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Here we have descriptions of ARCANUM 22
"A youngish man, carelessly
dressed, with a staff resting on his right shoulder and with a pouch or small
bag on the extreme end of the staff, which is steadied by his left hand. In his
right hand is a plain staff which he uses as a walking -stick,and a dog or
similar animal is biting his leg from behind, apparently driving him forward
towards the edge of a precipice, or sometimes towards a crocodile.
Blakeley.
PLUTO IN THE TAROT
"This
image, which has often been called the Atheist, or the Fool, represents a blind
man with a bag on either side of his shoulder and a stick in his hand, walking
towards a broken obelisk, stretched out on the ground and behind which, with
its huge mouth open, a crocodile awaits him. It is truly the picture of the
Atheist who sees not the divine light and carries the weight of his mistakes
and his faults. His stick cannot guide him, and he walks, urged on by fatality
towards his ruin, symbolized by the voracious crocodile. In the sky above, the
sun is partially eclipsed by a dark shadow, the symbol of Doubt destroying
Faith.
This
Arcanum, XXII, means that a number of misfortunes are threatening you, and that
your only hope is to come to you from Heavens towards which your prayers must
rise constantly."
PLUTO NOTES
Pluto being the Black Moon, the Sun, being the Full Moon. IT is the nature of the Moon to move between these two - to be tidal, to have phases. This is JACHIM and BOAZ - the Two Pillars. Where the Divine Moon Mother as Veiled Isis, sits between Black and White. The Moon is also 2 X 10 = Uranus on the 2nd level or Change on the level of Occult Science/ Earth Moon-Mother - Growth - FORMATION - YESOD.
PLUTO = mundus subterreaneus
p1. [a] The Metals Under the Ground = Buried Treasure, same as the Golden Treasure guarded by the Dragon.
"...the rich one..."
"...fertility..."
[b] The Scorpion and the Eagle as Polarities, but there is a much greater tradition of The Eagle and the Snake.
Darkness is necessary for projecting images. The black velvet background acts as a matrix.
DEPRESSION - Hillman, James, 100 Years, p. 44 - 45. Depression, is the Plutonic pole of the Gemini, that is, Hermetic polarity.
V 6 Venus
I 10 Uranus
T 22 Pluto
R 20 Moon
I 10 Uranus
O 16 Mars
L 12 Pisces
96 = 15 = Saturn = 6 = Venus.
VTRL
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ARCANUM O [Letter Sichen (S)--Number 300] THE CROCODILE: Expiation S--300 represents the punishment following every error. You can see here a blind man carrying a full beggar's wallet about to collide with a broken obelisk, on which a crocodile is waiting with open jaws. This blind man is the symbol of he who makes himself the slave of material things. His wallet is packed with his errors and his faults. The broken obelisk represents the ruin of his works; the crocodile is the emblem of fate and the inevitable Expiation. |
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ARCANE XXII. (T = 400.) THE CROCODILE This image, which has often been called the Atheist, or the Fool, represents a blind man with a bag on either side of his shoulder and a stick in his hand, walking towards a broken obelisk, stretched on the ground and behind which, with its huge mouth open, a crocodile awaits him. It is truly the picture of the Atheist who sees not the divine light and carries the weight of his mistakes and his faults. His stick cannot guide him, and he walks, urged on by fatality towards his ruin, symbolized by the voracious crocodile. In the sky above, the sun is partially eclipsed by a dark shadow, the symbol of Doubt destroying Faith. This Arcane, XXII., means that a number of misfortunes are threatening you, and that your only hope is to come to you from Heaven towards which your prayers must rise constantly.
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The Tarot of
"Saint-Germain" These Tarot cards images and descriptions
are found in the book, PRACTICAL ASTROLOGY. A Simple Method of Casting
Horoscopes --The Language of the Stars -- Easily Comprehended, by
Comte de Saint-Germain. First published in 1901 in
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