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According to Lionnet, when the Magician appears in a spread, it points to the talents, capabilities and resources at the [[Querent|querent's]] disposal. Depending on the card's placement in relation to other cards, the message is to tap into one's full potential rather than holding back, especially when there is a need to transform something. There are choices and directions to take. Guidance can arrive through one's own intuition or in the form of someone who brings about change or transformation.<ref>Annie Lionnet, ''Secrets of Tarot'', Dorling Kindersley (DK series) p 41</ref>
According to Lionnet, when the Magician appears in a spread, it points to the talents, capabilities and resources at the [[Querent|querent's]] disposal. Depending on the card's placement in relation to other cards, the message is to tap into one's full potential rather than holding back, especially when there is a need to transform something. There are choices and directions to take. Guidance can arrive through one's own intuition or in the form of someone who brings about change or transformation.<ref>Annie Lionnet, ''Secrets of Tarot'', Dorling Kindersley (DK series) p 41</ref>


According to A.E. Waite's ''[[The Pictorial Key to the Tarot|Pictorial Key To The Tarot]]''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57549699|title=The pictorial key to the tarot|last=Waite, Arthur Edward, 1857-1942.|date=2005|publisher=Dover Publications|isbn=0-486-44255-1|location=Mineola, NY|oclc=57549699}}</ref>, the Fool card is associated with:
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According to Arthur Edward Waite, this card signifies the divine motive in man.<ref>Arthur Edward Waite's: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot #I. The Magician</ref> It is also the unity of the individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought. With further reference to the "sign of life", i.e. the infinity symbol and its connection with the number 8, it may be remembered that Christian Gnosticism speaks of rebirth in Christ as a change "unto the Ogdoad." The mystic number is termed Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the Land of the Lord. According to [[Martinism]], 8 is the number of Christ.<ref name="KeyTarot"/>
<blockquote>Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will; [it signifies] the Querent, if male.[If the card is drawn] Reversed: Physician, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.</blockquote>

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Waite writes that this card signifies the divine motive in man.<ref>Arthur Edward Waite's: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot #I. The Magician</ref> It is also the unity of the individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought. With further reference to the "sign of life", i.e. the infinity symbol and its connection with the number 8, it may be remembered that Christian Gnosticism speaks of rebirth in Christ as a change "unto the Ogdoad." The mystic number is termed Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the Land of the Lord. According to [[Martinism]], 8 is the number of Christ.<ref name="KeyTarot"/>

According to A.E. Waite's ''[[The Pictorial Key to the Tarot|Pictorial Key To The Tarot]]''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57549699|title=The pictorial key to the tarot|last=Waite, Arthur Edward, 1857-1942.|date=2005|publisher=Dover Publications|isbn=0-486-44255-1|location=Mineola, NY|oclc=57549699}}</ref>, the Fool card is associated with:
<blockquote>Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment. [If the card is] Reversed: Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.</blockquote>


==In art==
==In art==

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Rider-Waite tarot deck

The Magician (I), also known as The Magus or The Juggler, is the first

zero
).

Iconography

Tarot of Marseille

In French Le Bateleur, "the

hand-painted tarots made for the Visconti and Sforza families. In the painted cards attributed to Bonifacio Bembo, the Magician appears to be playing with cups and balls.[1]

In esoteric decks, occultists, starting with

magus. The curves of the magician's hat brim in the Marseilles image are similar to the esoteric deck's mathematical sign of infinity. Similarly, other symbols were added. The essentials are that the magician has set up a temporary table outdoors, to display items that represent the suits of the Minor Arcana: Cups, Coins, Swords (as knives). The fourth, the baton (Clubs) he holds in his hand. The baton later stands for a literal magician's "wand".[2]

The illustration of the Tarot card "The Magician" from the

Rider-Waite tarot deck was developed by A. E. Waite for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1910. Waite's magician features the infinity symbol over his head, and an ouroboros belt, both symbolizing eternity. The figure stands among a garden of flowers, to imply the manifestation and cultivation of desires.[3]

In the tarot game

In most tarot games, the Bagatto is the lowest ranking trump card but worth a lot of points. Therefore, many players want to take a trick when it is played. In most games played out of Italy, winning the last trick with it awards bonus points.

