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Card XXIV: John Dee

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Dr. Shelly S. Lorts
Dec 01, 2025
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What if your writing carried its own frequency?

What if every sentence was a sigil—half spell, half cipher?

What if meaning shimmered not on the surface, but in the reflection beneath?

This is the spirit of Card XXIV: John Dee, The Magus

John Dee lived at the threshold.

He was court astrologer to Elizabeth I, navigator of tides and empires, scholar of numbers, and keeper of obsidian mirrors.

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