"The fool", "4 of wands. completion" and "7 of wands. valour" Completion" THOTH TAROT CARD READING/s. These cards were pulled as a triple reading. The Order of the reading is from left to right.

 

Reading:

Let The Fool in, masculine in sentiment, he is both the antagonist and the joker.  The quintessential contrarian, what what is Right is Left and what is Left is Right.  The High Court jester and the Devil's advocate, all as one.  The Left hand path and the Grapes of Ecstasy are not sinister in design, as it is only balanced with the Right hand of fertility and growth.  As the feminine learns from the masculine, as does the masculine learn from the feminine.  Both are as two, and will perish as one.  And be it that The Fool offers no answers to life, nor questions.  Focus on the butterfly, for it was named psyche, watch it swirl around its Universe, living and dying within a moment of time.  View the Dove, who patiently follows behind, it will leave peace and tranquility in its wake.  And the predators below, the Tiger and Crocodile will offer you fear and apprehension, but also see them as protection.  And The Fool will stand detached.  Guided by the divine Aleph, the most sacred of the Hebrews.  The silent letter, for its greatest trick, you won't see coming.  Fooling even the conjurer himself, while The Fool quietly smiles into the emptiness, he is neither mad or sane, for what lies below within the depths, is also above.  So, rejoice in his phallic, the golden tips which point towards the heavens, and the flower between, awaits the bliss.   

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"Completion" from the Minor Arcana '4 of Wands' card of the Thoth tarot deck, once again shows Aleister Crowley's simplified meanings of certain cards, albeit it is a Minor Arcana card, there is still a textured layering to the overall meaning of the card.  Maintaining its distinction to Crowley's occultism.  "Completion" is as close to Crowley's Gnostic Christian beliefs, than other Thoth cards.  With the astrological symbolism also attached to the card, the Jewish mysticism and Egyptian esoterica are not as present with this card per se.  Rather the Ram on each start and end of the wands is referenced to the Greek 1st Centaury cult of "Ammon", which was thought to have been brought back to Greece by Alexander the Great after he had conquered Libya, and saw the Amun statues of god like Ram's as they sat at the front of Temples. As he later saw himself as a god, the Ammon cult evolved under his auspiciousness.  The later symbolism of the Ram became attributed to the Roman Catholic representation of the Devil, later morphing into modern day Satanism in its symbolic representation of a Satanic animal, that being either a horned goat or ram.  Yet, the earlier manifestations of Greek, Phoenician, Carthaginian and Egyptian societies worshiped the Ram as a god of mercy and stability.    For Crowley, in lieu of the Ram symbolism it also represents love, conjoining with the Dove (end/start of the wands), which is very much a Christian symbol representing freedom, love and peace.  So, "Completion" is not a paradoxical card of dualities, is it, from Crowley's The Book of Thoth,  a card that represents stability, and in his words, a "gentleness".

Other aspects to Crowley possibly leaning towards a Christian ethos with this card, was his use of Christian terminology of the Will of Two and Will of God in describing elements to the card, whilst offering a clue, from his The Book of Thoth, that "Completion" holds a connection to "Order, Law, Government".  Thus, in governing systems of the West, despite our secular inclinations, may also hold a desire that a basis of governance is formed under an established belief, in this case Christianity.  And despite the card offering no visual paradox of Crowley's occultist manifestations, what it does say within its subcontext, is Crowley viewed, at the time, the Christian, at least Gnostic Christian, as holding what could be a foundation for society.  So, this paradox seems evident within the card's explanation.  

Further indicative to the overall ambiguity of Crowley's Thelema belief system which peaked in the early 1950s and found interest in the 1960s as a counter culture concept.  Thelema's overly complex layering and use of predated occultism, would have been too much to unwind into a deeper study for the 60s counterculture, accept to say large portions of Thelema may have been influenced by Crowley's drug addictions.  Regardless, the potency and interesting aspects of the Thoth Tarot cards do have a place in occult studies.   

Atop of the card is the astrological symbols for Venus (love and beauty) and below Aries (fire).  Both in their symbolism, solidify the card as a balanced and positive reading.  The other clue, offered to the reader, in reference to "Completion" as a paradoxical subcontext, would be Crowley emphasizing, from the 'The Book of Thoth', that there are limitations to its completion, he goes on to say that these limitations may sow the seeds of "disorder".

