The Thoth Ten of Disks-Wealth:

Prosperity, wealth, success in the world of finances and physical health. This card is the sum total of the other 35 minor arcana since wealth is a synchronicity of mind, body and soul.The

Obviously this is a card of prosperity and also obviously, it will change, but for now eat, drink and be merry. We should also understand that Wealth becomes prosperity when we spend it as our wealth prospers others and thus ourselves which is a form of communication.

To reiterate, MALKUTH is Earth. that is also called the Active Word and/or Assiah.  It is the lone Sephira or conscious entity of this World.

The Thoth Deck TEN OF DISKS, is called the Ten of Pentacles or Ten of Coins, in other decks. Crowley wished to show the stable motion that is required in a "Solid" world...the Spinning of a Disk. Where the Stability of a Discus is in its spin. I find this to be a brilliant insight (of which he had many) and agree with his philosophy. It is indeed the spiral "E-Motion" of our conscious self that balances our "Crystalline" outer Self; our life motion.

THE TEN OF DISKS, is called the Lord of Wealth and is Mercury in Virgo.

The Astrologers assign Mercury the God of commerce, as the ruler of the sign Virgo. Thus this placement is often called an embarras de richesses, as material gain here is so vast, that it often loses importance. Therefore, this vast materiality is shown on the Thoth Deck Ten of Disks, as the whole Tree of Life; of Ten Sephira as Disks decorated with the various symbols of Mercury.

As energy that is Spiral in motion, we are "everywhere and no where" at the very moment of "I"; a kind of diffusion into eternity. But with a "God-Mind" body (Hu-Man) I am the ability to focus on one "moment" in the Time Space continuum, giving me not only the "sense of presence" but the ability to discriminate my motion! In other words----"freedom of Choice" which simply means free to move by perspective.

Now this ability to be as I perceive- Rocks! I find it very fulfilling to be able to have a "sense of presence", and move about sensually,  fulfilling my creative-self, by producing "me", an experiment in sensual-self-perspective.  To be able to do so is indeed a gift, an inheritance, a Wealth, that mere ideas, do not receive in the vast Mind of God...until now! Our vast fortune is all around us---but many do not see it.

[For those who don't know, 10 is 1+0=1, in Qabalistic Gematria which simply means The First Sephira -!- Kether, The Above, that we bring to the Below! In other words, we don't have a goal, we are the Goal! Thus, we are Lust without the Need of result! Lust being the Divine Frenzy,that is the rhythmic vibration in all things! Like I said,"We Rock"! We, each alone, are a Tree of Life!] Let us not walk through the New Year, blind to our prosperity!

The Elemental Tarot- 10 of Earth/Desert, suggests the uncertainty of the 10's, as they are of short duration. Here a pale figure, holding a healthy green shoot of 9 leaves, walks blindfolded into the unknown future. The plant shoot with nine leaves, implies the potential for future growth.

The Egyptian symbols assigned to this card are shown in the lower left corner of this card.

• Is assured of physical prosperity and abundance.  But being a Ten, the end of a cycle, means it may be short lived.
  
•  Is at a physical cross roads where supply is stable but boredom has set in and is non- stimulating. However, the time for taking security risks is approaching and will soon arrive.
  
• In the next 10 weeks or 10 months you will experience opportunities for abundance by utilizing communication, organizational and intuitive skills. 
  
•  That during this period of 10wks or 10 months, one will experience a better alignment of abundance on the physical plane where things seem to "go your way".
  
• This may also indicate that setting up good communication with the Virgo people in your life will profit you (August 21 to September21) or add to your abundance emotionally, physically and mentally.
• Is showing the world a brave face when one's world is "upside-down".
  
• Negatively hanging on to the past because of fear of the unknown.
  

The Thoth Qabalistic Tarot-Nine of Disks-Gain:

Astrologically, this is Venus in Virgo. Venus is beauty,love, and creative power while Virgo represents balance, order and organization. Together, the meaning is your heart and mind are in this passionately and beautifully (beauty is balanced symmetry).  The results are gain on all levels.

• Saturn is the  sign of the helmeted warrior who knows what his limits and boundaries are and paying attention to detail.
•  The feathered cap symbol of Mars indicates that energy, vitality and assertion are a vital part of gain.
  

• Jupiter, the King, reminds us that flexibility, being open to opportunity that expands our leadership skills  which are also needed to experience gain But this is only half of gain, to be complete we need the feminine power of Maid, Mother and Crone, which are represented by the lower three coins.

1. The Maid is the youthful bare headed feminine figure that is the power of Venus and reminds us that to follow our heart.
2. The coin with the Feminine figure that  has a Queen's hat ( Mother) is Mercury, and reminds us that communication skills and nurturing leadership skills are needed to experience gain. 
3. The feminine figure with the Crescent Moon headdress  is the Wise Woman (Crone) who reminds us that we must be true to ourselves and to be authentic in our actions. 
   

This card is Yesod in Assiah and/or the influence of Yesod in the Material World. Yesod, meaning foundation, in the material world this 9th Sephira's influence is very favorable for amassing things, but with Venus in Virgo, there is a lack of overt feelings accompanying this great efficiency.

This efficient amassing of material things, is shown by the design complexity of Crowley's Nine of Disks. As he states in his book of Thoth,"The Disks are arranged as an equilateral triangle of three, apex upwards, close together; and surrounded at some distance by a ring, six larger disks in the form of a hexagram. This signifies the multiplication of the original established Word by the mingling of 'good luck and management'." Which says it all for this card.

The Elemental Tarot-9 of Earth/Forest, depicts an androgynous figure floating, "fancy-free" above a carefully manicured lawn. Holding a musical instrument in one hand, and scattering golden coins with the other, this figure suggests the Goddess Fortuna of the Greeks.

The Egyptian glyphs representing this card are shown in the lower left of this card. 

• Inheritance and/or material gain, sometimes within 9 weeks or 9 months or the querent is experiencing it now for those time periods.
•  A certain amount of Integrity, skill and talent has produced material gain and a sense of accomplishment.
  
