The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX Pentaclesi Above and below are the Decan symbols,?'ןand 8 respectively. Promises of success unfulfilled. (Shewn, as it were, by the fact that the rosebuds do not come to anything.) Loss of apparently promising fortune. Hopes deceived and crushed. Disappointment, misery, slavery, necessity and baseness. A cultivator of land, and yet a loser thereby. Sometimes it denotes slight and isolated gains with no fruits resulting therefrom, and of no further account, though seeming to promise well. Netzach of( ?הUnprofitable speculations and employments ; little gain for much labour). Therein?לאחרהand?לארצמare ruling Angels. LI THE LORD OF SHORTENED FORCE Eight ofSwords FOUR White Radiant Angelic Hands issuing from clouds, each holding two swords, points upwards; all the points touch near the top of the card. Hands issue, two at each bottom angle of the card. The pose of the other sword symbols is re-established in the centre. Above and below are the Decan symbols 4 and Π. Τοο much force applied to small things: too much at- tention to detail at the expense of the principal and more important points, When ill dignified, these qualities produce malice, pettiness, and domineering characteristics. Patience 198