22 Teachings | Matt Fortin | Activity https://22teachings.com/members/matthew/activity/ Activity feed for Matt Fortin. Mon, 04 May 2026 10:27:52 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 352ff2c75d6c4a41a26cc15d4ebd57c0 Matt Fortin changed their profile picture https://22teachings.com/activity/p/2523/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:54:39 -0800 0 7b9d9d7fef38699e5d6b53e448c9e633 Matt Fortin replied to the topic Is it OK to ask a Tarot Question Here? in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/is-it-ok-to-ask-a-tarot-question-here/#post-49749 Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:56:33 -0700 Thanks Jessica! I lined up The Sun, The Chariot, The Emperor and Death in order and I see your connection of a lineage there. That’s really interesting! Also, I had not connected The Sun card to the Death card before but now I can how they share the same symbol of the white horse. Really appreciate your perspective on this.

]]> e4aa9b9618a38b2b8695816570adb35c Matt Fortin started the topic Is it OK to ask a Tarot Question Here? in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/is-it-ok-to-ask-a-tarot-question-here/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:04:06 -0700 Good morning Book Club,

I hope I am not out of bounds asking a Tarot question in the book club forum. If am, please disregard. Otherwise, here is my question:

Armor appears in all the Knight cards and the DEATH card which makes me sense to me, because they are all on horseback implying they are outside the safety of their city…Read more

]]> 1f6cc537f253806f10ce288db5d7aad4 Matt Fortin replied to the topic The Tree of Life in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/the-tree-of-life/#post-49089 Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:03:27 -0700 That’s funny, Jake. And it’s an interesting take on Da’ath, Malkuth, and the Abyss. Thanks for posting the link.

Here is another perspective for the conversation: Lurianic Kabbalah suggests that God created the universe, and thereby the Abyss, by creating a vacuum inside himself; or through the concept of the tziumtzum.

‘Creation’ typically…Read more

]]> fd1290d904bd53d5a27e30dd0b3c217f Matt Fortin replied to the topic The Tree of Life in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/the-tree-of-life/#post-49042 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 19:16:33 -0700 On the subject of Dion Fortune’s concept of the Tree of Life as a Filing Cabinet:

“Once he has mastered a working knowledge of the concepts of esoteric cosmogony and has the general scheme of symbolism assigned to each Sephirah well fixed in his memory, the student is equipped with a card-index system and can commence filing, collecting the…Read more

]]> 9f21d81bf1c3fe9c3bd34acaa67d4f2d Matt Fortin replied to the topic The Tree of Life in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/the-tree-of-life/#post-49041 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 19:00:26 -0700 On the subject of the QLIPHOTH:

Chapter 26 in Dion Fortune’s Mystical Qabalah (277-283) is devoted entirely to the Qliphoth. Here is a brief excerpt from the chapter:

“The Qliphoth are aptly termed the evil and averse Sephiroth, for they are not independent principles or factors in the cosmic scheme, but the unbalanced and destructive aspect o…Read more

]]> 46b3b2ef69390f8d62d12c84c14b2379 Matt Fortin replied to the topic The Tree of Life in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/the-tree-of-life/#post-48862 Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:30:21 -0700 Hello Book Club,

Correction to my comment on Chapter 7:

Regardie states “Cedar wood, for instance, if employed in the construction of the Altar, would bring about an imaginative association Jupiter; whereas Oak is an attribution of Mars” (162).

In Moon Magic, the protagonist is introduced against among “…a long semicircle of scarlet-clad…Read more

]]> 2e778f7727830c06c98aaf79a3228919 Matt Fortin changed their profile picture https://22teachings.com/activity/p/2370/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 04:00:13 -0700 0 92d3d7065953576650ccc48c44130ba4 Matt Fortin replied to the topic Moon Magic in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/moon-magic/#post-48720 Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:03:42 -0700 Good question, not sure about a deity in Qabbalah related to Binah, but, Binah in Hebrew begins with the letter (Bet) which is significant because the Hebrew Bible begins with the (Bet)/Bereshit meaning “in the beginning.”

Betzalel (also beginning with Bet), was the architect of the Ark of the Covenant, and his qualifications according to Exo…Read more

]]> ba80cc5c95df73a50e7f7a61cdd3754e Matt Fortin replied to the topic The Tree of Life in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/the-tree-of-life/#post-48719 Wed, 16 Aug 2023 06:25:35 -0700 *pathwork

]]> b64cd7d7210760552512606bc078d2b9 Matt Fortin replied to the topic The Tree of Life in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/the-tree-of-life/#post-48718 Wed, 16 Aug 2023 06:24:46 -0700 I really enjoyed watching this, Jake. Thank you for posting. This certainly helps not only better understand the 4th dimension, but also why it’s so difficult to imagine. Another commentator on Kabbalah suggests that the 32 paths represent the 32 vertices of a five-dimensional hyper cube – so, again this theme of transitive dimensions moving u…Read more

]]> 36b0926c3ad2630afefb5177fabfed21 Matt Fortin replied to the topic General Tarot Discussion in the forum Tarot https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/general-tarot-discussion/#post-40239 Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:48:14 -0700 Hello,

Of all the cards (RWS) with a saddled horse and rider, the Knight of Wands is the only card where the rider appears to be pull stopping the horse.

The Death card, and Knight of Cups, horse is trotting forward, the Knight of Swords is charging ahead; and the Knight of Pentacles is at a relaxed stand still.

Curious if anyone has insight…Read more

]]> cebcbc7c8fe2b5654370a2c0055c2c0e Matt Fortin replied to the topic Sea Priestess in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/sea-priestess/#post-40066 Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:40:01 -0700 Thank you!

]]> 816b4a4899520311591f67e0d0a045ce Matt Fortin replied to the topic Book Requests in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/book-requests/#post-40056 Sat, 30 Jul 2022 04:59:26 -0700 From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels by Valery Rees

]]> d2b370be07b95b8d0dc427a0b58274fa Matt Fortin replied to the topic Sea Priestess in the forum Book Club https://22teachings.com/forums/topic/sea-priestess/#post-40057 Sat, 30 Jul 2022 04:58:35 -0700 Hello Naha,

The protagonist, Wilfred, refers frequently to dolphin fireplace andirons throughout the novel, for example:

“…Morgan put a match to the sea-fire of driftwood on the big hearth I had made for her between my two dolphins…” (Chapter 12)

“…huge fire of drift that blazed between my beloved dolphins” (Chapter 24)

“…save my two…Read more

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