9 of Wands The Sagittarius Influence
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9 = Yesod
Sagittarius leads from Yesod to Tiphareth.
I'd recommend studying the card in conjunction with Atu XIV.
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I answered you more extensively elsewhere, but let me add this more direct response to your current question.
All of the Wands are related to Fire. The 8, 9, and 10 of each suit is related to mutability. "Sagittarius" is, therefore, the representation for Mutable Fire, as the Fire idea makes its final precipitation into into Malkuth.
An important way to understand what the 9 of Wands represents, therefore - and this is deck-independent - is to put Trumps II (Priestess, Luna) and XIV (Art, Sagittarius) in front of you and meditate upon them.
The card is primarily Yesod of Fire. As such it is interpreted as: Strength, power, health, the regaining of health. The fires of the Nephesh are strong, ardent, creative. Equilibrium within the psyche, dynamic (ongoing) resolution of internal conflict. Great success, but with strife and energy; victory, preceded by apprehension and fear.
It further signifies the lunar decanate of Sagittarius. As such it is interpreted as: Mobility, adaptability, stability through ongoing change. Tremendous and steady force that cannot be shaken. Herculean strength, yet sometimes scientifically applied. Generous, questioning, and curious; fond of external appearances; intractable, obstinate.
Each of the Minor Arcana (escepting the Aces, which are a different formula) are best understood by the balancing and integration of these four ideas: The Sephirah and the Element of the suit, and the zodiacal sign and its decanate ruler. In this case, Yesod and Fire, and Luna and Sagittarius.
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This excerpt from The Book of Thoth might help shed some light on the Luna-Sag connection:
*Sagittarius means the Archer; and the card is (in its simplest and most primitive form) a picture of Diana the Huntress. Diana is primarily one of the lunar goddesses, though the Romans rather degraded her from the Greek “virgin Artemis”, who is also the Great Mother of Fertility, Diana of the Ephesians, Many-Breasted. (A form of Isis-see Atu II and III.)
The connection between the Moon and the Huntress is shewn by the shape of the bow, and the occult significance of Sagittarius is the arrow piercing the rainbow; the last three paths of the Tree of Life make the word Qesheth, a rainbow, and Sagittarius bears the arrow which pierces the rainbow, for his path leads from the Moon of Yesod to the Sun of Tiphareth.*
You might also examine the 5th Aethyr in The Vision and the Voice...
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Get a BOTA Tree of Life poster. It'll show the paths of the major arcana, which represent the Zodiac signs and the planets. It'll help just to look at it. Really.
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In response to your inquiries on the Tarot, I have to ask, is the unicursal hexagram to be considered an actual card.....and if so, why is there no explaination of the card in any book? ( I havent read every book on the tarot, but many, and I dont remember seeing any) I figre it must be a card because of its symbolic signicance, (whatever that is) and it does have a "white border" but no explaination......Jim....anyone?!
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The unicursal hexagram is not a Tarot card. You sound as if you are a little new to this. You ought to pick up a copy of the Book Of Thoth and Crowley's Thoth Deck and do a little research.
Now as to having read many books on the Tarot, could we be exaggerating a bit eh? Certainly someone who had read many books on the Tarot would understand that just because something has symbolic significance does not make it a Tarot card; or at least would have a basic understanding of what the Tarot is. Please forgive me, I do not mean to condescend or patronize.
As for the Unicursal Hexagram, that sucker's all over the place, but Liber Reguli which can be found in Crowley's Book Four tome should suffice in giving you a little better understanding of it. Hell, any book on Crowley's magick.
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"Now as to having read many books on the Tarot, could we be exaggerating a bit eh?"
Don't be a dick. I have read the book of thoth, and found it to be obfuscating at best, and yes, contrary to your expert opinion, I have read numerous books on the tarot, which you will in your "expertise" surely agree that the card was not mentioned..... And if you were to read the booklet that comes with to thoth tarot, it says clearly that the cards contained are white bordered.....So that is what lead me to believe that the card was inserted as a sort of mystery to be reveiled by the user.....and maybe it counts as a card....I apologize for asking, thought this was a forum for a second. Oh well.
"As for the Unicursal Hexagram, that sucker's all over the place, but Liber Reguli which can be found in Crowley's Book Four tome should suffice in giving you a little better understanding of it. Hell, any book on Crowley's magick."
Gee, thanks for the advice, say who is this "Crowley" character any way?
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My fault, I did not mean to sound like an asshole and I actually HAVE NOT read the booklet that comes with the Thoth deck so I don't know about the white border thing. Again I apologize as I had no intention of sounding as much like a prick as I did above.