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Many neo pagan paths will use tools as part of their ritual work. Pagan ritual tools can be bought or made, although the majority of pagan tools will require a high degree of skill to construct.

Although no witch or pagan needs tools to perform magicks, cast spells or for ritual work it is nice to have them. But what should you buy and for what reason, below is a list of pagan and craft tools, I have separated the tools in to primary, secondary and tertiary craft tools

Primary tools of the craft

These tools are use in a majority of neo pagan paths and are common tools of the craft.

The Athame

The Athame (pronounced ah-thah-may) is a double-sided dagger with either a straight or flame shaped blade with a black handle. The blade is blunt so it does not accidentally cut someone, if Athame blade comes in contact with blood would render it useless and polluted. The Athame is never used to cut only to direct energy and is used in casting a circle.

The Athame is associated with the East and Air or South and Fire depending on which pagan path you follow. The Athame is also associated with the Male deity due to it phallic shape and is often used in conjunction with the Chalice and cauldron to symbolise the union of the god and goddess.

Besom Or Bossume

The traditional witches broom use to sweep away negativity and is used in Handfasting ceremonies witches are often depicted flying on a besom, The Besom is constructed from bundle of birch twigs, a staff of ash or oak, and a binding made from willow wands and is associated with the west and water.

Book of shadows

This is a book were possible leather bound and hand made but normally a large book containing rituals, spells, recipes, tables of correspondences and notes it possible to find that the contents may have been written in a magickal language such as runes or Theban. Their are coven Books of shadows and indervidual books of shadows

The Cauldron.

The cauldron has many uses within neo pagan paths and witchcraft; it is used for cooking, potions and food, scying, spell work. The cauldron is a three-footed pot with lid that comes in a range of sizes from tiny to mammoth size.

The cauldron is associated to the goddess and is seen a womb and a grave and places of hidden mysteries. The cauldron is associated with the west and water but can be used with any element with out conflict as the cauldron can be placed on earth or in fire filled with water when heat creates steam (air).

The censer

The censer is used to burn the incense that is often offered to the Deities, as well as being used to invoke the spirits of the Air, the Sylphs and Faery. The censer can be swinging brass burner or a few incense sticks held together and by wafting will become a censer.

The censer is a tool of the element Air.

Cup or Chalice

The Cup or Chalice is closely associated with the cauldron and is often called a bowl and is used to contain salt water, or wine for libation. The cup, chalice or bowl is normally made from brass, animal horn, crystal, glass or ceramic; some paths may have one Chalice for libation and other Cups (bowls) on an altar.

The Chalice represents the goddess and the west and water and is often used in conjunction with the Athame to symbolise the union of the goddess and goddess.

Cord Or Cingulum

The cord is used in some initiation rituals to bind the applicant; the cord is also used to mark out the circumference of a circle.

The Pentagram

The symbol of the pentagram is often worn a jewellery, engrave and printed on fabrics or ornaments and tools of the craft. The pentagram is also used as an altar plate where spells are constructed or offerings are places. The pentagram is associated with the goddess and the direction north and earth but can be associated with any element depending on the way it has be cast.

Wand

Often used as a replacement or alternative to the Athame wands can be made from wood or metal and it is possible to have more than one wand as wand can be created for specific purposes.

The wand is associated with the god and depending on tradition is either associated with the south and fire or east and air.

Secondary tools of the craft

The secondary tools are important but are not used in all pagan paths they are often associated or akin to primary tools.

Bells

The bell is often use to symbolise a beginning or completion or used as a source of vibration to help add energy to your working associated with east and air.

Candles

Although no ritual seems to be complete with out candle light candles are used in ritual as symbols or representations of the elements, the deities a person or for spell work. Candles are associated with the south and fire but the corresponding colours can be used to invoke other associations.

The Staff

Basically a staff, is a big wand and has the same associations and uses but it can also be used as a symbol of leadership.

The Sword

The Sword is a big Athame with the same association and is used in the same way and can be used as a symbol of leader ship.

Tertiary tools of the craft

The tools of the craft are not required for every ritual but no doubt every pagan and witch will have most if not all of these items.

