Mandelson introduced Gordon Brown at a launch in Birmingham this afternoon demonstrate leakage, the subconscious externalisation of processes going on within the collective psyche of the Labour Party.  it is as though the collective consciousness of the Labour Party is crumbling – from the top down.

It is abundantly clear that whoever wins will have terrible problems to deal with, toxic solutions that can be suicidal to the party in power when it comes to the next election.

In consciousness terms, the best result for the country seems to be forming; a hung parliament requiring a coalition. For once, the politicians will have to work hard just to stand still. As a result, the country will hopefully avoid any kind of extreme policies railroaded against the wishes of the public.

Given the almost catastropic economic circumstance we find ourselves in, requiring cuts in services and tax hikes, maybe neither Nick Clegg nor David Cameron really want the poisoned chalice. Will we see leakage from the other leaders?

Tarot and the Magus has gone but the visions continue

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My last copy of Tarot and the Magus is destined for someone in Germany, so please do not ask me for any more – my publishers do not have any either. If you have a copy hang on to it, as it is a collector’s item.

Bonnie Cehovet’s perceptive  review of Beyond the Celtic Cross is well worth reading:

“Douglas (Gibb) was quite right when he called the visions that Catherine had after doing this work initiatory visions. (Visions that grew in strength the longer she spent on the journey with Paul.) They involved Pegasus, a dancing High Priestess (sacred dance), and continued visits with the High Priestess. Then there was the child, that she recognized as having come to her before as a baby.”

Both books explore card counting and elemental dignities, and while both techniques are learnt separately, they are in fact two sides of the same coin. Success in integrating and unifying card counting and EDs  is the key to the initiatory visions experienced by Catherine. I too had initiatory visions some of which are documented in Tarot and the Magus.

While visions are by definition passive, initiating visions cause profound transformations within the tarot reader- when they happen you are not the same afterwards. A chicken and egg situation arises where there is a need to transform and develop spiritually in order to have the visions, and when the visions happen, even more change is possible. The inevitable consequence is that learning card counting and EDs is not just an intellectual experience, and students may well find that they struggle from time to time. My advice is to keep on at it, practising the techniques and using them in tarot readings as much as possible.

These initiating visions continue, particularly if you continue to read the tarot and work on your own development, which means that your paradigms about the tarot will also change. This has been my experience, which is why I do not subscribe to the common consensus on tarot, divination or magic. The visions often include spirits, some of whom are known, while others are anonymous. Some of these spirits are Goetic, which magicians in particular find hard to believe, as they thought they had the monopoly of such experiences!

Bonnie is currently running a competition to win a copy of Beyond the Celtic Cross, so good luck.

Hopefully there will be a second edition of Tarot and the Magus soon. In the meantime, I would still like to hear about any experiences you have with the book.

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Tarot and the Magus out of print? What’s the alternative?

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It had to happen… there are no more copies available of Tarot and the Magus… unless of course you want to pay over £200 for a second hand one.

I have been talking to my Publisher about a reprint, and I hope to have news soon on that front.

Meanwhile, you could always get Beyond the Celtic Cross, co-written with Catherine Chapman, which covers the tarot divination techniques of Card Counting, Pairing, and Elemental Dignities.

There are also my videos on Youtube, to which I will be adding to very soon. Also, I have two workshops coming up, one 25th April in London, and the other on Sunday 25th July at the TABI conference in Birmingham.

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