Strength/The Hanging Man reversed. The Strength card (Fire, hot/separates and dry/shapes, and spontaneous, impulsive and energetic energy; Leo, “I am,” passionate, dramatic, egotistical; Teth, sieve or basket, digestion; and the Path between Geburah, the place where forms and structures are challenged or affirmed, and Chesed, the place where forms and structures are stabilized and nurtured) is about having the strength and the patience to endure and focus.  This is not physical strength, but rather inner strength, and it is tempered with compassion. The Hanging Man corresponds with Water (cold/binds and wet/adapts, and emotional, sensitive and imaginative energy that tends to move deep, and attempts to take the same path as in the past), Neptune (inspiration, spirituality, magick, enchantment, dreams, altered states), and the Hebrew letter Mem (water, stability and balance, the reflective quality of thought); this card in an upright position presents a version of balance, the kind of balance that comes to us through surrender, and through seeing things in a different way.  My Hanging Man is reversed today, and in a way this validates my Strength card.  Assertion, maybe even a touch of defiance, but in any event action with a plan, is in order today.

My Thoth card is the Nine of Cups.  The keyword for this one is “Happiness.” The Nine of Cups (cusp of Aquarius, “I know,” friendships, the group, cause-oriented, and Pisces, “I believe,” feelings, duality, suffering, soul growth) in an upright position is about emotional satisfaction and the ability to find pleasure in feelings and emotions, and in our expectations for the day.  Crowley sees the happiness associated with this card as happening in part because of luck or good fortune.  However, Crowley reminds us that this good fortune won’t last forever.

My Legacy card is the Queen of Wands, flavored by the Two of Coins. The Queen of Wands (cusp of Pisces, “I believe,” feelings, duality, soul growth, spirituality, and Aries, “I want,” action oriented, assertive, competitive) is energetic and enthusiastic, gives 100% of herself, and always has a smile on her face and humor in her heart.  My Queen is at home in a garden or a board room, and she is quite generous.  My Queen is being flavored by the Two of Coins.  The Two of Coins (Jupiter, expansiveness and growth, justice, fortune, in Capricorn, “I build,” ambition, caution, cunning) in an upright position reminds me that everything always ebbs and flows, and I need to do the same.  This Two tells me not to allow myself to be thrown for a loop by change, and my Queen is telling me to do my best, with a smile on my face. 

My 6-digit date number is 3, the number that tells of a new creation out of the potential and position of the Ace, and the balance, polarity and “distance between” of the number 2.

My horoscopes: “You may need to make some mental adjustments in order to get on the same wavelength as other people today, Sagittarius. You may not see what all the fuss is about. Don't take things too seriously and don't feel like you need to make sense of every detail that presents itself. Some things are best left unknown. Enjoy the diversity in your world and respect the differences in other people's approaches.”

And: “The newspapers might be filled with news of a serious accident or natural disaster that has occurred in a distant country. This could be the source of a lot of discussions, and you and your friends may want to take part in projects initiated by humanitarian organizations to help out whoever was affected by this event. You could therefore acquire a lot of interesting information, as well as the satisfaction of having made a difference.”

My Shadowscapes Insight is regarding the Seven of Swords.  This card tells of attempting to escape responsibility, or even of attempting to acquire something that is not ours.  We do need to always remember that even if we are certain that no one is watching, they are!

The number 10!!  This one is known as the “beyond number,” because it takes us beyond the horizon indicated by the number 9 (and the fullness or completeness of manifestation).  This number is an actual family portrait of our number system, containing the numbers 1 and 2, the parents, and the children, the numbers 3 through 9. 

The number 10 also directs us back to the beginning, or ahead to the next round.  10 reduces to the number 1 (1 + 0 = 1).  If you multiply any number by 10, you end up with the same pattern as if you had multiplied the number by 1 (10 x 3 = 30; 1 x 3 = 3).  The number is the same, but it is brought to a higher level; this is the task of the number 10 . . . this is what the number 10 represents: fulfillment of a process and a new beginning. The number 10 can also be represented by 1 x 2 x 5, the parents catalyzed by the number of fertility. 

The number 10 is found in many spiritual traditions.  Egypt suffered ten plagues, Odin gained wisdom on the tenth day after hanging on the World Tree for nine days, Demeter searched for her daughter, Persephone, for nine days, finding her on the tenth, Odysseus wandered for nine years and returned in the tenth year; there are ten Christian graces (love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, prudence, meekness, temperance) and ten Sufi veils or obstacles of perceiving the Divine within us (desire, separation, hypocrisy, narcissism, illusions, avarice, greed, irresponsibility, laziness, negligence), and the Pythagoreans saw ten pairs of cosmic tensions (limited/unlimited, odd/even, one/many, right/left, male/female, rest/motion, straight/crooked, light/darkness, good/bad, square/oblong).  And of course, within Jewish mysticism, the number 10 is manifested in the Tree of Life, the Kabalah. 

The number 10 is also found in nature.  Lobsters, horseshoe crabs, crabs and crayfish have 10 walking legs; the squid has 10 tentacles, many citrus fruits have 10 sections.

Next, I will sum up what I’ve learned, and then apply it.  

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