Medicinal Botanical Wonders.*

so now that i'm preparing myself for graduate school for botany and plant biology, i am trying to teach myself chemistry. yes, this is as hard as it sounds, but i keep getting distracted with the pretty pictures, as usual. it's pretty cool to think that botanists were illustrating these well over 100 years ago, but the plants are still exactly the same. if anyone knows the original botanical illustrator, please comment, since as of the moment i can't hunt his name down anywhere. thx.*

The Collective Unconscious.*

a coworker told me something amazing yesterday. she had a very intense, realistic dream that i brought her dead cat back to life using a lock of fur. i was really worried that he would come back wrong but he was great, & she was really thankful & happy. on the same night, i also had one of the most intense, enjoyable dreams of my life: i was a witch, powerful & looking through underground, ancient, occult libraries & discovering secret tarot cards to uncover a royal farce. i was flying over green hills (ireland?) trying to bring justice to the kingdom and uncovering a false prince, exploring beautiful, mythical lands & people & i was very powerful. this made us both think of the idea of the collective unconscious & the collective memory. i am a firm believer that these dreams are no coincidence. certain stones can really increase psychic visions & aid in tapping into these states....try it & practice developing your third eye. read about dreamtime crystals here. sweet dreams.*

Tarot and the Golden Proportion.*

our beloved alejandro teamed up with philippe camoin, a descendent of nocholas conver, who was a master cardmaker and engraver for the king's court back in 1760. they revived all 78 of the original tarot cards and found that much of the significant imagery and many symbols were erased over the years. there are complex structures that connect the cards to one another, and even the golden proportion, the ratio that was used to build cathedrals and pyramids, fits into the picture. jodorowsky's research concludes that the Tarot of Marseille is real, OG deck- a blend of arabic, aztec, jewish, and christian traditions that emerged from the first century. "In truth, tarot is anonymous, because it's sacred art, and all sacred arts are anonymous. It comes from dreams and the collective unconscious."*




although i still really love other decks aesthetically, such as this dali deck:

from the la luna tarot collection blog.