Pitua’s Egyptian Tarot

There are decks that simply sit beautifully in a collection. And then there are others… that are special. They carry that distinct scent of time—dusty libraries, antique engravings, and ideas that were so bold they changed the course of entire traditions.
Among my tarot decks, one deserves exactly that kind of special attention: Pitua’s Egyptian Tarot.

My copy is a Lo Scarabeo edition—full-color, richly saturated, genuinely captivating to the eye. But the original—the one everything comes from—is black and white. And that isn’t just a technical detail. Black and white has a different kind of power: it supports concentration. It draws attention to the symbol, the gesture, the line.

Mind-Centered Occultism: Where the Work Begins and Ends in Thought

When I speak about mind-centered occultism, I mean directing energy through thought—and it can work only through one logic: thought → energy → cause → effect.

This perspective rests on a simple principle: reality follows laws. It contains causality—visible and invisible—and stable links between choices, actions, and consequences.

That is why ritual, by itself, does not change anything in the universe. Ritual can create atmosphere, speak through symbols, anchor attention, and provide a structure that helps the mind enter a working state. But ritual is not the engine. The belief that emotionally spoken words, framed by ritual objects, can change reality on their own is beautiful—but naive. Real change does not happen through ritual. It happens in the causes.

And causes belong to the realm of cause and effect. There are no exceptions to causality. Without the right cause, there is no right outcome. Action and inaction are causes as well. And what we call “chance” is, as a rule, simply causality we don’t see clearly at first. So, in its purest sense, I view occult work as the ability to influence causes so that outcomes change.