• This is a purely material gain card, where talent and skill has come together in either a beginning stage of material gain or a good flowing gain  on into wealth.
• Also, that within the next 9 weeks or 9 months there is physical gain shown by organizing things and following your heart.  You are to be dynamically assertive (electric male force) and magnetically receptive (female force) which is following your heart and what has deep meaning to you.
• Realizing true pleasure and happiness with what one has.
  

Key 0 - The Fool card.

The fool is the universal principle that is associated with the state of conscious energy, that is us before and after death. In other words, the conscious state that is Spirit. Many of us know that we " have a spirit" but few of us know that we are Spirit and seek not spirituality but rather are Spirituality bringing  whole-conscious liberation and expansion to Earth anima and animus! Rather than just being assumed as being mystical, trans-personal, transcendent, ecstatic in its nature; the Fool represents the power of wonder and ecstasy that is so apparent in the very young before they succumb to indoctrination and form a "cultural identity". The cultural identity is not real so Cabalists/Kabalists/Qabalists call it "reality" which we all know as relative.

As a Qabalistic Initiation  Path, THE FOOL connects Kether (Crown) with Chokmah (Wisdom). To the Qabalist, Kether is known as the Source of All, and Chokmah is known as Father God.

I'll end this brief dissertation on the Fool, with this: All the Paths leading upward to Kether,THE FOOL, THE MAGUS, AND THE HIGH PRIESTESS, must be approached with a certain understanding of whimsy, as we realize that by crossing the Abyss and approaching Kether (As above, so below) means the total annihilation of Self as we perceive it. This observation presents us with the irony of our attempt to grasp such esoteric and refined principles from an earthly-mundane perspective.

•   A state of  ecstasy and/or a state of Peek experience.
•  Fearlessness.
  
• Courage.
  
•  Is completing all motion  by Faith, absolutely trusting THE SPIRIT. 
  
• A feeling of being protected, and that everything will work out.
•  Being open to what the future brings!

• Experiencing sorrow over the cruelties of nature.
• Feeling despair at inherent meaninglessness.
•  Lacking perspective and humor when faced with grim reality.
• An aloofness of mundane concerns.
• A feeling of contempt for the unenlightened masses.
• A detachment from everyday sorrows.
• Feeling bored, stuck, restless yet fearing change.
  

The Thoth Deck MAGUS, is often called THE MAGICIAN in other decks. In Qabalisitic Tarot the Magus is Key-One, The Path of Beth. Beth is a Hebrew letter meaning House or Temple.

The Qabalistic Supernal Triangle (Top three Sephiroth on the Tree of Life), is represented by Tarot Cards whose activities are only separated by a degree or less. Thus, the Aspects of the Magus and the Fool are closely linked. For those who wish a glaring example of this "degree of Separation" it is about as much as the Testes and Phallus are separated in a human male.

Scholars of the first five books of the Bible (the Pentateuch), point out that the letter Beth is the First letter, as the book of Genesis begins with "Bereshith", commonly translated as "in the beginning". Interestingly, Fabre d'Olivet translated Bereshith as meaning "At First, in principle", knowing that Beth symbolizes the "Beginning of the Beginning"; The Will of the One. Thus, it is the First Matter of the Alchemist, the Philosophic Mercury and or "First Principle". Because to create a beginning one must create an end, the Magus also represents the key polarities of creation, Life and Death. This process is indicated by the figure eight that is lying on its side (lemniscus) and or Uroboros, the serpent that eats its own tail; as both represent the closed circle of One Energy begun by the number One -Beth acting on the Zero-Aleph, THE FOOL (The Lemniscus, is the Greek word for Ribbon and  symbolizes the Act of Turning upon oneself as a Twisting or Spiraling-Thus creating Male and Female infinite circles of Force in the ONE Energy).

Hermes, was always associated with words, this makes sense as a messenger must simply state the cause of the one who has sent him. Then there is the Egyptian- Ibis headed Thoth, who reportedly created the Hieroglyphs, developing the necessary means by which a message could be transmitted and recorded. The companion of Thoth/Hermes, was shown as a dog-headed Ape (Cynocephalus), representing words themselves. and their potential for deception and misunderstanding. Therefore, we have the Avant Guard-Cynocephalus, included in the Thoth Deck card, laying at the feet of the Magus.

In the Golden Dawn papers, this idea was conveyed by relating the Mercury symbol (planetary sign) to all the Sephiroth, with the exception of Kether. 

Consequentially the showing of Mercury on the Caduceus, properly places the Four Worlds,[ Atziluth, Briah, Yetsirah and Assiah --see past blogs), that are transitions of the Wand of the Magus. Kether is the Winged Orb at the top. By deeper delving into the Golden Dawn tests, the student will find that the Primum Mobile, Latin for "first motion",  is acting through Philosophic Mercury (Magus) on Saturn-Binah, who is Will to Form or as I like to call her, "The Womb with a view". As before stated,She is the Mother of Form and the Magus is the "Idea of Being" and/or Will.

THE SHADOW TAROT

• When THE MAGUS  or The Shadow Tarot-Baratchial card is thrown during a reading, it implies :
  
• Communication and timing and that all things are possible, with applied Will and understanding.
  
• There is an implication of the magic of Universal Vital Force traveling through the human body making one in-tune with the most creative and powerful aspects of your-Self; As above,so below.
  
• Changing the structure of your living situation by focused action:  Will and focused consciousness.
  
• An awareness of Power, and possession and communication  of the Powers (Focused will that fertilizes creativity in ones self and others) and Gifts of Spirit (Divine senses).

• Realizing that the ego and the consciousness are products of bio-chemistry that are affected by the individual subconscious mind, the Collective Unconscious and the animal nature.
  
• Here is the power to willfully manipulate consciousness through biochemical means, exploring unknown worlds within and evolving into unknown future selves.
  
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For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

From the navel down, this androgyny  is all straight lines, strong, dynamic, yang. Therefore, this card reminds us that we are all composed of the receptive female magnetic and the strong assertive electric forces of male.  

1. mental intuition (the triangular crystal); 
2. emotional intuition (the round crystal); 
3. spiritual intuition ( the diamond crystal), 
4. and physically noted information (the octagonal crystal). 

Her planet is the Moon, her Path is Gimel, meaning camel, which is most appropriate, as she is the one who "carries our Personality across the vast desert of the Abyss".

