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MOON:Silvery-grey, the achromatic range, and sometimes green. The lunar cycle particularly affects the emo-tions. Likes ...
10/30/2025

MOON:
Silvery-grey, the achromatic range, and sometimes green. The lunar cycle particularly affects the emo-tions. Likes and dislikes are intensified. Functional disorders, especially those resulting from neurotic pressures.

MERCURY:
Blue, sometimes slate violet, plaids and checks.
When disturbed, the Mercury ray tends towards restlessness, unjustified mental excitement, worry, and hypercriticism.

VENUS:
Yellow, pale blue and pastel shades. Venus intensifies erotic tendencies and vanity leading to disillusionments and resentments.

SUN:
Orange and deep tones of yellow sometimes blue.
Because the Sun is the universal nourisher, it may cause a surfeit within the system. Inordinate and uncontrollable love of food and a constantly increasing demand for physical strength.

MARS:
Scarlet, carmine, and magenta. The person who over-responds to the Mars vibration is often subject to violent outbursts of temperament, hysteria, combativeness, and hypercriticism. There is a strong irritating factor and, when this is manifested, it is almost impossible to satisfy the aggressive demands of these persons. There may be a tendency for the body to become overheated.

JUPITER:
As father of the gods and a sky deity, Jupiter is associated with blue, violet, and the indigo tone of the midnight sky. Molecular nutrition, including cell development. A tendency to intemperance and danger of putting on excess weight.

SATURN:
Indigo, sage green, and dark colors generally. Os-sification, congestion, function of tendons and car-cilage, articulation of bone. Strong psychic drive.
Health may be damaged by negative thinking.

URANUS:
Light azure and combinations of bright colors brought into harmony through the electrical forces in the body. Personal magnetism, artistic instincts. Sleep phenomena.

NEPTUNE:
Lavender, shades of brown, and sometimes black. Danger of involvement in occult matters leading to self-delusion. The auric field. Esoteric practices may disturb the natural flow of vital energy.

PLUTO: misty and faint colors suggesting twilight were associated with this god. It may influence colors not normally visible within our sensory range. Intensive and conflicting attitudes.

“There is little value in governing a nation composed entirely of persons who glorify their own failings. The conscious ...
10/28/2025

“There is little value in governing a nation composed entirely of persons who glorify their own failings. The conscious mind cannot cope rough a rapid succession of unreasonable and even irrational notions and opinions. A rapid increase in psychic toxin also contributes to the final disintegration of the personality.”
- p. 37

“There is no essential evil in nature, no intent to plague mortals with horrible phantoms.”

“Psychological spooks rise from the graves of dead hopes and ruins of old memories, and they depart in haste at the approach of spiritual or mental light. When day breaks in us, the spectres fade like mist at dawn. When we clean out the gloomy ruins within ourselves, there is no suitable habitation for the shadows of lost causes.”
- p. 28

“Always a successful revolution waits upon auspicious times. Under some emergency, the reigning despot is discredited. The prevailing policy evidently and obviously fails, and in that moment the insurrection its move in. If they succeed, they will probably be just as difficult as the tyrant whom they unseated. The materialist, under the shock of living, suddenly discovers that his concepts are wrong. It is likely he will then become a religious fanatic.”
- p. 31

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BOOKSTORE SPOTLIGHT::: EVENT NOV 1 in the LIBRARY with  Joanne McNeil’s latest novel, Wrong Way (2023) extends the conve...
10/27/2025

BOOKSTORE SPOTLIGHT::: EVENT NOV 1 in the LIBRARY with

Joanne McNeil’s latest novel, Wrong Way (2023) extends the conversation she began in her acclaimed nonfiction book Lurking: How a Person Became a User (2020).

In Lurking, McNeil traced the evolution of the internet from a place of curiosity and community into a system that turned people into “users.” She asked what happens when our most human needs for expression, belonging, and recognition are shaped by algorithms and corporations.

