Missing Witches - Missing Witches - Lady Frieda Harris： I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals

00:00:00.000 You aren't being a proper woman, therefore you must be a witch. 1.00

00:00:03.260 Be a witch! Be a witch! Be a witch! Be a witch! Be a witch! Be a witch! Be a witch! 1.00

00:00:06.780 You must be a witch. 0.84

00:00:08.420 So we started season one of this, The Missing Witches podcast, 0.88

00:00:13.080 by telling the story of the artist, woman, witch,

00:00:16.480 behind the world's most famous tarot deck, Pixie Coleman Smith.

00:00:21.460 And so it seems fitting that to spark season two,

00:00:24.780 we dig into the life of another spectacular and forgotten tarot artist.

00:00:30.000 This queen, this lady, in her 60s, as bombs rain down on London, dyes her hair red and navigates the night streets between the lords of London, the world's most famous magician and Satanist, a feminist secret society, and a couple of young mathematicians drawing a new world with new geometry. 0.90

00:00:50.660 Lady Frida Harris walked this crooked path in order to summon the knowledge she needed to bring a bright new divination deck to light.

00:00:58.560 And then she retired to India to live on a houseboat.

00:01:02.060 Lady Frida Harris was perhaps the best friend, the beast, Alistair Crowley ever had.

00:01:06.880 And she used her own art, financial resources, and strength of character to convince him to collaborate with her.

00:01:13.160 A project they thought would last months turned into years and resulted in the luminous Thoth tarot deck.

00:01:20.260 Two minutes on Crowley.

00:01:22.020 According to Lon Duquette, he introduced America to astrology, 0.83

00:01:25.940 Isadora Duncan to the I Ching,

00:01:28.100 and the poet Victor Newberg to hiking and high magic.

00:01:31.900 As an agent provocateur writing for an English-language German propaganda newspaper in New York,

00:01:37.680 he penned the outrageous and inflammatory editorials

00:01:40.840 that provoked a reluctant United States Congress to enter World War II on England's side.

00:01:46.720 During World War II, at the request of friend and naval intelligence officer Ian Fleming,

00:01:51.220 Crowley provided Winston Churchill with valuable insights on the superstitious and magical mindset

00:01:57.260 of the leaders of the Third Reich. He also suggested to the Prime Minister, if reports

00:02:02.260 can be believed, that he exploit the enemy's magical paranoia by being photographed as much

00:02:07.480 as possible giving the two-finger V for victory gesture. This sign is the manual version of the

00:02:13.800 magical sign of apophis typhon, a powerful symbol of destruction and annihilation, which,

00:02:21.380 according to the magical tradition, is capable of defeating the solar energies represented by

00:02:26.100 the swastika. Just for balance, since Duquette thinks Crowley is a prophet and as such is a

00:02:31.960 little biased, we should note that Crowley described democracy as an imbecile and nauseating 0.99

00:02:37.540 cult of weakness. And biographer Lawrence Sutton calls Crowley a spoiled scion of a wealthy 0.99

00:02:45.100 Victorian family who embodied the contradiction that writhed within many Western intellectuals

00:02:49.940 of the time, deeply held racist viewpoints courtesy of society, coupled with a fascination

00:02:55.000 with people of color. Crowley also exhibited a general misogyny and described women as

00:03:00.440 moral inferiors who had to be treated with firmness, kindness, and justice. I'll take

00:03:07.100 justice. Crowley was also a desperate heroin addict, and at times a wonderful poet in the

00:03:14.320 visionary style, and an unavoidable character in the recent history of magic, at least in the life

00:03:19.880 of Lady Frieda Harris, who, despite the roller coaster of arrogance and neediness and insight

00:03:24.480 and hilarity that was her friendship with him, remained a good friend to the end of his life.

