The Decan Atlas
Taurus I
0°–10° Taurus · The Sun walks this face April 20 – April 30
The card of this face
Five of Pentacles
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Material Trouble.
Read the full meaning of Five of PentaclesWho rules here
Ruler of the face
Mercury
By the Chaldean order — the one planetary sequence that Agrippa, the Picatrix and the Golden Dawn all keep.
Ruler of the sign
Venus
Taurus
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: Mebahiah holds the first five, Poyel the last.
The image of the face
A naked man who ploughs, sows, and builds — a husbandman dividing the earth by the rules of geometry.
A face of sowing, building, and the peopling of land; profit drawn patiently from the soil.
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
Earth answers only labour. Under this face, trouble at the material threshold is not a curse but an instruction: begin again, measure twice, tend what is yours.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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