Wrong Way takes that inquiry into fiction. We follow the story of Teresa, Its protagonist, drifting through a world of gig work, self-optimization, and digital precarity. She is a mirror to the labor conditions that underwrite the platforms we depend on. Through McNeil’s sharp, empathetic lens, the story examines how technology mediates our sense of purpose and moral responsibility in an economy where even empathy is outsourced.

Together, Lurking and Wrong Way map the emotional and ethical terrain of the connected age from the dawn of online intimacy to the exhaustion of constant visibility.

A perfect pairing for anyone thinking critically about the future of social media, digital labor, and what it means to be human in a networked world.

Book signing with author is this coming SATURDAY at 7PM IN TUE LIBRARY, a presentation and conversation to follow!

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We have a few of our popular “The Symbol of Meditation” shirts left for sale!!! Original art by J.A. Knapp. Printed on T...
10/26/2025

We have a few of our popular “The Symbol of Meditation” shirts left for sale!!! Original art by J.A. Knapp. Printed on Tultex pre-shrunk 100% ring-spun cotton t-shirt! Get yours in store or online at prs.org/shop 🌈

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LIBRARY DAY ORACLES by damaTucked within the shelves of the PRS Library are various volumes that trace humanity’s long r...
10/24/2025

LIBRARY DAY ORACLES by dama

Tucked within the shelves of the PRS Library are various volumes that trace humanity’s long relationship with superstition, symbols, and protective charms. These small objects we have carried through the ages to ward off uncertainty and invoke unseen forces of protection.

From Egyptian scarabs and Mesopotamian cylinder seals to Roman evil-eye pendants and medieval talismans inscribed with celestial names, amulets reveal a universal desire: to make the invisible tangible, to hold faith in the palm of one’s hand.

In these texts, superstition is not dismissed as mere irrationality but it’s understood as a language of the unconscious, a bridge between the spiritual and the material. Each charm, each ritual, speaks to a time when magic and meaning were inseparable.

As Manly Hall put it in his lecture titled ‘Psychology Of Superstitions’ — “Let us go after the real superstitions and leave Halloween for the children and not make it last all year round by our own superstitions. (…) We are doing the best we can, but the wise thing for us all to do is, when we believe something try to find out why we believe it. Whether we have a reason for the belief worthy of the belief, and out of the practical experience of our own life, rationalize as much as we can our beliefs, making them reasonable.” -- October, 1938 LECTURE NOTES MPH

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Friday (tomorrow!) come visit our historic library, browse through our bookstore, and get a tarot reading from  before c...
10/23/2025

Friday (tomorrow!) come visit our historic library, browse through our bookstore, and get a tarot reading from before catching a spooky movie screening in our auditorium✨️ AND/OR swing by on Saturday for some drawing in the library, stock up on new & used books in our cozy store, and talk divination & astrology with before enjoying an evening of puppetry and animation throughout our campus 🎃

BOOKSTORE PICKS by damaPenny Slinger’s 50% The Visible Woman stands as a transformative text in the activation of the go...
10/21/2025

BOOKSTORE PICKS by dama

Penny Slinger’s 50% The Visible Woman stands as a transformative text in the activation of the goddess and the divine feminine. The book is a merging of art, ritual, and revelation. Emerging from the fertile ground of the 1970s, the book reclaims the female body as both the altar and the oracle. Through surreal photomontage, text, and self-portraiture, Slinger turns her own image into a site of invocation, confronting the condition of women as half visible, half erased under patriarchy, and transforming that fracture into a portal of awakening.

Slinger’s work enacts a process of divination and an opening to the archetypal feminine that transcends biography. This visionary impulse deepened through her later Tantric Transformations and The Secret Dakini Oracle, in which she studied and channeled the 68 goddesses of the Dakinis— figures of ecstatic wisdom from the Tantric and Vajrayana traditions.

Through these studies, Slinger connected her Western surrealist exploration to an ancient lineage of goddess consciousness, treating art as a form of divination and embodiment.

