"7 of cups. Debauch " and "5 of disks. Worry" THOTH TAROT CARD READING/s. These cards were pulled as a double reading. The Order of the reading is from left to right.

 

7 of Cups "Debauch" is one of Aleister Crowley's (d1947) more Gnostic Christian, alchemist and astrological influenced Thoth Tarot cards.  And according to The Book of Thoth, the card represents Venus in Scorpio, which Crowley equates with bad luck and "lack of balance".  He further relates this to the planet Venus, as seen in Hermetic alchemy as the Planet of Copper that is "external splendour and internal corruption", which sounds like a quote from Christian Theology and historians supporting the Fall of the Roman Empire.  The Seven Lotus flowers are inverted to become Tiger Lilies, which emit a green slime, rather than water, which may symbolise the inversion of the card to be a negative reading.  Crowley also refers to the Six decaying looking Lotus flowers, above the larger Seventh, borrowing from the Book of Revelation that they reveal a "Sacrament may be profaned and prostituted".  In conclusion, the 7 of Cups "Debauch" overall meaning is losing touch with the Kether, and in Jewish mysticism relates to the supreme of the 10 Sefirot, that being One equalling itself as "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" (I am That I Am) or a God like ambience.   That if you lose touch with the holiest mysteries of the omnipotent, you will evoke the obscene. 

Reading:

Do not overread the numbers Six and Seven, for they are just numbers, or both of the Prime and Composite, as we are born of the Six.  The legs, arms, head and body.  We are not born under rule, we are born to be free, and yet the child is born with an open mind.  It does not see Debauch as wrong, nor does it see a weed any different than a flower.  The 7 of Cups "Debauch" may represent Venus, the Morning Star, the brightest and most illuminated Star of the Seven planets.  So, marvel at its defiance, as it brightness that evokes Freedom, yet it is so hostile, a poisonous planet.  The Second closest planet to the Sun, which is both the creator and destroyer of life. Meditate on decay, before you know life, live Debauchery before Purity.  Be imperfect, and be flawed.  Redeem oneself, and be reborn.  Know yourself, and live under no rule.  And if it is, "I am That I Am", may indeed see the corruption, of its creation gone astray.  

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The Minor Arcana card of the Thoth Tarot, is the 'Five of Disks, titled "Worry".  One of the more simplified cards, as far as its cryptic artwork and Aleister Crowley's merging of East and West esoterica.  However, their is coded astrological symbolism throughout the card, beginning with Mercury above, and Taurus, the sign of the Earth, below.  The inverted pentagram which looks like it sits atop of an alter, with outlets of possible molten rock/lava, offer clues to the precarious imbalance the card may represent.   Within the Five points of the pentagram are, from left to right, the 5 Tantric (Tattva) elements.  They are: Akasha (Spirit) - black egg, Vayu (Air)  - blue circle, Tejas (Fire)  - red triangle, Prithvi (Earth)  - yellow square, Apas (Water) - silver crescent.  To which, Crowley acknowledges his 'Golden Dawn' roots, where the Hindu Tantric Tattva colors and meanings were fused onto the Golden Dawn ceremonial Qabalah cross.  Except the Tattva has been chosen by Crowley in a particular order over the inversion of a Pentagram shape, that many now equate as a symbol of the devil.  For Crowley, it was symbolic of the spirit becoming matter.  Which may indicate a ceremonial conjuring

Reading:

You lie on the altar of balance, a mind filled with worry.  The inverted Pentagram faces South, where the Taurus resides under the fallen star of Venus.  This is the restless Spirit that yearns to become matter again, the black egg, from clockwise, it becomes air, blue circle, crafted in fire, red triangle.  To manifest onto the Earth, yellow square.  It is then purified by water, silver crescent.  Yet, be aware that Mercury lays above, the ruler of the curious and destination of wandering thoughts in the night.   To allow a spirit to return, to manifest it into matter may not offer you any reprieve or relay the worry you feel.  The conjuring of past spirits from the Earth can be perilous.  I would treat this card as a warning, not to disturb or try to manifest Spirits into Matter.  They may not help you.

To reverse the conjuring, you may look down on the alter via the antithetical or Left Hand path, from left to right.  In the counterclockwise order of the Tattva, you'll return the phantasm back to its Spirit form, and release it.

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(A.Glass 2023, 2024, 2025)

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