The Tarot Cards of Sagittarius

The Major Arcana Tarot Card allocated to the sign of Sagittarius is The Temperence card. The general meaning of this card is alchemy, tempering, refinement, calculation and the reconciliation of opposites, testing and ordeals that strengthen.
The Minor Arcana Cards of the Eight, Nine and Ten of Wands have less obvious connections to the sign of Sagittarius. However Sagittarius is a fire sign, which aligns it with the Suit of Wands, the Fire suit. When a Decan Wheel is consulted (see image below), the first Decan of Sagittarius is found to correspond to the Eight of Wands, (Movement & Messages, or The Lord of Swiftness.) The second Decan corresponds to the Nine (Rallying the Will, or The Lord of Great Strength), and the third Decan to the Ten (Burden, or Lord of Oppression). If your Sun sign is Sagittarius, you can determine which minor card is “your” card, and it can be used as an alternate Identifier, or you may contemplate how the card is thematic in your life. Additionally, using the Decan Wheel allows for time to be introduced into readings.

Sources:
Tarot Correspondences by T. Susan Change
Tarot Deciphered by T. Susan Chang & MM Maleen
Qabalistic Tarot by Rober Wang

The Zodiac Sign of Sagittarius

Starting with Aries in March, Saggitarius is the ninth sign of the zodiac. Those who are born from approximately November 22 to December 21 (depending upon the year) are born under the sign of Sagittarius. Sagittarius is a Fire sign. It is also a Mutable sign, meaning that people born under this sign excel at innovating change, and adapting to changes in time and space.

The element associated with Leo is Fire, and alongside Leo and Aries, it forms the Fire triplicity. (The Fire Triplicity is one of four elemental triplicities in the zodiac, with the other three being Water, Earth, and Air.)

ELEMENT: Fire, Identity
KEY PHRASE: “I Seek”
NEED: The need to explore and expand the horizons of my mind and world
PLANETS: Ruler: Jupiter, Detriment: Mercury, Exaltation: The South Node of the Moon, Fall: The North Node of the Moon
MODALITY: Mutable
POLARITY: Active
OPPOSITE SIGN: Gemini
HOUSE: 9th House of the collective mind, travel, religion, philospohy and mental studies
SYMBOL: Archer
CRYSTAL: Topaz, Charoite
BIRTHSTONE: Turquoise
ESSENTIAL OILS: Sweet Orange and Geranium
PATH ON THE TREE OF LIFE: Path 25, The Daughter of the Reconcilers, The Bringer Forth of Life
TAROT: Key 14 - Temperance
HEBREW LETTER: Samekh, Prop, simple letter: Anger
ALCHEMICAL OPERATION: Incineration
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Desirable: Sincerity, honesty, frankness, justice, generousity, foresightedness, prophecy, perserverence, dependability, buoyancy, geniality, joviality, hope, logical, charitability
Undesirable: Boisterouness, over-confidence, rashness, changeableness, bluntness, brusqueness, aggression, defiance, uncompromising, prodigality, independence, speculation, sportiveness.

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Sources:
The New A to Z Horiscope Maker and Delineator by Llewellyn George
Qabalistic Tarot by Rober Wang
Astrology for Yourself by Douglass Bloch & Demetra George
A Beginners Guide to Astrology by Lisa Butterworth
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall

Scorpio on the Qabalistic Tree of Life

The Qabalah’s Tree of Life is a glyph that represents, simultaneously, two directions: the flow of the Divine from Above to Below, and the Path of Return to Source, from Below to Above, for those on spiritual journeys of enlightenment. It is a glyph that represents all of creation and all the energies of creation.

The Tree of Life is comprised of ten circles called Sephiroth and the 22 paths that connect them. The Paths are subjective, and allocated to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet as well as the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot. The 10 Spheres are objective and are considered emmanations of the Divine. They are allocated to the First Swirlings, the Zodiac, the six visible planets, the Moon and the Earth.

Scorpio is represented on the Tree of Life through its associated Tarot Card, which is Key 13, The Death card. The Hebrew letter for this path is Nun, which means Fish. Its numerical value is 50, it is a simple letter - its “gift” – is motion, or movement, related in part to the fact that fish are constantly in motion.

The 24th Path of Key 13 connects Tiphareth to Netzach on the Tree of Life. It is one of the three paths that connects the Personality with the Higher Self, as is situated in the Astral Triad, the Triad of the Personality. Key 13 can be seen as the path that requires the relinquishing of the “desire nature” of Netzach in order to experience the Beauty (Tiphareth) of the Higher Self. The attachments of bodily desires and wishes must be seen for what they are and in essence must die, or be transformed, to a higher frequency, if connection with the Higher Self is desired. Emotions (the realm of Netzach) are what make us human, but there are more refined and less refined functionalities of emotion. Transforming fear-based emotion (pride, greed, wrath, envy, gluttony, lust, sloth, etc) into heart-based emotion (kindness, self-restraint, gratitude, humility, patience, forgiveness, etc) is key.

