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"1. Ace of Disks" Thoth Tarot card: analysis and reading.

 


One of Aleister Crowley's (d1947) rambling meaning cards, "1.  Ace of Disks", where Crowley from 'The Book of Thoth' fuses in an array of nonsensical dialogue, based around 1800s Age of Enlightenment interest in occultism, of who had it right and who had it wrong.  And the hope, that many who lived in France during the mid 1800s, that the autocratic and half baked 'social reformer' Napoleon III should be revisited in 1937 (ironically in the 21st Century, this is happening throughout the world).  Who assisted in later influencing the more extreme European autocratics of the decades that followed, that Peace Through Strength works, and Crowley very much, with is structured occultism in tow at the time, did very much align himself with the Fascist sentiment throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.   The overall meaning of the card represents the Roots of the Earth, in a mishmash of 1800s esoteric, Middle Eastern, Western hermeticism, which as mentioned, offers more of a ramble than anything coherent.  I'll try and redeem the card.

Reading:  

The Roots of the Earth are neither chaotic of static, rather they are in perpetual motion.  Governed by nothing, yet work within harmony of the chaotic realm.  A paradox maybe, but one to meditate too, in relation to understanding the two principle energies, the two entities that are beyond biology; the feminine and masculine.  Let the flows conjoin, and then release.  Focus on the perfect number 6, seen in the middle of the Tetragramma, as the formation of Three, being the number equating to infinity.  As Venus, ruled by the 6, the Hell planet, was once like Earth, and that neither rises of falls, yet looks over the Earth in what could be a symbol of  geometric 'love', from the East to the West.  Are we forever fallen?  Yet, we are light bearers in the dark.   So, rejoice in its defiance.    

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(A.Glass 2023, 2024, 2025)
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