Major Arcana Series- the Magician

Today I will continue the Major Arcana Series with the Magician card.

General overview of the situation:

The Magician is linked with the planet Mercury, also known as the Messenger of the Gods. In this position that means you display Mercurian qualities: wisdom, natural intelligence, logical reasoning, fertile imagination, originality and adaptability.  You can easily master the situation and achieve advancement should you use the skills you already have and further improve your knowledge. Use meditation to learn to control your mind and the situation. Now is a good time to promote yourself or a project using communication skills and new technology.

Issues and Problems:

Things may not be as they appear! You may be receiving unclear messages and misreading signs. Be careful who you trust, or you may be easily deceived. In financial transactions the Magician calls for extra attention to details. In challenges position the Magician indicates low self-esteem, lack of ambition and weakness of will. Resist the temptation to alter the truth by illusion and manipulation or to get ahead at any cost. Healthwise you may feel nervous and unrested, seeking a therapist might easy your mind.

Advice:

There are new opportunities coming your way! You will solve tomorrow the problem you cannot solve today. Do not give up! The solution will require your use of intellect and creative abilities. You need to be in control of your personal life, now is the time to make a move forward. It is better to take action than to patiently wait for things to get better. You have all the tools and instruments in front of you to turn the matter into your favour. You have a lot of energy and should have a busy lifestyle.

 

 

In the image above I collected the Magician card from 4 different decks, as follows: #1The Tarot of Jane Austen,#2 the Tarot of the Celtic Faeries, #3The Nicoletta Ceccoli Tarot and #4 the Dark Grimoire Tarot.
The interpreations are as different as the images in the cards are, in order to give you a more diversified meaning of the Magician card.

The Magician is one of the most controversial cards in the tarot deck, I think. He is a trickster, and someone you cannot trust yet charming and with magical powers.
In the Jane Austen Tarot the Magician is represented by Mr. Henry Crawford of Mansfield Park. He is an enchanter and seduces Maria Bertram even though she is married. He convinces her to trust him, despite her married status and he leaves her when he loses interest in her, ruining Maria's life and reputation. Maria is convinced the entire time that Mr. Crawford is in love with her and she faces the truth only when she leaves her. In the end, Maria is sent away to another country. Despite the difference in time, just like Maria I fell for a Mr. Henry Crawford type and he too ruined my life destroying my marriage. Moreover, just like Maria I ended sent out to a different county. It is amazing how my story in our days is the same story that happened so long ago, in Jane Austen time.
Now going back to the Magician card he has many gifts and  all the tools in front of him: the candle- fire, the book-air, the rose-earth and the pitcher of water- water, giving him great power. Mr. Crawford/ the Magician is all about acting, acting in a play or in real life. He says:" I feel as if I could  be anything or everything; as if I could rant and storm or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in the English language".

The Magician in the second deck, the Tarot of the Celtic Fairies is represented by a leprechaun, a male fairy. Leprechauns have magical powers, they show themselves to humans only when they wish to be seen, and if caught they can grant 3 wishes to be let free. Any information they provide is to trick you, to turn you away from the truth, so you should take everything they say with care/ caution. The leprechaun generally has 2 bags of coins, one of gold and another of silver meaning the Magician has all the resources he needs to attain his goal. However, the real treasure is the bag of tools we see in the Magician card of this deck.

The Magician in the Nicoletta Ceccoli deck, the 3rd deck. In this deck the Magician is you, and the card advice is to concentrate on your own powers, to do your magic and to use your own will to change your life.

In the last deck the Magician represents the poet Abdul Alhazred who wrote the Necronomicon, who is said to represent the "key to the underworld". Here the Magician has secret knowledge and has experience with the world of demons.

Every deck has a story for every tarot card and it is so much joy to discover their different meanings.