The Occult and the IDF ?

 

The Satanic Hazing Rituals of the IDF CJ Werleman Aug 5, 2026   View in app Dear Friend, I want to share with you an in-depth investigation into the "satanic hazing rituals of the Israeli Defence Force" by Israeli journalist and academic Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, as it reveals a great deal of information that I was - at least until now - totally clueless about. His investigation starts with the massive mutiny that took place at the notorious Israeli torture dungeon known as Sde Teiman over the removal of a memorial display linked to battles IDF soldiers had fought in, as reported here. This mutiny reveals much about the IDF and Israeli society. These are truly disturbing revelations. Read below: A large number of IDF soldiers in the infamous Sde Teiman camp, known for torturing detainees, stormed out of the base today, and many refused to return. Why? Were they protesting torture? As if. They were protesting that signs signaling their sadistic hazing rituals, carrying seemingly satanic imagery, had been torn down. That led to the largest act of insubordination in recent IDF history. A Tradition of Cruelty and Sadism This isn’t new. Back in August 2018, a fresh recruit to the Maglan commando unit, named Ili Hayut, jumped out of a Humvee and was never the same. It was just ten days into his service at Maglan. At the end of the camouflage training, the commanders announced the traditional ritual: gather thorn branches and place them in a massive pile and then jump onto them from a vehicle. He broke a vertebra in his neck and was left paralyzed. This tradition is not in the training manuals or in any brochure. But it is part of the IDF way of life. He broke a vertebra in his neck and was left paralyzed. As he writhed in pain, his comrades did not believe him, picked him up and sat him upright. The pain was unimaginable. He remembers waiting after that in agony for an evacuation that did not come. He later recalled: “I understood they were probably hesitant to call an evacuation because they’re worried about themselves. Afraid of what would happen to them.” The hospital was just seventeen minutes away. But it took two hours and ten minutes. They dropped him off the stretcher. He had to ask the ambulance crew to turn on the siren. The jump was filmed. When his parents asked for the commander’s phone, the segment was gone. A laboratory told the family it had been deleted in a way that could not be recovered. What about the investigation? There wasn’t one for a year and a half, until the Military Police opened the investigation. In March 2021 the Military Advocate General closed the case with no criminal charges. Because of course it did. Officers received reprimands and had their promotions delayed by a year or two. The Maglan commander spoke to Ili at his bedside. He told him, it was “a tradition of many years in the unit. And a tradition that is, let’s put it this way, idiotic.” That is one way to put it. A commission was formed to look into it and its head promised Hayut he would investigate how widespread the practice was in other units. Of course, nothing happened. Hayut, said: “I wasn’t surprised that it wasn’t done, because the cover-up culture was here from the start. I only want to prevent the next case.” Other Nightmarish Cases 2012. In Givati’s Tzabar Battalion veterans convened pazam trials, seniority trials, where they sentenced juniors to twenty or sixty seconds of beating. Video showed a soldier with his eyes covered being kicked on the floor by his company-mates while others giggled in the background. A victim described being beaten “with wooden sticks and broom handles until they broke,” leaving marks “red, purple and swollen.” The plea negotiations aimed at a total sentence of less than two months… 2012, again. In Kfir’s Nahshon Battalion, Sahar Mizrahi touched the pazam stick, a rod only the two senior intakes were permitted to handle. Ten soldiers jammed the door shut with a chair, and beat him; each time he collapsed, they lifted him up and beat him again. Broken ribs, a ruptured spleen. Nine were convicted and sentenced to fifty-eight days’ detention, less seven days of holiday clemency, and demoted to private. His mother said: “This isn’t a punishment — they got a summer camp. It’s a shame and a disgrace. They’ll go out on leave over the holidays, and my son will go on lying at home, incapacitated.” 