Courts, Disks
Prince of Disks
Make the method work
A useful plan becomes stronger through patient application. Organise the tools and sequence so effort produces a result that can be repeated without constant improvisation.
Which part of the process needs a better arrangement?
Correspondences
- Element within element
- Air of Earth
- Suit element
- Earth
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Tiphareth
- Zodiacal span
- 20° Aries to 20° Taurus
Sources
The elemental combination and court span belong to the court descriptions. The two elements name the court’s mode and its suit, respectively.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 170 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part III, Prince 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
A bull draws the chariot over flowering ground; the prince holds an orb and sceptre.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 170 ↗Two accounts
Book T: King of Pentacles.
Thoth: Prince of Disks.
Book T’s p. 159 footnote distinguishes the mounted father from the charioted son: its card headings call them Knight and King. Thoth calls them Knight and Prince. Read the figure and elemental role before equating court names across decks.