You resemble this Queen. The card emphasizes your royal dignity and your feminine side! You develop a royal, masterly interaction with the air powers. Your entire prowess as a person with new ideas, good imaginative power, and love of justice is needed.
“Over the clouds …”
The master of the core values and the clear, but loving boundaries: “What is important, what is weighty in my life?” Like every court card, this card shows the Queen as an ideal picture, a confident interaction with the corresponding element, here with the Swords (air, words, thoughts, verdicts). You are like this queen, or you can become like her! And / or you meet a person in your life who represents this Queen.
The agony and the boon of the choice, soul-searching, ruling for the good, breaking from fetters. To take a mask off.
Provide for clarity in your decisions and your behavior. Think through your standpoint and trust yourself with wit and
implicitness!
A card about the destruction and of new opportunities in love.
Understand what the heart desires! Refine love, lust, and leadership with finesse and kindheartedness.
Without zeal, without anger, without courting recognition … live completely relaxed and develop your talent to deliver precise work!
The Long-haired Woman’s Form –
She emits power and confidence but also aloofness and perils. The long hair: Vitality, vigor. It warns of vanity and a tendency to not let things go.
The protective armor of a Valkyrie. On one hand, an erotic extravagance; on the other hand, defensiveness and possible frigidity. Half-naked and half-armored stands also for half-truths.
Emphasis of the middle, the combination of body and soul. Positive: The Venus belt as in the Empress. Negative: Fixed patterns of thought that leave little room to breathe. Suppression of gut feelings.
Symbol of the mastery of the air world. From this can emerge alienation from the worldly and aloofness. Who is enthroned in the interface between heaven and earth, human and cosmos also has an overview.
“Headhunter”: Bounty hunter’s intellectual property or relying on ancestral knowledge. Allusion to the severed head of John the Baptist or Holofernes: Ferocity. But also: Unmasking, glimpse behind the curtain.
The angel or child head stands for coming generations that indicate the preceding horizon. Motivation, to think over oneself. The “child’s head” means also arbitrariness and naivety.
The Three Heads
Bearded face—queen—“baby face”: Change and conscious collaboration between the generations. The past, the present, the future. Id, ego, and superego.
The Radiant Crown
The yellow blue prongs symbolize radiating, crystallized thoughts. Possibility for higher recognition through mental growth. But also: Fixation of personal thoughts.
The Stormy Overcast Sky
Feelings of stormy, life-affirming freedom and fear of the borderlessness of the personal world of thoughts. Sky blue as the color of desire and ego dissolution, the romantic, and the drinker.
You resemble this Prince. The card emphasizes your royal dignity and likewise your masculine side! You possess and develop a powerful interaction with the air strength of life. Your entire potential as a person with a sense for independence, clarity, and foresight is needed.
Spirit of the air on a long leash …
The master of knowledge: “What know about life / about my partner / about this moment? How do I achieve clarity?” Like every court card, this card shows the Prince as an ideal picture, a confident interaction with the corresponding element, here with the Swords (air, words, thoughts, verdicts). You are like this Prince, or you can become like him! And / or you meet a person in your life who represents this Prince.
To oversee (big) connections. To make the difficulties easy.
Bring your contribution to a better coexistence.
The card indicates strong mental powers, mental knowledge, and conscience default energies that go out from you and / or with others who seek to influence you.
Either in breaking game or in intelligent nonbinding you achieve what you really need. Hold on to what honestly concerns you.
Success or failure depends on what we place in question and likewise what we regard from outwards. And that we understand how others and you see yourself!
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Leader of the world of thoughts, mastermind of marionettes. Arbitrarily: Sword arm as a gruesome extension of unconscious impulses. Manner: Refraction and reprocessing of the unconscious. Freedom, consciousness.
In picture composition: Calculation, planning, to think through, logic, grammar. Negative: Bias, filtered perception. Positive: Structured approach, systematic, diligence.
Lies in the rein hand, left. Fertile weapons of the mind. Symbol of harvest: Ripe thoughts can be cut and harvested. Symbol for time: For temporality and impermanence (refer to the sense of Death).
Spirit of the air, elves, or fairies. Negative: To lay the thoughts on the line. Positive: Communication with thought fragments. Inner dialogue cultivates consciousness. Green: Immature and youthfulness, naturalness.
The Chariot
Movement or stillness of thoughts? Allusion to the Trump VII: The air chariot moves itself only with concentration and clear focus on the thoughts.
On the left, receiving side. “Low drives” or bad customs restrict the conceptual progress. But also: “Low drives” are polished.
Necessity of balanced trains of thought. Balance and other themes of justice. The moss or emerald green stands for nature, vegetation, emotionality, depths, but also inertia.
Mental brilliance and clarity, but also: Greenhouse, hardening of thoughts. Pyramid in the ball: Squaring of the circle. Circle compass. (Refer to Justice)
The Yellow Balls
Stand for acceptance and continual acting out of all collected experiences. The color yellow as a manifestation of consciousness and vitality, but also jealousy and cognitive dissonance. Evidence of search for meaning.
You resemble this Knight. The card emphasizes your royal confidence and likewise your masculine side! You possess and develop a masterly, holistic interaction with the air strength of life. Your entire consequence as a person with much curiosity, inquisitiveness, and acumen is needed.
Faster than the shadows …
The master of insights: “What is behind it? What is new? What happens at the end?” Like every court card, this card shows the Knight as an ideal picture, a confident interaction with the corresponding element, here with the Swords (air, words, thoughts, verdicts). You are like this Knight, or you can become like him! And / or you meet a person in your life who represents this Knight.
The ruthlessness of true lovers.
The goals must “light you up.” Because you possess a great power to devote yourself fully. So you will experience a lot and establish yourself.
Do not hide behind what you do or say. Develop your potential.
To consciously engage for more love, wit, and joy is the proposal of the hour. Simply more time, more ideas, more fantasies for your heart’s wishes!
Leave value drawers behind. Go farther in your thoughts than before. Weigh (more) liability and consequence.
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Rapid mind. Positive: Enormous mental dynamism, flexibility. Negative: Quick brain shots, superficiality. Green: Immature and mental freshness. “Green Man” (refer to the Fool, the Princess of Swords).
The closed helmet and the tight armor indicate concentrated, shrouded thoughts, but also one-sided concentration. Positive: Protection from idea theft. Negative: Knowledge is not divided.
The Body Stance
“Centaur” unity of steed and rider: Human and instinct have grown together. Storm flight: Assault or devotedness. Massiveness of thoughts. Focus on the moment, fantasy, chase of everything unconscious.
Also Axis of Abscissas. Thinking functions in many directions, quick changes of perspective are possible. But also the danger of thoughts to be very cut up.
The Red-Brown Horse
“Thinking with leadership”: Wild, unbridled thoughts with love and radical leadership. The rider is his passion delivered or to trust that which is profitable.
Harbinger of spring and thus fresh, vital thoughts. High flying thoughts, aloofness. Erotic, love, sex. New ideas that always accompany the rider and inspire or confuse.
Already implemented ideas leave marks or not yet realized ideas dissolve themselves in smoke and mirrors.
The Kingdom of Heaven
Heaven is the kingdom of God, the gods, of mind and spirit. Furthermore, it is the homeland of the viable will or unrealized wish dreams: “The human will is its kingdom of heaven!”
The Blue Sky
Blue stands for coolness, desire, blues, sentiment, intoxication. Positive: Exhilaration, nonchalance, clear will, clear mind. Negative: “Blueness,” intoxication. Also: “to make blue.”
You resemble this Princess. The card emphasizes your sovereignty and likewise your childlike side! You develop a royal, unhandicapped interaction with the air powers of life. Your entire prowess as a person with lots of wit and judgment is needed.
Hold on to what brings you clarity!
The adventure of ideas and insights: “What happens? What runs? What occurs to me?” Like every court card, this card shows the Princess as an ideal picture, a confident interaction with the corresponding element, here with the Swords (air, words, thoughts, verdicts). You are like this Princess, or you can become like her! And/or you meet a person in your life who represents this Princess.
To wonder. To grow. To think beyond yourself.
