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Sun/ Wheel of Fortune / Magician

Predilection:

To show things as they truly are
vs. to accept things as they must become
vs. to make things as they are intended to be.


The Sun, The Wheel and The Magician share a concern with and expression of the importance of time and change. The Sun adds its roundness and constant periodicity to the circularity and endless revolutions of The Wheel. In this, they share the femininity of cycles and dependable repetition. The Sun adds the linear directness and the overwhelming power of its rays to the perfect focus and unbending intent of The Magician. In this, they share the masculinity of limitless energy and unwavering certainty.

The Sun reveals the shape and nature of everything, and fills whatever it touches with confidence and energy.

The Wheel experiences and accepts everything, and is excited by whatever happens to it.

The Magician manipulates everything with skill and intention, awakening and enlivening whatever he pays attention to.

The Sun is clear, steady, bright and simple. It dispels fear and doubt with its presence, lending energy and optimism to the task at hand. Its rising is the source of all optimism and brings with it the joy of awakening and continued existence. It is the certainty at the center of things, the clear awareness of what is and is not. The motto of The Sun is "I am." The job of The Sun is to be the engine that turns all the wheels of the world.

The Wheel is restless, driven to move ceaselessly from place to place, from drama to drama. At once actor and audience, it is simultaneously involved and detached. At the mercy of what it cannot foresee or prevent, it alternates between exhilaration and lassitude, high spirits and depression, good and bad fortune. Aware of the patterns and repetitions that link seemingly random events, it is unimpressed by them and is capable of patience. The motto of The Wheel is "Wheeee!" The job of The Wheel is to enjoy, both the intensity of the unpredictable moment and the serenity of grand and dependable cycles.

The Magician makes things appear and disappear like rabbits out of a hat. With focused awareness and skill, he opens up possibilities and closes them. Graceful, eloquent and logical, he charms the willing and persuades the unwilling. Armed with unbending intent, he approaches obstacles with serene confidence and faith in his powers. His motto is "I will," and he discounts the possibility of failure. The job of The Magician is to make intention into reality, no matter how unlikely or improbable, and in the process, to amaze all who watch him do it.

Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, The Sun's directness can cast shadows as intense as its light. It can be pitiless and absolute, dismissing what it cannot see as worthless, foolish or insane, and it can be an implacable enemy of whatever is hesitant or weak. Unable to abide a secret, it can be indiscreet. Impatient with frailty or innuendo, it can fail to see the humor in a joke.

The Wheel can be fatalistic and melodramatic. Helpless in the face of events, it feels alternately victimized by circumstance and unaccountably lucky. It accepts what happens as destiny, fate or fortune. It experiences everything that happens to it as intensely important, but with no sense of control, it seeks reassurance from seers and oracles, and believes what they say. When things are going well, it hopes that they will continue. When things go badly, it waits for them to get better. The Wheel lives on hopes and fears, guides itself by past experience, and never stops moving.

The Magician can be willful and petty. A controlling perfectionist, he can demand the impossible from himself and others. Given to self-deceit and out-and-out lies, he pretends to powers he does not possess in order to enhance his image and instill unwarranted confidence in others.

The Sun, Wheel and Magician form the sides of a triangle, the only triumvirate in a universe of pairs. It contains that universe's only nonlinear interior space, a place of privacy, complexity and reserve.

Together, they coruscate — unpredictably glistening, flashing, darkening, reflecting and revealing, multiplying the unexpected and expanding the boundaries of the known and normal by a whole dimension.

 

[Lord Lavender]

The Star and Strength share a root in the creative motherhood of The Empress. The women in all three cards are one divine form in different costumes, with different tasks. To The Empress, all her children are beloved, and seen and treated equally. The Star sees benign beauty and goodness in nature and herself. She trusts what she sees and leaves it alone. Strength sees the raw, immediate power in nature and in herself. She controls and contains it like a dam works with a river.