Burin Or Bolline

A minor tool, a white hilted knife, is used for cutting herbs and any other use save magickal ritual in which the Athame is implemented. Many paths differ on the need for the Burin. Gardnerian Wicca absolutely forbids the use of the Athame for any purpose other than rituals. Seax-Wica on the other hand finds no need for it. It is a tool either abandoned or accepted by the various paths.

Crystals

Crystals use as altar decorations offerings used in spell work and healings.

Divination tools

Divination tools, such as runes, tarot cards, crystal balls used in spell work and affirmation

Herbs

Herbs used in incense as offerings in spell working and healing.

Poppets

Poppets or effigies these are either cloth or made from wax and are used in healing and spell work.

Sigils of the craft

symbols and charms and talismans used in jewellery, spell work healing and ritual works the most common Sigel is the pentagram.

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These are some more of the common spreads used in tarot and rune reading. There is no reason why you cannot make up your layout. Always remember that when using tarot cards or runes for readings it is important to focus on the questions you need answers too.

The first lay out is a simple three card layout which is used to gain answers from the past, present and out come to a particular cause of action.

1. The Past
Relates to your past want information the past holds to your current situation.

2. The Present
This card pick up on your current feelings and any fears you maybe facing and the solution to solving your current issues.

3. The Future

The Celtic Cross is a ten card lay out and the most common Tarot card layout With this popularity there comes the problem of many variances of placement but this version is the most common.

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1. Influence or Atmoshpehere

2. Obstacles
the immediate challenge facing the questioner. You will often pull a difficult card here, which will indicate an obstacle that must be overcome. When you pull a “good” card here, examine it carefully because it will still represent a challenge.

3. The Eventual Goal
The best that can be achieved. This is directly related to the question. Note that this may not necessarily gel against Card 10 – it depends whether you are able to get the best. However, a negative card here probably means that it is worth cutting your losses rather than putting any more effort into the situation.

4. Infleuncing Events of the Past
Distant past, foundation. This card should indicate the root of the subject matter of the question

5. The Immediate Past
This will indicate events taking place, not necessarily directly connected to the question. For example, if a love affair going wrong Card 3 would show the root of why it is going wrong, whereas Card 4 will show something that recently happened to reflect this. You could see this as a “check comment” card – a way of seeing that the reading is sound.

6. The Immediate Future
This indicates events in the next few days or week(s). This reading does not cover months.

7. Attitude or position on the Matter
Factors or inner feelings affecting the situation. Compare this against Card 1 in order to understand underlying forces/trends. If there is conflict between them this tends to indicate that the questioner is going in the wrong direction.

8. The Enviroment Influencing the Matter
External influences. People, energies or events which will affect the outcome of the question and are beyond the questioners control.

9. Hope and Fears
Hopes or fears around the situation. This may produce a card that confuses us badly. Always bear in mind that hopes and fears are closely intertwined, therefore that which we hope for may also be that which we fear, and so may fail to happen. Sometimes it is useful to draw a second card for clarification after the reading has been laid, and to read the two together.

10. Final Outcome
Final outcome. This is a fairly self-explanatory card. However it is worth saying that if the card comes up somewhat ambiguous, once again it may be worth drawing three extra cards to clarify. These should be interpreted through the lens of Card 10. So if the card drawn is the Tower and we draw the Ace of Cups, Princess of Cups and Four of Cups in a reading about a relationship, the Tower would indicate that it is time to move on. The Ace of Cup suggests that a new relationship is promised with better things ahead. The Princess of Cups brings new love (and possibly pregnancy). The Four of Cups shows deep levels of contentment and happiness, and many options for progress

The Two Fates Tarot spread is designed for those time when you have to choices  and Looks at the root of the problem or situation, immediate past, the present, immediate future, the first and second choices, and the impact of the first and second choices on your life. It explains the situation and tells you what to expect with each.

1. The Root of the Problem

2. The Immediate Past

3. The Present

4. The Immediate Future Choice

5. The First Choice

6. The Second Choice

7. The Impact of the First Choice on your Life

8. The Impact of the Second Choice on you Life

The whole year or 12 month tarot spread another simple spread it looks at each month of the year and what that month holds with a overview of how the year will go.

