The Tarot of Eli, LLC-Minor Arcana: Thoth Tarot-5 of Disks-Worry & The Spiral Tarot- Five of Pentacles

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Lord of Material Trouble.

Since Disks/Pentacles are cards that represent the physical, this card represents physical worry, concerns, and rumination. It is a state of consciousness that dwells in the past and goes forward fearing the future and therefore, doesn't live in the now. By not living in the now, we are not present today, which doesn't allow new perspectives or thoughts to change our mental-emotional (Energy-in-Motion) direction. This is a general effect of a long strain without action; a general state of inaction. Health, finances, work, relationships and/or creativity are the concerns here. This is also the meaning of the Spiral Tarot; However, its primary meaning is the traditional meaning of Poverty. This card represents the feeling that the earth has gone from under your feet, troubles, losses, and bad luck have piled up like falling snow . This is poverty of the mind and spirit and also implies that material difficulties, although difficult, will strengthen you spiritually and prepare you for a new stage in life. Thus the pentacles in the stain glass window.

To the knowing magus of this material world, the misuse of one's possessions or the misuse of energy or power, will easily lead to separation from others and the potential for losing it all. The Knowing here, is that the true wealth is not of accumulated titles, or possessions; Rather what is to be gleaned from our manifesting here is that true wealth for the Spiritual abundance of Spirit-Mind-Soul, in perfect fearless cooperation as the Whole Self builds the greatest power and wealth. True Wealth is Mind over matter. We are a Psyche/Mind not a body nor its subconscious fear-based survival mind. Each of us has the power of command. I Am... begins this command process. I AM the Will and the Wealth, commands the manifestation of Spiritual, Mental, and Body wealth. To concentrate on loss is to command loss as your manifestation. To seek is to deny you have it; To "Know" is a command to manifest. Hence, I Am Wealth, Health and Wellbeing! Commands energy to become these things. You are a Mind that controls energy and emotes it into creation. So instead of seeing what you don't have, be grateful for what you do have, and think in the Power of Command.  This power of emoting is called "emotions". The more emotion you put into a command of I Am, stirs the energy all around you into manifesting your command. You already have fulfilled your destiny which is "to be" for that is the will of the One , known as Eheieh in Hebrew and means "I Will Be" and you fulfill the wish of the Divine as "I AM Being"! However, you control your fate, which is called "freedom of choice". Most of us are a Mind suffering from culturally imposed amnesia. We have forgotten we are the Mind over Matter that is often called the Soul/Psyche and/or the Sun of God. We command our fate by what we send energy-in-motion to created as our Identity. I AM, states existence, what I Am, is assumption/freedom of choice. I AM Wealth, yelled with the force of passion, cancels the manifestations of poverty and worry, thereby plowing a path to your door as the energy of command fills your body and soul with intuition, imagination, and vital creative forces; all of which create wealth.

Astrologically the Thoth 5 of Disks card represents Mercury in the House of Taurus, also symbolizing communication worries. Worrying about whether your communication efforts are coming across correctly or if you even have the ability to communicate at all. By now we are familiar with the 5th Sephiroth- Geburah, a state of energy intelligence that is severe in its function; Geburah, the bright red- 5th Sephiroth, is a corrective state of intelligence, whose severity is an action towards self-assessment, rather than anything karmic. The angels of the Decan are Mibahiah and Pooyal.

In the 5 of Disks, we have Geburah-Severity, influencing the Material World (Assiah)

"To Worry" something, is translated to English, as the Anglo Saxon shepherds used the word, which is a type of strangulation a sheep dog does to a sheep. This strangulating is a biting and holding on to the Sheep's throat, which stops it in its tracks and is just for that purpose. No blood is let, yet the dogs grip is strong enough to stop the sheep from any consideration other than stopping. Thus we understand that the 5 of disks is so named because it stops all material events, such as profession or monetary gain, dead in its tracks.

Again, Crowley shapes this card as an inverted pentagram, which implies difficulties. He also placed the geometric figures of the Hindu five Tattvas in the individual disks, each symbolizing a Alchemical element of Fire, Water, Air, Earth and Spirit. In the Hindu system these are the underlying currents of matter. The 5 Tattvas are Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether (ether is the dark egg in the center). These are the same “elements” known to Hermetic science & Chinese medicine. These 5 earthly tattvas are qualities in our senses and in the world.

As mentioned, Mercurial energy is opposed in Taurian earth, simply because earth has a natural tendency to be stationary while Mercury is a messenger of swift motion. Granted it takes a strong Mercury to influence and unbalance Taurus but Geburah is just that strength. In fact, instead of Severity, she is sometimes called Strength and causes instability in the 5 states of matter. This instability is vibrational, much like an earthquake, yet the 5 states of energy (Tattvas) have enough attraction necessary to hold together on the lower planes forestalling complete disruption. So, again, this is more like the dog holding the sheep at a standstill, a kind of intelligence applied to labor. The 5 of Disks therefore also implies intense strain with long moments of inaction.

The 5 of Disks states that perspective makes our present state of being, and if our perspectives dwell in the past we are “up-side-down” ---we aren't living today; the body may be in the "now" but the activating principle of the mind is in "yesterdays". This 5 of Disks card reminds us that we are presently inanimate, which is dead to action. We can change directions, be they physical, emotional, spiritual or mental only by acting--moving! You can't correct the direction of a parked car so don't wait, begin with what you have even if your only action is to hold out your hand for assistance or to begin finding the steering wheel. Tomorrow and what-ifs are unimportant to motion as they only excuse inaction, such as sitting in the front seat and thinking "what if it starts?" rather than, physically starting it...you'll go nowhere nor change the car's direction. It's time to break worry patterns by actively pursuing changes in communication patterns, financial, health, and in relationships with the Taurus people in your life. Therefore, worry is seen as a type of mental lethargy where one is at a crossroads and must choose a direction to break the chains of the past that are easily broken by new perspectives and activity. Live the now, you are not "a past person" you are an I AM Now person---an active and unique expression of Alive Energy-in-motion. Therefore, when the worry card shows up, it implies you're at a crossroads, and must choose a direction, and then move into action which is a worry free zone, for one step begins a journey of a thousand miles, just as one creative action begins a bank account of millions!

When the Divination brings up the 5 of Disks/Pentacles, the querent is going through a period:

• Of rumination, anxiety or concern...maybe all.
• Feeling left out of social events because of lack of money.
• Of challenges concerning insecurity, deprivation, and even exclusion. 
• Where the mind is focused on survival issues and thus stopping creativity dead in its tracks as a feeling of helplessness and inertia takes over.
• There is a foretelling of material trouble for the next 5 weeks or 5 months. 
• Of the next 5 weeks or 5 months, opportunities are presented to you for the release of worry about health, finances, relationships, productivity and to improve on your communication skills.
• The past, let's say when you were five years old, is what produces worry.
• Of intending to want to avoid discomfort, and try to compare present day events, to past ones.
• Locked into past pain----does not help us live in the present and this card reminds us to forget the what-ifs of yesterday, or tomorrow and to be the I Am of now.

If ill defined by the surrounding cards , it implies:

• Failure.
• Collapse.
• Despair.
• Triumph of Matter over Spirit (survival mind fear overcoming will).

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