The Key to understanding the Tarot is a formula which is a similar to Isis bringing together different parts of her husband Osiris and then magically forging them into one energy. Each card has to be seen as a combination of symbols, which are drawn together much like a mathematical formula. The key to a card can be written like this: Formula: Number + Hebrew Name + Colours + Astrological Associations + Archetypal Symbolism + Specific Symbolism = the Key. In a divination you have to add the context of the question to this formula. Once you have done that you have to allow all these things to speak to your unconscious mind. This is the nature of intuition. It is not based
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The Tarot Moon – a positive force
I have been reviewing all my tarot material lately as I gather information on a book I have been meaning to write for a while. What is interesting from a Golden Dawn perspective is how Samuel Mathers appears to have started well with the Tarot, but then clung on to some things within tarot to maintain a tradition he was undermining.Take for example the Moon card. The traditional interpretation of the moon card is bad. It represents illusion and suggests that the querant is being fooled by themselves or others. This is the negative aspect of the Moon.However Mathers made it clear that the Moon as seen by the Golden Dawn was on the side of Mercy and therefore