Get an overview, show initiative, and present your thoughts and concepts.
This card refers to news and playful or experimental thoughts. And it warns of gullibility and cluelessness. You master the sword!
Love in every relationship … trust in something! There are more ways and possibilities than one thinks!
Love is an approach to life! Test it out also in your job and in everyday life—you will achieve much more with this approach than without it!
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Keen to discuss enlighteners or maniacs, rebelling protestants; fights for their ideals and personal truths without regard for sacrifice. Good allies, bad competitors.
The Green Figure
Green stands for immaturity and mental freshness, also for naturalness and fertile potential. The “Green Man” à la Robin Hood (refer to the Fool, the Prince of Swords, the Knight of Swords).
Symbol of the mastery of the air realm. Here the alienation of the worldly and aloofness emerge. No traction: castle in the clouds, fool’s paradise. But also: Mastermind, pioneer.
The Stormy Sky
Unconventional, free,
adventure-like thoughts. Erratic ideas and associations. Verbal dogfights. Ideas are represented with vehemence and engagement.
The Windmill Figures
Don Quixote Theme: The power of the air should be meaningfully used without wasting power. Mills grind imperfect thought constructions and show limitations of the personal thoughts.
The Dark Clouds
Task to conciliate heavenly freedom and earthboundedness. Also: Mental fog, unclear thoughts, “dirty thoughts,” or grounded thoughts.
The Light Source
The opportunity to obtain profound recognition. The rising or setting sun of clear thoughts. Fresh inspiration from outward.
A gift of life: The sword symbolizes the mental independence, the selectivity of the mind, our words, thoughts, and judgments. The sword symbolizes the human evolution in the spectrum between the endangerment of the culmination and endangerment of creation.
Long life what allows us to be strong and free!
The swords are “the weapons of the mind,” words, thoughts, and judgments: Here it is about mental work, about cognition, understanding, and learning, about everything that ultimately makes life easier. It is crucial that something is clear or becomes clear. Key term is the mind, which is differentiated from the mere brain, the mind that can make inroads into being, to the essence of a human or an issue! With the Ace, you are presented elemental access! Grasp it!
Through love and consciousness old wounds heal!
Ascend, sit up straight. Enjoy your new clarity!
You receive the chance to clarify previously undefined wishes and fears and to live better.
“The eyes of love are the eyes of the mind.” —William Shakespeare. A mindful life is a life in and with conscious love.
You possess and need a good intellectual capacity and a powerful, long breath. Brain jogging and body training support your chivalry.
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Positive: The crown of creation. Negative: Alienation or destruction of nature. Combination of unity and multiplicity. Obtaining higher recognition is possible. (22 Rays = 22 Major Arcana)
Of the sword: Double meaning of the thinking realm. Double standard. Who governs the mental weapons? (Refer to the sword of
Justice.)
Facilitator between mind and instinct, heaven and earth. Positive: Wisdom and cognitive faculty. Negative: Falseness, guile, temptation. Curled up, also a symbol of cyclical thoughts.
The Sun
Rising or setting. Symbol of logical understanding and the potential of clear thoughts and objective analysis. Also: Atomic explosion, overkill as the epitome of destruction of the mind.
The Three Balls
On the sword handle. Further moon symbols, but also earth symbol. Stands for necessary process and potential cessation of antagonisms, if the thoughts are “struck.”
Ancient Greek: Will, volition, imperative, craving, delight. The swords, the weapons of the mind, can be gruesome, if they are in the outstretched arm of the unconscious craving and arbitrariness. However …
Thelema II
… they can be liberating, if they help to fulfill wishes and lift fears: Learning, happiness, consciousness. The term Thelema also refers to the Bible and especially to François Rabelais.
The Sea of Clouds
Negative: Aloofness, lack of groundedness, insubstantial castle of clouds. Positive: Overview, kingdom of heaven, “cloud nine,” “seventh heaven.”
Universe / Starry Sky
Size, grace, vastness. Consciously a connection created by infinity and temporality, of eternity and daily opportunities. Absolute thoughts and conditional action. “To think globally, to act locally.”
The “two” swords appear altogether as if they amount to four swords. A phenomenon that this card provides something mysterious and enigmatic. The blue-white flower in the middle of the picture denotes the “heart,” the middle of a person and/or a moment.
“One only sees well with the heart.” —A. de Saint-Exupery
Both of the large swords can be understood as a connection of above and below, of left and right in a person. The white-blue flower denotes the “heart,” the middle of a person. And likewise the flower describes the moment that blooms and wilts. The swords with the flower are another depiction of the rose cross and the lotus that blooms in the heart. To be awake for the moment is the nucleus of the consciousness.
Between day and dream … to an interface of soul and intellect.
Do not escape into obscurities. Widen your horizon, go into yourself to think outside of the box.
The reality insists not only on one-way streets or one-way solutions.
Bring your fantasies into play and develop your imagination. Disperse the “fog” from your partnership.
Retain the place in the interface of consciousness and unconsciousness, because you will suffer no shortage of new ideas and creative solutions!
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Connection of above and below, of left and right body or brain halves. A thought is “crossed” with another = constructive or destructive discussions.
The Chased Handle with 4 Angels
Elaborate or contrived thoughts. Angel as protective symbol of the four unit (for example, elements, evangelists, cardinal directions, seasons). Also inspired thoughts.
“Offshoot,” product of dialogue. Duplication of energy topics and meaning. Imparts the card something mysterious, enigmatic, only here the doubling of the card number.
Symbol for the emotionality of thoughts. Heart or the middle of a person. Beauty and truth. But also: Fleetingness of the moment or of most thoughts.
The Rose Cross
Invitation to be awake for the moment and to experience with the heart and mind. Nucleus of consciousness. Thinking penetrates feeling.
Castle in the air, “Air number.” Complex multiplicity. Interlacing and all-sidedness of mental work and energy. “Ventilation” of the thoughts, flexible thoughts. Danger of “jumping on the bandwagon.”
The Color Gradient Light–Dark
Twilight, mental transition or conceptual balancing act. Ascending or descending in or out of deep layers of consciousness.
The Green Background
Fresh, new thoughts. Nature and mind: Green nature unifies itself with yellow mental clarity: Or immature (crude, “green behind the ears”) unifies itself with envy and pale venom.
The moon illuminates the night and the world of feelings. Inklings, responsiveness, flexibility, flowing self-assurance. But also: Hypersensitivity, uncertainty, inaccurate introspection.
The points of the three swords meet in a flower. The dark gray shows patterns, waves, and slivers, that one can interpret as brain waves and thought fragments. The picture likewise shows a cross section of the brain: The processing of sensory stimuli to perception and recognition.
Experiences and thoughts merge together …
The different mirror fragments or geometric parts in blue-gray show the content of consciousness and fragments of thought. The two curved likewise stand for the nerves that lead from the eyes and from the sensory stimuli together to the brain. Left eye and right eye together reveal an entire picture. At the same time, there are small, subtle gaps, the blind spots, which only through the power of consciousness (here the third sword) can be overcome. The card gives a picture of consciousness work, the connection of different realms of thought and / or of body and mind.
Understand what binds the world inside and what concerns you.
Screen your memories and expectations. Whoever takes part has more of life.
“Speak frankly.” Wounds heal when you take care of them.
Give love a chance, also the love of truth and honesty.
Care rather than grieve!
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The handle with moons and snakes refers to the “Thelema Sword” (refer to the Ace of Swords, Justice) and the connected themes. Power of the consciousness. Main idea.
Challenging, attacking, or interfering thoughts. Left and right hemispheres process and handle currently upcoming events. Nerve cords of the eyes. Sensory stimulation toward the brain.
Allusion to brain convolution (refer to the card’s background) that our thoughts process in order to “comprehend.” But also: Twisted, skewed trains of thought.
The geometric puzzle represents contents of consciousness or aphorism. Fragmented, analyzed thoughts. Destroyed concepts.
Also: Multifaceted, many-petaled roses as the common middle or the interface of different thought swords. Yellow stands for consciousness and vitality, but also cognitive dissonance.
The Falling Petals
Outdated or overripe thought constructions become detached. Transformation of thoughts. Reduction to the basics, the nucleus of an idea or a statement.