00:03:28.900 and she was truly inspired by the ideas he brought into harmony for her

00:03:33.220 from the Kabbalah to astrology, numerology and Egyptian history

00:03:37.280 spirituality and symbolism

00:03:38.940 and her tarot deck glows

00:03:42.000 it's alien and art deco and mathematical hallucinogenic

00:03:47.060 like Pixie Coleman Smith's deck, every card is a work of art

00:03:50.860 it's not easy to find that much info on Lady Frida Harris

00:03:53.960 but my favorite little bio comes from the website of the United States Grand Lodge

00:03:58.080 of the Ordo Templi Orientis. Lady Frida became a member of OTO in 1938 after befriending Crowley.

00:04:05.180 According to their website today, the order still aims, one, to create, maintain, and promote a

00:04:10.480 structured society of men and women within the United States of America who are united by their

00:04:14.920 acceptance of the law of Thelema, by a common interest in magic, yoga, and hermetic science,

00:04:21.280 by the common experience of ceremonial initiation and sacramental ritual, by common pledges of

00:04:27.500 fidelity, cooperation, and mutual aid, and by certain common ideals, namely individual liberty,

00:04:34.620 self-discipline, self-knowledge, universal brotherhood, and opposition to tyranny,

00:04:39.540 superstition, and oppression. Two, to manage and govern this society in substantial conformance

00:04:46.040 with the principles set forth in the writings of Alistair Crowley and other historical leaders

00:04:50.620 of Ordo Templi Orientis. L'Anne Duquette writes that Thelema, Crowley's religion, which is actually

00:04:56.660 based on messages initially received by his wife rose just to be clear supposedly from the messenger

00:05:05.220 of the god horus while they were in egypt on their honeymoon has come to be known as the philosophy

00:05:10.320 of life that presumes that each individual like each star in heaven is possessed with a unique 0.93

00:05:15.700 orbit and function in the universe a thelemite is one who attempts to discover then execute

00:05:21.280 their unique will. So the OTO bio on Lady Frida describes her as a spiritual seeker. Her son Jack 0.99

00:05:30.520 recalls childhood lessons in the teachings of Christian science founder Mary Baker Eddy. Lady

00:05:36.220 Frida studied anthroposophy and the projective geometry at Rudolf Steiner House under the

00:05:41.740 tutelage of George Adams von Kaufman and Olive Witcher. And oh man, I want to do such a long

00:05:47.280 digression on rudolph steiner and the origins of biodynamic farming in the waldorf schools but for

00:05:52.060 now i'll just say check out steiner's how to know higher worlds which begins the capacities by which

00:05:58.060 we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us mystics gnostics

00:06:03.900 and theosophists have always spoken of a world of soul and spirit that is as real to them as the

00:06:09.020 world we can see with our eyes and touch with our hands listening to them we can say to ourselves

00:06:13.720 at every moment. I know that I too can experience what they talk about. If only I unfold certain

00:06:19.800 forces within me that today still lie dormant there. All we need to know is how to begin to

00:06:24.820 develop these faculties for ourselves. Harris was a co-Mason. That's the radical feminist branch of

00:06:31.060 Masonry that not only accepted all people equally, but also did away with the provision requiring 0.99

00:06:37.100 belief in a god, at least for a while. And we'll do an episode sometimes and talk about

00:06:43.280 atheist magic. You don't have to have a god. She designed a set of Masonic tracing boards.

00:06:51.260 She became a student of Thelema upon meeting Alistair Crowley in 1937.

00:06:56.940 Crowley recognized her co-Masonic degrees as equivalent to those in OTO, and from this point,

00:07:02.340 she provided artwork for several of Crowley's books. On May 5th, 1938, Crowley borrowed for

00:07:07.660 Frida a copy of a secret publication containing a description of the cards of the tarot.

