The Decan Atlas
Taurus III
20°–30° Taurus · The Sun walks this face May 10 – May 21
The card of this face
Seven of Pentacles
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Success Unfulfilled.
Read the full meaning of Seven of PentaclesWho rules here
Ruler of the face
Saturn
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: Harahel holds the first five, Mitzrael the last.
The image of the face
A man holding a serpent and a dart — venom and aim carried in the same two hands.
A double face: necessity and profit on one side, misery and servitude on the other.
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 withholds before it yields. Under this face the vine grows slowly; what is unfulfilled today is collateral on a harvest that keeps its own calendar.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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