The Death card is in fact more about transformation and the Cycle of Life than physical death; “Nun” is not death, it is actually the “Keeper of the Gates,” and is as much about rebirth as it is about death. The concept of transformation aligned with the Death card is one that requires some part of us to die or be cast away forever for another part to be born and grow. Seen another way, as the “frequency” of a person increases, it is impossible for those aspects that have been raised to maintain their lower frequency, and in that transformation, there is a forever loss, or death, of the lower frequency. Raising one’s frequency successfully involves the mind, the heart, and the body, or the Alchemical trinity of the Mercury, Sulfur and Salt of your being.

Tips on How to Raise your Frequency

To raise your frequency, focus on cultivating heart-based emotions through practices like gratitude, mindfulness, and acts of kindness. Complement these with a healthy lifestyle, including nutritious food and regular exercise, and minimize negative influences by avoiding toxic people and limiting exposure to negativity in media or gossip in social circles.

• Practice gratitude: Start each day by appreciating the small joys and blessings in your life.

• Be mindful: Stay present and become aware of your thoughts and emotions. Gently redirect negative thoughts toward positive ones.

• Spread kindness: Engage in random acts of kindness and compliment others to cultivate high-vibrational emotions.

• Focus on positive memories: Think of loved ones and moments of pure joy to promote positivity. Recall things that made you laugh, and let yourself laugh again at the recall.

• Use positive affirmations: Reinforce positivity by repeating uplifting statements about yourself.

• Eat clean: Nourish your body with vibrant, colorful foods and stay hydrated. Limit processed foods, which can lower your vibration.

• Exercise regularly: Incorporate movement into your day, such as walking, dancing, or light weights.

• Connect with nature: Spend time outdoors, walk barefoot in nature, and breathe fresh air to ground yourself.

• Create a relaxing environment: Increase the number of houseplants in your home, change the lighting, play music that sooths you and lets you relax. Take a salt bath to reduce stress and clear your energy.

• Spend time with uplifting people and/or engage with inspiring content, like books, podcasts, or music.

• Limit negative influences: Avoid toxic people and reduce your consumption of gossip, news and media that induces drama, fear or negativity.

• Meditate: Practice meditation to become more aware of your thoughts and to manage them more easily.

• Create: Engage in creative outlets like art, music, or writing to express yourself.

OTHER SUGGESTIONS:

1. Qabalistic Exercise for Raising one’s frequency:

Israel Regardie’s Middle Pillar Exercise
Note: Regardie emphasizes that this work is not to be undertaken lightly: It assumes prior cleansing, banishing, mental integration, and some experience with basic ritual work.  The descent from crown to earth symbolises the Western path of bringing the divine into matter, rather than the Eastern rising of energy from earth to crown.  Because of the energetic intensity (light, vibration, subtle body work) it can produce significant shifts. Approach with respect.

2. 1. To decrease fear of death, research NDE’s (Near Death Experiences) and read or watch testimonials.

Sources:
Tarot Correspondences by T. Susan Chang
Kabbalah by Charles Ponce
Qabalistic Tarot by Rober Wang
Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Correspondences by Sandra Kynes
Hermetic Qabalah by Oliver St. John
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall

The Secret Alchemy of Scorpio

The Mystery of ALCHEMY

Alchemy is obscure and can be off-putting, with it’s enigmatic and strange imagery and odd terms. However, once it becomes clarified, it is powerful system for spiritual development and manifestation. To provide this clarification is one of the goals of Sacred Circuit.

There are two basic types of Alchemy, spiritual and physical. Spiritual alchemy comprises the bulk of what you find when you search the term online, or browse books on the subject. Spiritual alchemy involves a system of personal refinement and growth; it is highly psychological in this way. Physical alchemy is actual lab work and experiments. Both of these systems include seven “operations” which are loosely based on the planetary and chakra systems. True Alchemists of old advised that integrating both spiritual and physical alchemy was necessary if substantial personal transformation was desired.

There is another more rarely used system of twelve operations, which correspond to the Zodiac. The twelve steps can be seen as a more detailed version of the seven steps, in which some of them have been split, but most are added in. For Hermetic purposes, which integrate Qabalah, Tarot and Astrology with Alchemy, and for use with work with the Astrological signs of the Zodiac, the twelve-operation system is highly effective, and it is what we have embraced here at Sacred Circuit.

