[ONLINE] The Cube of Space: The Evolution of the Soul as Told by the Tarot

This is a joint event with the Denver Tarot Geeks. Please join us for this fascinating exploration of an overlooked mystical approach to the Major Arcana.

Students of the qabalistic tarot are familiar with the Tree of Life and its numerological and astrological correspondences to the tarot. These correspondences are based on specific arrangements of the Hebrew letters on the Tree. However, the Sepher Yetzirah, a centuries-old book of Jewish mysticism and one of the foundational texts of qabalah, describes a different map of the Hebrew letters. It assigns a direction and position to each letter, creating a cube. When the appropriate tarot cards are placed in this arrangement, we have the Cube of Space, a unique and astonishingly eloquent story of the evolution of the soul.

Exploring the tarot card positions and relationships can kindle years of study and meditation. But even learning the basics of this system can reveal deep insight not just into the symbols of the Major Arcana, but into our own spiritual journey.

Join us for this introduction to the Cube of Space. We'll learn how the cube is constructed and the symbolism of this framework. Then we'll discover the story of initiation that weaves onto this warp. Where does your soul fit into this evolutionary progress? We'll discuss how to use the lessons of the tarot to refine our spiritual journey.

This introductory presentation will expand into a multi-part discussion series to spend more time on each dimension of the cube.

The primary texts for this study are:

1. New Dimensions for the Cube of Space: The Path of Initiation Revealed by the Tarot upon the Qabalistic Cube by David Allen Hulse. It is out of print, but luckily available in e-book format (https://www.amazon.com/New-Dimensions-Cube-Space-Initiation-ebook/dp/B003CFAZXC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?).
2. The Cube of Space: Container of Creation by Kevin Townley. Also out of print.
3. The Sepher Yetzirah, trans. Aryeh Kaplan. Find it at the publisher, Weiser Books (https://redwheelweiser.com/detail.html?id=9780877288558). There are other translations available online, usually without the in-depth commentary such as Kaplan provides, such as this one by William Wynn Westcott (https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/yetzirah.htm).

This is a free event. Please join us online with this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89910223025?pwd=WW1lRjRIVVZ2Nkg0UnBib3ljcGgwUT09

This is a two-hour workshop, from 9:30am-11:30am Pacific time. 10:30-12:30pm Mountain, 11:30am-1:30pm Central, 12:30-2:30 Eastern, and 5:30pm-7:30 pm London time.

About Your Presenters
Joy Vernon
Joy Vernon is an astrologer and tarot reader in Burien, Washington. She formerly served as the Organizer of the Denver Tarot Meetup and Denver Tarot Geeks and now runs the Greater Seattle Tarot Meetup. Joy brings expertise and practiced familiarity to her specialty of esoteric tarot, which layers astrological and qabalistic symbolism onto the traditional images. Over the past ten years, Joy has published more than 300 free articles on tarot, astrology, qabalah, Reiki, and meditation on her blog Completely Joyous (https://joyvernon.com/blog/). Schedule a reading to see her philosophies in action (https://joyvernon.com/).

John Michael Allen
John Michael Allen has been a practitioner and perpetual student (and occasional teacher) of tarot for almost 30 years, employing the cards for divination, personal development, creative work, and magickal applications. While being steeped in the esoteric aspects, he has a deep appreciation for the intuitive, and continuously strives to integrate both. He has been a member of Denver Tarot Meetup since 2008 and is currently its organizer, along with DTM’s esoteric sister group, Tarot Geeks.