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In nearly all Tarot decks, this card is depicted as a large wheel with people traveling around it. | In nearly all Tarot decks, this card is depicted as a large wheel with people traveling around it. | ||
In the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]], artist [[Pamela Colman Smith]] does not use the traditional wheel and instead replaced it with a circular sigil around which mythical creatures are in motion. | In the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]], artist [[Pamela Colman Smith]] does not use the traditional wheel and instead replaced it with a circular [[sigil]] around which mythical creatures are in motion. | ||
==Symbolism== | ==Symbolism== | ||
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The four Living Creatures of Ezekiel occupy the angles of the card. In the eighteenth century the ascending and descending animals were really of nondescript character, one of them having a human head. At the summit was another monster with the body of an indeterminate beast, wings on shoulders and a crown on head. It carried two wands in its claws. These are replaced in the reconstruction by a Hermanubis (Hermes and [[Anubis]] combined as one, the genius of good) ascending with the wheel, a Sphinx at the summit is the equilibrium of the wheel balancing good and evil with the sword in its lion claws, and Typhon (the Greek god of all the monsters, the genius of evil) in his serpent form is descending with the wheel. | The four Living Creatures of Ezekiel occupy the angles of the card. In the eighteenth century the ascending and descending animals were really of nondescript character, one of them having a human head. At the summit was another monster with the body of an indeterminate beast, wings on shoulders and a crown on head. It carried two wands in its claws. These are replaced in the reconstruction by a Hermanubis (Hermes and [[Anubis]] combined as one, the genius of good) ascending with the wheel, a Sphinx at the summit is the equilibrium of the wheel balancing good and evil with the sword in its lion claws, and Typhon (the Greek god of all the monsters, the genius of evil) in his serpent form is descending with the wheel. | ||
The symbols of the four fixed signs are holding the four quarters of the card. The four fixed principles are indeed generally accepted as the basis of the material or concrete world. Compare the visions of Ezekiel and St. John of Patmos. The mid-heaven in the horoscope sees the eastern half of it rising and the western half on the other hand declining. See the right hand as the East and the left hand as the West, and you have the illustration of the horoscope more accurately still. As we know the East is standing for the source of spiritual force and inspiration, the West for the end of it and dying out. | The symbols of the four fixed signs are holding the four quarters of the card. The four fixed principles are indeed generally accepted as the basis of the material or concrete world. Compare the visions of Ezekiel and St. John of Patmos. The mid-heaven in the [[horoscope]] sees the eastern half of it rising and the western half on the other hand declining. See the right hand as the East and the left hand as the West, and you have the illustration of the horoscope more accurately still. As we know the East is standing for the source of spiritual force and inspiration, the West for the end of it and dying out. | ||
==Divinatory meaning== | ==Divinatory meaning== | ||