The twelve alchemical operations can be seen as a Hermetic roadmap of spiritual transmutation — a journey in which the raw matter of the self, or Lead, is refined into the radiant gold of awakened consciousness. Each operation — Calcination, Congelation, Fixation, Dissolution, Digestion, Distillation, Sublimation, Separation, Incineration, Fermentation, Multiplication and Projection — corresponds to an Astrological sign, and mirrors a stage in the initiate’s inner work — dissolving attachments, purifying desires, and reuniting fragmented aspects of the psyche, all in alignment with the celestial Ecliptic.

This Alchemical-Zodiacal journey is not only about personal growth and spiritual enlightenment, it is also about manifestation. As the soul undergoes inner purification, it evolves to become a more receptive vessel for the Divine to enter into the realm of forms. Through these operations, the practitioner does not simply manifest desires — they come to embody them. Alchemy, Qabalah, Tarot and Astrology together teach that manifestation is not control over reality, but harmony with the Great Work —the Magnum Opus of the Soul.

THE ALCHEMY of the sign of SCORPIO

The Alchemical Operation assigned to Scorpio is Separation. This is according to Dom Antoin-Josef Pernety’s “Mytho-Hermetica Dictionary” circa 1758, a sourced cited in Manly P. Hall’s “Secret Teachings of All Ages.” Paul Foster Case, the founder of the BOTA, stated in his book “Hermetic Alchemy” that the operation attributed to Scorpio was Putrefaction, and many BOTA followers and their related organizations follow his allocations. However, for our purposes, we are using the more widely recognized and somewhat more ancient allocations.

As Scorpio is associated with Key 13, Death, in the Tarot, it seems understandable that Putrefaction could be attributed, as it describes the decay of the material body after it has died. However, Separation, as in “separating the pure from the gross,” which is the alchemical meaning, seems to apply in a more holistic way when considering the overall divide between the material world and the world beyond, as well as perhaps describing the soul literally separating from the body after death. And as we shall see, the psychological work of Separation involves the discarding or “death” of what no longer serves us.

In the physcial Alchemical Lab, separation is the process of freeing of a substance from it’s impurities, which can be done by filtering, cutting, sifting, skimming or other type of dividing. Separation is a critical step that occurs with frequency during the process of making not only various Stones (mineral, plant and animal), but in creating other compounds such as medicines, tonics, tinctures, elixers, paints, perfumes and other useful products. It is in fact explicately expressed in the axiom “solve et coagula” (separate and recombine). Even when simply cooking, the part of the vegetable or meat or other ingredient that is not desirable is cut away or separated from what is to be consumed.

On a psychological level, Separation is the act of inner discernment. It involves the recognition and separation of what belongs to the true self and what is societal programming or conditioning, and recognizing what should be preserved and what no longer serves us. This psychological work demands honesty and the courage to confront shadow aspects of the self without denials or projection. It is an ongoing process, for as we move through life and life’s experiences, certain modes of operation that once served us well can evolve to a place where they no longer serve us at all. If we can aspire to perform this sorting and separation with deep self reflection and genuine insight, and without self-deception, we can set ourselves on the path of reclaiming our inner authority.

Scorpio’s essence is secrecy, depth, and transformation through intensity. In the Tarot, Scorpio is attributed to the Death card, where death or endings, and rebirth or beginnings, are a cycle of transformation. This corresponds perfectly to the alchemist’s task in Separation: to inspect the spoils and to seek and cut away what is not needed, as a step in the cycle of life. Only then can true transformation can take place, unfettered by the weight of the gross, or the clutter of the unnecessary. In mythic terms, this is the descent into the underworld, guided by the Scorpion’s instinct to confront poison and transmute it into medicine. In the end, Separation under Scorpio becomes the sacred art of distinguishing truth from illusion, the gateway through which the soul emerges renewed and ready for higher refinement.

Qabalistically, Scorpio and Separation reside in the Astral Triad of the Personality. The 24th Path of Key 13, Death, connects Tiphareth to Netzach. On the downward direction of manifestation, the Higher Self of Tiphareth directs the personality downward into incarnation, landing first in the realm of emotion, which as it’s said, is what makes us human. In the upward direction of initiation, we can choose to transform through the psychological work of Separation, and regain our inner authority that comes with the recognition, embrace and reconnection to our True Selves.

Sources:
Mytho-Hermetic Dictionary by Dom Antoin-Josef Pernety
The Alchemy of Tarot by Juno Lucino
Hermetic Alchemy - The Golden Dawn Alchemy by Paul Foster Case
Qabalistic Tarot by Rober Wang
Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Correspondences by Sandra Kynes
The Idiot’s Complete Guide to Alchemy by Dennis William Hauck
Alchemy Study Program course books (set of 6) by Dennis William Hauck
Hermetic Qabalah by Oliver St. John
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall