"3 of wands, "Prince of disks", "The Fool". THOTH TAROT CARD READING/s. These cards were pulled as a triple reading. The Order of the reading is from left to right.

 3 of Wands "Virtue" is one of the most straightforward and meditative cards to date, from all my analysis and readings of Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot.  Crowley, as noted in previous studies of his Tarot meanings, has assigned the Qabalah Sephira of 'Binah' to the card, which represents the Third sphere on the Tree of life.  Therefore equating "Virtue" to its number 3.  Binah from the Qabalah is used in meditative contemplation, derived from Jewish mysticism; which refers to the mother as divine wisdom of the Feminine.  Thus, offering reflective insight into the self.  The image of the card with it's Three wands, forms the shape of Lotus flower, drawing from Eastern esoterical beliefs of the continuation or cycle of death and rebirth.  A very peaceful and serene card.

Reading:

Be still, like the Lotus Flower, it will perish and then become.  The power of the Feminine, is to know the wisdom of time.  Not to master time.  As all must end, and even if it does begin.  It does not completely end.  Of the blunt masculine, who defies its predicament.  Also holds the truth as much as the Feminine teaches acceptance.  Meld the two and meditate of its rebirth, this does not mean you will not awaken.  Just live in this day, close your eyes, be at peace, and then open them.  Look around at the most simple of things, the tree, the grass, flowers.  Feel the breeze from the South West, as it gently caresses.  This is all that is needed, is right here, now.  Let go.

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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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The Fool.

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

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