The Magician
The Magician signifies channeling spiritual energy into physical action and using one's skills and resources to their fullest potential. It heralds success when one seizes opportunities and acts with confidence, ambition, and will. Literally, it can point to involvement in magick or the occult and urges reconnecting with higher purpose through practice, ritual, and spiritual exploration. Upright it emphasizes action, ability, and applying spiritual will in everyday life; reversed it warns of inaction, misdirected energy, ineffective plans, or superficial showmanship. Magickally, the card supports spells for improving skills, manifesting opportunity, increasing leadership, and representing powerful or confident partners.
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1. The Magician
Description
Description: The Magician represents spiritual energy being poured into physical form. It encapsulates the notion of ability utilized to its full potential, the idea of using one's resources and skills wisely and effectively. It is a herald of success to come, but only if one takes action, seizing opportunities and making the most of what's available.
Literal and Spiritual Interpretation
Taken literally at its face value, the Magician can represent a person involved in magick or the occult. It can also symbolize the outward form or external rituals of the magickal arts, and can signify a need to reconnect with one's higher purpose through magickal practice, spiritual exploration, and ritual. The Magician represents the active side of the human personality, and on the highest level it signifies the idea of carrying out one's truest divine purpose and will right here in the earthly realm.
Divinatory Meanings
Divinatory Meanings: Action; confidence; ability; ambition; putting one's resources and abilities to good use; the magickal arts; a person who practices magick; an ambitious and confident individual; drawing strength from the realm of spirit or from other unseen forces; opportunity is afoot if one takes action to seize it; applying one's spiritual or magickal practice in everyday life; the will of the higher self.
Reversed
Reversed: A need to take action; a failure to take advantage of an opportunity; an ineffective plan; an ineffective use of talents; a need to further one's magickal development or to reconnect spiritually; a lack of energy or a misdirection of energy; stagnation for no good reason; having the power to take action and change things but failing to do so; a showoff or trickster who talks big but lacks the substance to back it up.
Magickal Uses
Magickal Uses: Excellent for charms and spells intended to improve magickal skills, magick to manifest success and opportunity, spells to increase ambition and improve leadership, or in spells to help you find magickal tools that suit you. It can be used in romance magick to represent an ideal partner, or to symbolize a particularly powerful, confident, ambitious, or magickal lover.
Visual Description
A robed man stands before a stone altar set among crumbling columns. He wears a turban and a red cloak, one arm raised holding a small twig-like wand while the other hand points downward. On the altar rest a cup, a sword and a pentacle; a coiled serpent lies at his feet and a lightning-bolt symbol hovers above his head. Vines and flowers creep over the broken stone platform around him.
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