Bondage, desire and the power hidden in matter.
Upright
Attachment, appetite and the chains we choose. Look honestly at what controls you. There is real power in the material world, and the chains are looser than they look.
Reversed
Breaking free, reclaiming power or finally naming an addiction or pattern.
Show the spirits
The spirit work
In the Goetia, Zepar binds lovers together, and the binding can tighten or release. Pan is the all, laughter and panic both. Use this card to look at desire without shame.
A question to sit with
What do I keep choosing, and what does it give me in return?
Where the card sits
Correspondences
Show the spirits
Appears as a soldier in red apparel and armour. Brings lovers together; can also make barren. Goetia 16.
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.