the Magician

The  Magician 

1 The Magician

The magician is a card ruled by the element of Mercury

This card is also known as the Magus of power.

This is the card of the human condition.

The magician in the traditional card this is a man who has in front of him the sword the pentacle the cup and the staff of wood these are the tools of the creative mind and he is seen to raise his hand to heaven to draw down the power to use creatively in the physical plane. This is the card of man the searcher after truth.

This is the card of the human trying to be creative and manifest their power on earth it is the card of the seeker after a place in society. This card is the arbitrator of all the suits.

The power of the wands

as a support as building material as the breath of earth and as the fuel of the fire of creativity as well as the fire of destruction or the torch of enlightenment to lead you through the dark, All uses of the wood and its essence and the ability to work in wood and to understand

its uses are represented by the suit of wands.

The wand can range from the staff that supports when you walk to the septa held as an instrument of power by one who rules. An instrument charged with power and authority that by its nature creates magic

The power of the cup

As a vessel to hold food / liquid or a sacrifice and as a metaphor for the mind as the vessel of the spirit,the power of the mind to create in the material form one of our first creative acts was to make vessels the containers of the life force in the form of holding water all vessels are represented by the suit of cups. The chalice of the grail in which the wine is turned to the blood of Christ the amphora of wine sacrificed to the god or gods by the venerable Celtic tribes in northern Europe. A metaphor for the body of the human the vessel of knowledge and emotions. The mixing bowl for herbs and making cakes a cooking pot, The alchemical vessel. The crucible in which the metal is made.

The power of the sword

As a weapon of war or the tool of every day life the power to cut through things, the will of the enlightening, the destruction of the enemy even the pen in its original form was a small sharp stylus that cut through things both in a metaphorical sense and in the literal way. The pen was a small sword that cut the clay or carved the wood or stone to facilitate communication. Swords of power and authority Excalibur the sword of state the metamorphosis of stone into iron the alchemical principals of metal work.

The power of the suite of pentacles

The pentacle is the most mysterious and materialistic suit of the cards in that the suit represents the power of the mandala and its spiritual ability to centre and allow for the transition of the human mind to an altered sate of consciousness and the search for the deeper meaning with in the experience of life.

On the other hand it also represents money wealth and ostentation and all the bad things that money and power bring in the form of oppression of the poor and the unequal distribution of the wealth of the planet that humans bring about by their greed for wealth.

It also has a role to play as the protection of amulets and shields It represents all the city's and the power of the elitist wealth and the funding of army's and weapons without it the rest of the suits are but pale shadows It is the flower of the other suits collective creativity used for good or ill. It is wise to remember that the life of Christ was sold for thirty silver pentacles. But with out the Christ sacrifices there would be no Christian salvation and without the mandala there would be no focus for the practice of meditation and few structural paths to the enlightened state of Nirvana for those seek to become full realised beings.

The Magus of power the Magician represents the first recognition of the shaman, the begins of the priesthood the first struggling to become a full realised human striving for the perfection of god or goddess as full realised in the true sense of the practice at the services of all existence yet so in tune as to be in control of it all at one and the same time. Seeking your rightful place in the cosmic order.

This the card that represents the basic DNA struggling to evolve into the ascended form. It is the dragon of the sanctified warriors conquest, the saintly knight St. George saving the maiden from the dragon of chaos, at the same time being the dragon, being the beast on which the whore of Babylon will ride she is the same being as the saintly maiden he has rescued. It is the card of the archangel of light challenging the creator for the real freedom of will and illuminating the reality of the creators creation. It is the card of the of the man of free will the true human following their path what ever their religion for their own sake fighting to stem the tide of organised corruption that comes with the institution of hierarchies.

It is for this reason that this is the only card in the pack that I have depicted as a dragon rather than as a human we all have a lower brain that is our last connection to the reptile kingdom it is the part of our function that controls our breathing and our autonomic nervous system with out it none of us would live it is the first brain we posses as living creatures before we developed our higher brain it is the spark from which all of us are borne into existence.

TRUTH UPRIGHT POSITION

In this interpretation of the card and its value and meaning the pictorial image is one of a dragon the Dragon has always epitomised the creative drive of the planet and as a consequence it has been the symbol of humanities creative drive as well as the symbol of the Christians most evil embodiment Satan the beast and the serpent but the true nature of the Christians serpent is the snake the legless creature that goes about on its belly the supreme creator took away the use of its legs according to legend forcing the serpent to go around on his belly for ever more as a mark of the fall . The legends of the dragon on the other hand has always maintained that they flew and the walked on four legs or sometimes two and breathed fire and hoarded gold and precious things as well as being the foundations of great and old knowledge.

The depiction on this card is a dragon of mythology peering through a rent in the fabric of reality looking at a volcano on a small south sea island beginning to erupt his breath is joined by the lightning that strikes through the rent in time to link his world with the world of the island.

In the dragons world also we see the traditional items of the tarot with another gold collector the leprechauns of the Celtic peoples there is also the rat who has lived alongside man for as long as man has existed exploiting his rubbish and waste.

The meaning of the card is the power of will the development of skill mastery of your environment. It is the power of the foundation of the skill of oratory and your ability as an individual to lead a tribe or nation as is inherent in all of us but it must be tempered by learning the lessons inherent in the history of the tarot pack and life. It is the initiative to take a risk to safeguard the environment or the tribe it is the card of the ecological warrior. It is the potential to organise and communicate it is the card of the idealist revolutionary that cries power to the people it is the charismatic leader who is beloved as a guru and is there for the card of one frowned on by most modern government. As the card stands for the individual and their ability to act collectively from altruistic motives to further the cause of the many.

IN THE REVERSE POSITION

It stands for all the negative attributes of those things, power government organisational skills used not in the services of the people but in the oppression and exploitation of the people in the manner of any capitalist or authoritarian state and the attributes in humans that lead us to follow the path of greed, exploitation and oppression. It is the card of fascistic leader who’s rule must be obeyed and go unquestioned. It is philosopher of the cruel empire who control’s unseen manipulating the council to achieve his own ends. It is the card of the smart operating corporate raider and the power that is admired in business Those who practice its reveres reading willingly will be destroyed by its power as they twist and turn in the core of the lie