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10. januar – 19. januar
Dette er Stenbukkens solrige udgang: Styrkens befæstning i holdbart element. Kortets navn er Power // Magt. Dets formel lyder: Jord + Solen i Stenbukken + 4. sfære.
Vi er i vores Verden:
Nådens sfære erindres fra Fuldendelse, Luksus og Våbenhvile – her har vi ordene:
These cards are attributed to Chesed. The connection between the number Four and the number Three is extremely complex. The important characteristic is that Four is “below the Abyss”; therefore, in practice, it means solidification, materiallzation. Things have become manifest. The essential point is that it expresses the Rule of Law.
Og videre – om Skivernes 4-er:
As to the Disks, the heaviness of the symbol rather outweighs any considerations of its weakness. The card is called Power. It is the power which dominates and stabilizes everything, but manages its affairs more by negotiation, by pacific methods, than by any assertion of itself. It is Law, the Constitution, with no aggressive element.
Skiverne er tunge. Her gør de deres rette gavn: En magt, der hersker uden anstrengelse. En myndighed, som ikke kender til behovet for at hævde sig. En lov, der hviler i sig selv.
Solen i Stenbukken
I det specifikke afsnit om Power længere inde i The Book of Thoth finder vi denne udfoldede beskrivelse:
The Four, Chesed, shows the establishment of the Universe in three dimensions, that is, below the Abyss. The generating idea is exhibited in its full material sense. The card is ruled by the Sun in Capricornus, the Sign in which he is reborn. The disks are very large and solid; the suggestion of the card is that of a fortress. This represents Law and Order, maintained by constant authority and vigilance. The disks themselves are square; revolution is very opposite to the card; and they contain the signs of the Four Elements. For all that, they revolve; defence is valid only when violently active. So far as it appears stationary, it is the “dead centre” of the engineer; and Capricornus is the point at which the Sun “turns again Northward”. The background is of deep azure, flecked yellow, suggesting a moat; but beyond this is a pattern of green and indigo to represent the guarded fields whose security is assured by the fortress. In the Yi King, Sol in Capricornus is represented by the Second Hexagram, Khwan, which is the Female Principle. Compare the English word Queen, Anglo-Saxon Cwen, old Mercian Kwoen. Cognate are Icelandic Kvan, Gothic Kwens, woman. The Indo-Germanic type is g (w)eni and the Sanskrit root GwEN. Note also Cwm, coombe, and agnate words, meaning an enclosed valley, usually with water running from it. Womb—possibly a softened form?
Compare also the innumerable words, derived from the root Gas, Which imply an enclosed and fortified space. Case, castle, chest, cyst, chaste, incest and so on.
The primary radicle in all this class of words is the guttural. Observe the Hebrew attributions: Gimel, the moon; Cheth, Cancer, the house of the moon; Kaph, the Wheel; Qoph, the Moon, XVIII, Guttur, the throat. Sounds so made suggest the other throat; one is the channel of respiration and nutrition, the other of reproduction and elimination.
Det første er enklere end det andet: Solen i Stenbukken – stråleklar orden, opretholdt ved stadig agtpågivenhed. Bevægelig og levende. For evig stilstand er død. Så langt, så godt.
Det sidste er straks vanskeligere – og egner sig ikke for en længere udlægning her. Overvej blot dette: Hvad er mon forholdet imellem magten og kvinden? Med andre ord: Hvorfor er Stenbukken et af de feminine tegn?
I denne gåde gemmer sig ganske meget:
Mighty and erect is this Will of mine, this Pyramid of fire whose summit is lost in Heaven. Upon it have I burned the corpse of my desires. Mighty and erect is this {Phi-alpha-lambda-lambda-omicron-sigma} of my Will. The seed thereof is That which I have borne within me from Eternity; and it is lost within the Body of Our Lady of the Stars. I am not I; I am but an hollow tube to bring down Fire from Heaven. Mighty and marvellous is this Weakness, this Heaven which draweth me into Her Womb, this Dome which hideth, which absorbeth, Me. This is The Night wherein I am lost, the Love through which I am no longer I.
Kærlighed er Loven, kærlighed under vilje