Small cards, Disks
Four of Disks
Power
Resources have acquired a stable arrangement. Look at what it protects and what it prevents, and decide where the boundary should be firm or permeable.
What does your security allow you to do?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Sun in Capricorn
- Suit element
- Earth
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Chesed
- Ten-degree span
- 20-30 Capricorn
Sources
The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 189 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Four of Disks ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
Four pentacles form a square around one central rose.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 189 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Earthly Power.
Material security and influence have become established. The same arrangement may be orderly but possessive, offering little initiative beyond preserving what is already held.
Thoth: Four of Disks.
Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.