Tuesday Tarot: the Devil

Here we have another one of those cards that is supposed to be eeeeeeeevil in the popular culture. Case amplifies its traditional meaning of temptation to give the Devil card the keyword bondage.

Tuesday Tarot: Temperance

Temperance is not reflective of the common definition of the word, like Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It’s about the act of tempering, which is a way of treating steel with fire to make it stronger. This week’s keyword is verification, in which we try out hypotheses to form theories.

Tuesday Tarot: The Wheel of Fortune

No, silly, not the game show!

So we’ve looped back around to the beginning numerologically: 10 = 1 + 0 = 1 again. More accurately, the combination of the qualities of 0 and 1. Therefore, the 10th Trump is the “embodiment of growth and the reciprocal action between opposites.” Case calls it the “eternal creativeness of Life Power whirling forth.”

Tuesday Tarot: Strength and How the Cards Work Together

Before we start to talk about Strength, I want to review some of what we’ve already covered. In the Number Symbolism post, I showed the cards arranged in a grid of three rows. We’ve finished covering the cards in the first row of that grid.

Tuesday Tarot: The Magician

The Magician has always been an initiation card to me. Numbered 1, it signified an organized beginning, as opposed to the Fool’s more disorganized beginning. Think of it as the Fool is when you decide to study a subject and the Magician is when you sign up for the class.

Tuesday Tarot: Who is Paul Foster Case? and the first lesson in Wisdom of Tarot

Paul Foster Case founded the Builders of the Adytum, a Western Mystery school, in 1922 after a disagreement with SL MacGregor Mathers’ widow over the propriety of teaching sex magick (he was for) led him to leave the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. It was (and still is) a correspondence course dealing with esoteric subjects such as Hermetic astrology, qabala and, of course, tarot.