The Decan Atlas
Gemini III
20°–30° Gemini · The Sun walks this face June 11 – June 21
The card of this face
Ten of Swords
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Ruin.
Read the full meaning of Ten of SwordsWho rules here
Ruler of the face
The Sun
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: Damabiah holds the first five, Manakel the last.
The image of the face
A man seeking arms, and a fool holding a bird in his right hand and a pipe in his left.
The books give this face forgetfulness, wrath, jests, and words that scatter without 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
The last face of air is the argument that outlives its cause. Under this face, ruin is only the end of a story the sword kept telling — put it down.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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