The Fool
Courage, Ecstasy, Creative Expression, Risk-taking, Trust, Choice, Adventure Reversed Stagnation, Eccentricity, Folly, Thoughtlessness, Indiscretion The Faerie Clad in the vestments of mortal experience and spiritual awareness, the child of the Dreaming stands poised on the edge of physical reality, open to the embrace of all possibility. The sword of his manifest will rests easily upon his shoulder, for the time of choice has not yet come.
King of Pattern
Solidity, Prosperity, Harvest, Abundance, Practicality, Finances, Diagnostician Reversed Perversity, Misuse, Speculation, Waste At rest upon a throne carved from the ruins of the past, Montego Diaz-Quetzalcoatl oversees the progress of the New World Order's dominion. Crowned by his technological achievements, the King of Pattern monitors the interplay of wealth and industry. Protected by the twin guardians of knowledge and power, he has no need to step outside his sheltered enclave. All the...
DIVINATION IN DEPTH Fku
NEXT TO HANGED MAN Being stubborn will not solve anything. Don't be afraid to submit it will not reflect on your character. NEXT TO DEATH Perhaps you are going about things the wrong way slow down it isn't worth it. NEXT TO TEMPERANCE More time is needed to achieve your goal why not think things over a little Movement, progress, action, speed Trip or message that you need. GUIDELINES Goal within reach new ideas will bring satisfactory conclusions. To have control, the budget must balance....
Ace of Questing
Creativity, Self-realization, Questing, Truth, Uncontainable life-force, Awakening, Being Reversed False start, Setback Association Beginnings Ahl-i-Batin All things spring forth from the fires of the imagination. To the oft-forgotten mages of the lost Tradition, the union of the Spheres, the oneness of creation and the perpetual dance of opposing forces are matters of doctrine, not supposition. The burning bush, the ever-renewing phoenix and the celestial explosion that signaled the beginning...
Eight of Dynamism
Indecision, Restriction, Censure, Doubt, Mistrust, Over-analytical mind, Confusion, Interference Reversed Triviality, Censure, Freedom, Relaxation, Origins Surrounded by the weapons of violent change, captured in the twisted bonds of convoluted thought, she has become the victim of her own demented Inquisition. The mask of indecision blinds her. Although her mind has analyzed her options, doubt and mistrust undermine her escape. Overwhelmed by the crisis of her dilemma, she cannot break free of...
Dedicated To The Members Of Wheels
A forum one can learn about Gann and other famous market forecasters. Gerard Encausse, b. 1865 d. 1916 THE Tarot pack of cards, transmitted by the Gypsies from generation. to generation, is the primitive book of ancient initiation. This has been clearly demonstrated by Guillaume Postel, Court de Gebelin, Etteila, Eliphas Levi, and J. A. Vaillant. The key to its construction and application has not yet been revealed, so far as I know. I therefore wished to fill up this deficiency by supplying...
Page of Questing
Learning, Courage, Beauty, Self-liberation, Release of fear, Spontaneous expression, Freedom, New directions, Adventure, Spring, Nothing to fear Reversed Indecision, Unpleasantness Association Discovery The Apprentice stands upon the threshold of a new awareness. Below her lie the bones of past lives, past deaths, past fears and past awakenings. Within her stirs the call to adventure before her and behind her, strange horizons beckon. Clad in the brilliant robes of pure intent, she holds the...
The Chariot
The earlier versions of this card, which showed the Chariot pulled by two horses rather than two sphinxes, derives from a number of historical and mythological sources. Primarily it comes out of the processions given in Rome and other places for a conquering hero, when his chariot carried him through the streets that were filled with cheering citizens. The custom apparently answers some deep psychic need for group participation. Wre still practice it today, two thousand years later, in the...
Earned Success Mercury in Aquarius
Two hands as before, each holding three swords which cross in the center. Rose re-established hereon. Mercury and Aquarius above and below, supported on the points of two short daggers or swords. Success after anxiety and trouble. Selfishness, beauty, conceit, but sometimes modesty therein, dominion, patience, labor, etc., according to dignity. Tiphareth of Vav. Labor, work, journey by water. Herein rule Rehaayal and Yeyeziel. The Six of Swords is Tiphareth in the scale of Yetzirah. It is Solar...
