April 27 - 29, 2012: Princess of Wands

Al-Shariyf

THE PRINCESS OF THE SHINING FLAME;
THE ROSE OF THE PALACE OF FIRE
*The Princess of Wands – Princess & Empress of the Salamanders
Throne of the Ace of Wands *
EARTH of FIRE

Meditation pattern: Place side-by-side Atus VII, The Chariot; XI, Lust; and IX, The Hermit. Center the Princess of Wands above them. Optionally, place the Ace of Wands above her.

Traditional Description: A very strong, beautiful woman with flowing red-gold hair, attired like an Amazon. Her shoulders, arms, bosom, and knees are bare. She wears a short kilt reaching to the knee. Round her waist is a broad belt of scale-mail; narrow at the sides; broader in front and back; and having a winged tiger’s head in front. She wears a Corinthian-shaped helmet and crown with a long plume. It also is surmounted by a tiger’s head, and the same symbol forms the buckle of the scale-mail buskins. A mantle lined with tiger’s skin falls back from her shoulders.

Her right hand rests on a small golden or brazen altar ornamented with rams’ heads and with Flames of Fire leaping up from it. Her left hand leans on a long and heavy club, swelling at the lower end, where the sigil is placed; and it has flames of fire leaping up from it the whole way down; but the flames themselves are ascending. This club or torch is much longer than that carried by the Knight or Queen. Beneath her firmly placed feet are leaping flames.

HEH-Final of YOD (EARTH of FIRE): She is a symbol of the completion of the Great Work: the expression in action (Heh) of the original creative impulse or will-force (Yod). The earthy part of Fire is its fuel, which both feeds the fire and grounds it, providing something to which the fire can cling. Thus, she represents the function of an avatar, the incarnation of spiritual Principle in a vehicle capable of sustaining and suitably manifesting it. As Heh in Atziluth, she is the archetype of incarnation, the Qabalistic “bride and queen,” representing the soul in its pristine beauty.

She shows who we really are at the soul level. Heh in Atziluth may be termed the Causal Body. She rules that quadrant of the heavens about the North Ecliptical Pole reaching from 0° Cancer to 30° Virgo, centered on the Fiery Kerubic constellation Leo, and is the Throne of the Ace of Wands. Her primary astrological relationship is to Leo, her own Kerubic sign, which translates into characteristics similar to those of the Prince of Wands: vitality, joy of life, passion, &c. Through Teth, she embodies Sod, (Daleth-Vau-Samekh), “the Secret of All Spiritual Activities.” Cancer reiterates that she is a vehicle – the vehicle for the showing-forth of the Primal Purpose of which she is avatar. Virgo discloses that she is pristine, perfect, a pure flame. Though she is the Heh, or manifest, view of the original Yod, she is also that Yod itself. There is no difference, for there is continuity through all planes.

As Cancer (Heh, Binah-Geburah) she signifies the right relationship between Neshamah (intuition/superconsciousness), and the personality-vehicle’s apparent volition, which is only fulfilled when it conforms itself to the instructions of the Holy Guardian Angel. As Leo (Teth, Chesed-Geburah), she signifies the right relationship between volition and memory, i.e., the recollection that the HGA is the source of all strength. As Virgo (Yod, Chesed-Tiphereth), she signifies the right relationship between the ego-center and memory, fulfilled in the recollection that there is no self other than as a reflection of that SELF that is the HGA. Thus, she represents action rightly taken in the understanding that it is the Angel who is the Actor, working through her. She is the means whereby the Divine Fire (Esh-El) gains incarnation – but it is the Esh-El itself that acts!

In divination, she displays brilliance, courage, beauty, force, vitality, passion, joy of life; sudden in anger or love; desirous of power, enthusiasm, revenge. If ill-dignified, she is superficial, theatrical, cruel, unstable, and domineering.

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Jim Eshelman

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