Tarot Major Arcana: The Devil, The Tower, and The Stars

for a Solar nature and also the transmutation of the purified soul (silver) into the gold of the spirit. But it also represents a conjunction of two principles, one feminine and one masculine, which are the origin of generation.

Meaning: Universal Life; its incessant movements, its movement within living people. The animating fluid movement that restores spent energy. The repairing and restoring agent of anything worn and aging. Nature's healing energy. The discontinuity of healing based on taking current and controlling vital currents. The transfusion of life-giving force, healing magnetism, occult or mystical medicine. Transmutation of a vital order. Psychic Alchemy. Regeneration. Mysteries of water and fire. Miracles. Serenity of spirit. Indifference. Calm, health, regularity of exchanges, conditions favorable to life prolongation, disinterestedness, impassibility, resignation. Ease in adaptation, malleability, docility. Sensitivity to external influences. Receptive impression capacity. Cold, apathy, mobility, mutable and unstable nature. Rest, holidays, alternations, change, abandonment, flow, lack of reserve. Passivity, laziness, lack of foresight, hasty expenses, prodigality.

15 - The Devil
The fifteenth Arcanum is represented by Typhon, the genius of catastrophes, who rises above an abyss of fire and waves his torches over two men chained at his feet. It is the image of fatality that bursts into some lives like the eruption of a volcano and engulfs both the fat and the small, both the strong and the weak, both the most skillful and the least provident. It is also the symbol of animal magnetism, of pure astral light not dominated or polarized by the will, of the power of uncontrolled passions. It is the Great Magical Agent or the Infernal Fire that occultists call Astral Light. The two poles of Astral Light, namely the active pole and the passive pole, are represented by the two figures chained to each other. On the Devil's arms is written "Solve" and "coagula". These are the two alchemical operations, where "Solve" means to melt and "coagula" means to coagulate to indicate that one must melt what is inferior and coagulate the superior. Spiritualize the body, loosen the knots and bonds of matter and corporify the spirit making it solid and pure as a diamond and active as lightning.

Meaning: The Soul of the World seen as the reservoir of vitality of all living beings. The astral light of occultists. Vital electricity in its state of double polarization, active and passive. Occult forces linked to animal life. Instinct, unconscious, subconscious, impulse. Magical arts, witchcraft, hoodoo, fascination, practice of human magnetism. Suggestion, influence exercised in an occult way. Action on the unconscious state of others. Domination of masses. Incantations, disturbing eloquence. Housing of appetites, of gross instincts and base passions. Demagoguery, revolution, convulsions, negation. We had a double, lack of balance, disorder. Excess of excitement, panic. Lust, concupiscence, lubricity, hysteria. Intrigues, machinations, use of illicit means. Perversion. Improper use, greed, lack of moderation in all forms.

16 - The Tower or Lightning
The sixteenth Arcanum represents a tower destroyed by lightning. Two figures fall from the tower, one is a royal figure and the other is a priestly figure. The two are the symbol of the corruption of the two powers: temporal and priestly. It is a symbol of the conflict of material forces, but also of the insufficiency of Man's work. It is also an emblem of rivalry, pride and common ruin. But also of the destruction of human work, the prelude to divine reconstruction. The temple that the Initiate built must be destroyed, this because it was built by a man, although with the best possible characteristics, but it is always human, therefore inferior. Lightning represents the necessary divine action.

Meaning: Materialization. Attraction of condensation, radical egoism in action. Restrictive conditioning. Spirit imprisoned in matter. Pride, presumption, pursuit of fantasies. Greed to acquire, mania for material wealth. Megalomania. Insatiable ambitions and appetites. Excessive conquests. Excess and improper use. Narrow dogmatism, the source of incredulity. False alchemy greedy for common gold. Failure of every senseless enterprise. Punishment resulting from excess. Disease, disorganization, filth, hardening, putrefaction of everything that was flexible and alive. Ruin of empires established and maintained by brute force. The collapse of intolerant Churches that proclaim themselves infallible. The error of the presumptuous person who commits to things beyond their capacity and who does not know when to stop. When this arcanum ceases to be unfavorable, it puts one on guard against what threatens. Salutary fears, reserve, timidity that preserves a person from wrongly considering risks.

17 - The Stars
Arcanum XVII is represented by a burning star with eight rays, surrounded by seven other stars, hovering over a naked girl pouring over the sterile earth