2024–25. In the Arrow air-defence array, veterans ran pazam trials in which they appointed themselves judges over junior soldiers. Seven were arrested. The suspicions at arrest included aggravated rape and acts of sodomy. Several told investigators the acts had been done by mutual consent and “as a joke.” Yes, the rape was treated as a joke. The lead defendant got sixty days and kept a clean record. May 2026. The Times of Israel, which is the only outlet anywhere to report this case, described four veterans of the Panther Battalion beating a younger soldier at an informal ritual in which older troops present juniors with their personal gear. He was punched in the ribs and struck in the back with a weapon attachment: punctured lung, broken rib, internal bleeding. Surgery, days in intensive care, and he “is not expected to return to combat duty.” Four were indicted. The problem isn’t so much that this happened. It is that the army is fine with it. The army prison is notoriously lax and sometimes even enjoyable. Records were often kept untarnished. Life for the perpetrators went on as if nothing happened, while the victims remained traumatized or even paralyzed. Every army does this I have been a vocal critic of the IDF and, I believe, with good reason. But armies are generally ugly places where male violence is enshrined and hazing is part of the normal procedure. True, it is generally less extreme now than it was in the past. But I doubt you will find a military without hazing. In the Russian army it is a massive and awful phenomenon. The Russians have a word for it, dedovshchina: “rule of the grandfathers.” The Canadian Airborne Regiment was disbanded in 1995 after a videotape of its initiation rites came out, showing a Black soldier led around on a leash with “I love the KKK” written on his back. But the IDF case matters. This event didn’t take place in a vacuum. It took place in a base that has become the most infamous military torture and murder camp of recent history. Sde Teiman. A place of which nightmares are made. And it gives us a window into the minds of the people serving there. The results are horrific. The signs Sde Teiman, an army base and prison in Israel, has been at the epicenter of the IDF’s crisis of morality and humanity. That includes, most famously, the cases of torture, murder, and rape. But it had also become the center of a horrific culture of hazing. On the thirtieth of July, 2026, the commander of the Tzabar Battalion decided to do something about it. He walked through his companies’ quarters at Sde Teiman and started taking down signs. The signs he took down were utterly horrifying. Some were the normal stuff. But among them were “wooden signs of Satan, the Angel of Death and others.” One of the wrecked signs carried a hellish motif and the words “Kingdom of Devils.” A soldier told Walla that one of the commanders used a five-kilogram sledgehammer on one of the emblems. It was filmed. The soldiers were outraged that their culture of harassment, violence and hazing had been disturbed. They walked off the base, leaving their weapons behind, chanting an obscenity about their officers. How many is genuinely contested: Ynet, Mako and Haaretz said dozens; Israel Hayom and Channel 14 said more than a hundred; Kan said more than two hundred; Walla’s headline said hundreds. It was not only privates. Israel Hayom recorded one of the commanders addressing the men as they went: “Everyone here knows the consequences of what he is about to do. We are going together now, as a battalion. I am proud of every single person here for what he is doing right now. There are new soldiers here who do not know what the consequences are, but none of that matters. Being absent without leave, going to prison, none of that matters.” The battalion commander then wrote to their parents. It is the most valuable document in the story, because he is not a critic of the army: Any of you who knew seniority games of “juniors and veterans” from your own military service knows how serious the incident is, and how many soldiers are harmed by it through violence and humiliation. Therefore, I decided to break wooden signs of Satan, the Angel of Death and others — signs that represent exactly these things. He added that he had removed the rest but kept a few, “out of an understanding of their sentimental value,” and stated flatly: “There is no connection whatsoever between the signs and the battalion’s fallen or memorial corners, contrary to what has been claimed in some of the media.” That last clause is aimed at Kan, which had reported the destruction of a memorial corner, and at the soldiers’ own claim that plaques for men killed in Lebanon went under the hammer with the rest. The dispute is unresolved. What the fighters told their parents, as Walla reported it: “What broke the fighters were the videos. Seeing their symbols being destroyed. And with a hammer, no less. It was a humiliation.” That word. It is the same one the commander used for what the signs did to the younger soldiers. Three things that are not ordinary It has been done before, and it did not produce this. In June 2013, after a hazing scandal in Golani’s 12th Battalion, the brigade abolished the veterans’ symbols. Ynet reported at the time that veteran-status markers “such as flags and pazam sticks” were cancelled and the veterans’ club opened to everyone; Mako’s account is fuller — soldiers were told to take a five-kilo hammer to the company