Please take a sheet of paper and a pen.
Write down the 7 planets in a circle in the order of the weekdays, but transpose Friday and Saturday.
Thus, in the circle:
Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Sun
In which order do these planets appear in the Tarot?
I - Mercury
II - Moon
III - Venus
X - Jupiter
XVI - Mars
XIX - Sun
XXI - Saturn
If you trace this order in the circle, you obtain the 7-pointed star.
The key to this star is the transposition of Venus and Saturn. This is a wonderful object for meditation and contemplation.
Daleth, the letter of Venus, is written out as T-L-D.
Thus: Saturn - Scales - Venus
In Daleth, we find Saturn symbolically in one scale pan and Venus in the other.
On the Tarot card "Adjustment" we find "Alpha" and "Omega", the beginning and the end, in the scales. In our sculpture training at Emerson College many of us are engaged with the concept of metamorphosis. Inspired by Steiner's "Secret Science", we work at a developmental process from Saturn to Venus in the order of the weekdays. In this Anthroposophical world Saturn is the beginning and Venus is the end.
A further key to our star is the sabbath: The sabbath (Saturn) is the 7th day of the week in the Jewish world, and Netzach (Venus) is the the 7th sephirah.
The sabbath begins Friday (Venus) evening at the time one can see 3 (Binah, Saturn) stars in the sky.
There is also evidence of our star in Crowley's meditation verses on the Tarot in the Book of Thoth:
About "The Empress" he writes:
"This is the harmony of the Universe (Saturn) that Love unites the will to create with the Understanding of that Creation ..."
And about "The Universe" he writes:
"... Blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely STAR." (Capitalization by me.)
In his description of the Tarot card "The Star" he writes:
"Most prominent among its features is the seven-pointed star of Venus, as if declaring the principal characteristic of her nature to be love."
In the tradition of old astrology, The Star (Aquarius) is ruled by Saturn.
We can write ABRAHADABRA in Hebrew letter (=418) and replace Daleth (Venus) by Tau (Saturn) to get 814. This is very neat and harmonic. This is also the number of 148 (Netzach) + 666.
666 + 148 = 814
In the Crowley Tarot, "The Empress" (Venus) is girded by the zodiac, which is also seen on "The Universe" (Saturn).
In the Crowley Tarot both Earth and Saturn are assigned to "The Universe".
In his description of the trump "The Universe", Crowley writes:
"... But the new Aeon has brought fulness of Light; in the Minutum Mundum, Earth is no longer back, or of mixed colors, but is pure bright green."
Green = Netzach = Venus
The symbol of Venus contains the whole Tree of Life, and thus, the universe.
The number of the word "Binah" (Saturn) is 67,
also the number of "Zain" is 67, if written with a "normal" NUN.
Because Zain is the 7th letter of the alphabet, this also points
to the sevenfold star.
The meaning of the hebrew word
Daleth-Tau (TD)
is RELIGION and LAW.
Fürst Claas vom Mars
May 2002
Translated by Stephen Luzny
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