The Black Background
The interior of an issue. “Black Box.” Negative: Blindness of mental alternatives, strong anchoring in matter. Positive: Unconscious potential that can be called upon at any moment.
Saturn disciplines, compels, makes responsible. Positive: Patience, structure, organization, stability. Negative: Self-limitation, rigidity, unfeelingness, defensive action, and anxiety.
Four swords lie in a crystal formed figure, evocative of the four cylinders of a motor. With the usage of all mental energies, comes a quieter, rounder course in life and what was chaotic yesterday becomes crackling, already ordered star energy.
Here it is about more than ceasefire: About a quiet consciousness …
The mandala is the epitome of a crystal clear mind that finds its peace because it can operate all sides, because it lives and pulsates. It is like a picture of good functioning brain waves that consolidated the changing patterns. Positive: To make a unified picture of many experiences, familiar as well as strange, over and over again.
Satisfaction, deep relaxation, lucid dream, spirit travel …
Grant yourself quiet! Take your mental potential, activate fallow mental possibilities. You have a “nut” to crack!
You are in the position to master big contradictions and to clarify difficult antagonisms. Relax, so that your mind can concentrate and be sharp.
Provide for relaxation, inward as well as outward, in which your lose envy and jealousy and all excessive fervor.
Let your mind work in all directions. In your current questions lie big thoughts!
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The Sword Formation
Allusion to the four conditions of consciousness (body, mind, soul, will) and the four elements (fire, air, water, earth). Positive: Mental equilibrium. Negative: Mental stalemate situation.
Allusion to the crescent moon (refer to the “Thelema Sword” on the Ace and the Three of Swords) and the connected themes. Unconscious realms of thought that need to be illuminated.
Bloomed quintessence on the cross of thoughts. Crystal clear mind that opens to all sides. Powerful thoughts. Manifestation of wholeness that is achieved or sought.
Also: Multifaceted, many-petaled rose. Collective mental middle of the swords. Quiet or dormant conscience.
St. Andrew’s Cross
Fixation, “to nail down” ideas. Negative: Schematism, blockades, deadlock. Positive: Order, systematic, consideration of opposites, lifting of antagonisms.
Enormous mental excitement, perhaps also mental immaturity. Crackling energies. Danger of the inability to create mental unity, instead isolating singular thoughts.
The Yellow Star Structure
Mental thunderstorm or weather illumination. To processing thoughts or ideas. Danger of dissipation. But also: Fantasy and imagination. Brain waves. Cascades of mental energy.
The Blue Yellow Background
Multifaceted mind, intellectual activity, multifaceted brain disorders. Possibility of awareness process or building process.
Jupiter pr
omotes generosity and trust. He creates responsiveness to higher inspirations and voices optimism. Warning of blind trust, laziness, and irresponsibility.
Five of Swords: Twisted, ailing, but also needed: richness from experience. Blood drops bind them: injury and sorrow. But also: The weapons of the spirit are driven by lifeblood. This creates a pentagram, points directed downward: Negative energy. But also: Retrospective dependence of the mind on matter.
The quintessence of the swords: To learn from experience!
Blood drops connect the swords. They are begotten from injury and sorrow; but also the lifeblood leads the weapons of the mind. The red drops show the subtle impact of the mind; the five swords essentially represent the armor, the technique of the spiritual work. The meaning of everything, the “spirit” that lives between the lines or in the middle of the letters, is depicted through the red drops or gems; it first completes the action of the swords.
Relief from unhappy habits, from compulsive repetition of unconscious emotions.
Search for the meaning of wins and defeats. Use the weapons of the mind as the means of healing.
It is never too late and seldom too early to process experiences and to learn from them. You will achieve much.
Do not allow yourself to be “pulled down” by difficulties. Adhere to clarity and sincerity.
Make your will fertile. Protect yourself from empty promises and groundless assumptions.
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Armor, technique of thought processes. Negative: Ailing, weakened, weakening of mental power. Positive: (used in the processing of experiences) Experience, consciousness, accomplished.
Subtle impact of mental work. Positive: Lifeblood that is devoted to ideas. Fertile product of a thought process. Negative: Injury and sorrow. Sacrifice.
The Pentagram
Five pointed star directed downward: Sign of materialization. Necessity to ground feelings and spiritual experiences and to integrate them into the everyday.
Symbol of fertility. Positive: Sign of solution and to mentally “swim freely.” Negative: Strongly fixed thoughts and indecisiveness.
New cycle begins (ram as spring equinox). The invitation to accomplish pioneer work and to show courage. But also: Warning of the Emperor—allures, rigidity, and egoism.
A snail is always at home. Safety. Retreat. But also: Fresh start. Invitation to sometimes come out of yourself and to bravely fight for your ideals.
Positive: The crown of creation. Negative: Alienation or destruction of nature. Combination of unity and diversity. Obtaining higher recognition is possible.
The goddess Venus teaches us to love, to give, and to take. She takes part, is generous, and has a full sense for the beautiful. She is also smug, greedy, and physically demanding.
A Rose Cross, from whose middle six swords grow or into whose middle the six swords aim. To bring the inner outwards and to incorporate experiences and fields of knowledge and to process, that which is represented here as a fertile, outwardly rewarding task …
The opposite is true; also take note of the reverse direction.
The sword in the picture allows you to understand, among other things, hypodermic needles. Fight back, however, if someone wants to force something incompatible onto you. And look forward to influences, “vaccinations” that heighten your immunity and widen the sphere of influence. A consciousness that is worth anything penetrates to your real needs and helps you to better handle your needs and intentions.
Fundamental experiences like love, death, abundance, or emptiness.
Be thorough in your debates. Neatly convey your needs to others.
“When you know what you do, you can do what you want” —Moshe Feldenrais. The promise of this picture is a functional consciousness and …
… it is to recognize that you find yourself “in flux,” that it flows in you and between you and your fellows …
… that you know to steer your own course in the “stream” of time.
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Connection of vitality and search for meaning (yellow) with love and will (red). Consciousness technique, mediation, investigation of experiences. Mental evaluation, analysis, and formation of consciousness.
Possibility of consciousness raising. Mental transformation. Self-acquired and integrated knowledge that would be “comprehended.”
The Sword Formation
Balance, “deadlocked situation.” Swords emerge out of or fertilize the rose. Negative: Schematism, blockade, deadlock. Positive: Order, systematics, consideration of opposites, lifting of antagonisms.
Defined frames (conventional thought), which are blown up by the fertilized or fertile swords. Horizon widening is possible.
The Network Structure
Mental network, brainstorming and manifold ideas. But also, “going into the net”: To become entangled in mental abstractions and ideas.
“Ventilation” of thoughts. Positive: Mental flexibility and great mental power. Negative: Danger “to jump on the bandwagon.” No reliability and traction.
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Open airspace shows the general impact of the unconscious. Gray stands for neutrality, serenity, and tolerance. But also for indifference, insignificance, and unconsciousness.
Mercury is creative and skillful. He acts with intelligence, reason, and faculty of discrimination in the service of higher ideals. Sometimes he misuses his talents, is only rational and also amoral.
Six small swords hold a large one in check. Or: The large sword integrates itself into the six smaller swords. Then it creates a structure that resembles a tree. It indicates complex and branched thought, that nevertheless recognize a clear direction …
Contradictions process and dissolve.
The swords represent a (mental and personal) development that through the handling of contradictions creates beauty and clarity! Whoever thinks that one large sword would be held down by the six small ones, only needs to turn the card around. Then one sees how the six smaller swords work together with the big one. Incidentally, this ambiguous figure concerns the message of the entire picture—the meaning of a paradox!
Leave self-doubt and old patterns behind you … to understand the meaning of personal riddles … to find an important solution!
The card invites you to review what you take for granted: Why? It can also be different!
The subtitle is misleading! Change the qualities of specific quantities. A “self-antonym” is what one calls it: There are points of change where the whole thing tips! And that can be very healing!
Allow yourself and others to do something “illogical.”
Have confidence in your dreams—and the power to face unresolved riddles in your life.
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The Purple Gray Swords
Spiritual weapons of the mind prepare for dynamic competition. Border experiences (purple) between heart, will, courage (red) and coolness, desire, intoxication (blue). It is not yet decided (gray).
Main idea. “Tree” stem and collective middle of a complex and branched-out thought. Specify clear structures and know the directions of mental and personal development.
The small thought-swords hold the big sword in check or are held in check by it. Diverse ideas and thoughts are brought together.
All Seven Swords
As one pattern shows the seven swords in their entirety: Also the opposition must be cautious and considered. The inclusion of opposing considerations widens and strengthens your own position.
Stylized snake (refer to “Thelema” sword on the Ace and the Three of Swords). Ego. Conscious thoughts. One’s thoughts turn in a circle or enabling the entirety of thought.
The Wind Chime
“Ventilation” of thoughts. Positive: Mental flexibility and great mental power. Negative: Danger “to jump on the bandwagon.” No reliability and traction.
The Pale Blue Background
Airiness of thoughts. Spirituality. But also: Wishful thoughts (“Human will is its kingdom of heaven!”) and clarification of particular themes and thought patterns.
The moon illuminates the night and the world of feelings. Intuitions, responsiveness, adaptability, flowing self-awareness, but also hypersensitivity, uncertainty, uncertain self-awareness.
Since the swords signify the weapons of the mind before anything else, understand this picture and others as networked thinking, as thought and speech patterns or a model of stacked or successive levels of stored consciousness. Many influences and experiences should be ordered and overcome.
Build paths and bridges with the swords!
Interference, the interaction of mental energies: As an unshielded appliance in your house negates the radio signal, so it also happens in people, in whose (conscious) proximity it becomes difficult to grasp a clear thought. And conversely, there are people in whose proximity it simply goes well. They seemingly set free unbelievable energies in you. Such patterns also play out inside the person: Head and feet, thought and action can disrupt each other or complete each other to the highest capacity.
To accept personal boundaries—to lift mental limitations!
In your present situation, neither visual inspection nor habitual action nor instinct will help anymore.
Inappropriate convictions block, suitable ones free and strengthen.
Here signals a departure of cloud castles, like childish inhibitions.
Trust your own logic, dissolve your hindering obligations, and be consistent toward yourself and others!
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The Entire Picture
“Interference” is the card title, which can mean “intervention” or “disturbance,” but here the basic meaning of interference is neutral: To support something between, events overlap—negative or positive.
Two strong main ideas that give structure. They combine (leader) or block (barrier) the other swords. They have a disruptive or supportive influence. Also: Main contradiction.
Learning tasks, different thought patterns and structures. The transverse position to the direction of the large swords stands for adversity or foundations. Also: Thresholds, planes of thought, incremental approaches.
The Handles and Forms
Forms of the swords: Different influences and experiences. The energies of different epochs and cultures that mix together, grow, and mutually widen the horizon.
Structure / Grid I
Structure of the swords: mental rails, thresholds, tracks, steps of consciousness, steps and increments of recognition, ascending and descending = Connection of abstract and concrete.
Structure / Grid II
Structure of the swords: mental screen, grid, network, web, or matrix. Grammar. “Drawer” of the mind and imagination.
Newly ordered thought fragments and structures. To think with the heart. Negative: The swords as the extended arm of moods, arbitrariness. Positive: The swords as the freedom from dependence and ruts.
The Purple Red Background
Intensity of the mind power, border experiences between the visible and invisible, “To think thoughts,” to be conscious of oneself. Also: Mental fog, unshielded thoughts.
Jupiter promotes generosity and trust. He creates responsiveness to higher inspirations and voices optimism. But also: Warning of blind trust, laziness, and irresponsibility.
“Only” blood drips from the swords; that is the bad news. The swords ignore flesh and blood; that is the pleasant message. The parallel assembly of the swords warns of (enforced) conformity, of one-way streets of thinking. However, they also stand for consonance …
Fright or illuminated awakening …
Do not allow yourself to be confused through “bloody” associations. (The title “ferocity” is misleading, anyhow). The picture represents nothing more and nothing less than the broad front of thoughts directly in contact with what lies in the blood. Only when thoughts and imaginations are also implemented in practical action and tested with personal concern are they exposed as what they are suited for—what they really mean.
To awaken, to experience God, to think outside of yourself.
Strengthen your responsibility, your patience, and your trust in God! Do not allow yourself to be too severely struck by temporary blockades or difficulties.
“He who has recognized his position, how should he be impeded?” —B. Brecht
Enter new mental territory. Your soul blooms and grows. There are so many people who wait for love and you should send them your love.
Put two and two together! Face your upcoming contradictions.
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The Length of the Swords
Different trains of thought strive in one direction. Some are stronger; some are less strongly formulated or thought through.
The Red Handles
Willpower, potential for fury and aggressive disposition. Pointed downwards to penetrate and illuminate the unconscious. (Generally effective for all swords: Handle = Idea.)
Wearing away of thoughts through (mis)use. Negative: Tarnished, weakened, weakening of the mental powers. Positive: (needed to process experiences) Experiences, consciousness, experienced.
Negative: Forced, one-dimensional thinking. Not original. Positive: Structure. Thoughts have sustaining consequences and proceed in the same direction, draw on a string.
Positive: Drops of gold. Negative: Festering drops. It can be detoxifying if unhealthy thoughts are tormenting. Also: Possibility of regeneration and fresh ideas.
“Windmills of your mind.” Positive: Mental flexibility, mental power. Negative: Danger “to be pushed over the edge.” Ungrounded and volatile thoughts.
The Background
Dreadful red shaded background: Unconscious aggressions and latent fury as well as unconscious heart energy and strength of will. Thoughts are foggy and must be refreshed.
Mars strengt
hens self-assertion, gives confidence, and takes initiative (also sexually). He is “redeemed” to help deserved success. But also: Impatience, arbitrariness, violence, misuse of force.
The swords are partially chipped; many of the tips are broken. This means they have been needed and used. They have fulfilled their service. The sword knobs mark the ten stations of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, a symbol for wholeness, the completion of thought.
“Heart is trump!”
One way or another here is the seed of the mind. In a negative sense, the swords as weapons of the mind are always a symbol of destructive cognition, the alienation from nature. The harmful side of the swords culminates in this card. Seen positively: As the height of recognition this card shows no wise people, no guru or king of philosophy on their throne. Instead, if anything, this card represents the end of all prototypes.
“It is what it is, says love.” —Erich Fried
Go further behind the horizon! End the previous approach. New paths and possibilities are already there!
“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” The mental overcoming of examples and idols—it is completely different than previously thought!
It begins something new, also in terms of love and relationships. Be mindful of premature assessments.
With “tranquility and presence of mind” (Ingrid Riedel) you achieve the most. Breath deeply!
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The Tree of Life
Assembly of the swords reflects an ordered mental world. Clear, balanced structures. Swords fulfill their role in a system. Completeness, but also schematization.
The Broken Sword
Negative: Crippled, weakened, breaking of the mental powers. Positive: (begotten from processing experiences) Experience, consciousness, experienced, refraction of the ego / egoism.
Courage for gaps. Openness for the unforeseen. Prejudice has no standing. Mentally switched. Ability of the swords (respectively the mind, the air) to bridge gaps.
The main theme of the swords in full consequence: Gruesome, if heart’s wishes are quashed with “swords” or arbitrarily acted out. Happy, if heart’s wishes are clarified and fulfilled.
Sun / Light Rays
As sunset: Death of infertile thoughts; Crisis of only rational understanding. As sunrise: Recognition and new refreshment of the mind. New lightness. Certainty of new luck.
The scale weighs, judges, differentiates, links, brings to a common denominator, straightens out. Negative: Assessing, scheming actions. Positive: Diplomatic approach. Also: “What weighs in life?”
Coordinate system. Stands for evaluation, measurement, and planning. But also: Mental cycles, to think in a circle, mental fixation or ordering.
Symbol of the cosmos (Greek: Order, beauty). Hope for new mental clarity and wholeness. Mental wealth, purity, and maturation.