statues, flags bearing the names of company veterans were taken, painted signs removed, company songs banned. The soldiers were furious. They said publicly that the command had “erased a tradition of generations who fought and sacrificed themselves for the country.” They complained to reporters. Thirteen years later, the same order led to a walkout. That shows that the importance of this culture has grown. Significantly. The imagery. There is a stupid version of this argument. Nobody at Sde Teiman was worshipping the devil. Not literally anyway. This is closer to a skull on a biker jacket than to a black mass. But notice what the concession costs. Infantry unit art is usually a lion, a fist, a wolf. Somebody in Tzabar decided the truer emblem of what the veterans were to eighteen-year-olds was the Angel of Death, hung on the wall, in wood, where everyone could see it. Nobody in the ensuing argument disputed what the signs were for. The dispute was over whether a battalion commander had the right to take them down. The Torture Camp. Sde Teiman is a long-standing army base in the Negev. From October 2023 it also held Palestinians captured in Gaza, first in an emptied tank hangar and then in further hangars converted into pens, alongside a field hospital and a separate Shin Bet interrogation compound. Soldiers who served there described four main pens of fifty to a hundred men each and a smaller one for minors. By late May 2024 some four thousand Gazans had passed through. The State of Israel told its own High Court that all new detainees at Sde Teiman are “handcuffed and blindfolded all day long,” in exceptional cases with ankle restraints too, “for the first four days of their detention.” A doctor working at the facility wrote to the Attorney General and the defence and health ministers: “Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event.” And: “This makes all of us — the medical teams and you, those in charge of us in the health and defense ministries, complicit in the violation of Israeli law.” Physicians for Human Rights–Israel documented ninety-four Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody between October 2023 and August 2025, and four more in the month before publication. Twenty-nine of the ninety-four were at Sde Teiman, more than at any other single facility in the dataset. There are credible reports of rape used systematically against detainees. Of deaths caused due to beatings. Sde Teiman is hell on earth. Just the place for the Angel of Death. What the silence tells you I checked every Israeli outlet that covered the walkout — Ynet in both languages, Walla, Mako, Maariv, Kan, Channel 14, the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Israel Hayom, and Haaretz in Hebrew. Not one connected the story to the detention facility, the detainees, or the case that had collapsed four and a half months earlier. The single trace of that history anywhere in the coverage was accidental. The Jerusalem Post illustrated its report with a file photograph, and the agency caption beneath it still read: “Demonstrates protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of assaulting a Hamas terrorist, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024.” I am not claiming these soldiers tortured anyone. There is no specific record of that, though it is quite possible that occurred too. I could find no record placing Givati, or any conscript infantry brigade, on guard duty at the detention compound. Here is what I do have. Asa Kasher, who wrote the IDF’s Code of Ethics, published an analysis in the Institute for National Security Studies’ journal in August 2024, written in direct response to Sde Teiman. Collective abuse, he wrote, “did not appear from nothing, without other phenomena of similar kinds preceding it, which led to the bottom of the slippery slope.” He described the “cancerous character of the negligence” that permits it, and then this: “It is impossible to limit it to marginal components of the working system. Perhaps it appears first at the margins, but from there it spreads, naturally and continuously, toward the central components of the system as well.” That is not me. That is the man who wrote the rules. The IDF has been loud and clear on how it feels about torture, whether it involves Palestinian detainees or fresh conscripts. It simply doesn’t care. Violence against a comrade is worth fifty-eight days, or a delayed promotion, or nothing at all. Torture against Palestinians is meaningless. The charges were dropped on the few soldiers accused of torture. Look, every army has hazing. Not every army has pictures of the Angel of Death put up in a torture camp and performs mutiny if it is taken back. Why does the Angel of Death mean so much to the IDF? Because the IDF is, for all intents and purposes, an actual angel of death. Bringing death and destruction to Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank daily. It loves its symbol.