The Indigo Middle Path color in Atziluth ( the highest of the Four Worlds) is Indigo, a deep-dark- water blue that suggests the Moon and all three Paths relate to the Moon.

The State of Intelligence/entity that is The Path of Gimel, will carry those cleansed of desire thinking, across the longest and most important path on the Tree of Life; A path which radiates down from the  Supernal Triangle, composed of unimaginable potential,  to the Ethical Triangle, the "actual", also making this the path a position between God the Father in Kether, and God the Son in Tiphareth, making this a Path of the Highest Initiation.

As before stated,  the four paths rising into the Supernal Triangle, each represent a Alchemical element, each a composite of the "Garden of Eden". 

• The principle of  self-trust, indicating an easily working state of harmony and inner independence; 
• A self knowing.  
• Accessing hidden Knowledge from the unconscious collective.  
• Self-sufficiency, self-trust, and intuition. 

• She represents the Spiritual Bride of the Just man (The Prince, no longer of this world) 
• When he reads the Law, she gives the Divine Meaning. 
• The Arcane is revealed, the Mystery is unfolded, an futures are seen.

•  She is the Papess, associated with St. Mary Magdalene, or the Great Shakti of the triple Hindu Goddess Kali, or the Greek Gnostic Sophia, the original Mother of the Holy Trinity.
•  Considered one of the Highest and Holiest of the Major Arcana. Complete development of Feminine Powers (Womb rite) that go deeper in meaning than the words, intuition or insight, can convey. She is the Law of inherited Wisdom.

I am the love of being, that creates being so that I can be love.

In Jungian psychology, she is the anima, the feminine nature. The moon, shown on the card, is a western symbol for the feminine magnetic nature that is receptive to the male electric nature, usually symbolized as the sun.

THE EMPRESS- key 3, is the Path of Daleth-(emerald green path between 2-Chokmah and 3-Binah) meaning-Door, and Her planet is Venus.

• The principle of  wise love.
  
• The power of  owning your own  inherited  maternal and loving nature that resides within.
  
• There is an opening to all sensuality and delighting in luxury of the senses, as does a child, before they are taught to fear them.
  
• One finds comfort among the natural, having no need of control. 
  
• A surge of Creative imagination, as imagination is everything in our reality, this promises achievement and success in our goals.
  
• The querent may experience a high dedication to healing and nurturing. All in all, THE EMPRESS, represents happy, stable, relationships, growth and fertility. We are reminded that the power to give love and receive love comes from deep within us and is our natural inheritance from the Divine She.
  
• The negatives here are generated unconsciously by seeking  oblivion "when seeking the kisses of Nut"  (Egyptian Great Mother, a personification of the Night sky):
• Lack of discernment and judgment.
• Physical and moral dissipation.
• One ignores danger, when seeking sensual desire, such as not wearing a condom, ignoring the danger of AIDS. Or over drinking, eating etc.
  

First of all, I wish to thank everybody for the comments pertaining to the Shadow Tarot Series. I have spent 1 hr and 1/2  of this morning, answering them! Please accept may best regards for your daring and bravery to think beyond the box !

The Emperor symbolizes the the totality of  spirit-fire. Aries, the Ram, behind the Emperor, is the fire sign and represents  exploration, adventure, curiosity, and initiative.

THE EMPEROR-key 4, is the Path of Heh (means-Window) that runs between Tiphareth (Beauty-the Solar Logos) to Chokmah (Wisdom-Lesser Creator who rules over manifestation) and is known as the Constituting Intelligence (Paul Foster Case-text of Thirty two paths to wisdom).

The Qabalist knows that the "Big Bang" came from what is the Source, Kether, thus the ejaculation of Energy, making the Kether male.( Male is not a sex here, but an action). The One became Two, Androgynous, when I  became Am , which is known as Chokmah and Binah, which should be stated Chokmah/Binah, just as Yin/Yang or Time/Space are known to be inseparable and established at the same moment. Thus, with some authority we can say that the I is male and the Am is female, for one is Wisdom (Chokmah) and the other is Understanding (Binah)...and we can't experience one without the other!

The Path of Heh, is a formative path of rational and classifying activities. It's bright Red color is that of Binah (The Great Mother) in the World of Pure Spirit known as Atziluth. Albeit, that the male and female forces are seen as more interwoven the lower levels as we go down the Tree of Life, the assumption that Chokmah and Binah are the only "Pure" states of Male and Female force is in error; As Chokmah(Wisdom), meaning the primary quality of maleness, is a female noun. Taking the point of view that whatever gives birth is exercising a primary female quality at the moment of birth, then all that is inherent in the male is inherent in the female and visa verse. We can see this principle by understanding that the Creation of Chokmah, gave birth to maleness, and femaleness.

In the Qabalistic text-Sepher Yetzirah, the letter Heh is a simple word meaning, sight. This is well represented in THE EMPEROR, since he is the "Fiery Aspect of the Garden of Eden" of which the Higher Self relates as a Self-observation of the One. It is the first path that is attributed to a function, suggesting that sight is the first of the senses, as Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac. This Path of Heh, THE EMPEROR, is what I call the First "I" sight, while the EMPRESS is the "Am" of understanding (an inner sight I call a "Womb with a view")...Together they are the "I AM"., the Counter Sexuality of the One Mind/Energy. Therefore, the Path of Heh, is the First active "I", or the "all seeing eye".

As suggested by the author of The Shadow Tarot, by subtracting 11 from 15, we get the Key 4, of the Thoth Emperor card.

• The Principle of  Personal Power and Leadership.
  
•  Building a pure base of Knowledge while remaining open minded, pointing towards success, authority, stability  and ambition in gain or achievement.
  
• Self realization of Life Force and Personal Power.
  
• It mirrors to you  your own creativity, leadership and able responsibility.
  
• Like the element of fire, you are warm, nurturing, electric, dynamic and vital in those activities that appeal to you as well as challenge you .
  
• This is an important symbol to meditate on in order to visually implant a model of how to use power and leadership in ways that expand and liberate yourself and others from self- perceived weaknesses and becoming an actively divine creative force.

• If ill defined by attending cards, the querent is up against :
• a dominant boss, or authority figure (s)  who sets rules, boundaries, definitions and analysis.
  
