Small cards, Disks
Three of Disks
Works
An idea is becoming a structure through labour. Consider the sequence, materials and help it needs, then make the next piece sound enough to support what follows.
What needs to be built before the next stage can stand?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Mars in Capricorn
- Suit element
- Earth
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Binah
- Ten-degree span
- 10-20 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, Three 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
Three pentacles form a triangle; rosebuds touch the highest.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 189 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Material Works.
Constructive effort increases what can be built, made or earned. The account describes an undertaking beginning to establish itself, while warning of a narrow preoccupation with gain.
Thoth: Three 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.