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The ancient wisdom of the cards

The Magician Tarot Card Meaning and Art Marseilles Pattern Trumps

Designation

The Magician

About the Deck

Marseilles Pattern Trumps

A typical French tarot pattern.

Provenance

France, 18th Century

Tags

trumps-1, the-magician

According to Many Schools of Thought

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

The Magus, Magician, or juggler, the caster of the dice and mountebank, in the world of vulgar trickery. This is the colportage interpretation, and it has the same correspondence with the real symbolical meaning that the use of the Tarot in fortune-telling has with its mystic construction according to the secret science of symbolism. I should add that many independent students of the subject, following their own lights, have produced individual sequences of meaning in respect of the Trumps Major, and their lights are sometimes suggestive, but they are not the true lights. For example, Eliphas Levi says that the Magus signifies that unity which is the mother of numbers; others say that it is the Divine Unity; and one of the latest French commentators considers that in its general sense it is the will.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Will, Will-Power, Dexterity

Reversed

Will applied to evil ends, Weakness of Will, Cunning, Knavishness.

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

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