Getting to Know the Golden Dawn Tarot

Golden Dawn regalia
of Aleister Crowley

The rumours put around that I am spending my time off work in the company of a rent boy or masturbating are not true at all. In fact I am spending it getting to know the New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot - the one by the Ciceros.
I have written here before about my problem with Qabala. My problem is that the Major Arcana cards are placed on the pathways (well they have to be, there are 22 of them), whereas their importance would suggest they ought to be on the sephiroth. Cowley talks of them being illuminated by the sephiroth, and I think it should be the other way around. This is only one of the orthodoxies of tarot which I find hard to swallow, and thus I will always incline to witchcraft. Can you imagine what I'd be like in a Golden Dawn temple?
Despite my chronic INFJ mixture of total conformity and simultaneous anarchy, which would make me unfitted to a magical order and even used to make my own mother say she couldn't make me out, I find the Golden Dawn fascinating. In the way I do Freemasonry, but would never join, because it is another of the ingredients of modern witchcraft. The true historical predecessors, the cunning men and women, got their magic from the grimoire tradition, and thus this theft is in a great tradition. I particularly like this article about Doreen Valiente drinking from this well before she met Old Gerald.
Personally the reason I want to get to grips with the Golden Dawn tarot is that if you've seen it, it crackles with magic! It is also the tradition underlying both the Rider-Waite and Thoth traditions so is a venerable ancestor. I have a feeling that learning its system will illuminate much that comes afterwards in tarot.

Even More Good News

Today Human Resources made a visit to my workplace. The woman could see that I wasn't OK and said she would talk to me. The upshot was that we mutually agreed that I would leave immediately and they would pay me for a month.
I can only say what a relief this is. They also acknowledged that things haven't been handled that well.
I have used this picture before. I have a crush on this guy, the trouble is he has such a big dick I'm a bit scared, so I will find some other way of filling my leisure before I start my new job. Don't be too jealous now.

More Good News

I am delighted to announce that I have a new job, doing the same role with a different employer slightly outside Birmingham. The Ts and Cs are also better, and since my current employer is going down the drain fast, it would be hard for them to be worse.
Oh, alright, have a soundtrack if you insist:

And since I can hear you clamouring for more DesiLu, let's go for it: