Episode 180: The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot
The Magician card likely graces more front covers of books on the tarot than any of the other major arcana. In many ways, it symbolizes the tarot itself, or the individual who has mastered the art of manipulating the cards to divine their meanings. Yet, the Magician is a profoundly ambiguous figure. From one perspective, he is the Magus, piercing through the illusions of ceaseless becoming to glimpse the hidden depths of reality. From another, he is all surface without depth, a carnival huckster ready to empty your coin purse while you’re transfixed by his crystal ball. In this episode, JF and Phil continue their on-again, off-again journey through the major trumps with a discussion of the card that—deservedly or not—proudly calls itself Number One.
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Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619)
Weird Studies, Episode 24 on “The Charlatan and the Magus” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/24)
Weird Studies, Episode 109 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/109) and Episode 110 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/110) on The Glass Bead Game
Weird Studies, Episode 179 with Lionel Snell (https://www.weirdstudies.com/179)
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Geneology of Morals (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780141195377)
Louis Sass, Modernism and Madness (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780198779292)
Gilles Deleuze, Pure Immanence (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781890951252)
Richard Wagner, Parsifal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsifal)
William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780312160623)
Participation mystique (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_mystique)
Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780877282686)
Leigh Mccloskey, Tarot Re-visioned (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780877282686)
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