Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana
Ace of Disks — Root of the Powers of Earth
Root of the Powers of Earth
matter · concrete opportunity · prosperity · the body · grounding
A reflective starting point
What is Ace of Disks — Root of the Powers of Earth asking you to look at?
Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.
Upright
A concrete opportunity appears: root it with patience and care and it will bear fruit.
At first sight
The seed of material realisation: a concrete opportunity, a gain, a solid base on which to build. It announces physical wellbeing, financial stability, projects taking shape.
Within you
A healthy relationship with the body, money and the tangible world: the trust that spirit can inhabit matter without being imprisoned by it.
On the path
The Ace in Kether: the root of Earth and the final He of the Tetragrammaton, the Daughter who will be raised to the Mother's throne. Matter is conceived as a vortex of energy in motion; the throne of the Ace is the celestial quadrant of Aries, Taurus and Gemini, governed by the Princess of Disks.
The shadow
Ill-dignified, it signals greed, materialism, attachment to possessions, laziness.
Reversed
In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.
An opportunity missed or badly handled; money worries, or too much attention on gain.
In love, work and spirit
Love. A bond with concrete foundations, oriented toward stability and building together.
Work. A new job, an investment, the start of a solid business.
Spirit. Recognising the holiness of matter: the body as a temple.
Correspondences
Kether · Earth · Root of Earth
Crowley's note
Crowley places his own personal seal on the Ace of Disks, with the number of the Beast and wings, inside a rotating disk: Earth not as inert weight but as a force in motion.
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