• Supporting belief systems of sacred and profane, stating that we can never know the sacred and that bodies are profane or that all mundane is not holy.
• Scientific materialism, lack of inspiration.
  
• Lacking spiritual ideas.
  

Key-5 of the Thoth Tarot- Trump is the Hierophant, which is the universal principle of learning and teaching. This principle was well explained in the  publication of the-Course in Miracles-"As you teach so will you learn." If that is true, and it is true indeed, do not forget that what you teach is teaching you."

Therefore to teach requires us to have  faith in ourselves;"above all things know thyself" is often forgotten in family situations and in the mundane world of survival. 

1. Isis was the image of Intuition.
   
2. Osiris, the image of  wisdom; this union can also be seen as the scepter of wisdom and the staff of moon which also known as representing instinct.
   
3. Horus represented Perception and Vision, as a child born of Intuition and Wisdom and in the new-age, represents us.  Therefore, we are the children of Intuition and Wisdom who are to be the purveyors of perception and vision.  We must have faith in following our childlike abilities of innocence and curiosity (the child in the star) We are to walk the mystical path with  the practical feet of the Magus.
   

The Path of Vau is the uppermost path on the Pillar of Mercy (Right hand Path). In the Golden Dawn texts, this path is described as, " The Zodiac acting through Taurus upon Jupiter".  Here, Chokma/Mercy is Jupiter, and his action is the spermatic potential of the Manifested Universe Chesed, the Yod of Microcosm (Microprosopus), who is the The Father in Manifestation while Chokmah (the Yod of the Macrocosm (Macroprosopus) is the Supernal Father.

Therefore, the Path of the Hierophant is a powerfully masculine one (Electric Force), to which  the Bull-Taurus is applied and image definitively applied to this card, Being "Fixed Earth", this is a stable foundation; a stabilizing extreme.  Therefore the Shadow side of this card must be equally powerfully Feminine. A concept that Linda Falorio shows nicely in her card key16-Uriens.

THE HIEROPHANT is related to teaching, which relates Higher ideas into Lower organisms that is often called, "As above so below". The Hierophant is a state of conscious energy that is the Only source for our understanding of the inner Spirit/Spiral energy conscious. Therefore this "Magus of the Eternal" is stated by Paul Foster Case in his text," THE THIRTY TWO PATHS OF WISDOM:, as being the," ....Pontifex, the 'bridge maker'  who provides a connecting link between outer experience and interior illumination."

 Let us not forget that Taurus is also ruled by Venus, referring us to the Empress, the Path of Daleth, between Chokmah and Binah. THE EMPRESS is Mother Nature, and/or the fertilized Universal Consciousness that is the foundation of the HIEROPHANT'S teaching.

Okay, this may sound overly dramatic, however, the Source of all Psyche, is in the Dark Womb of the Universal Collective Unconscious; a kind of Sea that produces consciousness/fish. Iyemorja, Isis, or even the Lion headed goddess Sekmet, can faithfully represent this side of the Hierophant.

The serpents writhing around the abysmal point of the vulva triangle on the Uriens card, represent the Gorgon's serpent/arms ready to grasp the  light-consciousness and pull it into the Dark Psyche.

In the Southwest corner of this card, is the jackal headed throne of Samael or Set, covered in the sacred designs of the African kingdom of Mali, the home of the Dogon peoples, who are proclaimed to be the keepers of the secrets of the extraterrestrial Nephilim from the Sirius star system; our "fallen angels" of biblical fame. Upon this throne sits the Elder Lilith, (our dark Mother of the Nephilim who can also be a Wife if she calls you "husband") wearing goggles, helmet and baring the strange devices of Dogon-priests. Lilith is often shown as the illustration above, sometimes with a raven (the bottom of the Uriens card) or an owl, but always with a serpent.

1. The ability to ground oneself in self-validation (she reinstated you!)
2. Here is found the courage and inner strength necessary to live by one's convictions even against the promptings of cultural indoctrination, "common sense" (which I find most uncommon) and "better judgment" of your peers.
3. The ability to face the sorrow, naked-horror of being alive bestows on you, even though being stripped of the childish notions of divine protection. Able to shoulder the suffering of life and dance innocently, in full trust, of the righteousness of our individual path, because you are full filling your purpose by being You!
   
4. Humbling our reception to divine inspiration.
   

• The desire for self-teaching and learning.
  
• The need to make things tangible and practical.
  
• The search for meaning, revelation, the search for truth.
• Belief, trust, and illumination.
  

• Intolerance.
• Presumption
• Esoteric arrogance
• When experiencing the negatives, our inner Hierophant is perverted and one needs to enter the realms of Uriens, by meditation and skrying either on the Thoth Hierophant card or the Shadow Tarot-Uriens -Card, it's all about personal preference; When doing so, you are daring to be cleansed of all that is not "worthy of her divine child" and never certain of returning to the Day-side Universe .

The Oracle of the Gods is the Child-Voice of Love in Thine own Soul; hear thou it.

THE LOVERS, the Path of Zain,  runs between Binah (understanding) and Tiphareth (Beauty) and connects the Pure Conscious, from which all forms emerged (Binah) with the central point of Manifestation (Tiphareth).

On the Qabalistic Thoth Tarot Card, THE LOVERS, The Sun is the man, the Moon is the Woman, and the Divine Fire that is above the Abyss (The Vital Force or Serpent Force), is represented as Cupid. Case has stated that, the Sun is self-consciousness and that the Moon is subconsciousness. Paul Foster Case, considered  that these are both aspects of the One Life Breath, each working half of the body. Today we know them as the Male half and the Female half of the human brain. As Case has stated,"When the Solar and Lunar currents of the Life-Power are rightly perceived, rightly discriminated, and when their operation is kept in proper order, the personality of the man engaged in this practice becomes a free, unobstructed channel for the outpouring of the cosmic life force."   Case considered THE LOVERS card to represent  one of the dualities united by the Spiritual Self. Just as most Tantric, and Gnostic practitioner's do. To the Qabalist, The Lovers, represents the union of manifested opposites under the Divine Love of the Supernals (Upper triangle of the Tree of Life) through Binah---The Great Mother. Thus, the Crowley Thoth Deck Card depicts the theme of union as and Alchemical "Hermetic Marriage" of the component parts pf the seeker.

