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The bulk of this journal so far is my recently completed intensive study of the Major Arcana of the Crowley Thoth Tarot, which you can find at my "thoth study" tag if you're interested.

For what it's worth, I'm no expert on the Thoth. I'm persistent enough to have made it all the way through studying the Majors, but that's it. I'm not initiated into anything. Pretty much all I've read about it is in readily available books or the net. Anything here comes from some combination of those things and my own brain.

"I know that astrology isn't a science," said Gail. "Of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or, what's that strange thing you British play?"
"Er, cricket? Self-loathing?"
"Parliamentary democracy. The rules just kind of got there. They don't make any kind of sense except in terms of themselves. But when you start to exercise those rules, all sorts of processes start to happen and you start to find out all sorts of stuff about people. In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing their indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people."
--from Mostly Harmless, by the late great Douglas Adams

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