Magician Major Arcana Card (Tarot)

Or, the Hermes Card...

  

The number of 1 the Planet of Mercury and the letter Bet represent this card.

The Magician is Mercury, his name given by the Romans, or Hermes, the God of Logos, Gnosis and many more thing. He is Thrice Great in his undertaking of The Good.

The Master Magician has the knowledge of duality. He knows to awaits the battles end, when the men have fully expressed their anger. He brings the two opposites, or opposing sides, to peace with each other balancing chaos. This can be expressed as a metaphor for mind and body, male and female, good and evil. Understanding this process helps excel one to the next step in the their Works for The Good.

He, also, understands the Oroburos Snake, or the symbol of the snake eating its own tale, and, that of, infinity; the Magician fully understanding the Logos behind self reflection and rebirth. Time is relative to each persons perceived material "reality". Knowing the ancients were well adapted to planetary tracking, and that they considered them to represent the movement of the God(s) he is able to see the divinity in the Zodiac. The Zodiac, being an archetype of Gods such as Cronus (Khronos) and Osiris, charts life, death and events that peoples lives depended on. For example, the rising of Sirius marked the flooding of the Nile when, according to Egyptian Myth, Osiris's body decayed and water flowed from his corpse. The Zodiac also marks the solstices and Equinoxes along with many other important things.

Energies and their uses and sources are another Logos grasped by the Magician along with the Elements. He has control over creative and spiritual energies. He has searched scripture for the understanding of life and the Cosmos, He is a mystic and a priest hunting for more wisdom of the Elemental makeup of the soul and God(s). He is a constant student delving into the origins of man and trying to define that which is Divine in forms such as the Ogdoad and Tree of life. When looked at as Hermes/Thoth, he is the creator of these things putting the words on the tongue of RA and weighing the heart of the Pharaohs. Thoth/Hermes understands the workings of the heaven and the earth, and he is the net that supports the atoms which make up the Cosmos. You can see him working though my fingertips to put these sentences on this page. He is the quests end for the Magician. He is the Magician. 

Credited Sources 

Hermes and GRS Meads Translations

ATMANN Tarot.