Major Arcana
The Magician
Upright
- ·manifestation
- ·willpower
- ·skill
- ·concentration
Reversed
- ·manipulation
- ·untapped talent
- ·poor planning
Upright
Laid across the dark wood counter, all four of your tools, a wand, a cup, a blade, a coin, fire and water and air and earth within reach of one hand. The Magician is the moment you see you have had them the whole time, that nothing is missing from the shelf. One hand lifted toward the rafters, one pressed flat to the table, and the current runs through you like steam off a kettle. This card is not about wanting. It is about doing. You already know how. The question is whether you'll stop calling it luck and start calling it work.
Reversed
The hands still moving over the counter, but nothing in them. Reversed, the Magician is the gift you keep insisting you don't have, or the gift turned on someone else for the wrong reasons, persuasion gone sly. Manipulation is the shadow of skill, and so is the quiet of never using it. Pick the tool up, or set it down honestly.
In the imagery
Behind the apothecary counter at dusk a figure in a deep red robe stands over the four tools, a candle-wand pointed up to the beams, the other hand turned down to the wood. Above the head, drawn in the rising smoke, the lazy loop of the infinity sign. A serpent of dried vine circles the waist, eating its own tail. At the feet, roses and lilies pushed up between floorboards, desire and stillness both his.
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