1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 168
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QUEEN OF DISKS
The Queen of Disks represents the watery part of Earth, the function of that element as
Mother. She rules from the 21st degree of Sagittarius to the 20th degree of Capricornus. She
represents passivity, usually in its highest aspect.
The Queen of Disks is throned upon the life of vegetation. She contemplates the back‐
ground, where a calm river winds through a sandy desert to bring to it fertility. Oases are be‐
ginning to shew themselves amid the wastes. Before her stands a goat upon a sphere. There is
here a reference to the dogma that the Great Work is fertility. Her armour is composed of
small scales or coins, and her helmet is adorned with the great spiral horns of the markhor. In
her right hand she bears a sceptre surmounted by a cube, within which is a three‐ dimen‐
sional Hexagram, and in her left arm is curved her proper disk, a sphere of loops and circles
interlaced. She thus represents the ambition of matter to take part in the great work of Crea‐
tion.
Persons signified by this card possess the finest of the quieter qualities. They are ambi‐
tious, but only in useful directions. They possess immense funds of affection, kindness, and
greatness of heart. They are not intellectual, and not particularly intelligent; but instinct and
intuition are more than adequate for their needs. These people are quiet, hard‐working, prac‐
tical, sensible, domesticated, often (in a reticent and unassuming fashion) lustful and even de‐
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