"Queen of cups " and "4 of disks. power" THOTH TAROT CARD READING/s. These cards were pulled as a double reading. The Order of the reading is from left to right.

 

The Queen of Cups is by definition, one of Aleister Crowley's more serene and peaceful cards from the Thoth Tarot.  As I have noted in my recent readings of the Thoth Tarot cards, I will refrain from a detailed analysis of the background of Crowley's explanation of his own Tarot, as in all honesty it has to be said that his ramblings have been equated from 1800s ritualized occultism, which was connected to Freemason obsession and Age of Enlightenment curiosity with Egyptology.  One must also note the influences of early alchemy via Hermetism, thus was the mediaeval alchemists reworking of Jewish mysticism of the Qabalah.  Mixing it all together, to which Crowley's drug induced manifestations, created his own religion of Thelema.  Crowley passed away in 1947 at the dawn of the Beatnigs that later evolved into the Hippies.  So, the undercurrent to the Thoth Tarot regardless, is that appeal of the Counterculture.  To which, in our 21st Century overindulgence, and overconfidence of rapid pace information, remains an elusive novelty.

However this card is special, and I adore the art by Lady Frieda Harris (d1962) for the "Queen of Cups", as you can just make out the image of a woman behind her watery veil.

Reading:

Of all the great meditations, it would be of looking onto the surface or water, but may it not offer you any reflection.  As the ripples should be of a continuum.  Not for vanity.  Let there be subtleness in all of its obscurity. Is nature the observer or are you?  Time is very much a distortion, yet It is perfect, within its imperfection.  View the watery abyss, as that void between worlds.  Allow the weight of centuries to past, as they will always continue to flow.  It is, an unstoppable force.  You cannot hold back the oceans.  So, focus on the Water Bird, it does not move against the current, but drifts along with the tides.  Not as an aimless being, but with instinctive awareness.   

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"4 of disks.  Power" is another one, of so many, Proto-Fascist Thoth Tarot cards.  And as mentioned in my numerous analysis of the late British occultist, Aleister Crowley (d1947) was a product of his time, that thankfully was reshaped, restructured and done away with when the late 1950s, 1960s, 1970s including the 1980s (Yes, with the 'Satanic Panic' in tow) that held back any conservative inkling of desire for Fascist stability, which swept the world in 1920 via Benito Mussolini, landing with the horrificness of 1930s, 1940s Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany, but politically festering underneath the years after World War Two, that it could actually work, if conducted in a different way (?), and yes, to have the trains run on time, while looking nice and clean and modern, just don't question it they don't actually run on time and are dirty (and broken),  Sound familiar?  Well it is, Fascism has returned with gusto, via President Donald Trump 2.0, who was voted in again, mostly assisted by podcast conspiracy theorists and a crazy Billionaire, as an unelected advisor to Trump, who controls America's space program, accentuating that desire, maybe in all of us, to have stability over change.  So, equality movements, environmental/human/animal concerns, the freedom to choose any sexual orientation you wish, believe in any spiritual path you wish, everything that the said counterculture years gave to us, has been wiped off the face of the map. One must ask the existential question here; Who's is really to blame?

"4 of disks.  Power" is a very cursed card, I will do my best in redefining its meaning and relevance.

Reading:

This is a cursed card.  And we must meditate on its flawed foundation.  Power is restriction, suppression and compression.  It will end up destroying itself via destroying its own self importance, this only happens within humanity, not of the natural system.  When we go, nature will remain and absorb our human folly and biology, without a care of our existence, back into what is the true 'power'.  The jungles, forests, deserts will consume us, our structure of grandeur buried as a memory of error, those archeological relics of a self destructive entity, rare in the cosmos.  The image you see is of a square fortress, with a watery moat that surrounds, on each of the four towers is the sacred symbols of nature. from left to right: Water (inverted pyramid) Fire, Air (pyramid and pyramid with horizontal line within it), and the finally, Earth, the inverted pyramid with its horizontal line.  Human fanaticism to control nature though power.  So, be wary of power, open the mind, the free and less powerful are the most powerful, be it, their act of enduring life.  Faith in structure, and you will collapse with it.   Meld with nature, and be part of nature.  The human being that embraces conquering nature, looks weak and defeated, and is dying from its own confusion and self annihilation.  We must curse the "4 of disks.  Power" and flip the card over, so it faces the Earth, South of the Heavens.  And give praise to the spirit of wind, it will beautifully erode all arrogance.  For  the leader who is obsessed with power, will face death.

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(A.Glass 2023, 2024, 2025)

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