1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November
12. December
13. Influence of the Whole year

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As you learn tarot by whatever means book, from a teacher or off the Internet you will find that you can either work with Tarot or not if you can then stop find another tool for divination that you are better suited to such as runes or crystal balls never force it. If you can work with tarot you are going to want to connect with them one a spiritual as well as personal level. Never read for yourself you will only ever see what you want to see and never use them as a magic eight ball to help you decide what to do. But do use them to help you become a better person and connect fully with the cards there are some excellent techniques to this in the Hallow quest the book that goes with Arthurian Tarot

It is important when connecting with tarot that you show respect and treat your cards well, Insure that when you pick your tarot pack that you choose a pack with imagery and symbology that you can connect to personally. If you’re a bit of a traditionalist then the Waite-Smith or Rider Waite Tarot, If you enjoy and have a big interest in the Arthurian legends then Arthurian Tarot By John & Caitlin Matthews or if you’re a gay man then the Gay Tarot, it does not matter what pack and there are hundreds to choose from just as long as it feels right to you.

Always keep your cards safe and protected, show them respect keep them in a tarot bag or tarot box or both. Keep them away from things that can charge them or drain them of their energy.

One of the easiest times to connect with tarot cards is when you first get a pack this first technique is used on a new tarot deck but can be also used to re energise a tarot deck.

When you first open the pack don’t shuffle or look at the cards place your dominant hand below the cards (normally your right hand) and your passive hand on top of the pack find your own internal energy (see playing with understanding and playing with energies) and place it in the centre of your chest around the position of you heart chakra. Allow it to grow and move down your right arm and push it through the cards and back up your left arm until it completes a circle of energy. Keep the energy moving in circular motion seeing your own energies clearing the cards of all negativities and filling the cards with your own energy.

As the cards become infused with your energy your own energy will be able to pass through the tarot deck with much more ease. You will know when the cards are completely clean of all negatives and are attuned to yourself, as the energy flowing through your arms and chest will stabilise into a continuous loop that has a steady pulse. Once you’re at this stage say an incantation or state that you want the cards to guide and show you all you need to know.

Then put the cards to one side and wash hand under running cold water to wash way any remaining negativity the follow instructs on pack or from book.

This next technique for connecting with the cards is an adaptation from the Hallow quest. Centre yourself then pick a tarot card from the tarot deck spend sometime looking at the design of the card the details do this until you can close your eyes and visualise the card as a real place with real people and real animal visualise your self walking around inside the cards talk to the people in the card find out what they are doing their, look behind trees and building look pass the image of the card find out what lie beyond or what is hidden when your ready to leave see the visualisation returning to a flat image then open your eyes and write you feelings and any information you gained. You will need to be very creative with this visualisation and allow yourself to just imagine.

The third way to connect with the tarot cards is a fun way by using the cards to tell a story and is not a new technique pick some cards at random from the pack I would say no more than 10 place the tarot cards in a pile next to you and start to write a story start with a lead person a knight a princess etc and turn a card over and incorporate that card into the story here is an example “Rodger the knight was walking when (turn card = the Hermit) he met a hermit that lived in the woods…” Just fill the stories with as much detail and feeling as you can imagine, and let yourself be inspired by the cards. Although many of your stories will not make it to the best seller list you should when you read them back you should be able to see a relation with your own life giving an insight to yourself.

Way to insure your cards remain connected do’s and don’ts

Do’s

• Keep you cards in a safe place
• Use a Tarot Box or Bag
• Respect them as a tool of your work
• Find a pack that suits you

Don’ts

• Let anyone else use your cards
• Use them as game cards
• Don’t leave them lying around
• Read for yourself.
• Don’t let the cards make your choices for you.
• Don’t read for anyone under influence of drink or drugs

This was continued from tarot cards part 1

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Items: Star Tarot Card – Lovers Tarot Card – King or Queen of Cups Tarot Card (choose the Tarot Card that corresponds to the gener your seeking)

Ritual: Layout the Star Tarot Card and visualize the floodgates opening and all obstacles that have kept you and your soul mate apart being removed – you should feel a sense of relief as you lay down the card.

