The Fool’s Journey Disrupted!

The twenty-two World Cards of the Eilat Tarot do not follow the familiar numerical order of the Major Arcana. Instead, they follow the Hebrew alef-bet.

The sequence uses the planetary attributions found in the Gra-Ari version of the Sefer Yetzirah, along with Donald Tyson’s revised correspondences for Cancer and Sagittarius, Mercury and the Moon. The result is a familiar journey rearranged:

0. The Fool • Alef • Air
1. The High Priestess • Bet • Moon
2. The Tower • Gimel • Mars
3. The Wheel of Fortune • Dalet • Sun
4. The Emperor • Hei • Aries
5. The Hierophant • Vav • Taurus
6. The Lover • Zayin • Gemini
7. Temperance • Ḥet • Cancer
8. Strength • Ṭet • Leo
9. The Hermit • Yud • Virgo
10. The Empress • Kaf • Venus
11. Justice • Lamed • Libra
12. The Hanged Man • Mem • Water
13. Death • Nun • Scorpio
14. The Chariot • Samekh • Sagittarius
15. The Devil • Ayin • Capricorn
16. The Magician • Peh • Mercury
17. The Star • Ẓadi • Aquarius
18. The Moon • Quf • Pisces
19. The World • Reish • Saturn
20. Judgment • Shin • Fire
21. The Sun • Tav • Jupiter

The High Priestess now follows The Fool. The Tower and Wheel of Fortune appear near the beginning, while The Empress occupies the center and The Magician arrives much later. The journey ends not with The World, but with The Sun.

For readers who prefer the Golden Dawn planetary attributions for the Double Letters, the deck also includes six alternate cards.

2. The Magician • Gimel • Mercury
3. The Empress • Dalet • Venus
10. The Wheel of Fortune • Kaf • the sun
16. The Tower • Peh • Mars
19. The Sun • Reish • Jupiter
21. The World • Tav • Saturn

The standard Eilat Tarot card presents Peh as speech that shapes. The alternate Golden Dawn card presents Peh as a force that breaks through. One builds through words; the other breaks open what can no longer hold.

Motion Before Clarity

What do I need to know about my work right now:

Son of Cups - Bearer of Longing (Creation בְּרִיאָה)
Air of Water
Meeting another through feeling. Beginning to take responsibility for what he feels.

I am certainly longing for a more creative and inspiring job. I need to take responsibility for this feeling that I deserve work with more meaning, imagination, and human connection.

What do I need to know about my book right now:

Son of Swords - Rider of the Clouds (Creation בְּרִיאָה)
Air of Air - Ruach, the soul of thought and aspiration
Exploring through intellect. Motion before clarity.

I am rushing in even though all the pieces aren’t clear yet. I am moving through a storm of ideas, citations, structures, and half-formed connections. But as I work with them, they will become clear. I write best when I move back and forth between drafting and editing. This project is about thought and aspiration, it is the thing I would regret not completing if I were on my death bed.

What do I need to know about my spirit right now:

Ace of Pentacles - The Gift of Earthly Presence (Divine Will כֶּתֶר)
Element of Earth
A gift of physical life. The seed of embodied blessing.

I am appreciating my life. Soul is body in the Sefer Yetzirah; and for me it is the ordinary and grounding acts of embodied life: food, floors and laundry, work, books, sleep, walking, breathing, money, the cards, the house I live in, the day itself. And hopefully the card also indicates a blessing is being bestowed on me; perhaps it was the two-day thunderstorm.

What do I need to know about my body right now:

Lamed - Libra - “Sexual Union”
Justice - The Path Between Connection and Reverence
Set into right relation. What brings into alignment.

I need to give my body more attention and reverence. My body is asking to be brought back into balance: mind and body, work and rest, effort and pleasure, discipline and tenderness. Perhaps I need to give it more pleasure. Maybe I should seek some balance through the best physical and mental exercise I know: walking, which combines rhythm and movement, embodiment and meditation, thought, and contact with the world. The Path between Connection and Reverence answers this question perfectly: The body needs connection and reverence.

The two Sons say: move, explore, do not demand final certainty yet.
The Ace says: be grounded in the blessings of ordinary life.
Lamed says: bring the various parts of life back into balance.

Eurovision 2026: "I Can't Get You Out of My System"

Before Eurovision, Sweden's singer Felicia said she didn't think Israel should be allowed to participate and that she would "make sure they don't win."

She finished 20th.

Israel finished 2nd.

Perhaps she should have spent less time trying to get Israel out of her system and more time finding a native English speaker to proofread her lyrics: 

You're in my head, my heart, my body part.
No, I can't get you out of my system.