Invocation
Dear Heavenly Father, I entreat Thee to graciously bestow upon me Thy heavenly blessing. Purify my thoughts and actions so that they may be guided and directed by Thy divine wisdom. Believing that all things are possible in Thy Name, I beseech Thee in all humility to fill my whole being with love, compassion and understanding for all those who come my way. Bless me with true knowledge and the ability to receive Thy everlasting love into my soul, so that I may sincerely seek out the truth in Thy...
Transmutation
In the upper part we find the Black Moon and the White Moon the antitheses. In the middle section, a magician with the Staff of the Patriarchs in one hand and the Ansate or Tao Cross in the other hand. He is found standing upon a crocodile which waits with open jaws to devour him. The crocodile is Set, Satan, the psychological I, the myself, always lying in wait to devour the one who allows himself to fall. The magician valiantly grasps the Tao Cross the Arcanum A.Z.F. to defend himself. The...
Applications Of The Tarot
XV. --GENERAL KEY TO THE APPLICATIONS OF THE TAROT The Principle and the Forms--The 21st Card of the Tarot is a Figure--Principle--The Tarot--The Year--The Month--The Day--The Human Life XVI.--THE ASTRONOMIC TAROT Egyptian Astronomy--The Four Seasons--The Twelve Months--The Thirty-six Decans--The Planets--Absolute Analogy with the Tarot-Figure containing the Application of the Tarot to Astronomy--Key to the Astrological Works of Christian--Oswald Wirth's Astronomical Tarot XVII.--THE INITIATIVE...
Peace Restored Moon in Libra
Two crossed swords, like the air dagger of a Z. A.M., each held by a white radiating angelic hand. Upon the point where the two cross is a rose of five petals, emitting white rays, and top and bottom of card are two small daggers, supporting respectively the symbols of Luna in horizontal position and Libra, representing the Decan. Contradictory characteristics in the same nature. Strength through suffering. Pleasure after pain. Sacrifice and trouble yet strength arising therefrom symbolized by...
The High Priestess
Bill Butler, in The Definitive Tarot has commented on the historical-legendary sources for this female archetype. Throughout the Middle Ages the story persisted that a woman was once elected Pope. Disguised for years as a man, this supposed 'Pope Joan' made her way through the Church hierarchy to the top position, only to die in childbirth during an Easter celebration. Pope Joan was most likely a legend the Visconti Papess was real. In the late thirteenth century an Italian group called the...
Loss in Pleasure Mars in Scorpio
A white radiating angelic hand as before holding lotuses or water lilies of which the flowers are falling right and left. Leaves only and no buds surmount them. These lotus stems ascend between the cups in the manner of a fountain, but no water flows therefrom, neither is there water in any of the cups, which are somewhat in the shape of the magical implement of the ZA-M. Above and below are the symbols of Mars and Scorpio, representing the decan. Death or end of pleasures. Disappointment....
Abandoned Success Saturn in Pisces
A hand holding a group of stems of lotuses or water lilies. There are only two flowers shown which bend over the two center cups pouring into them a white water. The cups are not yet filled. The three upper cups are empty. At top and bottom Saturn and Pisces. Temporary success, but without further result. Things thrown aside as soon as gained. No lasting even in the matter in hand. Indolence in success. Journeying from place to place. Misery and repining without cause. Seeking after riches....
Essay Upon The Astronomical Tarot By Oswald Wirth
According to Christian the twenty-two major arcana of the Tarot represent the hieroglyphic paintings which are found in the spaces between the columns of a gallery, which the neophyte was obliged to cross in the Egyptian initiations. There were twelve columns to the North and the same number to the South, that is, eleven symbolical pictures on each side. These pictures were explained to the candidate for initiation in regular order, and they contained the rules and principles for the Initiate....
DIVINATION IN DEPTH Nmq
NEXT TO SUN Denotes personal or business interests pertaining to vacation areas and or properties. NEXT TO TEN OF WANDS Negotiations regarding real estate, building, rental, purchasing, etc. NEXT TO MAGICIAN May refer to business enquiry regarding books and or metaphysical supplies and interests. You have been under pressure and experienced many changes in life. Talent, ability, skills, etc., used in the wrong way. around Seeds are deep within the ground. Indicates an oppressive burden,...
The Kings
The Four kings or Figures mounted on Steeds Golden Dawn and Crowley versions represent the Yod forces in the name of each suit, the Radix, Father and commencement of Material Forces. A Force in which all the others are implied and of which they form the development and completion. A force swift and violent in action, but whose effect soon passes away, and therefore symbolized by a figure on a steed riding swiftly, and clothed in complete armour. KING OF WANDS, Lord of the Flame and of the...
