Clear sight earned through sorrow. Speak plainly and kindly at once.
Upright
Independent, perceptive and honest. Clear boundaries and clear words.
Reversed
Coldness, bitterness or cutting people off to avoid feeling.
Show the spirits
The spirit work
In the Goetia, Barbatos understands the songs of birds and the voices of animals and breaks open enchanted treasure. Listen to the world around you as an oracle.
Where the card sits
Correspondences
Show the spirits
Appears when the Sun is in Sagittarius, with four kings and their troops. Gives understanding of birdsong and animal voices, breaks enchanted treasure open, reconciles friends and powers. Goetia 8.
The Sablerune Tarot
In the making
Seventy-eight cards in fine gold line. Hear when the deck is ready to hold.
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The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.