I can share some of my thoughts:
The Temperance card in the Egyptian version also has the green skin of Osiris and the winged shoes of Hermes/Mercury. So if this be the Great Way of the Body, the green skin can symbolize the redemption of the dying god, which is the blueprint for man’s spiritual liberation. And Since body follows mind, the green skin symbolizes this lesson in the body.
As for the winged shoes, I am not sure yet. The body and mind are aligned in the expression of the Divine Will which is the True Will of the individual.
I myself have been considering the card XX Judgement, transformation of the spirit. I drew this card during a reading the other day when I asked why I had chosen to come here.
Some things I noticed are: the sarcophagus reminds me of the ark of the covenant. The wings are both pointed towards each other to a point in the midst of them: The Scarab. The scarab was a common symbol among the ancient Egyptians. It symbolizes man’s divine nature. The angel blowing the trumpet above the scene is surrounded with scarabs at each point on the rays of the sun. The scarab is associated with the sun. The sun symbolizes spiritual illumination.
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On the Rider-Waite card, this concept of resurrection is again shown symbolically by the position of the rising figures. These figures form the Hebrew letter ש Shin. I noticed that after I finished a meditation. I leave the cards of my reading on the altar so that I can contemplate them throughout the day or days. This jumped out to me. Shin is very appropriate because it is a symbol for both spirit and fire. This is the traditional Hermetic attribution of XX Judgement, both the letter Shin ש and elemental fire. In both cards the figures are rising at the angel Michael (not Gabriel; XX belongs to path 31, malkuth to hod, in which Michael rules Hod.) sounding the trumpet. The trumpet has a white flag with an equal armed cross to symbolize the balance of the elements (?). Furthermore, Michael is sometimes represented as holding the scales of balance in his hand. If the four arms are the elements in balance, the element spirit is symbolized by the angel blowing the trumpet and the figures rising from the tomb. This is a grand call to awakening for mankind. To me, it represents the time of harvest on a grander scale, and personal spiritual transformation in the microcosmic sense.
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The Temperance card in the Egyptian version also has the green skin of Osiris and the winged shoes of Hermes/Mercury. So if this be the Great Way of the Body, the green skin can symbolize the redemption of the dying god, which is the blueprint for man’s spiritual liberation. And Since body follows mind, the green skin symbolizes this lesson in the body.
As for the winged shoes, I am not sure yet. The body and mind are aligned in the expression of the Divine Will which is the True Will of the individual.
I myself have been considering the card XX Judgement, transformation of the spirit. I drew this card during a reading the other day when I asked why I had chosen to come here.
Some things I noticed are: the sarcophagus reminds me of the ark of the covenant. The wings are both pointed towards each other to a point in the midst of them: The Scarab. The scarab was a common symbol among the ancient Egyptians. It symbolizes man’s divine nature. The angel blowing the trumpet above the scene is surrounded with scarabs at each point on the rays of the sun. The scarab is associated with the sun. The sun symbolizes spiritual illumination.
On the Rider-Waite card, this concept of resurrection is again shown symbolically by the position of the rising figures. These figures form the Hebrew letter ש Shin. I noticed that after I finished a meditation. I leave the cards of my reading on the altar so that I can contemplate them throughout the day or days. This jumped out to me. Shin is very appropriate because it is a symbol for both spirit and fire. This is the traditional Hermetic attribution of XX Judgement, both the letter Shin ש and elemental fire. In both cards the figures are rising at the angel Michael (not Gabriel; XX belongs to path 31, malkuth to hod, in which Michael rules Hod.) sounding the trumpet. The trumpet has a white flag with an equal armed cross to symbolize the balance of the elements (?). Furthermore, Michael is sometimes represented as holding the scales of balance in his hand. If the four arms are the elements in balance, the element spirit is symbolized by the angel blowing the trumpet and the figures rising from the tomb. This is a grand call to awakening for mankind. To me, it represents the time of harvest on a grander scale, and personal spiritual transformation in the microcosmic sense.
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