"7 of Disks. Failure. ", "Knight of Disks" and "Prince of disks" THOTH TAROT CARD READING/s. These cards were pulled as a triple reading. The Order of the reading is from left to right.

 

Seven of disks from the Thoth tarot is less aligned with Aleister Crowley's fusion of Westen, Eastern and Middle East esoteric, although the card mostly has a connotation with astrology as the Seven of Disks represent Taurus, note the symbol at the bottom of the artwork.  Also noted is the 17th Century geomancy, which many occult astrologists would combine as a complete reading.  This can be seen by the seven disks, Four symbolising Saturn, Three representing Taurus, as the inverted glass shape of Rubeus (red), which if read from a traditional tarot card reading would mean bad luck.   Yet, with Crowley, he has further tarnished the card with the withered leaves that are now a dull purple, from phosphorous deficiency and blight.  A dying landscape.  Hence, the card's title of "Failure". 

Reading:   

Apparently, if the Rubeus was revealed to the Tarot receiver, the reading would end there and then.  I suspect to keep things balanced, this card would be read with another Thoth card, but since I do single, at this point in time, card readings twice a week; Fridays and Sundays, the 'Failure' would be read as a one.   So, I would create a riddle, to accompany the Seven of Disks (Failure) card.  As follows:  "What shape does two pyramids make, when joined at the bottom?"

If answered correctly.  I would say:

"Then may you reside within the chaos, in all of its decay and decline, with great calm and detachment.   For you are, your own guiding light."

If answered incorrectly.

"From lofty highs, the restless spirits await."

7 of Disks "Failure" 

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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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"Prince of Disks"  

Another card from Aleister Crowley's (d1947) Thoth Tarot and part of the 'Court Cards', the "Prince of Disks", which shows up his interest or at least speculatively influenced by French psychiatrist from the early 18th Century, Philippe Pinel, and his "madness without delirium" or later the "moral insanity" study, and ending up later as English psychiatrist, James Cowles Prichard in 1835, decreeing the psychoanalytical term as "psychopathy".   Whilst analyzing criminals in jail, who appeared to show no empathy for their actions, and now, via our digital relays, it has been mythicized into the so called "Dark Triad" of personalities, more so dramatising the 16th Century writer Niccolò Machiavelli, and his book "The Prince", and the ethos of the Machiavellian personality.  Which is surrounded by fiction rather than fact. But, nevertheless enticing, that one could be morally detached, therefore able to seek gain over loss, without the moral, empathetic weight, would be favorable.  Cue, the masses of Trumpian supporters, podcasters and the like waffling on with a male romanticism, about how one should rule and be ruled. 

Crowley, who was at times paradoxical with his views on feminine, was mostly a chauvinist, sexist and with misogynistic viewpoints towards women, and throughout his occult legacy, he saw them as unruly and chaotic.  Crowley's interpretation of the card via "The Book of Thoth" is indeed marked with his usual ramblings, yet offering the Prince of Disks some moral obligations, seen as a more balanced archetype from the Machiavellian scale, as described by Crowley:

 

"The character denoted by this card is that of great energy brought to bear upon the most solid of practical matters. He is energetic and enduring, a capable manager, a steadfast and per severing worker. He is competent, ingenious, thoughtful, cautious, ‘trustworthy, imperturbable; he constantly seeks new uses for common things, and adapts his circumstances to his purposes in a slow, steady, well-thought out plan. He is lacking almost entirely in emotion. He is somewhat in sensitive, and may appear dull, but he is not; it so appears because he makes no effort to understand ideas which are beyond his scope. He may often appear stupid, and is inclined to be resentful of more spiritual types. He is slow to anger, but, if driven, becomes implacable. It is not very practicable to distinguish between the good and evil dignities in this card; one can merely say that, in case of his being ill-dignified, both the quality and quantity of his characteristics are somewhat degraded. The reaction of others to him will depend almost entirely upon their own temperaments."

The card also represents air (Taoist beliefs), the Earth, agricultural mastery, Universe, prefection, meditation, and calm resolve.     

Reading:

The Prince carries the Orb of the Earth in his left land, as the Left Hand Path is of the Earthly realm, the right points upwards towards the cosmos, we come from the Earth, and in turn, we will leave this Earth.  The cultivation is of the self, as we grow within the Earthly realm, nourish the self, but find balance between the ruling of others and being ruled yourself.  As the spirit is seen as circular disks, naturally free, and yearns to embellish the lifeforce until the material body ends.  Listen to the master, as their insight and knowledge of the world is of its superior standing,  and this, is simply listening to the self, the body, the mind, the nervous system, to control it, to discipline it, and to use it.  You must learn to rule yourself, before you can rule others.  Yet, the path of superiority is fraught, and many have tread this and failed.   And the card also represents air, which is also derived from  the Earthly realm, wind is persistent and steady in its power.  Learn from its resonation, see how it oscillates, as it moves through the trees, and moves the clouds.  As a constant flow, while it carries the eons of reality.   

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(A.Glass 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)

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