the Magician

The  Magician 

1 The Magician

The magician is a card ruled by the element of Mercury

This card is also known as the Magus of power.

This is the card of the human condition.

The magician in the traditional card this is a man who has in front of him the sword the pentacle the cup and the staff of wood these are the tools of the creative mind and he is seen to raise his hand to heaven to draw down the power to use creatively in the physical plane. This is the card of man the searcher after truth.

This is the card of the human trying to be creative and manifest their power on earth it is the card of the seeker after a place in society. This card is the arbitrator of all the suits.

The power of the wands

as a support as building material as the breath of earth and as the fuel of the fire of creativity as well as the fire of destruction or the torch of enlightenment to lead you through the dark, All uses of the wood and its essence and the ability to work in wood and to understand

its uses are represented by the suit of wands.

The wand can range from the staff that supports when you walk to the septa held as an instrument of power by one who rules. An instrument charged with power and authority that by its nature creates magic

The power of the cup

As a vessel to hold food / liquid or a sacrifice and as a metaphor for the mind as the vessel of the spirit,the power of the mind to create in the material form one of our first creative acts was to make vessels the containers of the life force in the form of holding water all vessels are represented by the suit of cups. The chalice of the grail in which the wine is turned to the blood of Christ the amphora of wine sacrificed to the god or gods by the venerable Celtic tribes in northern Europe. A metaphor for the body of the human the vessel of knowledge and emotions. The mixing bowl for herbs and making cakes a cooking pot, The alchemical vessel. The crucible in which the metal is made.

The power of the sword

As a weapon of war or the tool of every day life the power to cut through things, the will of the enlightening, the destruction of the enemy even the pen in its original form was a small sharp stylus that cut through things both in a metaphorical sense and in the literal way. The pen was a small sword that cut the clay or carved the wood or stone to facilitate communication. Swords of power and authority Excalibur the sword of state the metamorphosis of stone into iron the alchemical principals of metal work.

The power of the suite of pentacles

The pentacle is the most mysterious and materialistic suit of the cards in that the suit represents the power of the mandala and its spiritual ability to centre and allow for the transition of the human mind to an altered sate of consciousness and the search for the deeper meaning with in the experience of life.

On the other hand it also represents money wealth and ostentation and all the bad things that money and power bring in the form of oppression of the poor and the unequal distribution of the wealth of the planet that humans bring about by their greed for wealth.

It also has a role to play as the protection of amulets and shields It represents all the city's and the power of the elitist wealth and the funding of army's and weapons without it the rest of the suits are but pale shadows It is the flower of the other suits collective creativity used for good or ill. It is wise to remember that the life of Christ was sold for thirty silver pentacles. But with out the Christ sacrifices there would be no Christian salvation and without the mandala there would be no focus for the practice of meditation and few structural paths to the enlightened state of Nirvana for those seek to become full realised beings.

The Magus of power the Magician represents the first recognition of the shaman, the begins of the priesthood the first struggling to become a full realised human striving for the perfection of god or goddess as full realised in the true sense of the practice at the services of all existence yet so in tune as to be in control of it all at one and the same time. Seeking your rightful place in the cosmic order.

This the card that represents the basic DNA struggling to evolve into the ascended form. It is the dragon of the sanctified warriors conquest, the saintly knight St. George saving the maiden from the dragon of chaos, at the same time being the dragon, being the beast on which the whore of Babylon will ride she is the same being as the saintly maiden he has rescued. It is the card of the archangel of light challenging the creator for the real freedom of will and illuminating the reality of the creators creation. It is the card of the of the man of free will the true human following their path what ever their religion for their own sake fighting to stem the tide of organised corruption that comes with the institution of hierarchies.