The Star is remote, cool and calm. Strength is hot, intense and close. For the unclothed Star, the world and her own nature are fine as they are, and can only suffer from interference. For Strength, fully clothed, the world and her own nature need restraints to work properly.

The Star is the innate perfection in things, their natural rightness and goodness, and their connection with what is highest and deepest in the creative process. She fears nothing in nature because for her, there's nothing in nature to be afraid of. She sees nothing in nature to fix because nothing in nature is wrong. Her motto is "Leave things alone and they'll be alright." The job of The Star is to cooperate with the nature of things, to witness its perfection, and to resist the urge to improve it.

Strength is the two-fold power at the center of things, the expansive and the contractive power, force and form. She knows they must be kept in balance, and that takes constant vigilance and effort. She cannot press too hard on the source of power or she'll cut off its breath and make it weak. She cannot relax her grip on it, or it will expand violently and swallow her whole. The job of Strength is to keep the power of nature in check, and release it as needed and necessary.

Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, The Star can be amoral, eccentric and cranky. She may be undiscriminating, and unaware and in denial when things get broken or go wrong. She may routinely support lost causes and put herself in harms way, in the belief that she'll be OK no matter what. And she can be peevish, whiney, and aggrieved when things don't work out.

Strength can be moody, sullen and prone to fits of temper. She may eat too much or starve herself. She can be a voracious lover or become celibate without warning. She can go from baseless self-confidence to irrational timidity. She can make herself weak and frightened, a pussycat with a weak meow or she can be larger than life, throw her weight around, laugh, cry and howl at peak volume, a lion out of control.

Together they are graceful, beautiful, peaceful and strong, with their powers and talents in perfect balance and harmony, and all their virtues at the service of the world.

 

[Hiraeth]

Death / Emperor

Imagery — Things to Look at and Contemplate:

Postures — riding / sitting
(Changing vs. maintaining, future vs. present)

Colors — black and white / red and orange
(Stark and minimal vs. passionate and full-blown)

Clothing — armor only / armor, robe and crown
(Personal, intimate and absolute vs. formal, ceremonial and imperious)

Symbols —
horse / throne
(things as they will be vs. things as they are)

banner / orb and scepter
(different symbols of the same higher authority in whose name both perform their respective functions)

Landscapes — complex / simple
(detailed reality vs. abstract principle)

Astrology:

Scorpio (Death) — dark, deep, cold, seductive, frightening

Aries (Emperor) — bright, clear, hot, attractive, reassuring

Predilection:

Anarchy vs. Order

Democracy vs. Hierarchy

Necessity vs. Logic

Death and The Emperor have in common the qualities of polar absolutes: both are crystal clear in the definition of their function, territory and authority; neither can be moderated or softened in the performance of their duties; each balances the other perfectly — one deconstructs and wipes away, the other organizes and establishes. They are both utterly dependable.

The Emperor makes Death lawful, and gives him pride of place in the scheme of things. Death makes everything mutable, so that the law itself is constantly changing, adaptive and alive.

The Emperor is armored, a warrior in the service of the light. His job and responsibility is to make sense of things, to bring order out of chaos, to refute the bogus, to make peace between the usual and the exception. The Emperor permits no secret or special powers to challenge the authority of his law. His motto is: "There's a perfectly good explanation for everything."

Death is also armored, a warrior in the service of the dark. His job is to establish the edge of the known, and to push everything over that edge into mystery. He unfurls the banner of the realm of darkness, in which the rules are so different from those of the kingdom of light that they seem like chaos. He is the master of the unknown and the fear and adventure of the unknown, and his banner is the veil of the unknown.

Death pulls the rug out from under the feet of all comfortable assumptions and established procedures, and sends them tumbling into the abyss. He is the ultimate anarchist against whose activity all laws are meant to protect. He makes the possible The Empress' continuous production of life, and The Emperor's continuous organization of life, by removing it as fast as it is created. Without the bottomless pit of mystery, the known and knowable universe would choke on itself and grind to a halt.

Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, The Emperor is a tyrant and stick-in-the-mud, controlling and manipulative, unable to let things take their course or go their own way. He equates mystery with ignorance, and can be afraid of the dark. What he doesn't know or can't account for he believes does not exist. He resents criminals and upholds the established order.

Death can be vicious and gratuitously cruel. He will make false claims and promises, and spread ruin and upheaval wantonly. He has no fear of consequences, and his reasons for things can be akin to madness. He supports any kind of change for its own sake, cloaking anarchist impulses in a cracked or specious reasonableness.

Together, they make life both orderly and fresh, peaceful without tyranny, prosperous without stagnation, always believable but constantly fascinating. Together, their motto is: "The only things you can depend on are death and taxes."

 

[Agent Washington]

The Star and Strength share a root in the creative motherhood of The Empress. The women in all three cards are one divine form in different costumes, with different tasks. To The Empress, all her children are beloved, and seen and treated equally. The Star sees benign beauty and goodness in nature and herself. She trusts what she sees and leaves it alone. Strength sees the raw, immediate power in nature and in herself. She controls and contains it like a dam works with a river.

The Star is remote, cool and calm. Strength is hot, intense and close. For the unclothed Star, the world and her own nature are fine as they are, and can only suffer from interference. For Strength, fully clothed, the world and her own nature need restraints to work properly.

The Star is the innate perfection in things, their natural rightness and goodness, and their connection with what is highest and deepest in the creative process. She fears nothing in nature because for her, there's nothing in nature to be afraid of. She sees nothing in nature to fix because nothing in nature is wrong. Her motto is "Leave things alone and they'll be alright." The job of The Star is to cooperate with the nature of things, to witness its perfection, and to resist the urge to improve it.

Strength is the two-fold power at the center of things, the expansive and the contractive power, force and form. She knows they must be kept in balance, and that takes constant vigilance and effort. She cannot press too hard on the source of power or she'll cut off its breath and make it weak. She cannot relax her grip on it, or it will expand violently and swallow her whole. The job of Strength is to keep the power of nature in check, and release it as needed and necessary.

Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, The Star can be amoral, eccentric and cranky. She may be undiscriminating, and unaware and in denial when things get broken or go wrong. She may routinely support lost causes and put herself in harms way, in the belief that she'll be OK no matter what. And she can be peevish, whiney, and aggrieved when things don't work out.

Strength can be moody, sullen and prone to fits of temper. She may eat too much or starve herself. She can be a voracious lover or become celibate without warning. She can go from baseless self-confidence to irrational timidity. She can make herself weak and frightened, a pussycat with a weak meow or she can be larger than life, throw her weight around, laugh, cry and howl at peak volume, a lion out of control.

Together they are graceful, beautiful, peaceful and strong, with their powers and talents in perfect balance and harmony, and all their virtues at the service of the world.

Same as brainz

 

[GloriaInExcelsisDeo]

Imagery — Things to Look at and Contemplate:

Postures — hanging / sitting
(Serene, original vs. comfortable, conventional)

Colors — red and blue / white and gold
(Passionate, deep, inward-looking vs. immaculate, perfect, outward looking)

Clothing — fitted / loose
(Controlled effort vs. effortless expansion)

Symbols —
cross and halo / throne and crown
(spiritual vs. secular authority)

living wood / trees
(derivative vs. original; transformative vs. natural)

rope / cushions
(distant connection vs. intimate support)

Foreground Figures — male / female (son – mother)

Astrology:

Water (Hanged Man) — deep, dark, formless and elemental

Venus (Empress) — emergent, light, beautiful and real

Predilection:

Spiritual vs. Physical

Detached vs. Involved

Abstract vs. Specific


The Hanged Man and The Empress have in common a concern with birth and life — physical birth and mortal life, and spiritual rebirth and immortal life. Venus (Empress) is born from the waves of the sea (elemental water). The Hanged Man is born from the womb of The Empress. Being driven at birth from a vessel of blood matches in intensity rebirth by the immersion of baptism in a body of water. The experience of entering the world at birth is equaled by the experience of withdrawing from the world through meditation.