Prince of the Chariot of the Waters
A winged kingly figure with a winged crown, seated in a chariot drawn by an eagle. On the wheel is the symbol of a scorpion. The eagle is borne as a crest upon his crown, cuirass and buskins. General attire like King Prince of Wands. Beneath his chariot is the calm and stagnant water of a lake. His scale armour resembles feathers more than scales. He holds in one hand a lotus, and the other a cup, charged with the sigil of his scale. A serpent issues from the cup, and has its head tending down...
The Linear Spread
Linear spreads are useful when determining long-range courses of action or progressive influences which affect the subject over a period of time. In a linear spread, the cards are arranged in a straight line. Each card drawn is used to clarify or comment upon the preceding card. The reading can continue until both querent and reader feel that a satisfactory answer has been achieved, or until no further elaboration seems to be forthcoming. Usually, cards placed to the left or above a subject...
Venus in Cancer
Hand at lower part from cloud holds lotuses. A lotus flower rises above water, which occupies the lowest part of the card, and rises above the hand holding the lotus. From this lotus flower a stem rises, terminating nearly at the top of the card in another lotus or water lily flower, from which a white water gushes like a fountain. Crossed on the stem just beneath are two dolphins, gold and silver on to which the water falls and from which it pours in full streams, like jets of gold and silver,...
Recite the Prayer of Invocation
Anyone who takes upon himself the responsibility of offering guidance on behalf of the Supreme Force first requires quidance for himself. As we open our minds and souls to the Higher Consciousness, we must be certain that our channel is clear and true, so that the wisdom we receive will likewise be true and provide the proper guidance for the client. Contact with the Supreme Force should be made through prayer, just like a phone call. Prayer is like a lifeline it feels good to have its security...
Pleasure Sun in Scorpio
An angelic hand as before, holds a group of stems of lotuses or water lilies from which six flowers bend, one over each cup. From these flowers a white glistening water flows into the cup as from a fountain, but they are not yet full. Above and below are the symbols of Sun and Scorpio, representing the Decanate. Commencement of steady increase, gain and pleasure, but commencement only. Also affront, defective knowledge and, in some instances, contention and strife arising from unwarranted...
Despair and Cruelty Mars in Gemini
Four hands somewhat as in preceding symbol hold eight swords upright but with the points falling away from each other. A fifth hand holds a ninth sword upright in the center, as if it had disunited them, and struck them asunder. No rose at all is shown as if it were not merely cut in pieces but completely and definitely destroyed . Above and below Mars and Gemini. Despair, cruelty, pitilessness, malice, suffering, want, loss, misery. Burden, oppression, labor, subtlety and craft, lying,...
Judgement
I saw an ice plain, and on the horizon, a chain of snowy mountains. A cloud appeared and began to grow until it covered a quarter of the sky. Two fiery wings suddenly expanded in the cloud, and I knew that I beheld the messenger of the Empress. He raised a trumpet and blew through it vibrant, powerful tones. The plain quivered in response to him and the mountains loudly rolled their echoes. One after another, graves opened in the plain and out of them came men and women, old and young, and...
THE SECRET DOCTRINE OF THE TAROT By Paul F Case
ZAIN, the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponds to the Greek Zeta and the English Z. The Hebrew character is probably derived from the Egyptian hieratic letter corresponding to a hieroglyphic, which was a picture of a hissing goose. This bird is a very ancient symbol. It figures in the sacred allegories of India, in the myths of Greece, and in the stories of the Norse gods. To these high sources we may trace its meaning in folk-tales and proverbs. Thus the goose that lays the...
The Eighth Card Of The Tarot
The ideas expressed by this symbol are of Equilibrium in all its forms. A woman seen full face, and wearing an iron coronet, is seated upon a throne. She is placed between the two columns of the temple. The solar cross is traced upon her breast. Here we find the continuation of the symbolism of the 2nd and 5th arcana. The Seated woman occupies the Centre between the columns, the first idea of the equilibrium between Good and Evil. She holds a sword, point upwards, in her right hand, and a...
The Four Threes The Four Queens
The Organizer and Compensator The Dark Sterile Mother the Bright Fertile Mother Symbols The Yoni, the Triangle, the Cup, Heh Planet Saturn Color Black In Binah is a thick darkness which yet veileth the Divine Glory in which all colours are hidden, wherein is mystery and depth and silence, and yet, it is the habitation of the Supernal Light. There is the Supernal Triad completed. And the Sphere of its Operation is Shabbathi, or rest, and it giveth forms and similitudes unto chaotic matter and...