 

In Crowley's card, we have the Royal Marriage of opposites, presided over by the hooded figure that is both the Hermit and Mercury. Eve and Lilith are shown above the couple, with cupid aiming an arrow, symbolizing will.

combines many myths, as Linda Falorio strains to define what only awe understands. In the abstract art of this card is depicted two spirals that represent the eyes of the Death Goddess Hinenuitepo, mark the entrance to the Vaginal shaped tunnel of Zamradiel from which No-man returns. Hung from this sigil are the lovers, priest and priestess of the Double Current, Androgyne and Gyander, who are about to undergo the Ordeal of the Abyss.

One has to remember that fear of death, is the Dark Side of the Mind.

• Of  Art and Craft of Relationship.
  
•  What is also suggested is the  magical image of the power of surrender in which one form is given up in order to attain another.
  
• Being involve in a process of cooperation.---combining energies for a common goal.
  
• Yin Yang attraction of polarities, or universal forces for one another.
  
• The power of sexual surrender to the Goddess within.
  
• This card can also mean a love affair with some sort of trial or choice involved... be it marriage or profane love.
  
• There is the Tantric Philosophy here also, only through physical union with a female can either a man or god, achieve true reality and the power to deal with it; A Spiritual/ sexual union, is required for shamans, priests, and holy men with the female is required before they gain full possession of their powers.
  
• This is also a process for Priestesses, who must be able to invoke the "Divine Phallus" through the Male before they can gain their Powers inherited from the Divine Hermetic Marriage.
• Communion with a remote strata of consciousness, that includes trance channeling.
• Here the Animus and Anima become One in love of Being.
  

Key- 7: THE CHARIOT

Every individual is touched by change multidimensional in their areas of Earth, Air, Water and Fire, as symbolized by the four pillars, the four wheels,and the four animals. These four elemental aspects of ourselves combine to create who we are, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Between The Fifth Sephiroth- Geburah (Severity) and the Third Sephiroth- Binah (Understanding)  the Great Mother on the Tree of Life, runs the Path of Cheth. This is the highest and most profound Path on the Pillar of Severity (left side) and introduces the Personality to the Supreme Spiritual Self, that wraps our Soul in the Golden Armor of Protection so that the Psyche can be carried through the un-manifested Universe, and/or Dark Matter and Dark Energy. The Chariot is the enclosure that holds the Soul in a state of peace, as moves through all planes.

The Thoth Deck Chariot, shows the influences of  both the Hindu Tattvas and the biblical text of Ezekiel with its "living creatures" being represented as 4 Sphinxes pulling the Chariot. These Four Kerubiim (angelic beings) represent not only the four Tarot Elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth, but also each has four sub-elements, as do the Tattvas, and are represented as the four faces of the creatures.

Geburah, is often symbolized with a Pentagram, or five pointed star,that has the Four Elements crowned by the Spirit. Thus, making 5 the number of Geburah on the Tree of Life.  Geburah is a Red Force, and is symbolized on the Thoth card as Red Wheels, meaning that the force of Geburah (Severity) is the  motive force of the Chariot.

The  movement of the Chariot conceals a mystery (arcana) of great significance. The Chariot is reminiscent of the Greek Chariot of the Sun, Helios, as the four horses of the Sun pulled the Chariot of the Sun across the sky. This is significant as a representation, since the Chariot moves between the Light, centered in Tiphareth (Beauty) and the Supreme  Darkness of the Limitless Light at the hidden side of Kether (Crown). Yet, there is even a more complex meaning suggested here, as the Sun is guided by the Moon! And in both Greek Mythology and the Qabalistic Tree of Life, the sun is subordinate to the moon. 

Now for the Shadow cast by the Solar Warrior of the Chariot.

Therefore, we have represented on this Shadow card the pink flesh of the yoni gate of the Mother, entrance to the dark womb where Dark Energy and Dark Matter, join in a powerful rhythm of immortality which according to the myth of the Holy Graäl, the elixir within provided. As the old joke goes, "all men are born of the womb and then they spend their entire life trying to return to it."  As always, there is a lot of truth in humor.

1. the abilities to take what one needs to ensure survival, at any and all costs.
2. Boundless energy, creativity and endless youth.
3. Bestows personal sexual magnetism, on anyone will choose.
4. To see all as bliss, and accept mindless ecstasy.

• To devote themselves to the combination of activity and quietude so that they may have the drive to attain goals.
•  It is a time of clearing out the past, moving beyond and beginning with new energy while taking responsibility for one's present condition.
  
• There is a need for victory here, by combining the images or content of the unconscious with the consciousness for the purpose of achievement.
  
• The Chariot also signifies that the querent has begun controlling a situation by the force of their personality....a focus of Will. 
  
• The goal will need fighting for, but you have been granted the energy to win it!

                                  

The Thoth Key 8: Adjustment/Justice; The Universal Principle of balance: Justice/ Realignment.

The Thoth card uses the symbol of Libra, the scales and within the scales are the Greek letters, Alpha, representing beginnings, and Omega, representing endings or completions. Adjustment is also known as Karma in Eastern teachings; therefore we must finish what we begin or we will be doomed to repeat it! The diamond image around the being symbolizes the piercing of illusion and delusion and represents truth and negotiation.

Adjustment is also an equilibrating function that occurs in our personalities, making sure there are no constant extremes of behavior that keep us from operating effectively in our environments. In the Personality Adjustment is done by natural force and reason.

1. First is Venus,which rules Libra.
   
2. Mars is related because of the purging forces of Geburah.
   
3. The Sun, as stated above, is involved not only  because the Path of Lamed runs from the Sun to Mars, but also because  Adjustment (Justice) must take place in the clear bright light of Truth.
   
4. Saturn is exalted in Libra and finally;
5.  Jupiter which is the planet of Chesed (Mercy). By acknowledging that Libra is ruled by Venus, is also to acknowledge  that behind Adjustment stands the Empress, the primary path of Venus, which is the perfect equilibrium between the forces of Chokma and Binah. It is interesting to note that the planet Venus refers to all of the Sephiroth and encompasses  every single Sephira on the Tree of Life. The implications being that Love is the Ultimate  Power of the Universe. 