Slinger’s fusion of eroticism, mysticism, and psychological depth initiates a sacred rebalancing: the restoration of the divine feminine as the source of creativity, transformation, and spiritual power. The book remains a mirror for all who seek to awaken that force within themselves and the goddess becoming visible again, through us.

Embrace Your Divine Feminine a workshop with Penny Slinger (series of 8) continues in the Library next month:

Sunday, November 2 · 4 - 6:30pm

Penny Slinger will be joined by Astara Callas in this interactive workshop, you’ll be introduced to all 64 Goddess Frequencies and work directly with the third 8. This experience will initiate an ongoing relationship with your higher self, which will continue to unfold as you explore the full cycle of 64. Open to all!

PRS Bookstore has curated a growing Poetry section, featuring titles that open doors to the sacred; including Holy Doors...
10/18/2025

PRS Bookstore has curated a growing Poetry section, featuring titles that open doors to the sacred; including Holy Doors by Mandy Kahn, The Ecstatic Orphan, Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley, and Federico García Lorca’s In Search of Duende (some of which are pictured here).

Come BROWSE OUR poetry selections and join us for poetry night at the library with DEEP DIVE POETRY this month presenting Dana Gioia and Mandy Kahn in a special evening of poetry and conversation.

The poets will share works about Los Angeles and reflect on how their Southern California childhoods shaped their imaginations — how the city’s light, spirit, and complexity live on in their words.

OCTOBER 23, 2025 at 7PM

The Mysteries of Xibalba “Xquiq gave birth to twin sons, who were named Hunahpu and Xbalanque and whose lives were dedic...
10/18/2025

The Mysteries of Xibalba
“Xquiq gave birth to twin sons, who were named Hunahpu and Xbalanque and whose lives were dedicated to avenging the deaths of Hunhun-ahpu and Vukub-hunhun-ahpu. The years passed, and the two boys grew up to manhood and great were their deeds. Especially did they excel in a field sport resembling hockey. Hearing of the prowess of the youths, the princes of Xibalba asked: “Who, then, are those who now begin again to play over our heads, and who do not scruple to shake (the earth)? Are not Hunhun-ahpu and Vukub-hunhun-ahpu dead, who wished to exalt themselves before our face?”

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So the princes of Xibalba sent for the two youths, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, that they might destroy them also in the seven days of the Mysteries. Before departing, the two brothers bade farewell to their grandmother, each planting in the midst of the house a cane plant, saying that as long as the cane lived she would know that they were alive.”

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“Hunahpu and Xbalanque then departed,
each with his sabarcan (blowpipe), and for many days they journeyed along the perilous trail, descending through tortuous ravines and along precipitous cliffs, past strange birds and boiling springs, towards the sanctuary of Xibalba.”

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“Hunahpu and Xbalanque then departed,
each with his sabarcan (blowpipe), and for many days they journeyed along the perilous trail, descending through tortuous ravines and along precipitous cliffs, past strange birds and boiling springs, towards the sanctuary of Xibalba.”
— p.

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The actual ordeals of the Xibalbian Mysteries were seven in number. As a preliminary the two adventurers crossed a river of mud and then a stream of blood, accomplishing these difficult feats by using their sabarcans as bridges. Continuing on their way, they reached a point where four roads converged —a black road, a white road, a red road, and a green road.”
—p. 194

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Dedicated to the Truth-Seekers of All Time

The Philosophical Research Society (PRS) was founded in 1934 by wisdom scholar and prolific author Manly P. Hall as a repository of the world’s wisdom. His international travels culminated in the collection of manuscripts, rare books, artwork, and esoterica that became the foundation for the library, designed by architect Robert Stacy-Judd in 1935. The historic Mayan-inspired campus is home as well to an art gallery, auditorium, bookstore, and lecture room. A nonprofit institution, PRS offers a full calendar of lectures, online courses, workshops, wellness classes, concerts, and special events to the general public. As the 1959 inscription on the cornerstone of Hall's auditorium reads, PRS is "Dedicated to the truth seekers of all time."