It is for this reason that this is the only card in the pack that I have depicted as a dragon rather than as a human we all have a lower brain that is our last connection to the reptile kingdom it is the part of our function that controls our breathing and our autonomic nervous system with out it none of us would live it is the first brain we posses as living creatures before we developed our higher brain it is the spark from which all of us are borne into existence.

TRUTH UPRIGHT POSITION

In this interpretation of the card and its value and meaning the pictorial image is one of a dragon the Dragon has always epitomised the creative drive of the planet and as a consequence it has been the symbol of humanities creative drive as well as the symbol of the Christians most evil embodiment Satan the beast and the serpent but the true nature of the Christians serpent is the snake the legless creature that goes about on its belly the supreme creator took away the use of its legs according to legend forcing the serpent to go around on his belly for ever more as a mark of the fall . The legends of the dragon on the other hand has always maintained that they flew and the walked on four legs or sometimes two and breathed fire and hoarded gold and precious things as well as being the foundations of great and old knowledge.

The depiction on this card is a dragon of mythology peering through a rent in the fabric of reality looking at a volcano on a small south sea island beginning to erupt his breath is joined by the lightning that strikes through the rent in time to link his world with the world of the island.

In the dragons world also we see the traditional items of the tarot with another gold collector the leprechauns of the Celtic peoples there is also the rat who has lived alongside man for as long as man has existed exploiting his rubbish and waste.

The meaning of the card is the power of will the development of skill mastery of your environment. It is the power of the foundation of the skill of oratory and your ability as an individual to lead a tribe or nation as is inherent in all of us but it must be tempered by learning the lessons inherent in the history of the tarot pack and life. It is the initiative to take a risk to safeguard the environment or the tribe it is the card of the ecological warrior. It is the potential to organise and communicate it is the card of the idealist revolutionary that cries power to the people it is the charismatic leader who is beloved as a guru and is there for the card of one frowned on by most modern government. As the card stands for the individual and their ability to act collectively from altruistic motives to further the cause of the many.

IN THE REVERSE POSITION

It stands for all the negative attributes of those things, power government organisational skills used not in the services of the people but in the oppression and exploitation of the people in the manner of any capitalist or authoritarian state and the attributes in humans that lead us to follow the path of greed, exploitation and oppression. It is the card of fascistic leader who’s rule must be obeyed and go unquestioned. It is philosopher of the cruel empire who control’s unseen manipulating the council to achieve his own ends. It is the card of the smart operating corporate raider and the power that is admired in business Those who practice its reveres reading willingly will be destroyed by its power as they twist and turn in the core of the lie

 

THE SUN TAROT

by

Kelim Aten

A new approach to the ancient Tarot pack

A few thoughts about the subject.

• Before we could read or write we could talk draw make symbols.

• Before news travelled by wires and satellite or even news papers or TV. We sent each other notes and pictures to explain and carry the news.

• Before we had Freud the Id and the ego. Jung and the collective unconscious. All the learned men and women of psychology and psychiatry. We had spirit and the spirit moved us to create in physical form and become the sacred Artists of the world

• There is no dim distant time of the mythical past in the real sense of those words it is one continuous stream of manifestation on the physical plane.

• The creator spirit gave us the ability to perceive and understand the creation and by so doing the free will to manifest creation our selves.

• The nature of good and evil is manifest by the existence of humans for without humans there is no good or evil there just is. One person alone in the eternity can not be evil.

• Evil is a product of many people living together and having a need to have more than others and wanting to let their greed run riot.

• The general nature of human children is not one of innocences as we all like to believe at all it is there nature to be naughty, disobedient and testing boundary to see what they can get away with. Unless they are taught good manners from the start. They will become the devils and evil people of society.