The Shadow Tarot Card Corresponding to the 22nd Path of Lamed, is #22-Lafcursiax. Therefore, Lafcursiax is the Shadow side of the Adjustment card.

"Also the lady Maat with her feather and her sword abode to judge the righteous. For Fate was already established."

Aleister Crowley, Liber CCXXXI

"The 22nd Ray appears behind the Tree in the tunnel guarded by Lafcursiax . . . She responds to a prolonged vibration of her name in 'F' sharp (upper register)."

". . . the sigil . . . a glyph of Unbalance . . . shows a pair of scales upset by a crooked demon with an inane countenance. The demon's left hand is in the form of a yod enclosed in a circle from which falls obliquely a sword . . . The scales symbolize the constellation Libra which rules Path 22 . . ."

Kenneth Grant, Nightside of Eden

V838 Monocerotis and its light echo as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on December 17, 2002. Credit: NASA/ESA

The clay tablet image from Sumer, shows the Annunaki  from Nibiru, who were the Star people or "Those who from the sky came" and created, enslaved, and saved mankind.

• The making of a final decision. Judgment and sentencing by a determination of an issue without appeal on this plane.
•  The querent is experiencing "What you put out, you get back". The Law of action- reaction, where the natural forces of nature reach a balance within the individual, setting things right.
  
• The balancing of opposites.
• It often means we are experiencing karmic adjustments in life from past thoughts and actions which have led to the present circumstances of our life. We are not bodies! We are a form of multiple conscious energy that uses bodies to work out thought equations to see if they expand and liberate life or if they stall and subvert life. We must know in order to expand our self -awareness and that of the Universal Self, from which we all are formed! This is the Law of Action and Reaction, that all mind is subject to!

• Inability to redress imbalances.
• Fearing anger.
• adhering to abstract, linear notions of Patriarchal law. Such as,  belief without justice, or Divine Right in hierarchies, or of placing woman in her "rightful place". 

Key 9- The Hermit:

The burgundy cloak is the Egyptian symbol of blood, that represents the inherent honesty and integrity (virtue) within all of us. It pays to remember that we inherit the great Wisdom, Integrity, and Virtue of the Divine and through introspection and contemplation we can "Remember our Divinity".

Astrologically, the Hermit is Virgo ( the wheat in the back ground)

THE HERMIT-key 9 of Qabalistic Tarot, is known as the Path of Yod on the Tree of Life. and connects Tiphareth (Sephiroth called: Beauty) and Chesed (Sephiroth called:  Mercy). In other words, the Path of Yod connects the Christ-Buddha intelligence to the Architect of Manifestation, that is Chesed. Therefore the Yod is the self sustaining point of  primal beginnings in the Universe. It is the coming of the Light of manifestation through the Microcosm; the manifested Universe in direct contact with the Source of All.

Binah, the Great Mother is often called the Great Ocean Mother Mari, and is seen in the image of the dark, deep, endless waters of the Universal Unconsciousness. Thus, we can envision the desert as a conceptualization of crystallized precipitation out of the Vast Ocean of Binah....which is called 'The Light". It should be noted, that the Higher the card is on the Tree of Life, the more important it is that we let the card suggest such images as they will. So once again I heartily suggest skrying the cards as an aid for deeper understanding.

When we look at the HERMIT card, we see an Old Man, and nothing of the Child,yet they are one and the same. This concept maybe best understood by meditating on the image of the Serpent that eats it's own tail.

Of the Hermit, the descriptions are many and arcane, but it must be remembered that this Key-9 Card is primarily about union, representing the first point of awareness of the Higher Self of the Supreme Spiritual Self; a union that is often explained in the most erotic of imagery as it is a copulation of Intelligence; an action from which the Microcosm is born.

Often, the Hermit is related to the Christ figure, but he is better related to the Hebrew pathfinder Moses, who led his people across the Egyptian desert (and was a go between the masses and the Annunaki/Nephilim). In fact, an early Gnostic sect, The Simonion Gnostics, that had taken its name from Simon Magus, first described in the Acts of the Apostles, that the Logos was objectified as Moses. These second century Gnostics taught that the Book of Exodus was an allegory of the soul being led by the Logos (Moses) through the desert of human life into the spiritual promised land. Many of us of the Western culture, know the story of Moses as a Thaumaturge (Arch-magician), whose staff is a wand of enormous power that can strike water from rock and turn into a serpent upon his bidding. The allegory of the  "Magi's wand", turning into a serpent force, refers to the use of Kundalini (Yod) force by the Adept Magician. This serpentine force is a Sacred Fire that is the essence of the Logos transmitted by the phallic wand. To a Tantric, this wand would be called the Divya Linga, Divine Lingam.

Other references to Moses and the Sacred Fire, is the told as God interacting with Moses through a burning bush. Making Moses an intermediary or tool of the Supreme Father. Therefore, Moses is the Hand of God, which emphasizes the meaning of Yod as hand. In Fact, the hand of the Hermit is open, as opposed to the closed fist  meaning of the Wheel of Fortune (see past blog), and means ultimate  Power while also depicting innocence, as an open hand can give or take with out the impediments of thoughts or moral restrictions.

The concept of the Cosmos encircled by the Fiery Spirit  (Yod), is shown by the Orphic egg, wrapped in a serpentine image of the spiral energy.  Cerberus, the Greek three headed dog who guards the gates of Hell, is tamed by the Hermit and is a willing companion. There is an interesting connection here to the Goddess Hel-Aine, and Her Three Yonis (Vagina s- Maid-Mother and Crone), but I'll leave further explanation up to the investigative student of magic, as I don't wish to offend the the flesh-o-phobes of our dogmatic culture. However, The Shadow Tarot attempts to conceptualize the Consumptive Yoni (s) of the Dark Goddess.

 On the Thoth Card, the image of the spermatozoon represents the Yod energies in the world, while the staff which transmits sexual force (Kundalini) is totally hidden. Which is not the case of the Japanese ink scroll depiction  of Bodhidharma (470-543 CE.) , the first patriarch of Chinese and Japaneses Buddhism who himself was as a Moses. The Spiritual Fire  and wand, of a Magus is depicted in this illustration,....before the flesh-o-phobia of Division- ism became popular.

