The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT in detail of study; great care in some things, counterbalanced by equal disorder in others. Impulsive ; equally fond of giving or receiving money or presents ; generous, clever, acute, selfish and without strong feeling of affection. Admires wisdom, yet applies it to small and unworthy objects. Hod of ( ?וNarrow, restricted, petty, a prison). Therein rule the Angels 5mm and?לאהש LII THE LORD OF DESPAIR AND CRUELTY Nine ofSwords FOUR Hands, as in the preceding figure, hold eight swords nearly upright, but with the points falling away from each other. A fifth hand holds 3 ninth sword upright in the centre, as if it had struck them asunder, No rose at all is shewn, as if it were not merely cut asunder, but utterly destroyed. Above and below are the Decan symbols 0‘ and π. Despair, cruelty, pitilessness, malice, suffering, want, loss, misery. Burden, oppression, labour, subtlety and craft, dishonesty, lying and slander. Yet also obedience, faithfulness, patience, unselfishness, etc. According to dignity. Yesod of 1 (Illness, suffering, malice, cruelty, pain). Therein do?'לאונעand?לאיהמbear rule. Ι99