Astrological afflictions provide a time to develop an ability; astrological harmony provides a time to use the ability
The Wheel represents the active life principle. Nothing stands still, everything pursues a constant cycle of change. Within the cycles of destiny, you achieve completion, begin new activities, set new goals, and achieve completion again.
Within constant change, you perceive hints of good and evil. Sometimes what you seek is not really good for you. Sometimes you want to hold on too tightly to what you already have. And sometimes change itself is a good thing! The Wheel indicates changes in a reading, and reminds you that stillness is not possible and movement is inevitable.
The composition of the Wheel suggests that you can gain understanding of the workings of the Universe. The sphinx is forbidding, armed as it is with a sword, yet that sword cuts through misunderstanding with remarkable ease. \
Traditionally, it is the hero’s task to befriend the helpless victims of monstrous fate and free those in captivity.
Or, to put this in more psychological terms, it is the task of all human beings striving for consciousness to liberate animal energies previously caught in the repetitive instinctual round, so that this libido can be used in a more conscious way.
- Sallie Nichols
…know that to possess the Key of Power you must learn to will persistently only for what is good and true.
- C. C. Zain
In my grasp are all things
Held in perfect equilibrium.
…nowhere in the universe
Is there any real want or failure.
Neither is there anywhere injustice,
For the semblance of it
Is one of the manifold aspects
Of the delusion of separateness.
- Paul Foster Case
Sources
Zain, C. C., The Sacred Tarot. Los Angeles, The Church of
Light, 1936.
Nichols, Sallie, Jung and Tarot:
An Archetypal Journey. York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, 1980.
Case, Paul Foster, The Book of Tokens: 22 Meditations on the Ageless Wisdom. Los Angeles, Builder of the Adytum, 1968. Quoted with permission from Builders of the Adytum, 5101 North Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA. 90042; http://www.bota.org/. Permission to use Builders of the Adytum images in no way constitutes endorsement of the material on this site.
De Angelis, Roberto, Universal Tarot Deck. Torino, Italy: Lo Scarabeo, 2003. Lo Scarabeo has graciously granted permission for the use of the Tarot images on this site. Copying the images without their permission wuld be a violation of copyright law.