The sun illuminates us on the search for our identity. Positive: Vitality, self-assurance, and creativity. Negative: Pride, arrogance, and exaggerated longing to be something special.
You resemble this Queen. The card emphasizes your royal dignity and likewise your feminine side! You possess and develop a royal, masterly interaction with the earth powers of life. Your entire prowess as a person with much talent, realism, and providence is needed.
The home of the billy goat is the height of the mountain, in which heaven and earth touch one another.
The master of the basic needs: “What do I need? From what do I want to live?” Like every court card, this card shows the Queen as an ideal picture, a confident interaction with the corresponding element, here with the Pentacles (earth, matter, talent, body). You are like this Queen, or you can become like her! And/or you meet a person in your life who represents this Queen.
The wonder of life, to discover the kingdom of creation in everyday things!
“Do first the essential, then the possible, and finally you accomplish the impossible.” —Proverb
The Queen of Pentacles indicates a power in us to sustain peak experiences and peak performance!
Love and respect for the essential turns the beautiful everyday into a rose garden!
Potentially include special efforts to reach “the top.” Perhaps, however, you must first come out off of your pedestal!
The pointed away face warns of losing substance or yourself from your sight. Also: Little self-respect, self-regard. However, encouragement to face the present circumstances.
Queen as mountain climber. Potency and great power of thought. But also: “Nagging goat,” bullying, “lazy” mentality and the search to make a “ram into a gardener” or to “be horny.”
Connection to nature. Sensuality. Sexuality. Symbol of the snake: Conscious interaction with needs and instincts, with temptations and seductions, paths and missteps.
Pine or Fir Armor / Headdress
The Queen can defend or fortify herself behind her armor. Carries fertility on her body or for show. Connection to the plant world, in harmony with nature.
Fertile basis. The power of nature. A “dull” life situation can be changed into a blooming, refreshed oasis. Pineapples qualify as “Queen” of the fruit and as a sign of hospitality.
Also ball or sphere. Composed of many small pentacles, from many empty circles (refer to the Ten of Pentacles): Symbol for the variety of matter and for art, to develop talent, and to shape coins.
Exhausting wandering and search. Overcoming of hard times. Symbol of transformations. Necessity of cultivation. Turning a desert into a garden. Life becomes culture.
The Path / River
The desert live
s. Stretches that we must travel or that still lie before us. Challenges that connect the past and the future with one another. Winding path = the roundabout way to your goal.
The Mountain or Billy Goat
Power of nature, peak experience: Peak performance or experience of the peak as a connection of heaven and earth. Astrological Capricorn as Prince of Darkness, Christmas child, and attacker of the heavens.
You resemble this Prince. The card emphasizes your royal dignity and likewise your masculine side! You develop a royal, appreciative interaction with the earth powers. Your entire capability as a person with great productivity, much skill, and sensuality, clarity is needed.
The “measurement of the world” and the grapes of life …
The master of the property: “What and how much do I have? What do I achieve? What has stock?” Like every court card, this card shows the Prince as an ideal picture, a confident interaction with the corresponding element, here with the Pentacles (earth, matter, money, talent, body). You are like this Prince, or you can become like him! And/or you meet a person in your life who represents this Prince.
To produce, build, enrich, something that has stock and survives.
Create new worth through your work: Financial, pleasurable, and sensual.
You are your own capital—acre and harvest, vineyard and wine.
Do not allow yourself to “preserve!” Become conscious of your worth. Express your needs and apply yourself to their development.
Do not allow your self-worth to be dependent on your money or your prestige in the world.
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The skin is more strongly emphasized than with all the other princes. Undisguised truth. Naturalness and openness, sensuality and sexuality, or exposure and indecency. To risk or save oneself.
Holy animal. But also combative anger (bull fight). Inhabitant of the labyrinth. Immense strength. Groundedness. Drives, power, procreation, growth. Symbol for the energy of the earth.
Phallus. Symbol of potency: Sexuality, lust, pleasure. Productivity and fertility in the metaphorical as well as the literal sense. Instinctual. The bull is not an oaf! But also rigidity and lacking relaxation.
The Loose Rein
Trust or helplessness. It is unclear, which part of the double nature animal / human has the lead. Good cooperation of instincts and mind. “Inner lead.” Or recklessness.
Full measuring lines, structures, and profiles: Layout and blueprint for implementation of thoughts. The openness and boundaries of the pentacle are simultaneously depicted.
The Scepter with Sphere and Cross –
Parallels to the Empress and to the orb of the Emperor. Evidence of the wholeness and cosmos (sphere) as well as the four elements and material power (cross).
Evidence of the
vineyard: Hard work, but also fertility and cultivation of the ground. Wine as sign of full enjoyment of life. Apollo and Dionysus: Pleasure of and with sense and senses.
The Ellipse
Also: Two overlapping circles that encompass the whole picture (refer to the Chariot): Task to make a “round thing” from the diversity of life. To merge heaven and earth.
Fruit and Seeds
Cultivation of the earth. Creativity and power of creation are the sources of all wealth. Bring your productivity to bloom and harvest. Enjoy your growth.
You resemble this Knight. The card emphasizes your sovereignty and likewise your masculine side! You possess and develop a masterly, holistic interaction with the earth strength of life. Your entire prowess as a person with much experience, diligence, and efficiency is needed.
Acre of experience, acre of protection.
The master of well-being and championship: “What do I bring? What good can I do? What is good for me?” Like every court card, this card shows the Knight as an ideal picture, a confident interaction with the corresponding element, here with the Pentacles (earth, matter, money, talent, body). You are like this Knight, or you can become like him! And/or you meet a person in your life who represents this Knight.
Ripening, completion, harvest—and the many steps, paths, and missteps that lead to harvest.
Also the “dung” we all produce is also useable—as fertilizer. Forgive yourself and others of not being perfect.
Through the process of upcoming opportunities you develop experience and serenity.
Do not shun controversy to the correct time, instead search for it! You have the ability to bring problems into order.
You cannot change your fellows, but they can accept that your skills can be advantageous.
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Black armor = (un)conscious protection or separation. Shadow and earth themes. Ability of distinction. Consolidation of identity and character.
Peaceableness. Open to external impressions. Direct gaze ahead: Ready to face up to present realities / to be confronted.
Sign of the Shamanic Priest or hunger. But also evidence of a braggart or “alpha male.” Increased perception. The deer acts as a symbol of fertility and as the protector of the forest.
The (Threshing) Flail
It is related to harvesting (refer to the Grim Reaper on Death): Evidence of transformation. But also symbol of “flailing,” when the strong contrasts of the card are not integrated. Warning of victim or culprit roles.
The Direct Horse Gaze
The animalistic part of steed and rider looks and speaks directly to us: The knight communicates with us via drives and instincts.
Sign of fertility and harvest, cultivation of the earth, nourishment and saturation in the literal as well as metaphorical sense: Seed corn / ego must die, thus much new corn / conscious ego thrives.
The Pentacle
Also shield with sun symbolism. Not only decor, as part of the armor. Human or character trait, a sunny consciousness develops and does not shrink back from the dark side of life.
The Energy Field
Also: Concentric circles. Aura of not-yet overcome contradictions. Contrast between light and darkness. Positive: Golden consciousness, prudence. Radiance of power and strength. Negative: Envy, resentment.
Harvest Time: The ground is prepared to face (extreme) contradictions in the practical everyday life. Life acre, field of experience, tilled field.
You resemble this Princess! The card emphasizes your sovereignty and likewise your childlike side! You develop a masterful, unhandicapped interaction with the earth powers. Your entire skill as a person with much humor and tact is needed.
Hold on to that which is fertile and worthy!
The adventure of the discovery and the research: “What is available? What can one make out of it?” Like every court card, this card shows the Princess as an ideal picture, a confident interaction with the corresponding element, here with the Pentacles (earth, matter, money, talent, body). You are like this Princess, or you can become like her! And/or you meet a person in your life who represents this Princess.
To be productive. To find something. To plant something. To affect something outside of yourself.
Make today an adventure full of discovery!
The pentacle is a gift of life, it always reflects that you are a gift to yourself and to your environment when you recognize your own talent.
Who one loves also encourages their talents!