They contrast as detachment vs. involvement, relaxation vs. contraction, tranquility vs. turbulence, concern with simplicity vs. preoccupation with details.

The Hanged Man is focused on purifying, cleansing and deepening himself. Distancing himself from the details of creation, he offers the experience of enlightened detachment and inner illumination to whoever is willing to share it.

The Empress is actively creative, nurturing, protective, and has an intense, immediate, hands-on connection with all her creations.

Unintegrated and unrealized, The Hanged Man can be self-involved and insensitive, self-indulgent and passive, depressed and addictive, grandiose and impractical, lonely and in need of support.

The Empress can be domineering and meddlesome, small-minded and abusive, melodramatic and possessive, demanding attention and feeling abandoned.

Together they are generous, loyal and protective to a fault, and they can be creative and original to the point of genius. They raise caring, selflessness, love and devotion to transcendent levels.

 

[Atomic Fiend]

IX The Devil and VI Lovers Arcana

 

[Totenkindly]

http://www.tarotschool.com/Sun_Wheel_Magician.html

 

[Red Ribbon]

The same as Cat Brainz and agentwashington

 

[The Cat]

Birth Card Notes:
Judgement / High Priestess

Imagery — Things to Look at and Contemplate:

Postures — standing, facing upward / seated, facing forward
(Distant, incomplete, uncertain and in process vs. immediate, complete and confident in the moment.)

Colors — gold, red and white, above grey and blue / blue, white and yellow, flanked by black and white
(The clear, high and brilliant calling to unfolding, unformed, unclear potential vs. mystery embedded in mystery)

Clothing — nude / robed (Natural vs. formal)

Symbols —

coffins / pillars and veil
(Awakening vs. initiation)

white banner with red cross / scroll and cross
(New awareness vs. ancient knowledge)

trumpet / crown
(Loud inner imperative vs. silent inner certainty)

Foreground — the angels and nudes / priestess
(Complexity of beginning vs. simplicity of completion)



Astrology:

Fire (Judgement) — the natural, visible force of light and heat

Moon (High Priestess) — the keeper of mysteries and secrets



Predilection:

Loud and Active vs. Quiet and Patient

Raw and Direct vs. Subtle and Discreet

Open to the new and experimental vs.
A preference for the ancient & timeless


Judgement and The High Priestess share the energy of beginnings, the beginning of an awakening and the beginning of an initiation. And so they also share the finality of endings, since each marks an irrevocable boundary between levels of awareness. The Priestess guards the gate to the last secrets of self and world. Judgement is the door to the beginnings of the secret knowledge of self and world. On the far side of Judgement everything is sound asleep in the dream of the everyday. On the far side of The Priestess everything is wide awake at the end of the final journey.

Judgement listens to the sound of a call so loud that it cannot be ignored. It emerges from the ordinary, stripped of everything it previously held precious and identified with. It begins a brand new life in a world made new by a new awareness, awakened and motivated by a distant energy it hears and obeys but doesn't understand. It finds itself in a state of constant transformation fueled by a steady and unquenchable inner fire.

The High Priestess is mysterious, self-effacing and self-sufficient. Her silence is ancient and perfect. She says nothing and does nothing, but leaves nothing unsaid or undone. She is cool, serene and complete.

Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, Judgement can be deaf to the inner call and heedless of its potential, remaining steadfastly concerned with everyday matters and ordinary pursuits. Nevertheless, it can still be susceptible to visions, ghosts and all sorts of paranormal experiences, with a strong psychic talent and a readiness to believe stories of the super- and supra-natural.

The stubborn denial of Judgement can join forces with the Priestess' certainty that she knows everything. When this happens, they combine as foolish self-confidence alternating with a fear of the unknown, making personal growth a harrowing experience.

