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
