"9 of Wands: strength" Thoth Tarot card: analysis and reading.

 

Is the "9 of Wands. Strength" another Proto-Fascist Thoth Tarot card or a Tarot that represents a peaceful stability?  Oxymoron? Considering Aleister Crowley, who passed away in 1947, and was unable, obviously, to see the Beatniks, which he would have disliked, evolve into the Hippies throughout the 1960s.  The Italian styled Futurist artwork by Lady Frieda Harris, who passed away in 1962, certainly did not represent the coming Three decades of countercultures.  As discussed with this analysis of the Thoth Tarot, both Crowley and Harris were representative of their era, as the West within the context of over 100 years, began fusing Eastern esoteric with Western occultism and secret societies, was by its definition, as close as you could get to Fascist idealisms.  Even if some of these groups were in competition with each other, and at times did not all get long.  They were, very much one in the same.  Tolerated by the governments of their time, to an extent of how much political power could be directed their way, as Harris was a 'Chief Whip' with the Libertarian styled U.K. Liberal party, which could be seen with America's current political situation, become Far Right paleolibertarians very quickly.  And in paradoxical leanings, claiming that they uphold the rights of the individual, by surpassing and removing all social programs, which they believe should not be a government's responsibility.  Which will somehow encourage a productive self contained liberal, free market utopia, has never really worked apart from moving closer towards Fascism.  As seen as strength over weakness will keep it all in check, and that paranoia of 'Left Wing' governments by allowing all types of self expression, will be societies downfall.   Hence, what is happening in the U.S. where President Trump was able to fuse his cherry picked Libertarian and Far Right imperialist policies, as a way of gaining a populus, in their distrust of a Centralist and Left Wing government.  And encouraging Strength through Power.

Yet, from the Book of The Thoth, the "9 of Wands Strength" is one of Crowley's simple, yet positive cards, and reads like a reversal of what strength means under a more open society.  That it be enduring to see through the suffering and pain, for a more just world.  With Crowley offering this quote, "Moon on the Tree of Life. Hence the aphorism “Change is Stability”.  Rather than the now, 'Stability over Change' which has swept the world in our current timeline.   The card also has a renewing factor to it, with the Sun above and the Moon, below within a balance of the Night and Day, with flames directed at the Earth, being growth and sustaining life.  Also, note that the card is ruled by Sagittarius, who is seen as a symbol for enduring drive and detimnaton.  As Crowley has converted the Wands into arrows, piercing the crescent of the Moon.  To see through the day, onto a better day?  To begin anew, within the timeline of Life?    

Reading:

May you use the symbol of the wands, to become arrows.  Pierce the ignorance of the mind, allow the light to enter.  As the 9 arrows in balanced harmony, represent the sacred number 9, that being Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Ether, Time, Space, Soul, and Mind.  Meditate on each of them:

We come from the Earth, and shall return to the Earth. 

We are made up of water, so let the flow of the sacred liquids of the self, nourish the self.  

Breath the air, when one wakes from sleep.  Be grateful for that first breath, and then slowly exhale.   

Fire, is to be controlled within, burn too brightly and you risk losing it all, slow burn till the end, and you'll dissipate with longevity. 

Do not fear the Ether, as it is eternal.

Do not fear Time, but it ends.

Meditate on the Void of Space, as that is where the photons (light) of the self will be released.

Know the Soul.

Control the Mind through Meditation.

So, be at peace, and be determined, but do not race.  Stop, embrace the night with sleep, begin again the next day.  You are not at war or conflict, but you are a warrior.  Love the self, release the self.  Strength is a guide, be it strength over ignorance, strength over suffering and pain, strength with nothing, but everything.  May the sun rise in the East and set in the West. 

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(A.Glass 2023, 2024, 2025)

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