Together, they focus on the transcendent rather than on the commonplace. They combine high energy, and a capacity for radical change and impressive growth, with an intuitive awareness of the vastness of the mystery of things. They can be great explorers, willing to plunge into the fertile and frightening unknown and take their chances with it.

 

[Neal Caffreynated]

Moon/Hermit

Imagery — Things to Look at and Contemplate:

Postures — crawling / standing
(the rawness of beginnings vs. the fullness of completion)

Colors — dark blue, purple & deep bright yellow / luminous blue & grey
(deep, lurid vs. high, clear consciousness)

Landscapes — valley / peak
(low vs. high; travelling far vs. climbing up)

Symbols — Moon / Star, Path / Staff, Pool / Mountain, Rich and varied
landscape / Simple, uncluttered landscape
(all these contrasts suggest the difference between dark, rich, mysterious beginnings and light, abstract, exalted endings)

Foreground Figures — Crayfish / Hermit
(the two extremes of the journey of personal growth and spiritual evolution)



Astrology:

Pisces (Moon) — sleep and dream; darkness – light and shadow; fluid, shifting images; profound yearnings; deep waters

Virgo (Hermit) — observant, analytical and smart; rooted in detail; patient, industrious; a perfectionist, idealist and purist; reaches for the high ground



Predilection:

The importance of night vs. The importance of day

The importance of pain / pleasure; beauty / ugliness vs.
The importance of wisdom/ignorance; persistence / giving up

The world as mysterious and uncertain vs.
The world as challenging and straightforward


The Moon and The Hermit share extreme qualities — low and high, vague and precise, yearning and ambitious, obscure and clear, far and near, many voices and one voice, fluid and solid.

For both, the journey's the thing. For both, the heights are the objective. For both, illumination is the essence, while darkness is the matrix. One faces the darkness of the untraveled path ahead, while the other faces the darkness of the heights beyond reach. The light available to each leaves their darkness intact.

The Moon is the uncertainty at the heart of things, the unrealized and phantom possibility, the power of mutation and transformation. Shape-shifting unconsciousness and identity offer multiple realities that reflect inner rather than outer landscapes. The job of The Moon is to evolve, to move forward by inhabiting ever more subtle and elaborate forms, to experience challenge, growth and renewal with each new version of itself.

The Hermit is the finished, final clarity that shines at the center of things, the distillation of knowledge gained through effort, persistence, intelligence, and courage. Perfect faith and endless labor are rewarded by being lit from within. He becomes a steady, continuous, living light, a beacon to those who seek the outermost boundaries of personal growth. For those on the upward journey, the way is lit by those who have gone before.

Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, The Moon can be filled with nameless terrors and subject to depression. It may not trust what it sees or what it hears, and it is prone to believing the worst. It can be gulled into believing fantastic claims and stories, and may be drawn onto false paths with little or no reward at their end. It is subject to nightmares, and may come to fear sleep.

The Hermit can be ambitious, and lose sight of or never see how perfectly he can serve a higher power, or how pure he can become himself. He can be immersed in detail, careful of every step on the way to serving his own interests. He may be so practical and down-to-earth, that mysterious and unlikely paths are rejected out of hand. He can become so absorbed in making his own way that he has little time or patience for anyone else, and thus becomes isolated and emotionally barren.

Together, they travel from the depths to the heights, exploring the shadows and precipices that wait for every traveller on the path to knowledge. They promise faithfully that the great journey of personal evolution can be completed, and they will show you the way.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Temperance and the Hierophant

Temperance and The Hierophant share a passionate nature, a concern for purity of intention and action, faith in personal evolution and perfectability. Both are impatient with wrong-doing and lack of effort.

They contrast as natural vs. formal, personal vs. hierarchical, righteous vs. moral, individual vs. communal. Self-knowledge contrasts with received lineage. The path of mighty effort contrasts with the path of perfect surrender.