Next lay down the chosen court cups card Tarot Card and visualize everything you want in your perfect soul mate – try to think of personality traits as well as physical traits.

They’re hair, their laugh, and sense of humour, affection given and received and so on. As you lay the card down and you are done visualizing, say these words:

“I call upon all good spirits, call upon all karmic forces,

I call upon wide ruling powers. Make smooth the way that may love may be brought to me!” Lay down the lovers card Tarot Card and say these words:

“As I lay this final card – the spell is cast the magick shall last -so be it.

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Most of the cards in the tarot deck are minor Arcana cards. These cards fill out the deck, making it more balanced and complete. The 56 cards of the minor Arcana are split into four suits. Each suit represents a different aspect of life. Numerology can be used in conjunction with the minor Arcana as the cards are numbered from 1 to 10, or Ace through 10. There are four nobles cards in each suit as well, the Page, Knight, Queen and King. This makes 14 cards in each suit.

The Suits of the Minor Arcana

Wands, Staves or Spears- The first suit represents a long object, whether it be a staff or wand by name, it usually represents physical labour. This suit is related to the physical body. It encompasses growth, ideas and creativity. It is associated with the element of fire and the season of spring.

Cups- This suit represents emotional desire. The filled cups are symbolic of filled emotions. It encompasses affairs of the heart, desires and the inner self. It is associated with the element of water and the season of summer.

Pentacles, Shields or Coins- This suit is a round object of some sort, ranging from shields to coins. It represents the material possessions. It encompasses money, wealth, health, prosperity and property. It is associated with the element of earth and the season of autumn.

Swords, Knives or Daggers- This is the suit of all things with sharp edges. It represents the intellectual self. It encompasses ideas, thoughts, morality, and strife. It is associated with the elements of air and the season of winter.

The Noble Cards of the Minor Arcana

The Page- The Page is a bearer of messages and the harbinger of communication. This card represents youth and the beginnings of maturity.

The Knight- The Knight is a traveller, one who brings change and good deeds into the world. This card represents new relationships, friendship, courage and stability.

The Queen- The Queen is a strong female. She has the ability to lead, listen and guide. She represents the completion relationships, jobs and projects, also a strong emotional person who knows where they are going and what they want.

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The Number of the Minor Arcana

One/Ace- Represents beginnings, action, will, new ideas, creative power, potential, first causes, primary impulses, and positive activities.

Two- Represents partnerships, relationships, polarities, balancing, duality, choices, patience, stillness, and positive and negative.

Three- Represents synthesis, growth, creativity, abundance, collaboration, friendship, artistic expression, refining plans, and preparing to take action.

Four- Represents foundations, discipline, work, order stability, solidity, tangible achievement, and practical attainment.

Five- Represents new cycles, change, progress, shifts, adjustment, fine tuning, instability, challenge, versatility, freedom, and courage.

Six- Represents balance, health, beauty, harmony, contentment, relaxation, satisfaction, equilibrium, marriage, family, and sympathy.

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Eight- Represents victory, will, success, regeneration, rebirth, reevaluating, putting things in order, and setting priorities.

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We all are aware of signs and symbols and as pagans Wiccan’s druids etc we are very used to interpreting signs in tarot, tea leafs, crystal ball etc. But do we pay attention to the signs in our lives if like me probably not as much I should.

No Matter what your belief system is we can all agree that we are on a journey which one of the major signs on this journey is death it is our destination but not the end of the journey.

Along this journey their are mile stone in the forms of Birthdays, Anniversaries, Religious Festivals etc that mark off the miles of journey some people have very short journeys whiles other spend some may say far to long on their journey.

If you think of the journey of life as car and driver (the soul being the driver and the car being the body) the driver get in the car and drive till the first mile stone “Birth” Then continues along until the car crashes and is wrote off or until it is so knackered I will not drive any more “Death”. Along this journey there are lots of signs warning signs, diversions and places of interest. Along the way we do stop or get caught in traffic.

For me one of the biggest traffic hold ups for me is getting stuck in jobs I don’t enjoy when applied to the journey they have the same effect as the driver sitting in a traffic jam on a hot day. These traffic jams come in many forms for example being in the wrong relationship, being ill, being unemployed anything that makes you feel like your not moving anywhere stuck or depressed.

