{"id":8671,"date":"2017-06-24T10:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8671"},"modified":"2017-06-27T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:22:06","slug":"quick-review-sex-war-and-the-tarot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8671","title":{"rendered":"Quick Review: Sex, War, and the Tarot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1907737766\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1907737766&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=soutrocknatub-20&amp;linkId=21eee751e9e8401359d48b26495a7d01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ASIN=1907737766&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=soutrocknatub-20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"yjrxxxcnjeyikkejjtys mehzdthqevupjbjzbyad\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=soutrocknatub-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1907737766\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>That is the subtitle I mentally add to Alan Richardson&#8217;s novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1907737766\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1907737766&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=soutrocknatub-20&amp;linkId=2f3ffd145e5be7cc388ad360b005ddf0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lightbearer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It starts with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_airborne_landings_in_Normandy\">landing of Allied paratroopers in Normandy<\/a> just after midnight on June 6, 1944, a meticulously planned operation that ended up scrambled by Murphy&#8217;s Law.<\/p>\n<p>In the novel, a transport aircraft carrying some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_airborne_landings_in_Normandy#Pathfinders\">pathfinders<\/a> goes astray (as some did) causing one Private Michael Horsett to land far off-target. Horsett is taken in by a group of French Thelemite magicians \u2014 all female.<\/p>\n<p>Complications ensue. The Thelemites have their own agenda. Local Resistance fighters have another agenda. Private Horsett, new to war, wants to prove himself as a soldier. And there is a Tarot puzzle built into the text. It is not easy to combine occultism with a thriller plot, but Richardson pulls it off.((Military historians may note some oddities. For example, Wehrmacht helmets (as with other armies) came in only one size, with the adjustment in the harness.))<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"yjrxxxcnjeyikkejjtys mehzdthqevupjbjzbyad\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=soutrocknatub-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1907737766\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the subtitle I mentally add to Alan Richardson&#8217;s novel The Lightbearer. It starts with the landing of Allied paratroopers in Normandy just after midnight on June 6, 1944, a meticulously planned operation that ended up scrambled by Murphy&#8217;s Law. In the novel, a transport aircraft carrying some of the pathfinders goes astray (as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,89,107],"class_list":["post-8671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-esotericism","tag-france"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2fR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8671"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8697,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions\/8697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}