The Hierophant listens to the inner voice and allows it to speak through him. He knows the secret path that connects the inner and the outer, the hidden and the visible; and he is a sure guide to anyone traveling from one to the other. The Hierophant's job is to clearly separate right from wrong, to create and lead the rituals of the spirit, to teach the true knowledge, to open the door to the chamber of the heart; and to initiate all who have done the outer practices into the inner mysteries. He is the guardian of the gates of Paradise.

Temperance is the captain of the armies of the spirit, the beam of light in a dark room. He combines the powers of opposite intensity — of hot and cold, of light and dark, of dry and wet, of weightless and heavy — into the passionate impulse of the center. He is the drawn bow of the arrow of Sagittarius, aimed at the bulls-eye. His job is to know first-hand every danger and pitfall of the right and left-hand paths, and then to find and travel the middle way. His energy, passion and purity are the shortest, surest way out of the prison of our personal limitations, and into our freedom and true power.

Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, The Hierophant can be intolerant, inflexible and hypocritical, concerned with form instead of essence, permitting vice while forbidding heresy, exchanging the inner kingdom for a personal following.

Temperance can be given to extremes — of self-righteousness and self-contempt, of anger and pity, of action and lethargy, of asceticism and license. He can be self-involved, lazy, sloppy, and given to fantasies of personal greatness.

Together, they can be focused, inspired and charismatic. They can be both trusted leaders and loyal followers. They know, speak and act from their own highest truth.

 

[Frosty]

Death/emperor

 

[Mayflower]

The Sun/The Wheel/The Magician

 

[Forever]

Birth Card Notes:
Death / Emperor


Death / Emperor

DeathEmperor

Imagery — Things to Look at and Contemplate:

Postures — riding / sitting
(Changing vs. maintaining, future vs. present)

Colors — black and white / red and orange
(Stark and minimal vs. passionate and full-blown)

Clothing — armor only / armor, robe and crown
(Personal, intimate and absolute vs. formal, ceremonial and imperious)

Symbols —
horse / throne
(things as they will be vs. things as they are)

banner / orb and scepter
(different symbols of the same higher authority in whose name both perform their respective functions)

Landscapes — complex / simple
(detailed reality vs. abstract principle)



Astrology:

Scorpio (Death) — dark, deep, cold, seductive, frightening

Aries (Emperor) — bright, clear, hot, attractive, reassuring



Predilection:

Anarchy vs. Order

Democracy vs. Hierarchy

Necessity vs. Logic


Death and The Emperor have in common the qualities of polar absolutes: both are crystal clear in the definition of their function, territory and authority; neither can be moderated or softened in the performance of their duties; each balances the other perfectly — one deconstructs and wipes away, the other organizes and establishes. They are both utterly dependable.

The Emperor makes Death lawful, and gives him pride of place in the scheme of things. Death makes everything mutable, so that the law itself is constantly changing, adaptive and alive.

The Emperor is armored, a warrior in the service of the light. His job and responsibility is to make sense of things, to bring order out of chaos, to refute the bogus, to make peace between the usual and the exception. The Emperor permits no secret or special powers to challenge the authority of his law. His motto is: "There's a perfectly good explanation for everything."

Death is also armored, a warrior in the service of the dark. His job is to establish the edge of the known, and to push everything over that edge into mystery. He unfurls the banner of the realm of darkness, in which the rules are so different from those of the kingdom of light that they seem like chaos. He is the master of the unknown and the fear and adventure of the unknown, and his banner is the veil of the unknown.

Death pulls the rug out from under the feet of all comfortable assumptions and established procedures, and sends them tumbling into the abyss. He is the ultimate anarchist against whose activity all laws are meant to protect. He makes the possible The Empress' continuous production of life, and The Emperor's continuous organization of life, by removing it as fast as it is created. Without the bottomless pit of mystery, the known and knowable universe would choke on itself and grind to a halt.

Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, The Emperor is a tyrant and stick-in-the-mud, controlling and manipulative, unable to let things take their course or go their own way. He equates mystery with ignorance, and can be afraid of the dark. What he doesn't know or can't account for he believes does not exist. He resents criminals and upholds the established order.