In

wild cards known as counters (contatori).[4] They can be used separately or together to fill missing gaps in combinations but they can't fill in two consecutive gaps in sequential combinations. They can't replace the highest trump or kings. Both cards can be used in every sequence but as the Fool can't be captured while the Magician is vulnerable, the player holding the Magician would want to use it only judiciously.[5]

In Sicilian tarocchi, the Bagatto is the second lowest trump, outranking an unnumbered trump called Miseria of no significance.[6]

Symbolism

In the Magician's right hand is a

lilium convallium,[a] changed into garden flowers, to show the culture of aspiration.[b][7]

The Magician is associated with the planet Mercury.[8]

Divination

According to Lionnet, when the Magician appears in a spread, it points to the talents, capabilities and resources at the querent's disposal. Depending on the card's placement in relation to other cards, the message is to tap into one's full potential rather than holding back, especially when there is a need to transform something. There are choices and directions to take. Guidance can arrive through one's own intuition or in the form of someone who brings about change or transformation.[9]

According to A.E. Waite's Pictorial Key To The Tarot[10], the Fool card is associated with:

Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will; [it signifies] the Querent, if male.[If the card is drawn] Reversed: Physician, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.

Waite writes that this card signifies the divine motive in man.[11] It is also the unity of the individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought. With further reference to the "sign of life", i.e. the infinity symbol and its connection with the number 8, it may be remembered that Christian Gnosticism speaks of rebirth in Christ as a change "unto the Ogdoad." The mystic number is termed Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the Land of the Lord. According to Martinism, 8 is the number of Christ.[7]

According to A.E. Waite's Pictorial Key To The Tarot[12], the Fool card is associated with:

Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment. [If the card is] Reversed: Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.

In art

The Surrealist (Le surréaliste), 1947, is a painting by Victor Brauner. The Juggler provided Brauner with a key prototype for his self-portrait: the Surrealist's large hat, medieval costume, and the position of his arms all derive from this figure who, like Brauner's subject, stands behind a table displaying a knife, a goblet, and coins.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ This is a reference to the Song of Songs, Chapter 2, verse 1 - ego flos campi et lilium convallium (I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys) s:Bible (World English)/Song of Solomon#Chapter 2
  2. ^ Refer the Language of flowers.

Citations

  1. ISBN 0-8052-0559-4
    )
  2. ^ Butler, supra.
  3. ^ Gray, E. (1960). The Tarot Revealed: A Modern Guide to Reading the Tarot Cards. New York, N.Y.: Bell Publishing Company.
  4. ^ Tarocchino Bolognese
  5. ^ Tarocchini sequences
  6. ^ Sicilian tarocchi
  7. ^
    Arthur Edward Waite
    . Please feel free to update the text.
  8. ^ McCann, David (March 1999). Houlding, Deborah (ed.). "Mercury in Myth & Occult Philosophy". The Traditional Astrologer (18). Nottingham, UK: Ascella.
  9. ^ Annie Lionnet, Secrets of Tarot, Dorling Kindersley (DK series) p 41
  10. OCLC 57549699.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
    )
  11. ^ Arthur Edward Waite's: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot #I. The Magician
  12. OCLC 57549699.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
    )
  13. ^ Childs, Elizabeth C. "The Surrealist (Le surréaliste). January 1947 - Guggenheim Museum". Guggenheim.org. Retrieved 14 May 2013.

References

  • A. E. Waite's 1910
    Pictorial Key to the Tarot
  • Most works of Joseph Campbell.
  • Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes this World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (1998).
  • Juliette Wood, Folklore 109 (1998):15-24, The Celtic Tarot and the Secret Tradition: A Study in Modern Legend Making (1998)


External links

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