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In overview, Queen of Serpents reversed at the base indicates great unrealized creative and spiritual potential.  You’re on a cusp there, at a decision-point, whether to remain with what you know or undertake a challenging quest.  Queen of Pears in the heart of the spread symbolizes emotional self-absorption, narcissism. Patterns immediately catch the eye:  The green suit of Stones predominates, symbolic of Earth, representing matter, money, property — the physical plane; two fives, two aces, an X formed of 2 cards in the red suit of Serpents (Spirit) and 2 in the blue suit of Blades (Mind).

Fives indicate a crisis, the lowest point in a cycle of experience, the place in time where things start getting better because they’ve gone as far down as they can.  By their positions and suits, they tell me that a material (health and/or wealth) crisis becomes for you a spiritual issue, exhausting your creative energies.  Then, in turn, a spiritual crisis affects your relationships and emotional life in a very positive way, drawing you out of yourself, bringing people into your life.  Having the crisis turn around and begin improving is something you really need emotionally: mentally a much-needed relief.

Resolving the matter requires your presence and attention.  There are just a few issues to settle, loose ends to tie, before it can reach completion.  One of the most valuable things you’re getting out of this is experience, down-to-earth knowledge.  Recognize the value in that, appreciate it, keep it in mind for future reference.

Aces symbolize the start of a new cycle of experience. Their suits and positions caution you to beware a tendency to be over-analytical about your relationships and feelings, and to avoid magical thinking where your health and material well-being are concerned.  That means don’t neglect rest, nutrition and physical care, expecting to get by on higher-plane energies.  You are a holistic being and need to fulfill your needs at all levels.

The four and five of stones at the top show just how much your current focus on material things is draining your spirit and creative energy.  It will begin to ease now, but the crisis of spirit will lag a bit behind the resolution of material issues.  Remember:  nothing is too good to be true, and everything works out perfectly if you are ready to perceive the perfection.

Lastly, the Major Trump, Doer, reversed on the positive side of the spiritual level – progress and completion that hasn’t happened yet, something you need to do, to cause to happen.  It is the realization of your creative potential in the Light of Spirit, and nothing could be easier, because all you have to do is be yourself, no frills, no masks, nothing concealed, just you, like an open book, keeping in touch with your shadow side and finding your purpose in your ideals.

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It has been said that, “Knowledge is power.” (Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597.) However, one of the perennial choices a Seeker on the Path must make – usually the very first choice one must make – is between knowledge and power. 

The Fool is faced with that choice but has not yet made it.

The Fool’s image, the first Tarot Trump, represents both the beginning and the end of the Initiate’s Path – the Alpha and Omega.  He is at the still point lying both before the quest begins and at its end.

Zero, empty, void, unformed, ready for anything and prepared for nothing, without expectations or preconceptions, he stands.

Then, when he has realized there is a choice to be made, making his initial choice, usually an initiate chooses power.

He goes suddenly from nowhere and nothing to all and everything.

From having but one single choice between action and inaction, he slips instantaneously into having an infinity of options.

How does he handle the situation?  Traditionally, he does it poorly.  He is often portrayed off-balance or very delicately balanced, dancing and juggling, struggling for control of forces beyond his understanding.

Four symbols appear on virtually every depiction of the Magus.  They represent the four classical elements: Earth, Fire, Air and Water, or, in more contemporary terms, matter, energy, space, and time.

Often, the symbols for the elements are the same as for the traditional Tarot suits: Coins or Pentacles, Rods or Staves, Swords or Blades, and Cups or Hearts.

 Sometimes, new symbolism is used.  Whether the symbolism is traditional or idiosyncratic, usually some esoteric or insider knowledge is needed to interpret it.

In The Book of T: New Tarot for the Aquarian Age, the hooded (unknown, mysterious) eagle (power) has a strong, bloody grip (both unease and surety – It may be uncomfortable, but the power isn’t leaving you now, even if you want it to.) on his left (unconscious) shoulder.  The blank, featureless globe on which he stands (the mysterious – to him – unknown source of his new and extraordinary abilities) empowers him, through his humble (the style of his clothing) acceptance and dependance (the stance) on it, to consciously create (right hand holding flower) while he unconsciously heals (the flow of water from the left hand).  Before him on the cloth of gold (truth) lay the symbols for all things that lie within his power (matter, energy, space and time) as long as he is willing to trust the source and be the humble channel for its power.

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(Edited September 8, 2011)

Previously on the path:  The Fool and a brief comparison between Divination and Magick.