Our talent often resembles the proverbial gold that lies in the street. At first it looks inconspicuous.
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Primal vitality. Horns that we have yet to shed. Recollection of primal instincts. Seasonally the beginning of winter (Capricorn), the darkest time of the year with the biggest radiance: Christmas!
Also a shield with the yin-yang symbol. Taoist symbol for cosmic balance and the unification of masculine and feminine parts (refer to the Two of Pentacles). Playful interaction with this theme.
Pointed downward and radiating energy: Fertilizing seed of light that sinks itself into the earth.
Possibly pregnancy, most likely in the figurative sense. The womb of the earth and the seed of light beget new possibilities. In winter everything quiets in the earth. Time of becoming still.
The Trees
FRee glimpse into illuminated root system: Connection of heaven and earth or heaven and hell should be induced. Roots “hover” in the air—lightness, but also recklessness.
Heightened perspective and wide vision. Firm stance. Allusion to the lips and mouth of the feminine gender: Womb of the earth. Everything good comes from the fertile earth.
Sensuality, warmth. Connection with earth and nature. Refers to the Capricorn (on the head of the figure) as sign of the winter solstice and the connected reduction of essentials.
Altar, sacrifice, and worship as features of three princesses. Subtle energies and the work with them. To give oneself to spiritual pursuits.
The Whitish Color
The Princess is almost completely surrounded by it and united with it: She is an offspring of the earth. Connection with the history of the earth. Invitation to reground your own roots.
The Energy Vortex
Tornado atmosphere, great concentration of energies stands for disposal. Dissolution of traditional rules and habits. New rules of the game are established.
The pentacles symbolize talent and wealth—the material, financial, embodied. Nature and culture are embodied in the pentacles. They are our heritage, with unresolved opportunities and unused potential!
Long live what gives life value and pleasure!
The Pentacles express our talents and our personal wealth: The one side of the medal is the imprinting we have realized. Every person inherits particular aptitudes and particular handicaps. Together they make up the talent of a person. When we accept and process these, then we shape ourselves into something: our living conditions and the traces we leave behind. With the Ace you are granted elemental access! Grasp it!
To create worth, to achieve value, to experience your own worth independent of every achievement.
Get the ball rolling. Create your own “thing”!
Only specialists are expected to have a special talent. Indeed, every person possesses special talents, because he / she embodies their special experiences and prospects.
Love means to say yes to a person with all their character and potential.
It is your chance (and task) to define your living conditions for yourself and to consider the meaning of your being—to weigh it and wage it.
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Development potential, growing out of the center of the coin. Immortality of the earth: What we create and form, what we build and plant, we give further onto our descendents.
Imprinting with which we are born and that which we create ourselves. Talents and limitations, aptitudes and tasks.
Lightness of matter, through two focus points, also two centers, also an allusion to the double nature of the elements, the connection of nature and human work.
The Pentagons
One directed upward to the spiritual principle, one directed downward to the earthly principle. Evidence of the ensoulment of matter through the fifth element, the quintessence.
The Heptagon
Symbol for the completion of creation, enhancement of the personal middle, radiating upwards and downwards.
New Testament number of the Antichrist, but also recognition of genetics, physics, chemistry. Life code in the building blocks of matter. All of existence has its personal fingerprint.
TO MEGA THERION
Greek inscription on the pentacle, in English: “The Great Beast” (refer to the card Lust). Generally means: Even the human descends from the beast. We are all “great beasts”: Through evolution we have grown large!
Lightness of matter and its steady rootedness in the earth. Tree cut as evidence of the connection to generations and our heredity to materialistic themes.
Fir or Pine Cones
Evergreen, renewing life. Evidence of a Christmas tree and old fertility cults of Cybele and Dionysus: Celebration of the birth of light from the darkness.
The Background
Woody darkness / green with many colorful specks. The material world, the earth holds so much life and light, so many seeds and possibilities! Not only the spirit, but also the matter is eternal.
To take contradictions in hand: Personal strengths and weaknesses, personal and strange problems, pleasure principle and sense of obligation, sun and shadow sides. You yourself are like a pentacle: embossed and defining. On one hand are you embossed through material relationships, on the other hand, you define them.
The “two sides of the coin” …
A change of location. A shift of your life’s emphasis. In your present situation, facts, values, and results shift your standpoint. Something that was already available or possible now steps forward and gains a special meaning that either helps you play poker with or wrangle with your fate. When you tackle these contradictions, you attain a happy position because you have taken all necessities in your hand and are missing nothing necessary in your life.
You create new facts and co-create the face of the earth.
You need (and find) new results.
Plan on personal uncertainties and temporary instability when you change your life. How can you take off your old hat and develop a new consciousness?
What is worthy to you changes you. Give love new variety!
Free yourself from alleged constraints. You have made choices in your past and are now free to choose newly …
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Ouroboros biting its own tail: Symbol of infinity, but also the circle of nature. Roller coaster ride. As infinity symbol: Infinite matter. Change, higher levels of consciousness.
Sitting lightly skewed: Negative: Askew, one-sided ego, that cannot deal with the contradictions of life. Positive: Flexible self that can lead to the conscious existence.
Allusion to the “mental eye.” Emphasis of the wisdom aspects of the curled snake. Reference to the self-developing consciousness, that grows through the open contention with realities.
The Doubled 8
The snake and the blue 8 behind it intensify the representation of infinity and the eternal movement, the eternal change. Positive: Nothing stays as it is. After rain comes sunshine.
Necessary separation and mixture of antitheses, phases of life and polarities for the act of creation: Night and day, light and darkness.
Color Wheels with Elemental Symbols
Alchemistic reference to the existence and the blending or the separation of the four elements. Red circle = fire, blue circle = water, yellow circle = air, green circle = earth.
The Purple Background
Intensity of spiritual power, border experiences. Connection of red and blue, coolness and heat. Unification of opposites and basic
contradictions. Pursuit of spirituality.
Happiness, “to be one’s own director and screenwriter.” Negative: Megalomania, arrogance, self-righteousness. Positive: To not wait for others, aptitude for destiny, fate.
Here something emerges that was suspended in sea or fog. The three primal elements (sulfur, salt, and mercury) are obtained from the ancient ground, and these, the alchemical magnum opus, should be processed into “gold” or the Philosopher’s Stone.
New talents, new values, and tasks!
The red-brown wheels carry the symbol for sulfur, salt, and mercury. The red pentacles are furthermore reminiscent of the alchemical “coral,” a term for the primal matter begotten from the ancient water. The pyramid stands for the intensification of energies. They represent the jump into a new dimension, from triangle into the three-dimensional. Transferred to the personal, this means: One must and can inherently find a new approach and derive new values and paths into a new dimension.
The right calling is a big, cheerful passion …
Everyone possesses a peak that waits for them …
… Independently there are mountains of different heights. But every mountain has its peak. Whether you reach your peak or not is the deciding question.
Do not only ask what you yourself want; also see what God and the world wants from you—and it will be that much easier and more rewarding for you!
Find the opportunity that most develops and intensifies your potential.
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Primordial water or primordial chaos, from which buried things rise or sink into. Energies and circumstances will establish a broad foundation or dissolve into diverse contradictions.
Constructive or devouring movement in the primordial ground. Surfing on the waves of everyday “back and forth” or being carried away by them. The playground slide or roller coaster of daily routine.
Movement of the human mind, the body, and the soul and their interaction. Routine and the wheels of work. Interaction of the generations.
Sign for sulfur, salt, and mercury, the three “philosophical” primal elements of alchemy and the creation of the “Philosopher’s Stone.” Obtained from the primordial chaos, will be processed into mental “gold.”
The Pyramid II
It is about carrying one’s light up the mountain of existence, to shine for oneself and for others. In many respects, the pyramids unify origin and goal.
The White on the Pyramids
Clear mental power, energy of a higher level, naivety, a blank page: Original condition. But also wholeness and holiness. Negative: Blending and emptiness. Positive: New mental territory.
Coral
Symbol of alchemists, who lived in the transitional time between the Middle Ages and modern times, for them hardened “Materia prima,” begotten from the primordial water (ocean), the alchemistic primordial matter.
