Key Words: Hermes Trismegistus, Great Merlin

Alchemist, and a Healer

Planets: Uranus, Chiron, Pluto.

The sun as a symbol of strength and warmth.

The Mercury as a symbol of flexibility and ingenuity.

Signs: Taurus, Gemini, 1 lunar day

The occult meaning of the card is the Will Power

With a Magician card in your hands, you can start the winning game! The time of waiting and inactivity has clearly passed, it’s time to act! New opportunities are emerging for solving old problems, achieving goals, and events are expected to develop soon.

The Magician is a very energetic and positive card, and it calls for an equally energetic and creative actions.

The magician say, “You have the power”. Right now, you have been given the ability to control the course of life events and control your environment. Strain your will and mind – and you can subdue the elements in the game.

You have an excellent opportunity to turn your plans into reality. Magician portends success and heralds a physically tangible start to action.

The magician emphasizes the power of consciousness; and is characterized by originality and creativity, intelligence, ingenuity, an active life position, an independent spirit, willpower, self-confidence, the ability to control your own actions and influence other people, and the determination to see things through to the end.

The Magician knows no fear: “The forest is waist-deep, and the sea is knee-deep.”

Magician at a higher level

Magician is full of creative male power. It can be associated with the Sun and Mercury. Mercury in its high hypostasis is a symbol of Will, Knowledge and the Word-Logos that creates the worlds.

In ancient times, Hermes (Mercury) was considered the patron of soothsayers and secret sciences, he served as a messenger of the gods, conveying gods’

will to mortal people, but the same Hermes is the deity of cunning, and the business oriented. Ancient Greeks turned to Mercury when they started any commercial business, especially when they wanted to bend legal system to their own interests.

The winged messenger can report the receipt of some important information – which could be

another meaning of the card. The mediating, borderline role of Hermes is noted by Banzhaf and Akron (who refer to another author): “In borderline situations and systems that have reached their limits, the archetype of Hermes-Mercury manifests itself everywhere:

readiness for action, for success, which the Magician points to, is based precisely on the harmony between consciousness and subconsciousness. It is only through the self-confidence that results from this harmony that we can truly move mountains.

The right hand of the Magician is raised and absorbs the power from above. The right hand is controlled by the rational left hemisphere of the brain. The wand in the right hand of the Magician draws creative energy from heaven, consciously focuses it (in this sense it is a “magic wand”).

Professional sphere

The magician portends the conquest of new heights in some business, as a rule, of interest to the person himself.

The magician often points to writers and writers, so that the table in front of him, on which the “elements of the world” are laid out, can sometimes be safely considered written, and the wand in his hand is a fountain pen.

Skill, ingenuity, search for new solutions. According to the Magician, there are intellectual and creative professions – builders, architects and designers, writers, artists, specialists in advertising and public relations, managers and, of course, teachers. Usually the Magician leaves an imprint of his personality, his professional approach on everything he does. Doctors and all sorts of therapists (including psychotherapy and all kinds of extrasensory approaches) are typical Magician professions. Traditionally, the Magician has a special relationship with medicine and chemistry (in fact, he is an Alchemist!). The magician is a scientist and naturalist, and what exactly he studies or on whom he practices, other cards will tell you. In addition, Magician is a skilled negotiator.

Reversed Magician

A reversed Magician can indicate two different phenomena: a blocked flow of energy or its misuse. In the first case, there is a weakness of will and skills, impotence, disbelief in oneself. It can signal indecision and uncertainty, a dismissive and unjustified attitude both to oneself (as a person) and to one’s abilities.

Nevertheless, many believe that the Magician card is always positive – a person simply underestimates his control over the situation, so to speak, implementation power

Reversed Magician is sometimes pointed out that somebody is undertaking magical operations against the querent.

The cards that enhance the action of the Magician in the spread

include

the Judgment (foreshadowing the final success and the most positive changes in life),

the Eight of Pentacles is the development of skill

the Eight of Wands gives the element of insight, the comprehension of secrets

the Two of Wands gives gaining power.

The Emperor, Strength, Sun, Six of Wands, Three of Pentacles enhances the qualities of Magician

A star or moon next to the Magician speaks of the benefits of developing intuitive abilities and the need to listen to your inner voice. It makes sense to act on a whim, even if from the outside it is contrary to common sense.

Opposite in energy cards are the expectant introverted Priestess, the inactive, bound hand and foot Hanged Man, the Four of Swords who took time out and the Eight of Swords, languishing from powerlessness and embarrassment weaken the magical energy.

The combination of the Magician and the Devil tells “be careful what you wish for” and the Magician and the Tower tells here comes the bill.