Courage, passion and the strength that tames rather than breaks.
Upright
Inner strength and gentle command. Work with your instincts, not against them. Compassion is power here, and patience wins what force cannot.
Reversed
Self-doubt, or raw passion slipping its leash. Fear dressed up as anger.
Show the spirits
The spirit work
In the Goetia, Bael, first of the seventy-two, makes the seeker invisible: true strength rarely needs to be seen. Sekhmet is the lioness who learned to be calmed. A good card for protection work.
A question to sit with
What wild part of me needs a hand on its mane, not a cage?
Where the card sits
Correspondences
Show the spirits
Appears as a cat, a toad or a man, sometimes all at once, speaking hoarsely. Makes one invisible. Rules 66 legions in the East. Goetia 1.
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.