An important note before we begin. This Podcast episode of the Podcast discusses suicide. If you or anyone you know is struggling with thoughts about suicide, Help is Available at the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Call 988, available twenty four hours.

We began this journey with the deep, dark billowing of the lonesome foghorn and the crumbling of the Tower eight episodes ago when Pete Martell, in the perfect image of the Fool, set out one foggy February morning in the town of Twin Peaks to go finshin and instead discovered something sinister and horrible that would crumble the very foundations of everyone in the idyllic Northwest town to their very core; an internal transformation of every human soul in Twin Peaks. Now, as we come to Episode 7, the eighth and final Episode in the first season of Twin Peaks, we arrive at the mirror of the Tower; its doppelganger, its twin: Death; external transformation. For some, this transformation does mean a literal ending of life, a transformation into a new state of being. For others, it means a new phase of their journey, for others, an awakening or a revelation or the undoing of a bond or the ending of one path and the starting of another. But here, on the aptly titled “The Last Evening”; we are at an ending. Death has come, at last, for our lovers and our magicians, for our emperors and fools for the detectives and high priestess of Twin Peaks and after this night, everything will change once more. Gerard Ziegler tells us in “Tarot: Mirror of the Soul: Handbook for the Aleister Crowley Tarot” about the Death card: “Old relationships are demanding to be disintegrated. This process may be bound together with painful experiences…The act of letting go, difficult as it may be, will liberate you…The skeleton is wearing the funeral head-covering used in ancient Egypt. This is a reference to the necessity of carrying old ideas and concepts to their grave now, and burying them. Cords and bonds must be cut, imprisoned souls liberated from their bonds. The eagle, the final stage of transformation, unfolds its wings and rises…The phoenix can only rise after the fire of transformation has consumed all, turning it to ashes.” And it begins with a Midnight sunrise.