Mars strengthens assertion, gives courage, and takes
initiative (also sexually). He is the god of spring and god of war: Eager, combative, destructive, and / or liberating!
Your personal place in the sun! The rectangle indicates the four elements of the cardinal directions and the directions of the world. There is a bridge, a gate. In the middle of the huge universe you establish your personal kingdom!
Castle with garden or moat, art object, financial center, reach of power …
You establish your talents in the world. The card warns of lazy compromises or grandiose exaggerations with which you sacrifice your values and talents or impose them onto others. Thus, provide for relationships in which you disburse your aptitudes without constraints, but also without denial of current handicaps.
An intimate interweaving of person and matter.
Develop your aptitude, your desires. Do not play the hero or the victim.
Sometimes it is important with this card to define yourself and to “do your own thing.” Sometimes it is important to open yourself and to communicate better.
Love also means the mutual support to possess your own scope and to be enthroned within it!
Do not bring forth virtuousness or malice, but the expansion and perpetuation of your best talents.
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Castle on a lake. Civilization and nature, cultivation or artificiality / artwork (reminiscent of paintings from M. C. Escher and his shifts in perspective). Personal values and talents.
Boundaries of individuals, protection, and barriers. Basic idea of a four-part worldview of Western culture: Four seasons, four cardinal directions, and four dispositions.
The Towers with Elemental Symbols
What is most important here is that all four elements are gathered on the material / practical level (also refer to the Two of Pentacles). Thus is this connected to the solution of a particular task …
The Magical Square I
… After the psychology of the four elements, as especially developed by C. G. Jung, every person controls one of the four elements very well, two further elements well to mediocre …
The Magical Square II
… and a fourth element only in raw attempts. It belongs to integration of the shadow sides and personal transformation, to know and be capable of all four elements. When we first control all four …
The Magical Square III
… we have the “power” available of which this card’s subtitle speaks. The sun does not shine permanently until you have conquered, tried, and expanded all of your fundamental talents.
Symbol of the transition between worlds and levels of consciousness: Opening inwards and outwards; willingness to communicate. To hold on to your own talents and at the same time abandon every obstinacy.
A straight path: Whoever wants to make more out of their talents must know their “benchmarks.” Who proceeds this way takes longer to “prepare,” but they also accomplish it upwards. Or towards the center; towards the “power.”
Consciousness, alertness, but also search for meaning and jealousy, gold, and greed. Danger: To get too close to the sun can create enchantment (insanity). Positive: Illumination of the downside = reliable consciousness.
The Five of Pentacles are connected to each other through transmission belts or energy rays that together occupy the form of a five-pointed star. This is to be seen like clockwork or a gearbox: treadmill and agony—or: Teamwork that “works like clockwork!”
A thoroughly beautiful card that is often understood because of its subtitle.
Every human capability (possessions and skills) contains so much value, as it contributes to eliminating avoidable distresses and making inevitable agonies livable. There are distresses that emerge through catastrophes and illness, and other distresses that grow out of unfulfilled needs: like hunger for sense, a thirst for love, a desire for home. Your talents achieve the most when you combine the abundance of your possibilities with the most pressing distresses.
“Give God your deficiencies. He knows none.” —Dorothee Sölle
The strengths of one who works alone are added together. The strengths of one who works with others are multiplied.
Sometimes it is important to be able to admit defeat: to accept an end, to bear a loss. Sometimes it is likewise unavoidable: There is unnecessary distress and too much misery in the world—and in your home. It is worthwhile to address it.
Reject ungrounded aspirations and meaningless sacrifice.
Fulfill your meaningful obligations with a light heart!
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Pentacles / Hubs of the Wheels
The individual in the collective: To promote and encourage your talents and values to take effect. The yoke in which we must harness ourselves when we want to accomplish something.
Also: Energy rays. Deliberate or forced connection of the individual and collective. Teamwork, family, circle of friends, team of colleagues. To pull a string or to be linked together.
The Clockwork I (Blue)
Also gearbox in motion or stillness: Meaningless treadmill or perfect teamwork of diverse powers and energies. “It runs like clockwork” or it needs to get going.
The Clockwork II (Steel Gray)
Negative: It is agony to halt everything that is moving. Light stripes: Luminous yellow lightning (thoughts) symbolizes future recovery, even successes.
The Pentagram
Lengthened point directed downward: Necessity of grounding and the material integration of talents and your own values. Quintessence. Danger of bringing yourself or others down.
The Deep Blue Foreground
Mixture of earth, natural, vegetative tones allows the colors of the mind and spirituality arise. We employ here deep lying, “ingrained” values and habits.
The Yellow Background
Potential of teamwork. Liberation of mental powers. Sunny, mental, and conscious sense of life. Danger: Shining overrides the shadow sides. Drive with discretion or with envy / craziness.
Mercury is creative and skillful. He acts with intelligence, reason, and discrimination in the service of higher ideals. Sometimes he misuses his talents, is only rational and also amoral.
Here it is about giving and taking, about the realization of needs, about turnover. When “Pentacles” make needs noticeable, then the one who gives out wins as much as the one who takes in.
To experience a honeymoon …
Productive needs. An elevation of giving and taking takes place here: That is like a honeymoon. Who gives and who takes essentially plays no role anymore because they both amount to the same thing. When you fulfill (personal and others’) needs with your talents and when you awaken and promote (personal and others’) talents with your needs, success emerges: A typical win-win situation.
Your value is at its greatest when as much as possible profits from it. In this sense you possess only what you give away.
New ways of achieving your own needs and the satisfaction of others is now on the agenda.
Concentrate on realizing your own success, instead of managing a shortcoming.
To give and to take: You create a situation in which you can take and receive without scruples …
… in which you can be weak, without provoking severity or malice.
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The Red-White Center
Cohesion of the various moons and characteristics that build the superior connections. Inner quintessence, inner attitude, or personal middle.
Symbol of unity and penetration of opposites. Success through the ability to convert personal ideals into material value. Transfer from inner to outer value.
Maturity and beauty of the conscious self that knows both heights and depths. Unity of the four elements, out of which the quintessence of life unfolds. Conscious acceptance of oneself and one’s life journey.
Pentacles with Planet Symbols –
Also: Six moons. Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Complete assembly of everything essential at the disposal of current powers. Bridge between matter and spirituality. Spiritual soul.
The Planet Symbols II
The missing sun can mean the missing consciousness. Thus rule the feelings (moon), emotions (Venus), self-recognition (Jupiter), habits (Saturn), impulses (Mars), reflexes (Mercury) without the heart and mind.
Symbol of the seven classical planets and sign of the spiritual consciousness. Danger: To concentrate on one’s own navel. To fancy oneself as the hub of the world. Chance to operate from the inside outwards.
The Color Gradation
Material themes transform or concentrate themselves to the mental-spiritual energies or vice versa. Matter and mind, together with body and spirit, mediated by the moon: Soul, psyche, self-will.
The Red-Brown and Blue Background
Earthly colors and blue: Connection of vegetative nature and spiritual potential. Lifeblood, which is invested in success. Will, spirit.
World of feelings, soul, psyche, ideas, wishes, fears. Night, the unconscious. Moon: Leader of Cancer: spiritual wholeness! Negative: Separation. Narcissism. Positive: Immunity, comprehended self-will.
A book with seven seals. The present outcomes or tasks seem inscrutable—until one day the code is cracked and Open Sesame! The solution lies in the processes, that are planted in the vegetation, the body, actually in ingrained customs.
A book with seven seals …
All things and tasks also have a personal meaning apart from their factual side. Of what are you proud? Does something make you sick? What is missing? Find the difference out of where you see things differently from others. What would you most like to abolish? What would you like to plant? What customs do you establish?
To sound out your own standpoint you must consider the position of things again and again. This attentive, “pious” contemplation is a translation of the word “religion” (Latin “unfastening” as also “to read further and further”).
In your current questions it means: To search for clues and to interpret symbols. Sometimes stumbling blocks can also provide important evidence.
Time to balance: Emotional or mental clarity only has as much value as you impart from fertile results. And your achievements only bring satisfaction when you find yourself within them.