• The Tarot and other scared documents are there to guide our processes of developing in the world asking a child to study and mediate on the tarot from the fool, who is for all purposes the child starting out in life to the nature of the world the final card in the major Acarna. Is a a good practical study and system of spiritual development for any child of any age understanding the meaning and values behind each card and practising them and avoiding the negative aspects is a clear path to a better society.

• The most important aspect of the Tarot is that it has a basic simple form that is accessible to all as it is a visual format rather than the need for theological interpretation. At the same time as referencing to the theological doctrines and raising them as subjects to explore.

The Tarot can be read at many levels, the cards of the tarot are the original cards of the playing card pack, from which the games of whist, gin rummy, snap, poker, cribbage and any other card game you can think of.

It is an interesting thought that a set of pictorial images for the spiritual and philosophical enlightenment of man kind has over years of persecution and suppression remained and can still be found as a series of games that can make fortunes and change peoples lives for better or worse.

Many of the games we play and the items used for the play are related to the fetish objects of religions from the ancient past. That is however another book.

Just as often comedy is the only safe way to make political comment in times of great oppression.

Sacred objects and ideas are often hidden in full view of the oppressors in objects of daily use and daily habit.

There can hardly be any one in the world who has not seen or used a pack of playing cards. If you can hold all the information that you learn about the tarot you can in effect read from any pack of cards any where in the world at any time. The secret is learning and storing the information.

• The Tarot

The tarot as with many other documents codes and sacred instruments was laid down as a system for humans to guide their life by It has been adapted over the years of our race to provide a system of prediction and advice. In the same way as the Koran and the Bible and the many of the sacred texts the difference is that this is a pictorial sacred book of knowledge. That has communicated its self through the artists of the world It has its roots in the same beginnings as the oral traditions and dates from before the time of the written word as do the many games of chance

The Cards them selves do not have any magical or mystical knowledge to confer upon the reader. It is the readers ability to interpret what the questioners spread raises as potential subjects for meditation that is the key to their use.

It is important to remember that the male female attributes of the card are not the absolute meaning of male or female the cards have always spoken to people who read them in archetypal terms a man may be indicated. It may however for the Questioner to indicate not a male or female but some one who has the female archetype in their nature it could be their father or their mother or a male or female friend we all have the male and female within us.

It is important for the reader to clear their mind of the confines of lateral thinking and to move their thought process to a state of the logic of po all things are possible it is also essentials that the reader is able to remove them selves from the confines of their ego.

It is useful to meditate on the nature of the void and the quantum nature of the universe we inhabit before beginning to read a spread try as much as you can to step out side of reality as you know it and try to exist in a space that is just you the cards and the individual consciousness that has asked for you to read It is helpful if you can both be relaxed and able to look each other in the eye in natural light

Reading the Cards

The following is the definition of the individual cards . To assist you in your use of them. It is my suggestion that you should read with the major cards only, until you feel that you know them well and have learned all you need to know from your study of them and their meanings. The designed I have put together are not traditional but they are a reference from my own inner workings that allows me to call to mind the issues that each card raises. Triggering my mind to access the meditative state required to do a reading. Each card is like a personally created Tibetan tanker painting to stimulate the meditation on the subject. It is I hope a stimulus for you also.

If you are truly wanting to read well then it is I believe essential that you have ago at creating your own cards from the study of the Tarot as a philosophy and guide to the workings of history and the reality around you. A glimpse into the possible futures that may be there for you, or just as a means of understanding what lays ahead.

As only a study of the many religions and philosophy that the cards and their incarnations record can bring them truly to life for you. That is the only way to give you a real concept of the dimensions they hold, they are the origins of all playing cards and the games of chances, the gamble on life that we all take every day. They hold within them the key essence of all religions, contained in a card pack played with in the market place. Fortunes told for a coin by the wise beggar, a book of meditation for the hermit, The warrior carried them in his breast plate as he follows on to war. The learning cards of the poor herbalist burnt at the stake as a witch. The common peoples link to the infinite, in an age when learning and reading was the prerogative of the rich.

So read on and enjoy.

