Small cards, Swords
Six of Swords
Science
Understanding improves when you compare an explanation with what it can actually do. Organise what you know, test a useful distinction, and leave the account open to correction.
What observation would improve your explanation?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Mercury in Aquarius
- Suit element
- Air
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Tiphareth
- Ten-degree span
- 10-20 Aquarius
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. 191 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Six of Swords ↗
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
The rose is restored at the centre of the crossing swords.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 191 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Earned Success.
Patient work brings success after difficulty. The account places self-regard beside modesty and includes travel by water among its traditional associations.
Thoth: Six of Swords.
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.