March 9-11, 2012: 10 of Swords
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RUIN
Ten of SwordsMeditation Pattern: Place Atu XIX, The Sun, and Atu VI, The Lovers, side-by-side, with the 10 of Swords above them.
Traditional Description: Four pairs of swords, as in the preceding symbol, with the points falling away from each other. Two further swords are crossed in the center, as though their junction had disunited the others. No rose, either flower or bud, is shown. Above and below are the symbols of Sol and Gemini, representing the Decanate.
Malkuth of Air: Ruin, death, defeat, disruption; but, in spiritual matters, the end of delusion. Destruction at the end. Insubstantiality; ideas, dreams, or plans never rendered practical.
Sun/Gemini: Undisciplined, warring forces, complete failure. Disruption, disorder, and dispersal of the Sun’s harmonious and stable energy; damping down of the creative impulse; weakness, corruption, disintegration. Ruin of plans and projects; but (especially if well-dignified) with the implicit promise of some new dawn beyond the present circumstances. Disdain, insolence, and impertinence, yet mirth and jollity therewith. Loving to overthrow the happiness of others; gossip; given to much unprofitable speech, and many words. Yet clever and eloquent, according to dignity.
Malkuth + Sol: The end of delusion; a light cast upon the illusions of matter. Need for a sounder material orientation. The need for perseverance, endurance, practicality. Need for sense of practical reality, sense of form, and sense of humor.
http://pturing.firehead.org/occult/thelema/libri/The Book of Thoth/thoth/swords10.jpg
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It's broken... like... DAY-BREAK.
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Its great to see the day breaking after a long night of partying with Mr. Hyde. Goodness gracious.