March 16-18, 2012: 2 of Disks
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(HARMONIOUS) CHANGE
Two of DisksMeditation Pattern: Place Atu X, Fortune, and Atu XV, The Devil, side-by-side, with the 2 of Disks above them.
Traditional Description: Two wheels, disks, or pentacles, similar to that of the Ace. They are united by a green-and-gold serpent (holding its tail in its mouth), bound about them like a figure 8. No roses enter into this card. Above and below are the symbols of Jupiter and Capricorn. It is a revolving symbol.
Chokmah of Earth: Change, cyclicity. Visit to friends, journeys, wandering.
Jupiter/Capricorn: The harmony of change. Alternation of gain and loss, weakness and strength. Ever-changing occupation; discontented with any fixed condition of things. Now elated, then melancholic; industrious, yet unreliable. Responsible, trustworthy, dutiful; fortunate through prudence of management; yet sometimes unaccountably foolish. Basically kind, yet wavering and inconsistent.
Chokmah + Jupiter: Fortunate change, independence, realization (enlightenment of perspective), fortunate ideas; impulse toward the new; intuitive and forward-looking.
http://pturing.firehead.org/occult/thelema/libri/The Book of Thoth/thoth/disks02.jpg
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I met a guy last time I was meditating on the Devil/Capricorn. He was just all energy, but all earthy energy. I mean, sex, and money, and crunching numbers quickly, and just... mastering the material realm in a very happy, energetic, and yes, devilishly, charmingly selfish kind of way. I learned a lot from meeting him. He's shaped my understanding of Capricorn and of the Devil trump more than any other person I've encountered. It was his energy that left the impression on me. It was almost tangible. I just wanted to point at him and say, "Gotcha! You're Capricorn! You're Saturn/Mars!" like it was some game. That's how strong the feeling was.
When you add the expansion of Jupiter and the cycles of the Wheel of Fortune, it would just seem to give that Capricorn vibe even more energy: "Go bigger! Cycle faster! Master more!"
When I put them together, I must admit, my first image was of the old Two of Pentacles, where a man juggles. That's the image I get when I insert the image of my friend. It's not until I focus more on the energy itself that the Thoth image comes into view. There, we just seem to have an image of the energy itself revolving and changing through its different forms.