00:07:13.320 Harris suggested that she and Crowley create a deck according to these

00:07:16.580 old Golden Dawn specifications, since none existed. In her later years, after doing set

00:07:24.500 design for Ram Gopal's ballet, The Legend of the Taj Mahal, in 1956, she moved into a houseboat

00:07:31.220 in Srinagar and studied Hinduism. This is my favorite part of her biography and I hope you'll

00:07:38.520 hold this image of her in your mind throughout the episode. The lady in her 80s rocking to sleep

00:07:45.940 at night in a houseboat in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir on the banks of the

00:07:53.480 Chalume River. Lady Frida Harris lived from 1877 to 1962. She was the wife of British Parliament

00:08:02.560 member and Liberal Chief Whip and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, Percy Harris. Percy was a

00:08:09.500 radical liberal passionate about social housing and no doubt they loved each other and had shared

00:08:14.320 values but we get a glimpse of how she felt balancing political life and her art and magic

00:08:19.840 when she writes to Crowley,

00:08:21.760 my spiritual state has been sadly neglected,

00:08:24.920 perhaps because I have been trying to paint and live Percy's life at the same time as mine.

00:08:29.860 Now these circumstances are giving me a chance.

00:08:31.940 I have had three days rest, the first in two years,

00:08:34.880 and I have even had time to read a bit of magic and try to assimilate your book.

00:08:39.300 How satisfying to one's inside hunger.

00:08:42.180 I have tried to cut the jungle around my caravan

00:08:44.480 to look at these glorious apples and pears on my trees.

00:08:47.620 They are so miraculous and so beautiful. Lady Frida was 60 years old when she began to

00:08:53.620 collaborate with Crowley. Crowley was deep into a heroin and cocaine addiction, broke and infamous

00:09:00.360 for, among other things, painting occult symbols on an island off New Hampshire while living there

00:09:04.880 alone for weeks and getting kicked out of his Sicilian commune with two of his lovers and their

00:09:09.740 three children after a child and another follower died from the unsanitary conditions and being

00:09:16.200 dubbed the wickedest man in the world by the tabloids alternately desperate for cash and

00:09:21.400 desperate to pass on the framework of his philosophy and insights into the universe

00:09:25.120 he began the work of the thoth tarot the collaboration was largely long distance

00:09:31.940 so there are these piles of letters between lady frida and the wickedest man in the world

00:09:40.400 to offer insight into their process based on the letters the two were great friends with huge 0.98

00:09:45.900 mutual respect who sometimes made each other fucking crazy. Harris worked much of the time 0.76

00:09:51.280 in a small caravan with the complete darkness of blackout at night and bombs literally falling

00:09:56.300 around her. She writes, I have done the 10 of swords and promptly Russia takes up arms. Where

00:10:01.700 are we going? Then later we are driven mad with soldiers here. The deck was deeply important to

00:10:10.720 both of them. Crowley wrote, it is the vindication of my life's work for the last 44 years and will

00:10:16.500 be the compass and power of the good ship magic for the next 2000 years. Harris struggled with

00:10:21.800 the work and struggled to manage Crowley, who repeatedly asks her in these letters for more

00:10:26.380 money than the monthly stipend she was already paying him to work on the cards. Nevertheless,

00:10:31.920 she loves the work. And like every seeker, the struggle to see the patterns in the violence 0.99

00:10:39.280 and beauty of life consumes her. She writes, I have been reading your truly magical book.

00:10:46.340 Oh no, I do not pretend to apprehend it. Only it is like music and the only kind of writing I want

00:10:52.440 to read. Only it makes me feel as if I lived in a desert and I am mighty thirsty. Shall I never

00:10:58.520 get on a bit? Yoga practices I never seem to advance in. I cannot live more quietly, but even

00:11:05.820 then, the business of living takes time. I am positively alarmed at the prospect of the end of

00:11:11.100 this work. As if I do not get any more handed to me, I shall have to return to the awful life I

00:11:17.680 have escaped from in my conscience during the last two years, and I doubt if I can. I do not

00:11:23.300 think the ritual of magic is much good to me. I seem to have to draw everything I want to understand.