Death can be vicious and gratuitously cruel. He will make false claims and promises, and spread ruin and upheaval wantonly. He has no fear of consequences, and his reasons for things can be akin to madness. He supports any kind of change for its own sake, cloaking anarchist impulses in a cracked or specious reasonableness.

Together, they make life both orderly and fresh, peaceful without tyranny, prosperous without stagnation, always believable but constantly fascinating. Together, their motto is: "The only things you can depend on are death and taxes."

 

[Littleclaypot]

Judgement & the High Priestess (Christmas babies represent!)

There's a lot but this is what spoke to me:
"The High Priestess is mysterious, self-effacing and self-sufficient. Her silence is ancient and perfect. She says nothing and does nothing, but leaves nothing unsaid or undone. She is cool, serene and complete."

 

[Pandemeria]

Imagery — Things to Look at and Contemplate:

Postures — crawling / standing
(the rawness of beginnings vs. the fullness of completion)

Colors — dark blue, purple & deep bright yellow / luminous blue & grey
(deep, lurid vs. high, clear consciousness)

Landscapes — valley / peak
(low vs. high; travelling far vs. climbing up)

Symbols — Moon / Star, Path / Staff, Pool / Mountain, Rich and varied
landscape / Simple, uncluttered landscape
(all these contrasts suggest the difference between dark, rich, mysterious beginnings and light, abstract, exalted endings)

Foreground Figures — Crayfish / Hermit
(the two extremes of the journey of personal growth and spiritual evolution)



Astrology:

Pisces (Moon) — sleep and dream; darkness – light and shadow; fluid, shifting images; profound yearnings; deep waters

Virgo (Hermit) — observant, analytical and smart; rooted in detail; patient, industrious; a perfectionist, idealist and purist; reaches for the high ground



Predilection:

The importance of night vs. The importance of day

The importance of pain / pleasure; beauty / ugliness vs.
The importance of wisdom/ignorance; persistence / giving up

The world as mysterious and uncertain vs.
The world as challenging and straightforward

 

[Red Memories]

Birth Card Notes:
Star / Strength

Imagery — Things to Look at and Contemplate:

Postures and Gestures — kneeling and emptying / bending and controlling
(relaxed and gentle vs. focused and strong)

Colors — flesh tones and blue / white, yellow and orange
(ease vs. intensity)

Clothing — nude / robed and girdled
(unselfconscious vs. highly self-aware)

Symbols —

Star: pitchers and pouring streams make patterns in the pool and on the ground that balance the pattern of the stars above
(the effortless equality of Above and Below, near and far, humanity and nature)

Strength: girdle of roses, lemniscate, controlling hands of female figure, teeth, mane and tucked tail of lion
(the difference in opposition between the human and the natural, and the constant tension between them)

Foreground Figures —

Star: nude blonde goddess
(the same woman as in Strength but unopposed by any contradictory impulse)

Strength: lion and clothed blonde goddess
(visual allegory of the relationship between power and control)

Landscapes — prominent pool, sky, and stars with integrated foreground
figure / indistinct, unobtrusive landscape with prominent foreground figures
(the self-regulation of nature vs. the importance of effort)



Astrology:

Aquarius (Star) — peaceful and optimistic; visionary and original; open and approachable; virginal and trusting

Leo (Strength) — charismatic and energetic; loud, proud, powerful and willful; cheerful and confident; sexually potent



Predilection:

Optimistic and relaxed vs. Vigilant and concerned

Flexible and soft vs. Insistent and strong

Accepting vs. Demanding


The Star and Strength share a root in the creative motherhood of The Empress. The women in all three cards are one divine form in different costumes, with different tasks. To The Empress, all her children are beloved, and seen and treated equally. The Star sees benign beauty and goodness in nature and herself. She trusts what she sees and leaves it alone. Strength sees the raw, immediate power in nature and in herself. She controls and contains it like a dam works with a river.

