This project takes advantage
of hypertext to make immediate the connections between many disciplines
including Jungian metapsychology, Yoga philosophy, astrology, Tarot,
and Jewish Mysticism - Kabbalah. The Tree of Life is a map; with HTML,
it becomes clickable - the correspondences can be shown or hidden
instantly, in vibrant, full color.
This site is designed to
be a study aid, to be combined with other books, Tarot cards of your
own, and any other implements your tradition calls for. The creator of this site does not claim to be a "Jewish Authority," and acknowledges that Tarot and many other traditions mapped in this site are not part of the Jewish practice in any way. Western adaptations of Kabbalah are seen as "incomplete" in Jewish thought - but for non-Jews Tarot and Astrology can be seen as "filters" through which they might catch a glimpse of the beauty within, as if "peering through the lattices." In this way, I hope to broaden the image that the larger world has of Judaism and the Torah, which truly is the wellspring of Kabbalah.
Kabbalah
meditation should be commenced and ended with an invocation of
Malchus, to prevent ungroundedness that can come from contemplating
the many lights and colors filtered through the Ets Chaim.
Astrology is not a belief system, not a superstition, it’s one of the great symbolic languages that humans have embedded with guiding collaborative wisdom of how shall we cahoot with nature.
The chart for the 2020 U.S. Election is a case study of the transformation of government - the three heavies, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto are conjunct in Capricorn. In every way this speaks of the transformation of authority, and all around the 20th degree, cusping the third decan - the synthesis of, in this case, cosmic, Pluto-saturated Capricorn. All of this is squaring Mars, in Aries - but retrograde. While the adults crunch the big issues, Mars is in the corner, retracing his steps, re-imagining what his yang energy is for, how to better use it.
Let us invoke the better result, the healthier outcome, the safer world. May Jupiter and Saturn reconcile before the higher judge, Pluto, in the High Court of Capricorn. May Mars learn to curb the impulsiveness of Aries, his muse, and learn the depth of Scorpio, his roots, and where he is most at home.
In the spirit of the times, I've pulled this nightmarish 16th century depiction of a Saint and a Magician with his familiars and made it into a poster:
As an antidote to Brueghel, here's an hour of Thai monks chanting sutras in Pali, Sanskrit and Thai, with high definition looks at multiple Buddha statues - a great use for your computer! [Full Screen]
Everybody Stay Healthy!
Lockdown has given me time to create new posters. Check 'em out!
Check out my readings from
Talmud Chagigah,
some of the basic texts of Kabbalah.
The Major Arcana of the Tarot
My latest creation is a poster with all of the 22 Major Arcana of the
Ifdawn Tarot in a single array,
Here.
The Tree of the Arcana
I used a 15th century book ornament for the frame of this poster of the Tree of the Sefirot
showing the placement of the Major Arcana,
Here.
The Ifdawn Tarot is a recasting of the Rider-Waite deck, using an array of photo collage and Google DeepDream imagery. It also includes many of the varied correspondences detailed in the Ifdawn.com website, with the frames of each of the Major Arcana displaying the fragrance, the stone, the Hebrew letter, meaning and gematria, and other information.
I've finally gotten around to
creating a simple chart of Key Concepts of Astrology, something I've been meaning to do
for a long time, as a study aid and as a piece of art - it's here.
New commentary about Pluto and its current influences are here.
Here's a new section on Childhood Trauma [CPTSD] in
Key 2. Among many other little additions,
I've' just added a beautiful deep zoom fractal
extended video to Key 3.
Posters of images from this site and other similar diagrams
are now available for purchase. More will be added regularly, so keep checking back. And thanks to the people who have been getting stuff. It's great to see my work getting shared in the real world. Here are the posters:
In 2014, Ifdawn.com celebrated its 20
year anniversary. What started out as a research project in 1994 ballooned
into the labyrinth that's here today. In those days, it was
futuristic - when we had dialup, and everything took a while
to upload. This entire set of pages, this "proto-wiki," was created in notepad, in simple, raw html. So it may seem a bit archaic - an "archaic revival"
we could say.
This page
here alone, that you're reading right now, has had about a million
and a half hits from around the world in those 20 years. 16%
of those visits are people staying for more than an hour, which
delights me. Thank all of you people who have enjoyed the page
and sent emails. The web has changed so much that now communication
is completely different. This is me on Facebook.
Having
finished most of the work you see here by 2004, the ifdawn site was mostly dormant while I deepened my focus on the Hebrew letters and their permutations.
Here is a booklet I've created for learning to read Hebrew, with large, clear writing and explanations that go perfectly with the videos ~ it's called Learn Hebrew.
It explains and teaches the basic alef-bet, the double letters, the vowels, and how to read. There are two sizes and both cost $10.
Here are the videos I've created for people to learn Hebrew from. There are videos that explain and teach the basic alef-bet, the double letters, the vowels, and how to read words.
Here
are the latest Ana B'Koach videos,
and there are pdf files to print out and a variety of posters
available to purchase.
Ifdawn Posters - See a Growing Selection of My Artwork as Posters