00:11:29.020 thank you beyond words for all your help patience and understanding at any rate thanks to that you

00:11:36.800 have penetrated a slight amount and in the far distance i can see a bit of what the wisdom of

00:11:41.580 the past and the present might mean i do wish i could do better i feel like a lump of undigested

00:11:48.980 suet there is one more thing i do not think those cards will sell if you include any sort of ritual

00:11:56.160 People generally are afraid of being made fools of, getting bad luck by associating with black magic, especially at these times when the world is all crossing itself to avert the evil eye.

00:12:09.400 The weather. I don't find it too bad. It really is lovely to look at. The trees are encased in ice. I have never seen anything like it. 0.82

00:12:18.960 living and walking everything ordinary has assumed a rare and dignified aspect with the elements

00:12:24.700 completely out of control also the howling wind and this new invention i used to sneeze which is

00:12:32.700 neither raining nor snowing keeps everyone away so i can read paint or cook to my entire satisfaction

00:12:39.900 also slither up and down the ladder to my studio which provides the necessary exercise and danger

00:12:45.660 to stimulate me and keep me warm. For the cards, I have put no name for the artist. I don't want to.

00:12:52.800 Something informs me that I am lost if I take credit or publicity in designing the cards as

00:12:58.320 an artist. Please understand this. No one can. The opposition against you in Oxford is very strong.

00:13:05.380 My business is to get money to publish these cards if possible, and this is nearly impossible

00:13:09.840 in the present war condition. I have been successful through using what influence I

00:13:15.000 possessed in getting at people with money to come and see the exhibition. This is using my social

00:13:19.620 position foully. If they suspected that the cards were inspired by the arch magician of black magic,

00:13:26.240 what do they even mean? They would withdraw their patronage. I have had this conveyed to me politely

00:13:31.620 and impolitely. Therefore, if you come to the private view or show up in any prominence,

00:13:38.240 this attempt to launch the cards is doomed and all the work and money lost. Can you be so large

00:13:44.180 minded and detached as to keep away until the thing is launched. If you court notoriety, it is

00:13:49.200 sure to appear ultimately that you are the source because so many people know it and I am really

00:13:53.780 afraid of the avalanche which will fall on me. I am trying to keep out too because I am bored by

00:13:59.320 occult people. Loathe commercialism, do not want fame or notoriety, do not want money, but yearn

00:14:06.540 long desire for solitude. Any financial success will be yours. I have had my reward in the work.

00:14:14.180 I wish I could paint in crystals.

00:14:17.240 I wish I could paint in crystals.

00:14:21.440 Dear Alistair, I do hope it's going to come out.

00:14:25.020 I am simply sweating. 0.94

00:14:26.700 That fool won't stand still, and I do hope it is going to be all right and you'll be satisfied. 0.98

00:14:31.540 I can't do it well enough. 0.99

00:14:33.480 Every sort of obstacle, damp weather, intense cold, an impossible situation of living in a caravan in midwinter.

00:14:40.020 I am more than duty, but I dare not leave as much as do this as well as I can without interruption.

00:14:46.500 I can hear the rumblings of a tumultuous world through the apple trees.

00:14:50.500 If only it is all right.

00:14:52.100 It has got all the symbols, only I have never seen any traditional card like it.

00:14:56.540 And it has gone so far from the little bearded man, which it never was,

00:15:00.140 for it appears to me as Christ and Buddha and Harpo and Piero and Harlequin and the giant panda 0.96

00:15:05.820 and every other foolish and adorable person. 0.91

00:15:07.900 And, of course, I can't make a pastiche of all those, though I try. 0.97

00:15:11.780 And, indeed, now I have forgotten how to spell.

00:15:14.260 Why haven't I got living fire which could weave musically these beauties?

00:15:17.960 I can't do it with pigment.

00:15:19.880 I want poetry and music and light, not colored chalks.

00:15:23.420 I do hope you're serious about this.

00:15:25.500 You must be.

00:15:26.160 You couldn't have written Tao Te Ching with your tongue-in-cheek,

00:15:29.200 even with your beastly cleverness and a draught subtlety.

