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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.

Fuel. Movement. The magic transformation of potential energy into kinetic energy. The magic flight. The glory ride of momentum that carries you through the struggle and lifts you beyond the adversity into something else. And the choice to kick the tires and light the fires. The seventh episode of Twin Peaks Season 1 is Episode 6 “Realization Time” and in this Episode, the penultimate episode of the first Season of Twin Peaks, we are riding the Chariot of momentum as the investigation is in full swing, characters are ‘going places’, moves are being made, and potential energy is being converted to kinetic energy. Directed by Caled Deschanel and Written by Harley Peyton, Episode 6 first aired on May 17, 1990 and on this episode of Falling, Floating Dreaming: The Magic of Twin Peaks, we are turn our attention The Chariot Tarot card, the seventh card in the Major Arcana, as we ride along with the magical momentum of the denizens of Twin Peaks as they make choices that will nurture, change and turn their fortunes toward good or bad. The investigation into Laura Palmer’s murder leads Truman, Cooper and Hawk, along with some help from fellow Bookhouse Boy Big Ed Hurley, North to One-Eyed Jacks’ to go undercover to find main suspect Jacque Renault after Waldo the bird Myna bird talks, connecting Leo Johnson and Jacque to Laura on the night she was killed. Audrey moves through her plan with the confidence of the Chariot as she manipulates her way to One-eyed Jack’s as well. James, Donna and Madeline Ferguson discover one of Laura’s taped messages to therapist Dr. Jacoby and plot to get him out of his office so they can find whatever secrets of Laura’s he holds there. Ben and Jerry Horne continue their courtship of the Icelandic investors and pile them into a Chariot of their own for a ‘road trip’ to One-Eyed Jack’s to seal the deal. Indeed, it seems all roads lead to One-Eyed Jack’s in this episode as the characters speed toward their ultimate destination in their own personal Chariots, moving toward some inevitable fate, rushing toward some ultimate horizon, speeding through the night like a biker ignoring the flashing red stop light at Sparkwood and 21; choosing the path that will lead them to the realizations waiting for them on the other side.

Featuring: Tyler Lyle "The Secret Lair" Season 2, Episode 6 "The Chariot"

The Midnight "Chariot"

Bruce Springsteen "Soul Driver"

The Blood Red Moon. A rare, celestial phenomena that paints Luna red as she moves into the Earth’s dark shadow and becomes enveloped by the halo of the sun’s fiery ring of light ensorcelling the parabola of Earth’s perfect circle like an endless, golden dawn. Even though our last episode focused on The Moon Tarot card, Episode 5 of Twin Peaks Season 1, the sixth episode of the season, “Cooper’s Dream”, this one begins at 4:28am as Cooper awakens under the watchful gaze of full, red, blood moon; a harbinger of so much to come this episode; of eclipses and shadows, of lovers torn asunder and brought together, of mysteries revealed and curtains, red like the moon, concealing the horrible truth that must see the light of day; devils hiding like cowards in the smoke of the fire. In this episode, a sleep deprived Cooper commits to his theory leading to his team up with his detective troupe as they head into the woods of Twin Peaks for an important encounter with the Log Lady who speaks of her former lover and husband and later, all the way to a red-curtained cabin. Audry Horne commits to actions of her own that take her to the perfume counter of her Father’s department store. Ben and Jerry Horne flit with danger, sex and disaster as they court new clients for the Ghostwood project and Ben courts Josie Packard in a devious triple-cross scheme. Dr. Jacoby counsels the Briggs family and speaks to Bobby of lovers, sex and commitment. Donna, James and Maddeline Ferguson form a new lovers triangle and commit to a plan to find Laura’s killer on their own. Shelly and Norma commit to each other; both jaded lovers trying to break the shackles of their lover’s bonds. And Leland Palmer, the lost lover, dancing still, looking for a partner, looking for a ghost that isn’t there, haunted by the same music in the air, dancing in the Smoke Room of the great Northern Hotel, and Audrey Horne, the lover of the story with, as Cooper cautioned her, ‘a heart that yearns’, appearing naked and afraid in Special Agent Dale Cooper’s bed at the great northern to end the this episode of lovers, commitments and total eclipses of the heart.

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