"Also the Priest veiled himself, lest his glory be profaned, lest his word be lost in the multitude."Aleister Crowley, Liber CCXXXI"
The 20th Tunnel is under the aegis of Yamatu whose name should be intoned in the key of 'F', in lower register and with sighing or murmuring undertones . . .

1. Awareness of Earth magics and the ability to commune with this Great Lady Earth consciousness.
2. Understanding of meridians, ley lines, Water witching and even the principles of feng shui.
3. Abilities to activate ancient power sites.
4. To cleanse black water lines (Dark Energy).
5. To cleanse the psychic atmospheres or what some call "cleansing negative energy".
6. Working with crystals, the planet Chiron, crystals in general but especially fluorite.
7. The power of wholeness, self-healing, through meditations. etc.
   

• That knowledge is needed, meditation and prayer are to be used to hear the inner self.
  
• A deep desire to follow that which is meaningful  and/or heartfelt to you. 
  
• Time to gather enough data and information in order to sort things out.
  
•  Introspection which may require you to withdraw from others or the usual environment in order to gain the perspectives needed.
  
•  A stage in life where Wisdom is sought. This is a great card for skrying, as it is of the Inner Wisdom that we so much need to KNOW OURSELVES! So I suggest skrying side by side, the Thoth Hermit and The Shadow Tarot-Yamatu cards.
  

Not all misfortune is Karma. Life is a "crap shoot" of the "fragmented many" of Life, where the dice is thrown,some losing their center making them collide. 

The Thoth Tarot Key10-  WHEEL OF FORTUNE, is called the Path of Caph (meaning Fist)  and runs from Chesed (mercy) to Netzach (Victory) on the Tree of Life. This path is on the side of the Tree of Life called The Pillar of Mercy, and connects the Personality to the Higher Self (all Serphiroth above Tiphareth are in the Higher Self). The Path of Caph, has a mediating function and the planet Jupiter is assigned to this Path. Jupiter, is also said to govern the flow of blood, thus reinforcing the mediating function of Caph.

This is a cycle, albeit a closed one, the Wheel of Fortune is considered a flow of Karma, which is a state of you get what you put out. The Wheel is an important symbol, besides that of a prayer wheel, it is also the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

In his work, The Thirty Two Paths of Wisdom, Paul Foster Case calls the Path of Caph, the Intelligence of Conciliation  which would best be seen as a gyroscope, two wheels interlocking within each other, spinning in opposite directions, for this card represents the mediation of activity between rotating and/or moving opposites. The sense being that there is a cyclic and rhythmic  motion of activity, as well as, cause and effect.

The Sphinx (shown on top of the Wheel of Fortune) is the stable element in the midst of change (as the wheel spins). In the tale of Oedipus on the road to Thebes, the Sphinx bared the road and ask a traveler the question: "What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the afternoon?"

Recently the Sphinx represents the synthesis of the Elemental Forces (Golden Dawn: Papers on the Enochian Mysteries). This recalls the Pentagram, (symbol of Ascended Man), which is  the Spirit above the four Elements.

The Papers on the Enochian Mysteries even state that there are four forms of the Sphinx: Bull, Eagle, Man and Lion, making the Sphinx the cardinal symbol of manifestation. It is the Gate that one passes through both in birth and death and that Intelligence that controls the passage.

• Sativa (philosophic Mercury-Super-conscious)
• Rajas ( Sulfur- activity, passion, and desire
• Tamas ( Salt-- ignorance and inertia, subconsciousness.)

The dog faced monkey, on the left side of the wheel, is in reference to the Plutonian, Cynocephalus. Cynocephalus is the not only the companion of Thoth but also the symbol of time and eternity. Thoth, being called the Lord of Holy Words, by the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians, is the inventor of writing and scribe for the Gods who records the results of the weighing of the Souls on the Path of Lamed (See the past blog on the Adjustment Card).

The Shadow to the Thoth Key 10-The Wheel of fortune, is The Shadow Tarot key 21 (Path of Caph in the Qliphoth) Kurgasiax, the Gateway to the Three Fates. These Three Dark Ladies called Norns in the North,( Horae or Moerae in Greek) are the Triple Goddess, who mates the unborn human soul to the end of a carefully measured Astral Thread of Silver light, which She plays out yearly until She cuts it, which is the time of death.

• Lucid connectedness to the Life thread (s) or Life Web, carried by humans, animals, and the Earth herself. The Power of "The Web Walker" or Husband of Spider Woman who can adjust the fates of others, but only if given permission to do so by the Goddess.
  
• The power to accept and enjoy fate's seasonal turning of the Wheel of time, freeing one to pursue one's path, unencumbered by peer pressure, or the nonsense dual world of "right and wrong".

• in the next 10 weeks or 10 months there shall be new opportunities for creating fortune in the querent's  life.
  
• Life is moving and being busy here, so breakthroughs in prosperity and abundance are approaching fast.
  
• Generally this is a good luck card depicting rewards and recognition for things completed.
• When accompanied by many negative cards, the issue is a karmic one that must be played out with another. The other would be identified by a court card in the reading.
  

Key 12-The Hanged Man. The Universal Principle of Surrender, Breaking Old Patterns.

*Esoteric Title: The Spirit of the Mighty Waters.

1. Shin is the baptism of Fire (Judgment),
   
2. Mem is the baptism of Water (The Hanged Man) and
   
3. Aleph is the baptism of Air (The Fool).
   

Behind The Hanged Man are the Emerald Tablets (summing up of all of nature). "The creator and destroyer who operates all change" is represented by the coiled serpent/rope that the left foot hangs from. The lower serpent represents the effect of the Divine Work. Crowley called this representation, "Through his Work a Child is begotten, as shown by the Serpent stirring in the Darkness of the Abyss below him."

It may behoove us to remember that serpents are the way to represent the motion of spiraling forces that enliven all things. Through out our histories, the Dying God is represented in mythology. Osiris, Prometheus, Odin, Christ, and even the Greek Goddess Artemis  was known as the "Hanged One"---none of these are the final body-death. Rather the mythologies represent the immersion of the Great Mother Spirit into the Astral Fluid of Manifested Consciousness. As always, these blogs are just short explanations of long probabilities...so research is necessary.

