The Decan Atlas
Gemini I
0°–10° Gemini · The Sun walks this face May 21 – May 31
The card of this face
Eight of Swords
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Shortened Force.
Read the full meaning of Eight of SwordsWho rules here
Ruler of the face
Jupiter
By the Chaldean order — the one planetary sequence that Agrippa, the Picatrix and the Golden Dawn all keep.
Ruler of the sign
Mercury
Gemini
The two angels of the face
In the Shem ha-Mephorash — the 72-fold name drawn letter by letter from Exodus — two angels keep each face, one for each half of its ten degrees: Umabel holds the first five, Iah-hel the last.
The image of the face
A man with a rod in his hand, standing as one who serves another.
The tradition reads here wisdom and the knowledge of numbers and arts in which there is no profit.
Image and signification after Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, book II ch. 37 (1533; English 1651), a lineage descending through the Latin Picatrix. Card titles quoted from the Golden Dawn’s Book T (1888). All sources rest in the public domain.
Under this face
Air divides to understand. Under this face, force is bound and shortened — the mind's rod measures everything and moves nothing until it is freed.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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