Upright: ardour, country man, good and honest man.
Reversed: apathy, indulgence, austerity, tolerance, condescension.
Most readers see in the Kings the dominant (patriarchal) father’s figure. But it is truly the case? Not all the rulers were Read more KS King of Wands
The Tower, the Rider-Waite and the Karpathy-Smith Tarot.
Most people fear this card as they perceive it as the expression of ultimate destruction. The Tower, however, represents only Read more KS The Tower
One of the most common mistakes made within the Tarot readers is to consider the Magician the fully developed Master, a position which belongs to Read more KS The Magician
The traditional interpretation of the card is a blond woman. Her attributes, according to Etteilla, are virtue, wisdom, honesty. Mathers adds success, happiness and Read more KS Queen of Cups
The original meaning attributed to the card by Etteilla is victory, success, achievement, advantage, gain. Mathers preserved this interpretation, while Waite Read more KS Nine of Cups
According to Etteilla, the Nine of Wands signifies delays, distance, removal or suspension. Mathers saw the card as Read more KS Nine of Wands
“The Hermit, as depicted by the medieval illustrators, is an old man leaning on a pilgrim’s staff who walks along a path lit by a lantern. He hides the light from his lantern beneath the folds of a cloak, and a serpent precedes him on the path.” (Fredric Lionel, The Magic Tarot)
The truth which we all seek is Read more KS Hermit
Etteilla associated the Ten of Disks with home, house, domicile and by extension with family. Mathers preserved Read more KS Ten of Disks
The Ace of Disks (Pentacles) is the card of the Winter Solstice.
While according to the Christian mythology the Winter Solstice has been assimilated with the birth of Jesus Christ, esoterically Read more KS Ace of Disks
The Sefer Yetzirah describes how ‘Yah, Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, the living God, King of the universe, El Shaddai, Merciful and Gracious, High and Exalted, dwelling in eternity, whose name is Holy – He is lofty and holy’ created ‘His universe with thirty-two mystical paths of Wisdom’.
These mysterious ‘thirty-two mystical paths of Wisdom’ are composed by the ‘Ten Sefirot of Nothingness and twenty-two Foundation Letters: three Mothers, seven Doubles and twelve Elementals.’
The Tree of Life’s architecture and the distribution of the twenty-two letters on the Tree differ between the Hebrew and the so-called Hermetic interpretation, respectively it further debated among scholars. The apple of discord Read more The 32 paths of Wisdom in the Kárpáthy-Smith deck