What would you like to grow that your loved one and the world can take with them?
Adhere to actual results and requirements.
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The Picture in Entirety I
A book with seven seals?! Yes, there are riddles in your life and it does you good to accept these riddles! Riddles that concern the progression, the success, and the destiny of your life!
The Picture in Entirety II
The things become clear when you understand their meaning. And you recognize the meaning of these things when the meaning of yourself (!) in your family, in your job, as well as the world become clear.
Rootedness in the primitive forest and in the origins of nature and humanity. Symbol of the danger of “getting lost in the details.” Touches on self-evidence.
The Color Blue-Black
Vegetative, partly unconscious nature. Blue as the color of the mind and spirituality. Mental, spiritual processes that are deeply planted in the body. Ingrained
customs.
Saturn in Taurus: That is also the long journey of experience! Of all journeys is this the most thorough and lengthy. Often misunderstood as the “long, slow road to the top”: Actually the journey that only relies on experience!
The Red Rim
Vitality and virility of matter. Boundary. Concentrated, condensed glow and energy of the earth. Negative: Restraint, egocentrism. Positive: Self-determination. Forming of the character.
The Rubeus Figure
Symbol of geomancy (refer to the Eight of Pentacles), that this card is connected to themes of Mars and the ruby, the “carbuncle,” the sagas, and fairy tales. (Thank you for the info from H. Schmidt, Aachen.)
Responsibility, discipline, patience, structures, and their transformation. Power of time: Karma and its nullification. “Time heals all wounds.” The personal role in the world. Sincerity to oneself.
The many Pentacles stand for experience and mastery, however it also warns of dullness and constant repetition. Mastery means that work not only requires power, but also gives it; that one finds one’s own style, one’s own rhythm, a creative dialogue between human and profession.
Uniqueness and mastery …
The orange-yellow background symbolizes a golden consciousness, a person who has done their “homework” and who can solve their problems in due course. Find your profession in which your talents can be fully developed. Emphasize the difference. Make the wholeness of the value of your ideas and needs distinct in convincing work. Your current questions contribute to the development of your mastery, in which you make the best of your current means.
Gurus produce students. Only (your own) practice makes the master.
Do not close your mind to unfamiliar purposes; find the opportunities that are actually necessary for you!
The master is the real beginner, exactly because he knows his profession, he knows that all preceding experiences are history.
Love is not only a question of feelings, but also the mutual support of the lifework of each partner.
You are and you remain the boss in your life (even when you are employed somewhere), leader and master in your life’s work, with tenacity.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Tree Trunk
Solid basis that allows room for development of your own talents. Thereon thrive private preferences as well as the needs of the public.
Natural protection for the thriving pentacle blossoms. Tendency for encapsulation. Possibility to seal “higher” necessities and chances.
Five-Leaved Pentacle Blossoms –
The value of talents are worthwhile. Blossoming quintessence, ensoulment of the four elements. But also: “Peacock-like” self-display.
Awaken mental consciousness and personal identity. Danger: To concentrate on one’s own navel. To fancy oneself as the hub of the world. Missing consciousness.
The Green Ground
Springlike, succulent fertility. Immature and youthful naturalness. Promising potential that should be raised from the depths of the earth elements.
The Populus Figure
Geomancy figure (refer to the Seven of Pentacles) of common, fertile, and nurturing collaboration. Teamwork and sociability.
The Orange-Yellow Background
Fertility and prosperity through a yellow consciousness, pure sunshine without shadows. Positive: Sunny mental and conscious sense of life and vigor. Danger: Shadow sides seem to disappear.
Consciousness, alertness, but also search for meaning and envy, gold, and greed. Danger: To get too close to the sun can create enchantment (blinding). Positive: Illumination of the other side = reliable consciousness.
The three circles in green, blue, and red represent the Venus principle: The connection of body and spirit in love! The sun is missing from the planets on the pentacles, which stands for consciousness. Is love “only” a feeling, an emotion or is it a conscious decision and carries the sun within it?
What do you really contribute?
The more talents and needs that can show the advantages of everyone concerned, the bigger is the practical love and the greater is the overall profit! When you encounter yourself and your fellows with attention and love, then a surplus arises, a great whole, in which many people are enhanced—with your strengths and weaknesses, with benefits and disadvantages. You cannot attain a greater prize and you should not be satisfied with anything less!
Only through the cut can the rose develop its beauty!
When you love and are loved, you flourish. Do not wait for a better time!
We initially discover life habits that would also exist without us. And in no way will we always be received with love. However, we set our own kingdom of love, fertility, and beauty!
Jump over the shadows of pettiness and jealousy.
Define yourself from meaningless ways! Develop your meaningful rules and live them!
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Picture in Entirety I
When you pull this card, you have a choice! You can separate your love from your obligations, but you do not have to. Humanity and “advantage” do not need to be opposing principles.
The Picture in Entirety II
The elements and the planets in the picture demonstrate how diverse and autonomous personalities work with one another and against one another to bring about a happy connection.
Grow your mental consciousness and your personal identity. Danger: To fancy oneself the hub of the world. Chance: A growing, holistic consciousness.
Nature and mind are connected on high and low levels of vibrations or advise in opposition to reach necessary insights. Love, lust, and passion. Heaven, world, and underworld.
The Imprinted Pentacles
Earth and DNA work through humans. Imprints. Results and original material, productions and productive powers. Available facts and everyday circumstances.
Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Complete assembly of all essential, available powers at your disposal. Only the sun and thus the power of consciousness is missing (refer to the Six of Pentacles).
The Green-Blue Background
Fertile connection of vegetative nature and spiritual mind. Mental and spiritual processes that are planted deep in our bodies. Ingrained customs.
The goddess Venus teaches us to love, to give, and to take. She takes part, is generous and full of sense for the beautiful. She is also self-loving, greedy, and driven by emotions and material things.
The ten Pentacles represent the stations of the Kabbalistic tree of life. Certainly missing from the picture are the lines, the routes that the individual stations initially structure as a “tree.” The theme: Unconnectedness despite everything being fulfilled—or independence in and with a greater community?
The great abundance …
Great abundance consists of / arises from taking its own share in world events. Experiences from you and others flow together to a great wholeness. You see yourself as a part of creation, of cosmic power. You know that your adding on what the elders have built and that the young will further continue it. Time is only relative. Nothing goes astray. Nothing deters you from living, from feeling your pulse, from lingering, and from going.
Time is only relative.
Accept many people and occurrences into your life every day. This way, you reach your full effect.
True or conscious individuality is not possible in solo action. When we find the bridge to others, loneliness also disappears, these shadows of missing individuality, exactly like the danger of drowning in the masses.
Maintain the delights of community …
… and contribute to a coexistence, in which everyone is able to realize their own journey with full joy.
The 10 Most Important Symbols
The Tree of Life
Array of Pentacles reflects an organized material world. Clearly balanced structures. Pentacles fulfill their roll in a system. Integrity, but also Schematism.
The Missing Connecting Line
The great coherence, possibly missing the bridge building blocks of diverse talents. Chain of generations, which is not clear over connectedness. It can be newly arranged at any time.
The Yellow-Green Pentacles
Vegetative nature is connected with mental light. Fertility, freshness. But also the danger of an immature consciousness. Envy and blindness.
Earth and DNA work through humans. Imprints. Results and original material, productions and productive powers. Available facts and everyday circumstances.
The Unembossed Pentacle
Not everything in nature can receive a stamp from humans, cannot be classified and characterized.
Evidence of the astrological correspondence of the card and practical intelligence, alchemical allegory. Imprinting of our talents. Chances and tasks.
The 10 Coins
The only card in which Pentacles are represented as coins: Thick, large, golden. Positive: Wealth, prosperity, security. Negative: Avarice, money supplants everything else—Ebenezer Scrooge, Donald Duck.
The Purple Background
Connection of red and blue, coolness and heat. Unity of opposites and basic contradictions. Striving for spirituality. Border experiences.
Mercury is creative and skillful. He acts with intelligence, reason, and determination in the service of higher ideals. Sometimes he misuses his talents and is only rational and also amoral.