March 26-28, 2014: Three of Wands

Al-Shariyf

Three of Wands
VIRTUE
(Previously called, “Established Strength.”)

Meditation Pattern: Place Atu XIX, The Sun, and Atu IV, The Emperor, side-by-side, with the 3 of Wands above them.

Traditional Description: Three wands in the center: two crossed, and the third upright between them. Flames issue from the point of junction. Above and below are the symbols Sol and Aries.

Binah of Fire: The establishment of primeval energy. Self-respect, integrity, arrogance, self-assertion; that is, the ideas of Will and Dominion (the two previous cards) now have become interpreted in terms of character.

Sun/Aries: Established force or strength. Realization of hope. Leadership, enthusiasm, courage. Formulation, birthing. Pride, nobility, wealth, generosity, power, obstinacy, conceit. Rude self-assumption, insolence, conceit.

Saturn + Sol: Firm, decisive, determined, persevering; completion of labor; attaining to a certain status; yet withdrawn, private, secluded.

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Danica

Sun+Aries: inviolable, stable governance established; ruling by the law/right of Natural authority.
There is also some Mildness here, suggested by the lotuses on the wands.
Virtue: when you follow your authentic nature, with commitment and with acceptance and understanding of everyone else (of differences between people).

A King ,loved by his people, mild, righteous, in the Zenith of his power & rulership. He is receptive, and willing to hear and accept as much as he is capable of giving, governing, directing. He radiates Beauty.

Sun+Aries (+ Saturn): Phoenix, continuity of dying-and-being-born-again-out-of-own-ashes; Mysteries of the relationship of life and death.
Virtue: it does not discriminate; everything under the Sun is equally illuminated by its rays (Sub Rosae!).

To stay faithful to the Child in yourself; there is this inherent balance of Yin and Yang in it.
Stability, imperishability, indestructibility.
The “golden thread”, Golden Fleece, Argonauts.
“You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?” (Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

The fiery aspect of the Great Mother: Love which initiates, by the means of purifying; here is strictness and discipline, but also limitless giving (dispensation).
Virtue: allowing everyone to shine with his/her own Light, Star; limiting is directed toward one’s own self, governance is self-governance.
Both Tzaddi and Resh are connected to Yesod, indicating an inner Lunar aspect of the card; it’s the Female principle of the Great Mother expressing itself through the Solar characteristics.
Understanding expressed as Dedication and Consecration (Fire).

In metaphysical sense, the basic structure of every individual being is that it is self-luminous (Sun) and self-governing (Aries); the laws of existence are the laws of motion of an individual Star.
Understanding this = virtue.

Al-Shariyf

Day One
The primal will has taken it's form, it's intuitively grasped, it shapes and constrains the Will into internally lights up all things, inner discipline, inner glory, warmth, joy, glee courage, being steadfast, steadiness, willful submission to something greater than one's self, giving one's life over to a great cause

Day two
the fusing and bonding aspect of heat and fire, divine inspiration and enthusiasm, natural leadership given by love & happiness, confidence as a way of being, birthing victory, being the God of one's universe, childlike sovereignty, heeding inner guidance, exploration, being a pioneer, refreshing novelty, growth, artful refinement, new thought patterns & paradigms, seeking the joy within, service and contribution as one's natural self-expression

Day three
creative genius, self-governance from within, snootiness