"Queen of Wands" and "Knight of Disks" 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.

 


Despite the strong feminine imagery of a crowned Queen sitting upon a throne of geometric flames, with a chain mail vest, holding a wand with a Bacchus pine cone at its tip, which represents Bacchus, the Roman God of wine.  With her left hand perched upon a leopard, which is protecting her.  Her face radiating ecstacy.  Aleister Crowley's (d1947) renown chauvinist and at times misogynistic leanings are revealed, paradoxically, in his own interpretation of "The Queen of Wands" from the Book of the Thoth, as follows: "There is as much pride in this card as in the Knight, but it lacks the spontaneous nobility which excuses that error. It is not true pride, but self-complacent vanity and even snobbery. The other side of her character is that she may have a tendency to brood, come to a wrong decision thereon, and react with great savagery. She may be easily deceived; then she is likely to shew herself stupid, obstinate, tyrannical. She may be quick to take offense, and harbour revenge without good cause. She might turn and snap at her best friends without intelligible excuse. Also, when she misses her bite, she breaks her jaw!"  I rest my case.  So, I will redefine the reading of Queen of Wands, in its correlation of the card's imagery, with very slight aspects of Crowley praising the card from a more revering angle.  And I'll create a more suitable reading.

Reading:

There are Two powers that can be possessed, albeit in its transience, however they are not from the material world.  They are the Feminine and Masculine of completeness.  That can only be conjured from meditation and techniques of transcendental practise.  From ceremonial bliss, one maybe able to attain this, but must be carefully trained, otherwise the knife edge of intoxication, and sexual gratification can lead into an abyss of repetition and ego gratification.  The human mind is infinity capable of taking experience for granted, until it is taken away from it.  And, thus it becomes tormented.  The Queen of Wands represents desire at its most intense, study her features, note that her eyes are closed, yet she is conscious of her ecstasy, the internal sexual energy of the feminine is unrivaled, to which the masculine also possess, yet holds an external posturing, which must be controlled.   The flames have not engulfed her, instead they have become, manifested through the deepest of meditations.  The leopard protects the privacy of the feminine energy, and ensures that the partner does not see this as an ego driven desire, and the experience should not be recorded or verbalized thereafter.   The Wand, in her right hand points North, to the infinite cosmos, the Left, sitting upon her protector, is of the Earth.  Bound by material limitations, the blissful energy of the carnal, one leaves one's own body as neither a male or female.  To view the self, in this act of the amatory, even if one is surrounded by turmoil.  The meditation will be complete.  

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The Knight of Disks is probably Aleister Crowley's most Right Wing or Conservative minded card relating to his political beliefs of his era, that being 1900s technological progress and the taming of natural environments, strength through conflict, whilst aligning with the Age of Enlightenment period of innovation.  Which, in its historic manifestation of humanism, did assist in heralding in new and modern techniques of warfare and killing technology.  I have covered a lot in my analysis of Aleister Crowley of his esoterica, spiritual beliefs that were formulated under what could be deemed the early aspects of New Age spirituality, which does have its roots in 20th Century Fascist ideologies.  Particularly throughout Europe in the early to mid 1900s.  Crowley was not a Satanist or practitioner of Witchcraft, he was heavily influenced by early esoterical societies and beliefs which were primarily  associated with gnostic Christian teachings, incorporating Egyptology, and Eastern and Middle Eastern metaphors.  Please refer to my earlier Thoth card readings for deeper analysis of Crowley.

I perceive the Knight of Disks as a negative, and-to-be wary of this Thoth Tarot card.

Reading:

To conquer, is appealing.  To change, feels powerful.  Do I have the answers for the generalist?  Is strength through superiority the ultimate progression?  At times you may ask yourself these questions.   Look into your past.  They told you to be strong, to be brave.  Is to cut through the unknown, with a hunger to change the world.  To slay the wrongdoers, and tame the unruly.  Force the knowledge of our civilization onto the primitives, show them the power of strength.  For this, is both of the male and female mindset, equal they can be deluded by the aggressive urge as time runs short, and that desire for structure will be at any cost.  To be ruled, and to rule.  So, I ask you to be wary of this path.  There has been never been a golden era, and no utopian dream has ever worked.  What was forced onto, is then forced back.  So if you wish, ride through the fields of victory, and it will be pyrrhic in reflection.  And as a mere mortal, you will suffer the forever torment of wars without an end.   To defy nature is to redefine the self, not the world.  That is of the truest bravery.
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(A.Glass 2023, 2024, 2025)

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