There are also ways that your journey can be speed up Just like driving a car these things are things you should not really do! Theirs the “over the fields in a straight line” heading straight for death deliberately suicide get you to the end of this stage of the journey quickly but you would not have learn enough to continue your journey properly and your have your licence revoked and be false to learn to drive from the start very karmic and the “idiot boy racer” and we have all seen this idiot on the road racing along taking risks putting other in harms way, in life these are the people that take drugs ,have risky sex, don’t take care of themselves, the risk takers in banking these drivers although “boy racers” can grow up and continue driving along they of have very battered cars with bits missing or with replacement parts and are responsible for writing of a few cars along the way.

So when living your life journey enjoy your journey don’t drive to fast as you can miss the signs along the way or you will have to turn around and come back on your self to complete your journey.

Now this come to a big question is life a series of random events or is it destined? for me I think of it as a mix of both. My personal belief about the after life is firstly we are all part of the divine energy of the universe The God and Goddess in union and we have become separated from the true oneness so we seek knowledge on how to return to the divine.

We do this by choosing a form to be born into a form that is designed to become one with the divine but at the moment of birth we forget our purpose and have to learn to be ourselves but we do leave ourselves clues and with the goddess’s help we find them in order, and we do but we don’t always use them or put them off. So they get moved further along our journey so we can complete them.

So how do you get to know what sign you should follow in life?

Firstly start listening to the inner voice not the big shouting voice but the quite one behind all the noise let that be your guide, you will need to learn to quieten the loud voice.

Learn to look at your surroundings with better eyes smile at people and say morning to people stop and chat and at the end of the day go over your day what point where important write it all down including what the weather was like what was the moon phase any dreams etc then every few weeks read it over to see if there is any common symbols. Once you can see them you can change direction if you do this for long enough (several years) you can see bigger patters.

As part of your own personal development you would already be keeping some form of notes on your daily life it is important to contain as much detail about your personal life as it is to record your magickal workings. And reread it often!

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Their has been much wrote on the subject of tarot and their are a million and one books on tarot cards their history, uses and meanings. Although Tarot have a mystical use they where created as a game like the Ouija board. In an attempt to mystify the tarot may stories of the origins have arisen about the origins of tarot, including that they are meant to be from ancient Egypt or brought to Europe by Gypsies. The fact is the tarot originated in northern Italy early in the 15th century (1420-1440). There is no evidence for it originating in any other time or place. Or that modern set of playing cards evolved from Tarot the fact is that tarot evolved from the Islamic Mamluk cards of the day. Tarot increases the pack from 52 to 78 with the introduction of the queen and the trump cards.

Originally Tarot cards where called carte da trionfi (cards of the triumphs). And only changed to tarocchi about one hundred years after their invention to differentiate themselves from a new game of trumps which had become fashionable played with ordinary playing cards. The origins of this new name are unknown for sure but could come from German word tarock, or the French word tarot.

The use of tarot cards as a tool for divination and magicks has been around since 1487 and even may be before, since the card where originally created during the Italian Renaissances a time when Hermeticism, astrology, Neoplatonism, Pythagorean philosophy where all on the rise they may have had some hidden uses which still to this day remain unknown. But is only in the1790s with Etteilla’s deck we find the tarot card design being modified specifically to reflect divinatory and esoteric meanings.

It was Etteilla who split the tarot deck in to two parts the Arcana’s:-

The Major Arcane (greater secrets), or trump cards, consists of 22 cards without suits: The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, and The World.

The Minor Arcana (lesser secrets) consists of 56 cards, divided into four suits of 14 cards each; ten numbered cards and four court cards. The court cards are the King, Queen, Knight and Page/Jack, in each of the four tarot suits. The traditional Italian tarot suits are swords, batons/wands, coins and cups; in modern tarot decks, however, the batons suit is often called wands, rods or staves, while the coins suit is often called pentacles or disks. This two packs in one version of the Tarot card remains today.

