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The Magician (Major Arcana card 1)

Having recently bought a pack of tarot cards, I have been spending time familiarizing myself with the deck.

To aid the learning process, I’ve began a daily reading journal, where I randomly pick a card from the deck and put into words my impressions. The journal’s online, although because it’s likely to get a bit personal, I’ve set it to private. I’ve decided to post the less personal and more mythological interpretations here on my on my blog.

The Magician (Reading from 9th April 2008)

The magician (card 1) is in union with the cosmos, not unlike the last card in the Major Arcana, the world (card 22), depicting a female or androgynous being holding two staffs and surrounded by the four creatures, that in the Book of Revelation surround the throne of God and are also symbolic of the four Gospels, which no more and no less, symbolize completeness. They also symbolize the four cosmic directions.

Upon the Magician’s table are the symbols for the four suits of the lesser arcana, cups, swords, wands/clubs, and pentacles/coins, which represent the four medieval social classes and the four elements of water, air, fire and earth, and so they are again symbolic of completeness both at the universal and social level.

The magician is also known as the juggler. An instinctual mover and shamanic navigator. He knows what sets the world in motion and partakes in the world generating/animating process, symbolized by the ouroboros belt around his waist with total and harmonious control.

The magician is perfectly in tune with the harmony of the cosmic spheres. He contains the whole world within his body. pointing upward with his wand, and with his finger pointing at the ground he is an indicator of the co-dependent spiritual and material process of existence that are foundational to his magical craft.

Daily Tarot Reading Journal

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