Solitude, inner light and the wisdom of withdrawal.
Upright
Step back and look inward. A season of reflection, study or spiritual retreat. You carry your own lantern; trust it to show the next few steps.
Reversed
Isolation that has gone too long, or refusing guidance you clearly need.
Show the spirits
The spirit work
In the Goetia, Marbas answers truly of hidden things and heals. Persephone knows the underworld and returns each spring. Read alone, by a single flame, and keep the reading short.
A question to sit with
What can I only hear when everything else goes quiet?
Where the card sits
Correspondences
Show the spirits
Appears as a great lion, then a man. Answers truly of hidden things, causes and cures disease, gives skill in mechanical arts, changes shapes. Goetia 5.
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.