With The Solar Way: A Guide to Hermeticism Using the Tarot Major Arcana, Russian translator Yury Pankratov brings to life an intriguing book resulting from the dramatic fascinating life of nearly forgotten Nina Rudnikova.
The book is due out on March 25, 2025, and can be had at https://spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk/author/yury-pankratov/23771
Yury's Substack is at https://substack.com/@russianesotericism
His blog is https://hermeticism.dreamwidth.org/
To help preserve esoteric literature for future generations: https://gofund.me/462fa145
00:00 Introduction
02:55 Yury's origin story
08:10 Who was Nina Rudnikova?
13:40 The Solar Way book
19:00 Occult community in Communist Russia
24:00 Rudnikova's Solar Way system
24:50 How Solar Way differs
27:00 Valentin Tomberg, author of Meditations on the Tarot
30:15 Future scholarship on Russian esotericism
33:21 Rudnikova's lineage
39:00 Nina's psychic healing
41:45 Collecting physical copies of books