The Major Acarna

0.The fool

The fool is a card who attributes are ruled by the element of air

This card is also known as the spirit of the aether.

This the card of the child in all of us The new human starting out on life's journey

The fool is a card of new beginnings in the traditional tarot pack he is a young man or young/ woman in medieval clothes setting out with a stick and bundle on his shoulder a butterfly flies ahead of him at which he gazes at his heal a dog barks as he walks out into the morning sun.

This is the beginning of the tarot and the end when the soul raises its self to face for the first time to the symbol of its creator Ra the Sun and lord of light to which all life owes its existence on this planet. it is also the end of the journey the finding of the promised land the land of plenty and of great wealth of knowledge and skills.

The notion of god on the mountain has always been their in the human psyche and the building of high buildings pyramids, earth works ziggurats are attempts by humans to create a place close to our notion of the home of the creator It also provides us with a clear view of the stars and the galaxy in which we live and to whose laws we are subject. The pictorial image on the card relates back to the story of Horus and Ra and the revolution that took the throne of Egypt from Set after the death of Osiris/Orion and his magical resurrection to father Horus as the true air to his throne. The first dynastic recording of the descent of the Egyptian royal house hold. the founders of the magic religion based on their knowledge of traditional ancient shamanistic practices. It is also the first record of the potential for virgin birth and the earliest record of the need for the line to be a female line of descent to maintain the blood line of the rulers. The first test tube baby maybe.

TRUTH UPRIGHT POSITION

In this pictorial version he is a young man who is raising himself out of a marsh area looking across the space in front of him where a pyramid hides the rising face of the sun and it is called homage to Ra. He could not look directly into the face of the creator as he would be blind in its light. He is a modern young man dressed in Lycra cycling outfit the butter fly and the dog motive have gone they have been replaced by more relative ideas of the human races history. This is represented in the nature of the pyramid and its place in the physic of humans as the stair way to the stars as the most common monolithic building in all continents and cultures it has and dose have a resonance with all human cultures and represents the human drive to rise and achieve it is also a place of high homage and reflection. The card represents all humans potential to achieve and is the symbol of new beginnings and new life , a new cycle ,new energy, new optimism it is the card of happiness . It is also the card of force in its growth and creative sense the new shoot growing in the damp earth.

This is the card of the eternal optimist it is the beginning of a new venture It is the return of happiness It signifies great change and important decisions choices to be made. The presence of the card defines the change of pitch from a lower order of being to a higher order of being In planetary terms that would be the major earth quake or a new volcanic island. It is a reminder that we are not arbiters of our own fate we are at the mercy of nature.

IN THE REVERSE POSITION

Its opposite interpretation is one of the overturning of existing states it remind the individual of the constant changing harmonious state of the natural world and how the human race will inevitable have to pay for what they do in the world As for example if you build you city on a volcano be sure one day it will be destroyed by an eruption over which you will have no control because the planet and the creator is bigger than you or your nation. You are only one of many humans running like ants over the surface and just as we can squash our inconvenient ants with our thumb so can the planet crush us with its metaphorical thumb.

Keir Stammers real legacy 

not the lies he spouted out side no 10
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Ben Sellers

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worked behind the scenes with Labour Together & other rightwing factions to undermine Jeremy Corbyn as leader, particularly on the antisemitism witch-hunt & Brexit, where he fuelled the People’s Vote / Second Referendum split.

made a conference speech in 2018 which explicitly went against the carefully agreed policy of the party, adding the unscripted, ‘nobody is ruling out ‘remain’. Whatever you think of Brexit, this destroyed Labour’s ability to resist the Red Wall capitulation.

continually undermined Labour’s position on Brexit in his Shadow Brexit role by engaging in ‘fake’ negotiations with Theresa May’s team, designed to fail.