00:15:32.700 Yours sincerely, Frida Harris.

00:15:35.000 Dear Alistair,

00:15:35.820 I am very sorry, but I am unable to protect you from yourself.

00:15:40.960 Out of the inextricable confusion of your real and bogus financial affairs,

00:15:45.600 I find only one thing, that you will always be in a muddle,

00:15:49.600 and that to attempt to help you is like filling a leaking cistern,

00:15:52.740 and I do not propose to begin to do so.

00:15:55.080 I have told you always I have a weekly allowance,

00:15:57.580 and that my lessons from you are saved out of that,

00:15:59.840 and I cannot draw from the bank more than I have.

00:16:02.120 anything in the nature of speculation is quite foreign to my nature or my pocket

00:16:06.320 your campaign of giving people too much to eat and drink in order to placate them in the great

00:16:11.020 work is all wrong and i expect you know it if only you could be simple and dignified people

00:16:16.200 would flock around you to get what they really want in these hard times that is the help of a

00:16:20.680 colossal brain but instead you cook for them because you are bored by them and incidentally

00:16:25.460 would like them to produce the wherewithal to stock your fantastic restaurant and cellar

00:16:29.880 can't you stop i suppose you can't this is not my affair but please do not try to get me to help

00:16:38.480 you prevent me from doing what i would like to do and that is work on the tarot book with you

00:16:43.500 as i absolutely refuse to be entangled by your efforts to boost an absurdity what a pity i fear

00:16:49.920 even now the work will be unfruitful the house of god appears to me as a vortex not a mouth

00:16:55.680 or is it yours which can't be filled by mortal effort? Try as you may. Yours sincerely, Frida

00:17:02.100 Harris. Around this same time, he wrote to a lawyer friend. The tarot is an atlas of and

00:17:09.120 guidebook to the universe. It has been my daily study since February 99 and my researches have

00:17:14.320 cost me several thousand pounds. I have long determined to construct a pack, embodying all

00:17:19.320 the knowledge gained from anthropology, comparative religion, and so forth. Lady Harris offered to

00:17:25.480 execute the cards from my designs. It was agreed that I should have a two-thirds share in the

00:17:30.220 venture. From my rough sketches and descriptions, under my continual inspection, subject to my

00:17:35.240 constant correction, I made her do some cards over again, five, six, even eight times in one case.

00:17:41.300 She made the set now on show at the Berkeley Galleries. There is one exception. The card

00:17:46.080 number one was not shown to or authorized by me. I suspect a trick in this. She damaged the property

00:17:52.220 by offering it for sale at cost price, thus alienating the libraries and booksellers

00:17:56.500 and reducing my two-third interest to nil. I value the copyright at something like $20,000.

00:18:02.200 A crude, vilely drawn and colored, ignorant, inferior pack, published in 1902 or thereabouts,

00:18:08.940 has sold over a thousand copies every year. Since then, at $15,000 a copy, I am quite sure

00:18:15.100 that these admirable cards, with my book on the subject, which was to go with them in an ornamental

00:18:20.500 box would bring in far more annual receipts. I have a large following in the USA. They send me

00:18:27.020 50 a month or more, which is growing rapidly, especially now my hymn for Independence Day has

00:18:32.420 been set to music and will be broadcast by the Cultural Garden League of Cleveland, Ohio on

00:18:36.940 August 9th. There is also my free French song, Proof Enclosed, and the invention of the V sign

00:18:42.740 will ultimately benefit my work. I first want to establish my two-thirds claim in the copyright.

00:18:48.420 Secondly, my controlling interest in the cards themselves, if necessary, damages for her sly underhand, sneaking, dishonorable, and dishonest action in giving this show without my approval and destroying the whole value of the copyright.

00:19:02.540 Nota bene, P.S.

00:19:04.040 The property is actually vested in the O.T.O.

