For the past few months I’ve been working on a series of 78 written pieces wherein I explore the symbolism of Tarot for Rick Rubin’s Tetragrammaton.com.
For this project I’ve developed a radically different approach to my creation and writing, drawing from my major influences and friends.
In the past my writing was an almost entirely solitary experience, a sort of immediate and automatic expulsion of a relatively complete video script or essay. As my tone can be relatively venomous (thank you Mercury Scorpio…) in my YouTube videos, I thought it right to temper these pieces with Love.
My dear had purchased Crowley’s book of Astrology for my birthday, and in reading it I found a key to this process.
Solely through a kind collaboration, and a sort of “Socratic” method could I discern what a layman wanted and needed to know to grasp the Tarot.
So we (several friends, Kendall, Christine, Ava, and Zuriel) went card by card so I could see the card clearly again, and make sense of how I made sense of this vast symbolic system in the first place!
I am endlessly grateful for this opportunity from Rick Rubin (the music producer whose work with Johnny Cash spurred my fixation on biblical symbolism in the first place.) His team and editor have also helped me immensely.
If you look at this substack and my youtube channel, you will see many fragments, incomplete and abandoned projects, this on the other hand has been the most dedicated and lengthy writing project I’ve ran with.
I hope you all subscribe to Tetragrammaton.com and keep up with my weekly Tarot pieces along with astounding work from many writers, musicians, and artists!
Here’s what’s out so far:
and an astrology piece
Dude the card analysis page on tetra really rocks. I kinda love when you have a deadline
I’ve been following your work for awhile and have always appreciated your interpretations of the tarot. This new series looks fantastic and very succinct. Your work partially inspired a book I wrote last year in which there is a chapter for each of the major arcana (and a hero’s journey that flows through them.) I would love if you could check it out and share your opinion on it as I feel it is synchronistic with your work.
- Nate