During the ensuing leadership campaign, Starmer:

made a series of pledges that misrepresented his position & which he had no intention of keeping to.

dishonestly presented himself as a continuity candidate, supportive of Corbyn’s policies, while all the time colluding with right-wing apparatchiks in Labour’s hierarchy to exclude & marginalise the leftwing membership.

cynically manipulated the antisemitism crisis to stigmatise the left of the party & members who were supportive of Palestinian freedom & critical of Israel.

As leader of the Party, Starmer:

embarked on a two year long witch-hunt of Labour members, targeting members previously supportive of Corbyn & his policiesz

manipulated the whip & internal party rules to expel the previous leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, on fabricated grounds. When the decision to suspend Corbyn was reversed by the NEC, he then used unaccountable Parliamentary Labour Party processes to force Corbyn out.

all but extinguished any due process within Labour’s disciplinary mechanism, overseeing a party that suspended people at will, took retrospective action & provided no evidence of wrongdoing in many, many cases.

shrank Labour’s internal democracy, reducing the NEC, conference & other representative bodies to appendages of the leadership.

with the help of a pliant NEC, and Labour Together factionalists like Morgan McSweeney, gained complete, centralised control over candidate selection, creating a list full of rightwingers, business people, ‘centrist’ local government bureaucrats & executives & excluding almost every leftwing candidate.

completely reneged on even social democratic reforms proposed in Labour’s manifesto & his own campaign pledged, and oversaw the watering down of the remaining transformational parts of Labour’s programme - e.g the New Deal for Working People.

sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey, his leadership opponent, and embarked on a long, determined campaign to undermine & exclude any Shadow Cabinet members with any leftwing credentials.

wholeheartedly supported Israel’s murderous campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza, to the extent that he gave an interview to LBC where he said that Israel was justified in cutting off electricity & water supplies to a fleeing population in Gaza (a war crime).

As Prime Minister, Starmer:

continued to not only defend Israel’s actions, but refused to call out their attack on Gaza’s unarmed civilians, refused the description of it as a genocide, actively helped to arm Israel in their relentless slaughter & bullied backbenchers who questioned the approach.

suppressed the civil rights of those who protested against the genocide of the Palestinian people, repeatedly stigmatising marches for peace & a ceasefire & weaponising antisemitism once again against protestors.

severely curtailed the right to protest, employing draconian legislation to lock up activists taking direct action against weapons manufacturers supplying Israel & encouraging the police to enforce authoritarian rulings against individuals & protest marches.

waged a massive authoritarian campaign against due process & the rule of law (home and abroad), just as he had internally within the Labour Party.

continued to use Jewish communities, especially, as a vehicle to win political battles, including the weaponisation of antisemitism whenever possible, without regard for the welfare or relations between different communities.

repeatedly parroted the language of the far right on immigration, fuelling fears & dividing communities & laying out the red carpet for far right narratives & Reform’s electoral victories.

instituted a defence review designed to commit the UK to much higher levels of arms expenditure, at the expense of welfare & public service. Again, bullied left wing backbenchers with the threat of suspension - e.g for supporting Stop the War.

stuck rigidly to incredibly damaging economic policies based around some arbitrary fiscal rules which not only baked in austerity in our public services, but was used as a justification to maintain the two child limit on child benefit & abolishing the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners to name just a couple of high profile policies. He also punished rebel MPs with suspension for opposing these draconian measures.

His dishonesty around the attack on Iran; the subservience to Trump; the deceit around spy flights. No doubt people will add other crimes he’s responsible for. These are just a smattering of the catastrophic & vicious things Starmer has overseen. I haven’t even mentioned his robotic, cold approach to almost everything & his fabrication of a life story to garner sympathy & popularity alternately.

So, no, let’s not have any soft soaping, please. If there is a legacy, it should be that the Labour Party should never be led by such a poisonous agenda again - one that had no positive vision, not even a social democratic core, just a terrible bitterness & determination that a left leadership will never happen again, after 2015-19. I personally doubt that the party will understand this or learn the lessons. It may be that Starmer has destroyed it for ever.