"3 of swords. Sorrow" and "8 of Wands Swiftness" THOTH TAROT CARD: READING/s. These cards were pulled as a double reading, as a single card has been read in past tarot readings on chiasmus. The Order of the reading is from left to right.

 

"3 of swords.  Sorrow" is Aleister Crowley's doomish or doomsday card.   Utilizing theocratic wording and sexists/misogynistic rhetoric of end of days, brought on by "The Great Mother" ala Binha of Jewish Kabbalah mysticism from the Tree of Life.   But, according to Crowley, The Great Mother is the forbearer of darkness, and that she offers chaos from her cosmic, as Crowley states, "womb". The card bears creation, manifested via this womb, but, in paranoid laced wording, Crowley was a heavy ampeheteme user, her children will be "monsters". The Magician sword points upward, breaking two smaller swords pointing downward, and thus destroying the rose above.  Which in turn, makes the card unbalanced, under Crowley's own interpretation.  

I will redeem this card, and make it more powerful and embracing.

Reading:

Why fear darkness?  Why fear doomsday?   See the storm clouds?  View the end of days, which are only beginnings.  Be wary of fearful talks of the patriarchal, the mortal controller, the broken male.  Who seeks power through forcing light, order and rule.  She, the Great Mother, the antitheses, sits alone facing West, as storm storm clouds arrive from the South West, she is both enriched by the fears of men, yet empowers the masculine to understand that one must face the end with glee, unafraid, and defiant.  She breaks the petals of the rose, and scatters them in front of her, showing the mortal man, the life is impermanence, that you may not be able to hold back the storm. So let it pass.  Yet, it is "The Magician", who is masculine in temperment, and resides within the male and female, as the conjurer.  Who lifts his sword definitely up towards the heavens with his Right hand and destroys oppression, and in his Left points towards the Earthly realm.  For he is the conduit between worlds, the mixer of the potent elixir of the male and female.    Saviour the doom, rejoice in its darkness.  And you will become the lightbearer.    

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8 of Wands "Swiftness" Thoth Tarot card, is one Aleister Crowley's (d1947) less rambling and more logical Thoth cards, offering his interest, mixed with mythology, of science and physics.    And from the Book of Thoth, he offers a concise and direct meaning to the card.

Reading:  

Title the card sideways, just for a moment, see the number 8 become the symbol of infinity.  The universe is infinite, you are not, but your spirit, it will travel for eternity as photons.  As light.   8 of Wands represents fire, under the sign of Sagittarius.  The advantageous spirit, whose boundless energy, is to explore.  For they are the light bearers.   Free to travel in all cardinal points, yet centred at the middle of the polyhedron, fused as two.  Meditate on its centre.  This will ground the wandering thoughts, the chaos that surrounds.  You cannot be affected, unless you wish to be swept up in turmoil of the existence.  Do you?  Mercury rules the card, but is not blunt in its impression, as the 'Chokmah' (חָכְמָה), the rainbow above, embraces all cultures, beliefs, creeds, desires and all needs.  Be what you want, be free.  Enjoy the wisdom of life, and let it flow through.  But, do not grip onto it.  As energy is never static, it must pass through.  Use this to motivate, to become all and to become nothing.  

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(A.Glass 2024)

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