The Star is remote, cool and calm. Strength is hot, intense and close. For the unclothed Star, the world and her own nature are fine as they are, and can only suffer from interference. For Strength, fully clothed, the world and her own nature need restraints to work properly.

The Star is the innate perfection in things, their natural rightness and goodness, and their connection with what is highest and deepest in the creative process. She fears nothing in nature because for her, there's nothing in nature to be afraid of. She sees nothing in nature to fix because nothing in nature is wrong. Her motto is "Leave things alone and they'll be alright." The job of The Star is to cooperate with the nature of things, to witness its perfection, and to resist the urge to improve it.

Strength is the two-fold power at the center of things, the expansive and the contractive power, force and form. She knows they must be kept in balance, and that takes constant vigilance and effort. She cannot press too hard on the source of power or she'll cut off its breath and make it weak. She cannot relax her grip on it, or it will expand violently and swallow her whole. The job of Strength is to keep the power of nature in check, and release it as needed and necessary.

Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, The Star can be amoral, eccentric and cranky. She may be undiscriminating, and unaware and in denial when things get broken or go wrong. She may routinely support lost causes and put herself in harms way, in the belief that she'll be OK no matter what. And she can be peevish, whiney, and aggrieved when things don't work out.

Strength can be moody, sullen and prone to fits of temper. She may eat too much or starve herself. She can be a voracious lover or become celibate without warning. She can go from baseless self-confidence to irrational timidity. She can make herself weak and frightened, a pussycat with a weak meow or she can be larger than life, throw her weight around, laugh, cry and howl at peak volume, a lion out of control.

Together they are graceful, beautiful, peaceful and strong, with their powers and talents in perfect balance and harmony, and all their virtues at the service of the world.

 

[highlander]

Imagery — Things to Look at and Contemplate:

Postures — hanging / sitting
(Serene, original vs. comfortable, conventional)

Colors — red and blue / white and gold
(Passionate, deep, inward-looking vs. immaculate, perfect, outward looking)

Clothing — fitted / loose
(Controlled effort vs. effortless expansion)

Symbols —
cross and halo / throne and crown
(spiritual vs. secular authority)

living wood / trees
(derivative vs. original; transformative vs. natural)

rope / cushions
(distant connection vs. intimate support)

Foreground Figures — male / female (son – mother)



Astrology:

Water (Hanged Man) — deep, dark, formless and elemental

Venus (Empress) — emergent, light, beautiful and real



Predilection:

Spiritual vs. Physical

Detached vs. Involved

Abstract vs. Specific


The Hanged Man and The Empress have in common a concern with birth and life — physical birth and mortal life, and spiritual rebirth and immortal life. Venus (Empress) is born from the waves of the sea (elemental water). The Hanged Man is born from the womb of The Empress. Being driven at birth from a vessel of blood matches in intensity rebirth by the immersion of baptism in a body of water. The experience of entering the world at birth is equaled by the experience of withdrawing from the world through meditation.

They contrast as detachment vs. involvement, relaxation vs. contraction, tranquility vs. turbulence, concern with simplicity vs. preoccupation with details.

The Hanged Man is focused on purifying, cleansing and deepening himself. Distancing himself from the details of creation, he offers the experience of enlightened detachment and inner illumination to whoever is willing to share it.

The Empress is actively creative, nurturing, protective, and has an intense, immediate, hands-on connection with all her creations.

Unintegrated and unrealized, The Hanged Man can be self-involved and insensitive, self-indulgent and passive, depressed and addictive, grandiose and impractical, lonely and in need of support.

The Empress can be domineering and meddlesome, small-minded and abusive, melodramatic and possessive, demanding attention and feeling abandoned.

Together they are generous, loyal and protective to a fault, and they can be creative and original to the point of genius. They raise caring, selflessness, love and devotion to transcendent levels.

 

[Kanra Jest]

The Sun/The Wheel/The Magician

Idk where to find the explanation for it so ... whatever that means.

 

[Atomic Fiend]

It should be on the same page, there is a link that leads to a page with meanings for each of the cards.