Your Chosen Card – The Magician Reversed Rider Waite Deck
When reversed, the Magician may be using his willpower, knowledge and skills for less than honorable purposes. An ill-dignified Magician may be engaged in deception, manipulation, or the misuse of power. He may be weak-willed or lacking in confidence and thus fail to use his communication skills in a productive manner. When the Magician appears reversed in a reading, it is wise to explore what is preventing you from maintaining the mental focus that will enable you to act like a magician in your life.
Keywords Reversed: Trickery, illusion, parlor tricks, deceit, sleight of hand, hesitancy, impotence, lack of confidence, confusion of purpose, the ill use of ones skills; a trickster, con artist, mountebank, stage magician, quack doctor, sleight of hand artist, swindler, thief.
Key 1: The Magician (Juggler)
Myths/Archetypes: Thoth. Hermes Trismegistus. Merlin. Faust. The Magician. The Juggler. The Con Artist.
Astrology: Mercury, messenger of the gods (Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo).
Numerology: 1 (Magician) = 1 + 0 (Wheel of Fortune) = 1 + 9 (The Sun)
1. The Magician: As Above, So Below
When The Magician is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If The Magician is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Magician is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for The Magician using cards from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Book Details
Complete Book of Tarot: Waite (1911): Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will; the querent if male; (R) physician, magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.
Angel Encyclopedia: Dominican inquisitors successfully blocked publication of the entire work but only temporarily. A spurious fourth book appeared in 1567, but it was denounced by Weyer. An English translation of Occult Philosophy, published in 1651, was plagiarized by the occultist FRANCIS BARRETT, who published a truncated version of it as his own book THE MAGUS in 1801. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the premier magical fraternity of Western occultism, which flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, used Occult Philosophy as a key source for much of its material.
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Angel Encyclopedia: Dominican inquisitors successfully blocked publication of the entire work but only temporarily. A spurious fourth book appeared in 1567, but it was denounced by Weyer. An English translation of Occult Philosophy, published in 1651, was plagiarized by the occultist FRANCIS BARRETT, who published a truncated version of it as his own book THE MAGUS in 1801. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the premier magical fraternity of Western occultism, which flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, used Occult Philosophy as a key source for much of its material.