Your Chosen Card – The Magician Upright Golden Deck
When upright, the Magician symbolizes a person of great willpower who has mastered the knowledge, and skills needed to achieve his goals. As depicted in Llewellyns Classic Tarot, the Magician can access the cosmos above and the earth below as he juggles the four elements to manifest his desires. Ruled by the planet Mercury, the Magician is a gifted communicator of intense mental focus who can translate ideas into effective action. Themes related to the Magician have to do with directing ones will and focusing ones consciousness to manipulate physical reality.
Keywords Upright: Skill, mastery, cleverness, intelligence, cunning, expertise, initiative, impetus, self-confidence, determination, purpose, assertiveness, focused intent, dexterity, ability to juggle, strength of will, striving for power, transforming ideas into realities, control of natural forces, ability to manipulate the physical world; ‘as above, so below.’
Key 1: The Magician (Juggler)
Myths/Archetypes: Thoth. Hermes Trismegistus. Merlin. Faust. The Magician. The Juggler. The Con Artist.
Astrology: Mercury, messenger of the gods (Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo).
Numerology: 1 (Magician) = 1 + 0 (Wheel of Fortune) = 1 + 9 (The Sun)
Golden Dawn: Craft, cunning, skill, adaptability, magic, occult wisdom (these meanings are derived from the Roman god Mercury and his resemblance to the gods Thoth of Egypt and Hermes of Greece).
When The Magician is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If The Magician is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Magician is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The Magician using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Complete Book of Tarot: Golden Dawn: Courage, ambition, fighting, war (attributes of the planet Mars); when accompanied by stressful cards, destruction, ruin, danger, defeat.
Complete Book of Tarot: Pages, portrayed as standing rather than sitting on thrones or in vehicles or riding horses, have no zodiacal attribution. They represent the element Earth (final Heh). Pages are novices, youthful and inexperienced students. According to the Golden Dawn, the Pages (Princesses) rule the four quarters of the heavens around the North Pole, above the respective Kerubic signs of the zodiac, and they form the Thrones of the Powers of the four Aces. 45 The earthy Pages exemplify the Jungian function of sensation.
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Complete Book of Tarot: Pages, portrayed as standing rather than sitting on thrones or in vehicles or riding horses, have no zodiacal attribution. They represent the element Earth (final Heh). Pages are novices, youthful and inexperienced students. According to the Golden Dawn, the Pages (Princesses) rule the four quarters of the heavens around the North Pole, above the respective Kerubic signs of the zodiac, and they form the Thrones of the Powers of the four Aces. 45 The earthy Pages exemplify the Jungian function of sensation.