Guidelines 1
Insufficient effort, lack of initiative, simply not trying. Other people also need consideration. Be generous in your views. May be necessary to delay or temporarily cancel plans. No need to be depressed. TETRAGRAMMATON YOD PRINCIPLE Substantiality EXPRESSION Father Active Brahma Fire Distinction MULTIPLE Indicate Change Mars Aries GNOTHOLOGY Individuality NEXT TO TOWER Unable to make idea or project materialize. Frustrated and tired through effort. PENTACLES amp CUPS ON ALL SIDES Be cheerful...
Meditation
To fully understand the female principle and evolutionary process, we must realize that the mystery of woman and her ability to produce children is unique and God-given. We must learn to appreciate the qualities of motherhood and how the strength of the female relates to earthly responsibilities. Woman plays a remarkable role in nature it is through her that man is born. The Empress in all her feminine glory fulfills every man's dreams and hopes. We should attempt to study her earthly role and...
Lebateleur
of his art. His right hand, holding a wand, is raised heavenward. The extended forefinger of his left hand points to the earth. Over his head is the lemniscate symbol of Spirit. His tunic is white, girdled with a blue serpent biting its tail. The outer garment is red. He stands alone in a garden, in which roses and lilies are growing. The wand in his right hand is what Eliphas Levi calls the Verendum of the magus. It is a material agency that enables the adept to concentrate the cosmic energy....
Strife Saturn in Leo
Two white radiant angelic hands issuing from clouds right and left of the center of the card. They are clasped together as in the Grip of the First Order, and they hold at the same time by their centers five wands, or torches, which are similar to the wand of a Z.A.M. Four wands cross each other, but the fifth is upright in the center. Flames leap from the point of junction. Above the central wand is the symbol Saturn and below it that of Leo representing the Decanate. Violent strife and...
The Moon
Numerical Value 90 Letter X Tzaddi This tarot card is dominated by the large lunar disk containing. the face of a beautiful woman in profile. Her face is kind, full it puts one in mind of a good mother. The background of die disk is blue like the sky. The rear part of the head consists of a blue, a white and a yellow stripe. As we already know from the previous explanations, the blue background and blue stripe denote devotion and faith in God, the white stripe stands for purity, and the yellow...
Return
In the waters of life is the swastika cross symbolising the Muladhara chakra of four petals. A woman who represents Truth is playing a harp, plucking the sexual lyre of 9 strings in order to find the key note. In the upper part the 4 Gods of death Mestha, Hapi, Tuamutef, and Qebhsennuf, representing the 4 elements, Earth, Water, Fire and Air the 4 mysterious animals of sexual Alchemy. Above the 4 Gods of death we find the Sacred Serpent which illuminates the sphere of Ra which is granted to the...
The Queen
Again we see a young woman, this time without a veil. Her beautiful face freely reveals her nature. She faces us, she looks into our eyes, she does not wish to hide anything from us. She wears a triple-pointed crown on her head. This denotes that she is queen of the three aspects of life birth, life and death. It also means that she reigns over space, over the three dimensions. She is ruler of the whole cosmos, the whole universe. She is the queen of heaven, that aspect of God which is...
Chapter Four Primordialism
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be bom W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming The raw materials of existence are present in the Primordial Essence. Attributing this suit to the Nephandi emphasizes the turbulent and often violent outpouring of unrestrained passion and instinct. The traditional Tarot assigns this suit to Cups, the vessels which contain the vital fluids of life. Water is the element represented by these cards, reflecting their multiple...
Kabbalah Ain Soph Aur
Each universe of infinite space possesses its own Central Sun, and the sum of all these Spiritual Suns constitutes Ain Soph Aur, the Protocosmos, the Solar Absolute. The Solar Absolute is formed of multiple transcendental, divine Spiritual Suns. The emanation of our Omnimerciful and Sacred Solar Absolute is that which Helen P. Blavatsky calls The Great Breath to itself, pro foundly unknown Much has been spoken about the Sacred Absolute Sun, and obviously, every solar system is governed by one...
The Initiatory Scheme Of The Tarot
As we have seen, the Tree of Life is based on one very simple principle, that of a positive and a negative which, between them, produce a third and balanced energy. These are the Yod, Heh and Vau of the Divine Name. A variety of terms describe this pattern, such as Male, Female, Neuter, or Father, Mother, Son. Figure 28 labels the Sephiroth centers of Force and Form, whereas Figure 28. Patterns of Form and Force on the Tree of Life. The Activating Paths are the gt the Formative Paths are the 1...
