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Angkor Wat is a master piece of design, engineering and decoration in Cambodia nowadays. And it's become very famous due to the several attractions it offers to the public: for remembering Hindu epic, dancing, sunsets and several strange analogies.
A danceplay inspired by the Tarot and the cards' archetypes. Each dancer played the role of an arcane, for later becoming some other one, and according to the script.
Kun and Chien hexagrams of the I Ching could be gathered such as the Sun and Moon are integrated in Astrology: for reading the stars as yin-yang energies.
Two representations of the Zodiac, along with Nut goddess, are displayed: the famous ceiling of a temple near Dendera and Soter's coffin.
Birds Tarot, by Fionna Marchbank
Twenty-two birds are the major arcana of a deck to watch carefully, as birds do, and to be deciphered as a lunar scheme.
Blade The Edge of Darkness remastered
The PC game with its famous runes was relaunched in October 2021, keeping the same story as it was introduced in the original version, although improving the visualization and support features.
Chanquillo: the temple of 13 towers
An ancient temple in Áncash desert in Peru, built to look at the stars and to count time passing by, is the most ancient solar observatory in the entire American continent, and distinctive worlwide.
Et lingua avium, by César García
César is Spanish and was inspired by the Marseille Tarot to write a poetry. His verses are a way to sail in arcana.
Seven Renaissance paintings display a contemporary perspective on fortune-telling and chiromancy.
The TV series were inspired by George R. R. Martin's books, and later the stories had their own Tarot deck. Including traditional elements, the deck also offers an astrological narration for the novels' stories.
Some works by Antoni Gaudí are appreciated from the perspective of his birth chart. His famous Milà House, also known as The Quarry, could unveil the astrological rising sign of the Spanish artist.
Some people have found strange relations between the DNA's composition and the sequence and structure of I Ching hexagrams.
I Ching calligraphy, by Wang Dongling
The Chinese calligrapher was inspired by I Ching to draw the strokes of hexagrams on transparent glass, with a particular style combining Western techniques and traditional techniques.
I Ching paintings, by Barry Fishman
The artist from USA made a series of paintings inspired by the Ta Chuan and I Ching. Colors and forms are keys to decipher his works, where yin-yang energies and the meaning of mutations can also be deduced.
I Ching paintings, by Denise W. Ross
Denise is a painter and poet from Albuquerque (USA), and made a colorful series of 64 paintings about I Ching hexagrams.
Different decks offer different ways to get closer to the oracular experience. When compared, a conceptual gradient is noticed, in which some shapes are more fluent, while some others lead to very structured concepts and systems.
Jantar Mantar: stellar observatories
Located at India, the instruments were built at high scale by the end of the Moghul Empire. Providing observations of great accuracy, the observatory would have also been utilized for astrological purposes.
Kandinsky: paintings of the invisible
Some paintings of the Russian artist and his style progression to the abstract art, related to his birth chart. It's also included the detail of several patterns of his chart and some astrological-esoteric data about the author and his circumstances.
Some constellations of the Western sky have been lost over time, more precisely 17 Renaissance panels displaying mythical figures and symbols.
Many practices represent the vital energy through the rhythm and quality of I Ching hexagrams. Feng Shui is one of those practices, and makes use of a compass that even assigns hexagrams to each room and each sign of the Zodiac.
Magics & fortune-telling in the ancient world
The University of Long-Distance Education (UNED, Spain) released several TV series focused on ancient oracular practices, and related them to the current divinatory ways.
Memory of the Suns: dance of the Fifth Sun
It's a Contempodanza's artplay inspired by the Mesoamerican myth of the Fifth Sun, more precisely by the idea of long historical cycles that are finally renewed time after time. However, the ancient myth didn't talk about renewals but cycles and synchronicity.
The book of the Portuguese writer is a trilogy. In one of them, Portuguese sea, he tells about the Spanish arrival at the American continent, under the form of 12 poems. In each one of them, it's possible to hear a sign of the Zodiac.
Milà Tarots: Alchemy's numbers
The architectonic design of Milà House's top-roof, by the Spanish Antoni Gaudí, could be related to some Alchemical variances of Tarot. Stair steps, helmet sculptures and entrances would finally lead to Triumph card.
The traditional way to get an hexagram is by handling yarrow stalks. The process is based on the monthly lunar cycle and the yin-yang energy flowing through the hands.
It's a danceplay inspired by three I Ching hexagrams: Ta Kuo Great Exceeding, Kan Abyss and Huan Dispersion. Two videos show the complete play and an interview with Cecilia Lugo, the company's director.
As the name suggests, it's a deck to transcend experiences, meditate on the present and find freedom.
The Argentinian artist created an esoteric version of the classic chess, in which two players unfold their moves across several dimensions of the experience, with all of those dimensions displayed simultaneously on the board.
Sefirot: a Tarot & divination game
Causa Creations, an entertainment company, released a game to explore the secrets of the being, alone or with another person. The Tree of Life is the main place where the cards are gathered.
Spirits in clouds fortune-telling
Fortune-telling and astronomy were gathered in the famous and millenary Chinese star map of Dunhuang. Each cloud-omen came from a zodiacal constellation.
Symbolon: an astrological Tarot game
The deck represents 78 archetypes. Designed by Peter Orban and Ingrid Zinnel, each archetype is related to an astrological reference, whether be a sign or a relation of signs, and are meant to recall unconscious memories.
The forms of the martial art are displayed as motion sequences, and those sequences are related to I Ching hexagrams.
The Golden Tarot, by A. Atanassov
The Russian illustrator was inspired by Gustav Klimt's paintings to design a 22 major arcana deck.
The invisible in Ancient Egypt
For representing what is beyond corporal senses, the ancient Egyptians used specific techniques in low-reliefs and paintings on coffins and walls.
The Man in the High Castle & I Ching
The TV series was inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Dick (1962), in which The Book of Changes plays a main role all along the story.
The Medieval Tarot, by Luigi Scapini
A heavy-weight deck, full of meanings and deeply rooted in ancient designs and worldviews, from many cultures and ages.
The Outsider Tarot, by Bobby Abate
The Italian artist crafted a modern, multicultural and esoteric Tarot deck, of astrological references and several innovative features, and even portraying a lot of famous people known by their defying standards.
Trouvelot: chromolitographies of the sky
Fifteen drawings of the French artist display telescopic observations of celestial objects and phenomena. Later, the observations were the basis for chromolitographic panels published in a manual of 1882 in New York.
Andy Warhol's birth chart and some of his pop art's pieces, one of the great mass movements during the 60's of the last century.
Several paintings of the Argentinian artist include astrological keys. Based on one of them, the author also designed a Tarot deck full of mystic symbols, and whose internal relations lead to an intrincated esoteric system and ordering.
Yazilikaya: the temple of lunar nodes
An ancient Hittite temple from the 12th c. b.C., located in Turkey nowadays, was utilized as a clock-marking instrument, including the lunar nodes' cycles. Of Babylonian tradition, the location still offers many fascinating enigmas and incredible mysteries.
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