Ace of Wands/The Hanged Man reversed. What great cards for the starting day of a vacation! Things have the potential to move quickly today, and there is a potential for increased excitement, health and vitality. The only thing I need to remember is that Fire energy can be unpredictable, so I had better keep a bucket of water handy. But today, being laid back won’t get anything done.

My Thoth card is the Princess of Disks reversed. In the upright position, Crowley sees this card as representing the presence of the purest of feminine energies. She is Earth of Earth, and that means that anything she touches will be influenced by the purest of Earthy energies, whether Air, Fire or Water is its makeup. Since the card is reversed, I am being told that the application of pure Earth energies is not what I need today; there just might be too much of it already.

Family vacation starts this evening, and I am looking forward to a week with my awesome in-laws in Cape May. I will be back up for a couple of days during the week, and then back down for another long weekend.

From “Alchemy For Dummies”:

The Three Marriages in Alchemy

Some alchemists claim that three conjunctions in alchemy correspond to the Three Magisteriums or accomplisments of the Great Work. The first marriage in the work of transformation is the Lunar Marriage or unito mentalis, Latin for “union in the mind.” This marriage occurs when the soul separates itself from the body or when the alchemist becomes conscious of these as two separate entities. This occurs when the soul and the spirit unite and become separated from the body. It is like a voluntary rejection or death of the body in relation to the united soul and spirit.

The second or Solar Marriage occurs when the united soul and spirit (the unio mentalis) unites with the body, which has now been completely purified by the spiritual or solar energies. The third and final union is the Stellar Marriage in which the body-soul-spirit unites with the unus mudus (the One World).

Cool, huh?!

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