Since the Etteilla deck was created many other packs of tarot have been created purely for divination the most famous is the Waite-Smith or Rider Waite Tarot this was the only readily available pack on the market in the US for sometime.

Many famous occultists have produce Tarot cards which are not just for divination but also are used for meditation, personal and spiritual development as well as learning magickal arts and formula some of which no longer are identified as tarot but more as oracle, angel or even fortune cards.

The major differences with all of these pack of tarot is the symbology and imagery the meaning stay much the same as the original tarot buy have been adjusted to meet the imagery and mythology behind the pack an example is the brilliant Arthurian Tarot By John & Caitlin Matthews which uses the magic of the legends, history and traditions from the Celto-Arthurian legends, along with the four Hallows of the quest for spiritual wholeness, the Hallows being the suits.

But not only has the tarot been designed to connect with mystical forces many of the newer cards have been design to understand personal situation and relationship needs such as the Gay Tarot which uses universal symbol of relationships, the eternal yin and yang, is represented here by reflections and situations from the experience and identity of gay men. This is a means of understanding and introspection for those who are not afraid of diversity.

Since tarot cards are so widely available and a known tool of divination many people will read the tarot for fun or for profit and it seems that everyone know someone who reads the cards and with the rise of teach your self tarot books many more people are getting interested and learning to read tarot by rote and never connecting to the inner mysteries of the cards.

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Meaning of Major Arcana Cards:

