I was oscillating between the titles, the “Kárpáthy system” or the “revisited Kárpáthy system”. Eventually, I have decided to go with the simple “Kárpáthy system”. First of all, my previous method was called the “Unified Esoteric Tarot”, and secondly, I did not use the “Kárpáthy” name previously.
The significant difference between Read more The Karpathy system
The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is going that legendary extra mile.
Going the extra mile means that one is willing to make a special effort to achieve something.
It also reveals the difference between what is considered “exoteric”, the mundane life of the material world, and what is vaguely called “esoteric” and signifies the intangible “spiritual” world. One can settle for the obvious and tangible or can go the extra mile to discover the hidden. This world, however, is inaccessible for most people.
It took me twenty-five years of research, study and practical experience to have the outlines of my own esoteric system. It was not my intention to create a new system, but I wanted to understand and rectify the existing one. It was a task of backwards-engineering and rediscovering a lost, forgotten and altered system. In that regard, it is not “my system” but the system as it was originally designed. My only merit is walking that extra mile. My instruments were questioning, verifying, comparing, and take nothing for granted. The idea that “everything we know is wrong” haunted me. I always felt that something was not right, but I could not put my finger exactly on what was that. (…)
My first significant breakthrough was discovering what somewhat ironically I called “the God’s formula,” and which is three by four makes twelve. Identifying what the threes are, respectively, the fours throughout all the branches of the esoteric sciences, became my primordial working method. (…)
I published the core of my findings along with my first Tarot deck, the Unified Esoteric Tarot, in 2018.
Full text is available exclusively at https://www.patreon.com/attilakarpathy
The Sefer Yetzirah describes how ‘Yah, Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, the living God, King of the universe, El Shaddai, Merciful and Gracious, High and Exalted, dwelling in eternity, whose name is Holy – He is lofty and holy’ created ‘His universe with thirty-two mystical paths of Wisdom’.
These mysterious ‘thirty-two mystical paths of Wisdom’ are composed by the ‘Ten Sefirot of Nothingness and twenty-two Foundation Letters: three Mothers, seven Doubles and twelve Elementals.’
The Tree of Life’s architecture and the distribution of the twenty-two letters on the Tree differ between the Hebrew and the so-called Hermetic interpretation, respectively it further debated among scholars. The apple of discord Read more The 32 paths of Wisdom in the Kárpáthy-Smith deck
One of the frequently debated issues regarding cartomancy is the determination of time. Nowadays, cartomancers use different, sometimes quite out of the box, methods for determining the time associated with the cards.
It is a common misconception that Suits represent seasons; most frequently Wants are considered to represent Spring, Cups Summer, Swords Autumn and Disks Winter. According to another method, Wands represent days, Swords weeks, Cups months and Disks years. Therefore, Two of Wands may indicate a distance of two days; Five of Swords may refer to something five weeks away; Six of Cups may refer to six months, while Nine of Disks can be nine years distant. Generally, reversed cards are considered to suggest delays.
However, one should bear in mind that not all the Wands represents Spring, not all the Cups represents Summer, not all the Swords represents Autumn and not all the Disks represents Winter. Two, Three and Four of Wands correspond to Aries, which is the beginning of Spring; Five, Six and Seven of Wands represent Leo, which is mid-Summer, while Eight, Nine and Ten of Wands represent Sagittarius, respectively the end of Autumn.
The only cards directly related to the seasons are the Aces and, to some extent, the Kings. Spring, for instance, is composed of three Zodiac signs, Aries – representing Wands (Fire), Taurus – representing Disks (Earth) and Geminin – representing Swords (Air).
Timing, however, is a grey area. It is one of those things Read more When time is of the essence
Hopefully, it will not be considered ‘unsolicited advice’, my intention is to offer a different perspective into aspects most people would overlook or disregard.
I don’t believe in ‘luck’ – not in common-sense anyway.
‘Luck’ is a complex matter of personal choices and circumstances. Most of our choices are mechanical or instinctive, very few are effectively conscious. Circumstances, on the other hand, are the cumulated factors outside of us. Both luck and unluck are somewhat self-made cause from any circumstances, favourable and unfavourable, one should extract the most in its own favour.
Esoteric sciences, such as Astrology, Numerology, Tarot and so on, are at our disposal to Read more Bad luck? Formula 1, Vettel and Bottas
Inspired partly by the Endless Column, and partly by the subtle connection between the cards, the Hexa Tarot is an exclusive alchemical deck.
The Endless Column is Read more Working with the Hexa Tarot
Cartomancy, Class one is an A5 size, 24 pages PDF document written and edited by Attila Blága. The document is not editable, but printable.
The booklet consists of six chapters: Read more Cartomancy, Class One PDF
The Tarot is an accurate map of the Universe. Understanding the architecture of the Tarot deck is part of the learning process. Each of the seventy-eight cards has a precise position on the Zodiac Wheel.
The Tarot, on the other hand, is also the roadmap of human development: as above, so below. Read more The seventy-two stages of spiritual development
The Tarot of Cyclicity was created both in round and regular edition. Inspired by the classic Rider-Waite-Smith deck and Mandala, introducing Astrology, Numerology, Alchemy, The Fourth Way and Jungian psychology, the Tarot of Cyclicity brings the mysteries of the past to a new dimension and closer to the perception of the modern man.
It is a multifunctional instrument designed for divination, fortune-telling, self-development, intuition improvement and therapy sessions. Read more Tarot of Cyclicity video
It is called Hexa Tarot and it is my newborn brainchild. It is a hex shaped Tarot deck dealing with the alchemical key to Tarot. It will be delivered in a custom tuck box with an eight-sided, accordion printed mini-booklet. Separately there will be a larger book available on Lulu. At the moment I have no clue when I will make it available. As you can see, the cards are not even out of the factory shrink-wrap. Read more Hexa Tarot – preview