The Magician’s clothing suggests a personality that hides spirituality inside, since the body and the personality are just tools meant to bring the energies of life into the physical world. The snake wrapped around his waist symbolizes eternal life, wisdom, the perennial change and the rejection of worn out parts of our personality. The Magician’s headband indicates that mental discipline can provoke change within us as well as in our environment.
His right hand holds a staff raised up toward the sky and his left hand points to the earth, thus demonstrating that the Magician acts deliberately and in a conscious manner. The ancient mathematical sign of infinity, the horizontal number eight above his head symbolizes eternal life, mutual bonding and strong connection between the inner and outer world, it is the bridge between the world of the spirit and the world of humanity.
The four tools on the magician’s desk – the baton of energy, the coin of wisdom, the sword of discrimination, and the cup of emotion – symbolize the main four elements: fire, earth, air, and water, and the time when we will need to join them is upon us. They express inner strength and infinite opportunities that are to come our way. Above the magician’s head we see five roses which symbolize the five senses that we can rely on when trying to achieve our goals. The four lilies indicate the universal laws and the process of learning the truths. Thus the Magician suggests that we are going to step into to a new phase of our lives, a very important one for that matter. We are ready to take advantage of all the strength and capabilities that resides within us, even though we may have never had a clue of their existence. This is definitely the moment of taking action and making decisions.
We possess great reserves of resources in order to deal with physical and mental work as well. The opportunities seem to be endless. We have more and more new ideas and we are able