Here the Author of the Shadow Tarot couldn't resist the Atlantis legend as well. She goes on to state that the Ancient Women of Atlantis, sat before the Ancient Stone heads of the Ancients ones, singing and weaving frequencies of energy to keep the Ancient Ones at bay.

These ancient Priestesses were "the Wyrd (old English, meaning "to Weave") Woman", who could weave the frequency threads of the Etheric or Astral matter, to prevent interference from the Ancient Ones, as mankind was just developing under the tutelage of the Atlantians, and was too new , thus easily moved between the dimensions. It was feared that too much contact with the El would dislodge mankind form this earth.

Also depicted on this Shadow Tarot card, is the pentagonal altar stone: "The Shiva Lingam" or "navel stone" that was used to call the Old Ones from their dreaming sleep. On one side of this altar is the ancient sigil of The Old Ones, and on the other side is the symbol of the "Nommo". A third side is covered in the ancient symbols of protection form the Starfish like "Spawn of Tiamat", who are usually shown as Dragons.

The letter E marks the entrance into the Tunnel/Gate of Malkunofat, representing the great Serpent or great maw of the telluric Dragon and/or the Great Leviathan that swallowed Jonah. Which signifies the Great Feminine Principle, Mother's secret "bagha" (protection) place The Life giving Womb of The collective Unconscious.

The Powers gained by entering the Gate of Malkunofat are:

1. The ability to manipulate the astral plane, participating in manifestation on the physical plane.
2. "Water witching", for that is the life blood of Earth.
3. The power to transcend time/space.
4. Man-made ego death by drowning the "small ego" into the Divine Collective Unconscious and experiencing the Nirvana of the Soul.
   

• In a time and place of surrender and should suspend their mind by letting go and volunteering to enter a place of solitude within.
  
• This card states," In losing yourself you find yourself".
• Sacrificing something of less value to gain something of higher value.
• Sometimes involuntary sacrifice imposed on you by an outside authority. Like taking a cut in pay etc.; as shown by accompanying cards.
  

Key 13-Death is about the 1st law of thermodynamics (physics) "There is only one energy that cannot be created nor destroyed but only transformed."

The Thoth Death Card, represents the Universal Principle of Letting Go and Moving On. As Crowley stated:

1. The scorpion represents that part of ourselves that is willing to protect, and move away from conditions which cause pain and hurt.Letting go.
   
2. The snake sheds old skin in order to rebuild anew. This reminds us that in order to transform old identities, we must be willing to let go of the old and move on.
   
3. The Eagle or Phoenix, is about vital force. of immortality and regeneration. The bird in or nature is vital free spirit who is irrepressible and ever changing.
   
4. The skeleton represents the inherent body structure that allows movement and change within our self expression as well as, it is the "bones" of who we are and represents our ancestral lineage and our commitment to grow and evolve through birth/death cycles.
   
5. The Crown represents expanded consciousness; where one has conquered the survival mind of the animal....We know we don't survive this manifestation. We move on to expand and liberate Life!

(illustrated on the card) and is also the Hebrew simple letter for Movement(Thus the running skeleton).

putrefaction, which is the decaying black mass in the crucible that eventually transforms into gold and is considered a trans-formative process of turning death into new life.Therefore the Thoth Deck card symbolizes this trans formative process as a scythe, a harvesting tool that is also a symbol for Time.

Movement being seen as change/transformation, which is the skeletal pattern of the Universe. For it is only by constant change can entropy be overcome. The term "Dark night of the Soul" refers to the darkness of unknowing, where the psyche is striped of  the desire nature of the personality. This leaves a dreadful emptiness, almost a complete disinterest in everything. Personally, upon experiencing these Three Paths of the Dark Night, The Devil, Art and Death, there was left only a thought of despair repeating over and over again, abolishing any other desire or thought. It was, " I can't be YOU, You must be me."     The Higher Self responded to that by sending my " skeletal awareness" directly to the Great Mother Binah, who then broke down and reassembled the Personality into that of the Original Divine Child, and I awoke as the "Will to Be" and/or the Desire of the Great Mother of Form to continue the Great Work.

Once a Divine Child always a Divine Child.... by wearing the masks of man-made definitions, we've forgotten that, and thus disinherited ourselves and our personality, from the Macrocosm.

Mars rules Scorpio. Scorpio rules the sex organs. Thus this Death Card, represents a Sexual energy, a reproductive energy which is consciously directed in a physical exercises such as  that of Tantra, or that of  Crowley's Middle Pillar, an activity best represented by Crowley's Death Card. The initiate is now following the "Path of the Flaming Sword", which is both destructive and constructive and not for the weak of character. or for those who fear death, as shown by trying to dominate others.

The Shadow Tarot key 24-Niantiel, is the comparable to the Thoth Death card key13 and the 24th path of Nun.  Here Baron Samedi (Voodoo baron of death), the guardian of the cross roads where the worlds meet, where the dead are buried, so that they may be risen from the dead with necromantic arts of witches and sorcerers, is shown as a type of joker or jester, rather than a skeleton.

"Also Asar was hidden in Amenti; and the Lords of Time swept him with the sickle of death."Aleister Crowley, Liber CCXXXI

All this wonderful dark-side image of the Tree of Life, the Qliphoth, has entities that instead of being called Sephira of the Day side Tree of Life, they are called the Qlipha.

Also depicted is a golden angel, Lilith image with  goose feet and a cat' head. (depicted is a Sumerian clay tablet showing Lilith)  .

1. Conscious reincarnation.
2. The abilities to merge with dark plutonian frequencies of energy for transformation and regeneration.
3. Personal magnetism, inexhaustible energy and sexual power, joy and bliss.
   

• Time, Age and transformation.
  
• Rarely does it symbolize physical death and only if borne out by the accompanying cards.
  
• For the Querent, this is the Principle of letting go, and moving on.
  
• A rebirth out of Old conditions. 
  
• A type of transitional metamorphosis which destroys the something old to build the something new.. A Realization of Life Power as it is released from past confines and revitalized by change and regeneration.
  
• That we are eliminating what is no longer in service.
  
• Giving up your sense of self to a feeling of merging with another or The Greater Self who is both life-death.
  
•  We are pruning and composing.