Tiphereth
Tiphereth is the Husband of the Wife, the Superior Manas of Oriental Theosophy, which is none other than the Human Soul, the Causal. It is that Soul which suffers, and which forms the very human part in us. We must distinguish between that which is the Human Soul and Tiphereth itself. It is very easy to confuse Tiphereth with the Causal. The Causal Body serves as the vehicle of Tiphereth. Some kabalists expect that the world of Tiphereth, the world of the Human Soul, or correctly said, the...
Path Gimel
Hue twelfth path is c ailed the Transparent c cnsciousmess because it is die substance of that phase of majesty Gedulali which is called revelation. It is the source of prophesies tiiat seeis behold in visions.'' Genesis LID JJand Elohiin saw that it was good. The thirteenth p ath is named, the Uniting c onsciousness because it is the essence of cay. It represents the completion of the true essence of tlie unified spiritual beingp. Genesis 1.11 And Elohint said Le t the earth put forth glass,...
The Golden Dawn Tarot
There is only one known, published, reference to the origin of the Golden Dawn Tarot. This appears in the 1945 autobiography of Irish artist and poet, Ella Young. In the book, Flowering Dusk she describes a visit to the home of the Mathers, having been brought there by Maud Gonne, a member of the Order. Maud Gonne had herself been brought into the group by William Butler Yeats, who courted her unsuccessfully for many years. Ella Young describes having been attracted to some large illustrations...
Applications Of The Sepher Yetzirah
As has been indicated, the Tarot is usually related to the Sepher Yetzirah or Book of Formation. This brief, but major, document of esoteric cosmology purports to demonstrate the rational framework and course of creation of our Universe. Yet, as with all truly enlightened works, it is not intended to be read it must, rather, be used as a stimulus to meditation. The Sepher Yetzirah uses the symbolism of highly abstract words to describe those energies which the Tarot describes in pictures, the...
The Spread
A spread is a preset pattern for laying out the tarot cards. It defines how many cards to use, where each one goes, and what each one means. A spread is a template guiding the placement of the cards so they can shed light on a given topic. It is within this template that the meanings of the cards come together so beautifully. The most important feature of a spread is the fact that each position has a unique meaning that colors the interpretation of whatever card falls in that spot. For example,...
Chapter How To Read The Cards
Every day of our lives, our minds receive thousands of bits of information and impressions, all of which are stored away in mental cubbyholes, some for future use, some to be forgotten forever. But they are all there, with more being added all the time. This becomes quite a mental clutter, unless we can develop the concentration to retrieve only what we need when we need it. This is particularly true of the Tarotologist, for you must not only be able to recall bits of data facts and information...
Queen of Primordialism Barabbi
Emotional integrity, Self-reflection, Unconscious, New form, New identity, New life, Expressing oneself without blame or judgment Reversed Perversity, Dishonesty, Immorality Jodi Blake, imagination's queen, salutes the riot of her cacophonous visions. Her perversity is the key to her freedom from all limitations. In her hands, the instrument of pain becomes the doorway to deliverance from mundane constraints. Through acting out her desires, she makes them real, and her goblet is filled with the...
Meanings
1. THE MAGICIAN.--Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies self-confidence, will the Querent, if male. Reversed Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet. 2. THE HIGH PRIESTESS.--Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed the woman who interests the Querent, if male the Querent herself, if female silence, tenacity mystery, wisdom, science. Reversed Passion, moral or physical ardour, conceit, surface knowledge. 3. THE...
Persuasion
In the waters of life, the Cubical Stone within the stone, the wading bird and upon it, the dove of the Holy Spirit. In the middle section a woman closes the jaws of a furious lion, indicat ing that this is superior to violence. Upon her head is the crown, and from her forehead rises the Serpent, indicating Mastery. The lion is the Fire element it also represents Gold. In ancient times the chariots of the kings were drawn by lions, and in esoteric symbolism the chariot of war drawn by lions...
Number Three
To the number 3 corresponds the zodiacal constellation of Gemini and the planet Jupiter. The musical note of number 3 is Mi, the colour purple, the metal tin, the plexus, the splenic spleen and the hepatic liver . The transmutation of the creative energy corresponds to the number 3. The splenic chakra is the centre of the Etheric Body, the life of the Sun enters our organism here. During the night the splenic chakra gathers the energies left by the Sun during the day. With that energy the...