00:19:07.360 Mr. Carl Germer, 1007 Lexington Avenue, New York City, is my Grand Treasurer General, and we had perhaps better sue in his name.

00:19:16.160 Nota bene, P.P.S. 0.79

00:19:18.420 Lady H's real motive is to conceal her four years' close association with me, rather silly then, to provoke a lawsuit.

00:19:25.300 I shall ring up Saturday a.m. early. Perhaps you could lunch with me. Yours sincerely, Alistair Crowley.

00:19:30.600 P.S. A friendly settlement is being tried. Don't do anything until I see you again. A.C.

00:19:36.540 Harris set up and funded a series of shows of her works, as well as a limited edition of 200 decks of the cards.

00:19:43.040 And that was the only time the Thoth deck would be published in either her or Crowley's lifetimes.

00:19:48.200 And after the tarot project, Harris and Crowley maintained a friendship.

00:19:51.460 It waxed and waned, but ultimately, they stayed close.

00:19:55.860 Crowley could be a difficult person to like, and Harris was a strong enough character to step away from his tantrums and to throw a few of her own.

00:20:01.820 Over the years, she continued to help him financially, and in the end, she was one of two executors of his will.

00:20:08.700 The way he writes about her makes my stomach churn sometimes, and though his ideas are interesting and helpful to some of my own instincts about magic, I am much more interested in her.

00:20:17.520 In her cards, and in the math she studied to make them, and in the world view of a person

00:20:23.460 who has to draw things to understand them.

00:20:26.920 The geometry she used was an evolution of strict Euclidean geometry developed by Descartes

00:20:31.740 in the 17th century.

00:20:32.920 It's called projective synthetic geometry.

00:20:36.080 Descartes' ideas derived from mathematical and mystical ideas, in particular his non-Euclidean

00:20:41.820 axiom of parallels meeting at infinity.

00:20:44.400 Harris took courses in projective geometry from, and made friends with, Olive Witcher and George

00:20:50.460 Adams. Adams had become interested in projective geometry as a path for exploring theoretical

00:20:55.280 physics that didn't chase the discovery of the atom. Paul Dirac, one of the most significant

00:21:00.780 physicists of the 20th century, formulated the Dirac equation which describes the behavior of

00:21:05.520 fermions and predicted the existence of antimatter, and he often said that when he was developing

00:21:10.460 quantum mechanics, he used his favorite branch of mathematics, projective geometry.

00:21:16.840 So far, I can only scrape the very top of understanding this, though, so if you are

00:21:20.960 a math witch who can explain more, please write to us at missingwitches at gmail.com.

00:21:26.860 I find it haunting anyway that this path, the one that doesn't lead to the atomic bomb,

00:21:32.960 ends up being at the heart of the patterns and equations of quantum mechanics.

00:21:37.800 And these meetings between Olive Witcher, George Adams, and Lady Frida Harris

00:21:41.320 inspired the complex geometrical patterns in the cards.

00:21:46.120 And they attempt to illustrate a mathematical revelation about the very nature of the universe.

00:21:52.340 Something about the infinite being inside each of us as the lines meet.

00:21:58.720 As above, so below.

00:22:00.780 atoms and witcher proposed mathematically that the infinite midpoint of non-euclidean space was

00:22:07.800 to be found in the plant world in every bud the idea was connected with that of the luminiscatory

00:22:14.660 correlation of figure eight or infinite shape between space and counter space in richard

00:22:21.140 kaczynski's essay projective geometry in early 20th century esotericism he writes higher math

00:22:27.200 is, by its nature, an esoteric pursuit plumbed by a relatively small group of scholars and

00:22:32.120 specialists. Projective geometry, after its 19th century zenith, found a new incarnation

00:22:37.760 in a different kind of esotericism, the world of mysticism and magic. Here, the concepts

00:22:44.660 of duality and of shapes without measure are understood to demonstrate that scientific

00:22:48.840 principles govern growth and beauty in nature. Furthermore, these principles apparently exert

00:22:53.580 their generative influence on the world from an ideal creative space or counter space that is

00:22:58.680 knowable to the trained mind. While the specifics may remain obscure even to many of the faithful,

00:23:05.820 their significance has been preserved in the seminal writings of Kaufman and Witcher.