1. The Fool: An androgynous figure is so besotted with the universe he does not notice he is about to step off of a cliff. At his feet, a dog tries to get his attention. The Fool represents blissful ignorance and “stumbling” into drastic change. It is impulse, the id. When it appears as a strength or ideal, it represents the ability to hand over the Self to Faith, Will or another greater power, sort of like those cartoon characters. The fool, having never studied Law is unaffected by the Law of gravity. As a hazard or difficulty, the fool represents an over-dependence on faith and the tendency to focus too intensely on one thing, forgetting about the importance of Life.
2.  The Magician:
   Within a garden of red and white flowers: (Purity and Sacrifice) the Mage is master of his environment and his Will. His implements of mastery are laid before prescription drugs without prescription him. This card represents Logical strength, a conquest over the mathematic and predictable, although the Mage finds predictability in what others call “Chaos” It is the force within the mirror, fully capable of being released, but at what price? It is force, the Ego. As a strength or ideal, the Mage is a card of control of the Self, an ability to end physical pain in oneself or others, diplomacy and the ability to compromise between work and faith or differing faiths. The Mage is unlimited in the tools he uses. As a hazard or difficulty the Mage represents a force difficult to overcome without becoming a reflection of what he is. He represents an alignment of numerous forces against you.
3. The High Priestess:
   A woman sits on a throne, her robes the water of the universe. Behind her we see a garden of feminine flowers in the color of sacredness (saffron) and sacrifice (red) She is surrounded by the symbols of many of man’s religions, a priestess who outranks all of the clergy of man. This card represents Mysteries kept that way on purpose, wisdom, science and the religions of humankind. As an ideal or strength, she is control of the Will, of the superego, the ability to end emotional/spiritual pain and moral dilemma. She represents the ability to tie all religion and ethic into Universal Truths. As a hazard or difficulty, the High Priestess represents an ideal your enemy or negative environment will uphold you to, she represents a universal disapproval of an action or event you are responsible for.
4. The Empress:
    Feminine and maternal, the empress, ripe with child, (although not always portrayed that way) sits comfortably in a field of ripe wheat, the river of life behind her. Her lap beckons one like a child, she will love regardless of what you have done. This is the card of maternity, of matriarchy and female power. As an ideal or strength, she is the ability to cope with pain, as in childbirth, but she also is the giver of comfort and warmth. A celestial “Mommy,” she represents fruition but also the fear of inevitable. As a hazard, she is over protectiveness, fear, and unwanted truth.
5. The Emperor:
    Seated on a throne of cold stone, the emperor rules over rough lands where strength is the key to victory. The emperor represents a sacred father figure, the giver of punishments and rewards. He is the man who sets you on quests, and rewards you for their completion, but he also punishes you for failure. As an ideal or strength, he is high values and the ability to uphold them, but also judgment. As a hazard or difficulty, the emperor is action before study and sharp, quick judgment.
6. The Hierophant:
    Emperor and archpriest, the Hierophant is truly the master of both domains, but his servants, purity and sacrifice, are also guardians, waiting for the moment he slips so he can be overthrown. The Hierophant is the card of Clerical duties, of service to duty beyond self. As an ideal or strength he is ascendancy to a seat of power, but also represents marriage, memorial and other “clerical duties.” It may also indicate a ruling that needs to be made. As a hazard or difficulty he is societal judgment, kindness with hidden motives and loathing of position.
7. The Lovers:
   A man and a woman stand in paradise, receiving the blessing of an angel. This card represents new beginnings and purity of values. As an ideal or strength The Lovers represent harmony, an end to suffering and a control, through partnership(s) of one’s domain As a hazard or difficulty, the Lovers represent temptation and fall from grace.
8. The Chariot:
   A man, possibly Apollo, is lifted from the City of The Gods on a Chariot pulled by two sphinxes, one black, one white, the river of life flows beneath him, but he is untouched by it. The Chariot is a card of male youth, of vigour, stamina and sexual prowess, but also of slavery (note the Sphinxes) and war. As an ideal or strength, The Chariot represents vigour and luck, physical prowess and an extreme force of Will. A Will that can be abused. As a hazard or difficulty, The Chariot represents a nearly unbeatable adversary, which may be one’s one self.
9. Strength:
    A female figure of power and purity tames a lion. Strength is a card of power over adversity, of courage and hidden strength. It is often the strength of Faith and the soul. As an ideal or strength, Strength represents courage and immediacy, the ability to act at once. It represents power and the effective channelling of anger. As a hazard or Difficulty, Strength represents the ability of the foe, but also abuse of energy, fear, weakness or strife.
10. The Hermit:
    Rather than growing fruitful as the Emperor, The Hermit represents the Mage grown old and bitter in his power. This card, although male, is the Card of Hecate, the crone of Tri form is. It represents wasted youth, bitterness, cruelty and a general withdrawal from society. As a strength or ideal this card represents caution, introspection and the ability to withdraw from one’s surroundings, but warns of the result of too much internalisation. As a hazard or difficulty, The Hermit represents a lack of interpersonal skills, sterility, treason on the part of a close friend or ally (especially embezzlement.) This card is also Le Mizer, so watch your purse strings. The Hermit is the card of bureaucracy, so beware paperwork.
11. The Wheel of Fortune:
    A mystical seal, surrounded by animals of theology and Mythology. The Wheel of Fortune represents the turning of the year, the inevitable and the force of karma. As a strength or ideal, this represents good luck, the ability to come ’round right after any trial, and success, despite problems, of an endeavor. As a hazard or difficulty it represents a swing of the pendulum described in Hermetic Philosophy a swing that is impossible or near impossible to duck. It is truly a card of forces aligning against you.
