The Magician card

To create a world.

Supporting / Blocking Tarot Card

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A supporting card: All four elements are balanced within the person, so the plans, built from desires, needs, emotions, and thoughts, are all aligned with the universe and existence. The person’s intuition is correct; all they need to do is bring their ideas into action.

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Relationships

Career

Finances

The Meaning of The Card

While the Fool represents the idea, the Magician is the realization of the idea in the material world. The Fool has a consciousness that is not yet self-aware, like that of a newborn, while the Magician symbolizes the beginning of awareness. In the Fool card, the querent learns to understand freedom. In the Magician card, the seeker learns to recognize their desires, which they will manifest in the physical world. It is the potential to actualize thoughts and ideas. This is the point of connection between the spiritual world and the material world, the stage where things are created out of nothing.

The Magician card: The Meaning of The Symbols

Card Symbols	Symbol Meaning
Magician	The magician symbolizes the ability to connect heaven and earth, spirit, thought, matter, and creation. It represents the practical translation of an idea, a desire. The magician’s hands—one pointing to the heavens holding the wand of creation, the other pointing to the ground towards a blooming garden—indicate the magician’s power to create or change reality through thought and imagination.
Coin	The coin symbolizes the ability to control material aspects such as finances, property, health, and the physical body.
Wand of Creation	The wand represents authority, support, spiritual power, desires, initiative, and a tool for realizing ideas.
Sword	The sword symbolizes cold logic and rational thinking.
Chalice	The chalice symbolizes the subconscious and the magician’s ability to understand the inner self and emotions.
Blooming Garden	Growth, a new beginning, creation from nothing, beauty, joy, and cycles.
White Garment	The white garment represents the ability to think clearly and purity.
Infinity Symbol	The infinity symbol suggests an ongoing process with no beginning or end, leading to spiritual development. It amplifies and enhances.
Arm Position	Creates the letter “Aleph,” with one hand toward the earth and the other toward the heavens. It represents the beginning of awareness of the magical power of words, thoughts, and the creation of magic in physical life.
Red Robe	The red robe and the flowers symbolize the energy of action and creation. Authority, power, grandeur, magic. The red color represents activity.
Snake Belt	The snake belt symbolizes change, healing, and completeness. It separates the physical from the spiritual, symbolizes control over consciousness, security, and ancient knowledge.
4 Tarot Symbols	Wand, Coin, Chalice, Sword.
Yellow Background	Abundance, energy, happiness. It represents courage but also caution and cowardice. It signifies both internal and external communication.
White Lily	Purity, modesty, warmth, beauty.
Red Rose	Love, passion, enthusiasm.

Mythology

The Magician card is represented in Greek mythology by Mercury, who was the messenger of the gods. He was cunning, a master of tricks, bold, and clever. He was the master of verbal communication, the god of luck and coincidences. He symbolizes speed, both in physical movement and in quick thinking.

Representation of the Card in a Reading

The Magician card clarifies that the querent has the ability to create a connection between their conscious and unconscious mind, a connection that enables the creation of change and healing at the right time. Despite all the magical abilities, we are looking at someone who is at the beginning of their path as a magician; they must undergo a learning process of their capabilities. The querent is in a situation where they know their path, know what they want to achieve in the material world, the plans are correct, their intuition is strong, and they have the potential to realize their goals. This is a card of action, of doing, and of results. The querent possesses inner understanding and responds at the right time

It is important to remember that this is a card from the Major Arcana, representing the spiritual realm. The querent’s soul is in a place of magic, a place of realizing ideas through understanding them. The magic will manifest in the physical world only if the querent takes action to create it. They must not give in to fear, doubt, or any other hindering factor.