Reading:

As the four wands bear the Ram of Anum, he offers mercy, governance and stability yet also wisdom that the day has been completed.  There is no need to repeat and no need to return.  For love is our guide and so is peace, the Dove displays a purity that is within your reach.  Gently grasp it and then release it, let it find its own freedom.  Lest you know how to be free, the bird of peace will show you the way.  As it is the fire of Aries, centre of the Wands, that binds, sealing the circle of completion.  Under Virgo, love and beauty reigns in this place of mercy, peace and freedom.  Yet, the limitation of its completion can be seen.  And in this limitation, a seed of disorder may arise.

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"7 of Wands.  Valour" is one of Aleister Crowley's proto-Fascist cards which are drawn, not as random pull, but rather in abundance from the Thoth Tarot.  And as discussed with my analysis of the infamous English occultist, who passed away in 1947 after securing his version of the Ordo Templi Orientis In America, under Crowley's own religion of Thelema, allowing a the more structured O.T.O occult society to draw in the many Americans during and after World War Two, inspiring the likes of L.Ron Hubbard, who later used the O.T.O structure to form Scientology.  Crowley prior to the O.T.O, had a very interesting occultist/cultist bohemian background of the early 1920s which were, unpronounced decades later, was a prelude to the Hippies of the1960s when he created a small comune on the coast of Cefalù, Sicily.  Crowley, as noted with this study, became more conservative (as you do [sarcasm]) as the years rolled on.  And more militaristic.  Ironically, this occurred when he was kicked out of Italy by Benito Mussolini's government in 1923, then promptly taking the reins of the O.T.O thereafter and living through World War Two, which may have had a directional impact on the late occultist.

The card, "7 of Wands. Valour"  is also one of Crowley's more chauvinist and misogynist cards, flip flopping his beliefs on the feminine, which are clearly skewed by the theocratic, and structured religions beliefs, be it of the chaotic, confused temptress, who is weaker than the masculine.  From his own reading of  the 'Valour' Tarot card : "This card derives from Netzach (Victory) in the suit of Fire. But the Seven is a weak, earthy, feminine number as regards the Tree of Life, and represents a departure from the balance so low down on the Tree that this implies a loss of confidence".  Reflecting Right Wing fundamentalist and conservative beliefs that women unsettle men, and there for the order of things, as follows:  "Fortunately, the card is also attributed to Mars in Leo. Leo is still the Sun in his full strength, but the marks of decadence are already to be seen. It is as if the wavering fire summoned the brutal energy of Mars to its support. But this is not enough to counteract fully the degeneration of the initial energy, and the departure from equilibrium. The army has been thrown into disorder; if victory is to be won, it will be by dint of individual valour-a “soldiers’ battle”. "   Clearly Crowley is referring to Feminine energy as an unsettling experience for a male, calling on the God of War (Mars, refer to the male phallic symbol upper left hand side) to offer balance and control.  Does it sound familiar?  Hint, Trumpansim 2.0. Same tune hey?

I will attempt to rebalance the card, and free the card of its rigidity. 

Reading:

Why fear the feminine?  She is neither chaotic of weak, the meditation of the feminine is of the supreme, it is the most powerful, and within the Hindu Tantric and Tibetan 'Wheel of Bliss' the feminine offers the transmission of the sacred fluid.  She also can teach, through the joining of two to be one, to crush the ego through blissful fulfilment.  And be it, the wisdom and knowledge of the feminine can withstand chaos, and suffering, by pacifying the turmoil and opening up the world.  By knowing suffering and chaos.  That all is impermeant, and all things will pass.  "7 of Wands.  Valour" is a cursed, rigid and confused male Thoth Tarot card.  So therefor, the card must be read with a sexually balanced card, or pleasure seeking reading, to suppress the negative, warlike male sentiment.  To be taught, what the meaning of balance really means.  Which is derived with the feminine.   If two cards similar to Valour are pulled, then sexual pacification of the energy may be necessary, to crush them both.  Ritual sex, should occur after two negative/male/warlike/fascist card readings, to remove the duality of the male and female.      

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(All analysis and readings: A.Glass 2023, 2024, 2025)

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