The Air element relates to Swords Minor Arcana, Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. Air corresponds to Yesod on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The Princes court cards also relate to Air.
In YHVH, the V is Air.
The Holy Ghost – Fool – Knight-Errant. Folly’s doom is ruin
Aleph = The Holy Ghost – Fool – Knight-Errant
Peh = Ruin
11. Aleph means an Ox, principally because the shape of the letter suggests the shape of a yoke. There is also a reference to the mildness and patience of Harpocrates: indeed, to his sexual innocence. The function of ploughing is clearly the chief idea involved: herein lies a paradox – to be studied in the last act of Parsifal.
Aleph relates to the element air. It is related to The Fool, and has the value of 1
Ruach means air, also breath and mind, thought being the expression in expansion of the union of Chokmah and Binah in the subconscious. Ruach is also translated Spirit – Latin Spiritus. There must be no confusion between this “Spirit” and that symbolized by the letter Shin. The distinctions are of the utmost importance, and so manifold and subtle that the subject demands a complete essay in itself.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnDa00-gNRV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link He is riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. In the design he is really a prototypical hero of romantic chivalry. He might almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he is...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BmixIPLgUi9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The sun shines in the zenith, and beneath is a great winged figure with arms extended, pouring down influences. In the foreground are two human figures, male and female, unveiled before...
Golden Dawn title Princess of the Rushing Winds, Lotus of the Palace of Air Divinatory meanings Wisdom, strength, acuteness, subtleness in material things, grace and dexterity. Reversed If ill-dignified, she is frivolous and cunning. MacGregor Mathers A spy,...
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm5YH0rFs_z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=lhu1llt4ab82 A lithe, active figure holds a sword upright in both hands, while in the act of swift walking. He is passing over rugged land, and about his way the clouds are collocated...
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0C580ngc0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link A hoodwinked female figure balances two swords upon her shoulders. Meanings Conformity, and the equipoise which it suggests, courage, friendship, concord in a state of arms; another reading gives...
Golden Dawn title: Daughter of the Firmament, Dweller between the Waters Divinatory meanings Hope, faith, unexpected help. Sometimes dreaminess, deceived hope. MacGregor Mathers Hope, expectation, Bright promises. Reversed meanings Hopes not fulfilled, Expectations...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0FbNwnJH2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Three swords piercing a heart; cloud and rain behind. Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all that the design signifies naturally, being too simple and obvious to...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0IjE6nkV3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The effigy of a knight in the attitude of prayer, at full length upon his tomb. Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have suggested...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BmivqyrAuVX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link As this card follows the traditional symbolism and carries above all its obvious meanings, there is little to say regarding it outside the few considerations collected in the first part,...
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0LLGAlyLH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link A disdainful man looks after two retreating and dejected figures. Their swords lie upon the ground. He carries two others on his left shoulder, and a third sword is in his right hand, point to earth....
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0OB9DFJ3u/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Rider-Waite A ferryman carrying passengers in his punt to the further shore. The course is smooth, and seeing that the freight is light, it may be noted that the work is not beyond his strength....
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0P2JDnlau/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Rider-Waite Meanings Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence; also quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance. The design is uncertain in its import, because the significations are widely at...