12. Justice:
    A androgynous figure in red robes (sacrifice) carries the tools of Themis. This is the card of justice and law, of bias and rules and of hierarchy. As a strength or ideal, Justice represents duty, honour and law. It is the card of politics and the courtroom, of success in legal endeavours and things that are right and fair. As a hazard or difficulty, Justice represents a pending lawsuit, abuse of the law or the inevitable result of breaking it.
13. The Hanged Man:
    Suspended from a tree by his right ankle, a man glows with sacred energy. This is the card of self-sacrifice, self-inflicted trial and the study of any demanding art. As a strength or ideal, this card represents the ability to rely on one’s intuition and power, power gained by self- sacrifice and struggle. As a hazard or difficulty this represents an upcoming test or struggle and/or a difference of opinion from the public.
14. Death:
    A skeleton figure rides an albino horse into combat, bearing the five petal rose, in the distance a ferry carries people to the afterlife. He has slain the king, and now a priest, strength and a child beg for mercy. In the distance, the sun rises (or sets) behind stone gates. This is the card of change, of rebirth but also of struggle. It is card of the hidden ruling force overtaking the figurehead, of Church over state, Paganism over Christianity and science over faith. This card reminds us that death is the end result of all endeavours. As a strength or ideal this is drastic change, an altering from a political to a spiritual lifestyle or just death. As a hazard or difficulty this may actually signify death or sickness, but also inertia and stagnation if change is prevented.
15. Temperance:
    An angel pours water from the river of life from cup to cup, never spilling a drop. This is the card of moderation, of management and mediation. Of solution despite itself. As a strength or ideal this is a call for consideration and moderation, a plea for temperance and the knowledge that it is possible. As a hazard or difficulty, this reflects the inability to feel passion, a lack of Will and blind faith or total lack of faith.
16. The Devil:
    The couple from The Lovers is chained to the throne of a demonic figure based on the Judeo-Christian devil. It bears between its horns the reversed pentacle, the symbol of Male divinity. The lovers are horned now, and while chained, they could easily slip the chains, if they wished to. This card is the reverse of the Lovers, what some see the Lovers as. It represents ignorance, assumption, Witch-hunting and the persecution of people based on religion. As a strength or ideal, The Devil represents effort against incredible odds, belief in the Self despite the popular vote. As a hazard or difficulty it is persecution, pain, infliction of religion that doesn’t belong to you, and negative public image.
17. The Tower:
     The Forces of The Gods destroy the Works of man in a fiery display of Power. This is the one truly miserable card in the deck, there is no other with so little good to say. This is the card of Karma, the kind that bops you upside the head when you’re not looking and ruins your life. As a strength or ideal: Ideal?? Strength??? This is the Tower!! Ruin, Misery. There is no ideal here beyond a chance to survive. As a hazard or difficulty: Look Out! Rough road ahead. The Tower is calamity, imprisonment and death. Can you say “What man has made the faces will destroy”
18. The (fallen) Star:
    Unclothed in her sparkling garments, the Star pours water on the ground and into the river of life. This is the card of running yourself ragged, of loss and pain but also a chance to return to one’s stardom. she is not clothed in the Heavens, but the Earth hasn’t claimed her yet, As a strength or ideal: The Star represents a chance to regain an old “stardom,” to return to an activity you were good at but have given up. As a hazard or difficulty: The Star represents a fall from grace, usurperment. It may mean someone is better than you.
19. The Moon:
    A female face in a moon rains light down upon creatures of the night. This is a card of Change and “Two-Faced ness.” This is not the Shiny-Happy Moon, this is Hecate and Diana as warrior and bitter crone. As a strength or ideal: This Card represents a lot of power, but bears the warning that some things, such as love, are more important than power. As a hazard or difficulty: This card represents Enemies hidden from view, Accident, Fate and Mental anguish and disorder.
20. The Sun:
    A child on a white horse before a wall topped with sunflowers clutches a red banner. Above it all, the sun looks noncommittal. This is a card of warmth (get it?,) the Sun displayed is the sun that lures you into napping on a warm day, that makes you feel that everything is all right in the Universe. The sunflower represents the solar wheel. As a strength or ideal: This card represents contentment and health, growth and good fortune. As a hazard or difficulty: We are reminded that sun tanning causes skin cancer, that flying to high makes our wings melt. In these positions, we are warned merely to not “overdo it” All things in Moderation.
21. Judgement:
     It’s the end of the world and corpses are climbing out of caskets in the River of Life to greet a trumpeter. This card represents change, an end to (Christian) Tyranny, rebirth. As a strength or ideal: This card represents an end to worldly reincarnation and a new “Oneness” with The Powers. It is a card of finality, an end to “death” stagnation, etc. As a hazard or difficulty: This card represents judgements that don’t go one’s way, a parting with the ways of good and the inevitable outcome of this.
22. The World:
    A female figure surrounded by a circle. In other decks, this is the earth surrounded by the snake that is birthing/eating itself. This is a card of worldliness, of adventure and, of course infinity. As a strength or ideal: This card represents an ability to reach deeper within oneself to grasp events outside one’s self. An inner worldliness, so to speak. As a Hazard or Difficulty: This card does, however, represent a way of seeing things in large terms, not being able to see the trees for the forest for example. A person who is too in touch with the macrocosm may have a hard time with the microcosm.

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