tarot

  • CMM0013–ORDER OF FLO with Joy and Rivkah

    Drawing on themes from queer theory and responding to COVID-19, “Order of Flo” playfully dances along the lines of destiny at the intersection of bodily motion and mindful emotion. Melting the presentations of drag, queer bodies, and weird minds, “Order… Continue reading

    CMM0013–ORDER OF FLO with Joy and Rivkah
  • Fallen — Forlorn — Forsaken

    As I approach my 55th birthday this weekend, I really cannot tell if I am getting depressed or just bored in my situation. So much feels like “going through the motions.” After 25 years wandering along the margins of academia,… Continue reading

    Fallen — Forlorn — Forsaken
  • KEY 0: Fool’s dissertate where angels fear to leap

    I am never without a tarot pack wherever I go. I do not read them for others much anymore, but I take them out to just play with them and see what can be seen. When I need to clear… Continue reading

    KEY 0: Fool’s dissertate where angels fear to leap
  • The Emperor and Wyrding freedom: Surging beyond heteronormative tradition

    My dissertating, to be authentic queer philosophizing, must be a Wyrd insurrection against the Emperor—the Pater Familias, the Patriarchy, the Toxic Masculine. My experiences over the last two years with a few older colleagues in professional philosophy informs me of… Continue reading

    The Emperor and Wyrding freedom: Surging beyond heteronormative tradition
  • Suspended academic

    Here is Prometheus bound. Continue reading

    Suspended academic
  • Warp and woof

    Late June after the solstice is the time when I lose sight of writing and reading. Usually there is a burst of both just after school is out—that is how conditioned I am by the school year at the age… Continue reading

    Warp and woof
  • The Hierophant: There is more-so than the just-so

    The most intriguing nuances of experience cannot be wholly captured by words. Positive claims within consciousness-as-such can only apprehend so-much of our being-world as an encompassing phenomenon (Jaspers 1970b: 18-22). We have known this since the very beginning of recorded… Continue reading

    The Hierophant: There is more-so than the just-so
  • Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life

    I got up yesterday–o3 January 2016–realizing the I was fed up with Facebook. I want to keep blogging, but what is the real use of sustaining Facebook? Sure, I’ll still let things from here cross post over there. But here’s… Continue reading

    Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life
  • Esoteric Symbols: The Tarot in Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka

    Esoteric Symbols: The Tarot in Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka June Leavitt University Press of America, Jan 1, 2007 157 pages In this pioneering scholarly work on occult symbols in literature, the reader is offered a vivid look into how W.B. Yeats,… Continue reading

  • Castle Perilous

    “Revelation can be more perilous than revolution.” Nabokov Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.   Continue reading

    Castle Perilous
  • (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising

    Cool site, Mago. Worth some time to read what the contributors are talking about. For an element in the environment to have divinatory properties, it must possess a quality of apparent randomness or unpredictability. If on a walk through my… Continue reading

    (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising
  • Melancholia: Certain Tracks and Uncertain Treks

    Melancholia, always patient watcher, lurking in backgrounds, awaiting a moment when Sophia is not watching o’er my mind: Then, darkness. — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) April 23, 2013 Flow the words from my fingers through the medium, plastic metal silicone… Continue reading

    Melancholia: Certain Tracks and Uncertain Treks