00:23:10.360 And courtesy of the imaginative hand and eye of artist-executant Frida Lady Harris,

00:23:15.800 projective geometry has also been disseminated surreptitiously in Alistair Crowley's immensely

00:23:21.220 popular Thoth Tarot, whose beautiful and mysterious images beckon viewers to explore

00:23:26.260 the depths of its secrets. The influence of projective geometry on Harris is obvious when

00:23:31.180 one looks at the Thoth Tarot cards themselves. Although Crowley specified the major design

00:23:35.900 elements for each card, he left Harris a comparatively free hand in respect to

00:23:40.120 insignificant details, as he would write. She seized upon this freedom to express her artistic

00:23:45.520 and esoteric interests. Harris was inspired by a large range of artistic influences.

00:23:52.060 Her depiction of adjustment recalls the work of Aubrey Beardsley, while the tower is rendered

00:23:56.840 in Picasso's jarring and disjointed cubism. Elsewhere, she references surrealist, expressionist,

00:24:02.940 symbolist, and art deco styles, as first noted by Hoffman. Projective geometry appears throughout,

00:24:09.500 in both striking foreground images and subtle background textures and patterns. While not

00:24:14.400 every card draws on Kauffman's teachings, geometric designs and arrangements, both

00:24:18.980 projective and Euclidean, are prevalent. The Thoth Tarot's tremendous popularity, I have

00:24:25.900 suggested elsewhere that it is second only to the ubiquitous Rider Waite deck, has introduced

00:24:30.920 images and concepts from projective geometry to vast audiences who otherwise might never

00:24:36.260 have considered non-Euclidean mathematics. In a lecture she gave about the cards, Lady

00:24:42.500 Frida Harris wrote, now the tarot cards that I have seen seem to represent the thought of the

00:24:48.160 period in which they were designed. I have made an effort in this present pack to embody this

00:24:53.380 current mode of the century. Therefore, I have tried to introduce among the cards the element

00:24:58.480 of time. In nearly all the designs, the straight lines of the former cards, such as the check

00:25:04.480 patterns, the rays of the sun, the chart of the universe, and the stars are expressed in a curve.

00:25:09.880 I hope to convey the idea of movement.

00:25:14.700 Death, in Trump's, has to suggest the idea of reincarnation as opposed to putrefaction.

00:25:21.160 He is weaving with his scythe a geometrical web of new forms.

00:25:26.860 I think if you are listening to this podcast, you are like the Lady Frida Harris,

00:25:31.700 like Crowley and Amy and I and all the witches we've been missing, a seeker.

00:25:36.760 maybe ceremonial sex magic makes sense for you or maybe you are a nature witch most at peace and

00:25:45.680 empowered by the sound of trees or a city witch math witch lab witch art or activist witch healer 0.91

00:25:53.960 or gardener solitary or community organizer either way you are like harris's figure of death

00:26:02.100 weaving a geometrical web of new forms

00:26:05.980 bringing new life from the dark

00:26:08.340 new kinds of connection and kindness to light

00:26:12.320 returning from wild journeys

00:26:15.200 to meet at the center point of infinity

00:26:17.480 to rock together in the belly of the houseboat

00:26:21.240 to paint a better world in crystals 0.96

00:26:24.620 you must be a witch

00:26:32.100 Thanks for listening to the Missing Witches podcast.

00:26:34.720 Be sure to come back Wednesday for Witches Found, where I'll be talking to another amazing artist, witch, Marigold Santos.

00:26:43.380 In the meantime, if you want to get in touch, we're at missingwitches at gmail.com, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter at Missing Witches.

Missing Witches - March 24, 2019

Missing Witches - Lady Frieda Harris： I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals

Episode Stats

Transcript