Will and word made into a working.
Upright
You have every tool you need on the table: fire, water, air and earth. Name your intention clearly and act on it. Skill, focus and the courage to direct your own power are favoured.
Reversed
Talent scattered or used to manipulate. Words without follow-through. Make sure the trick is not on you.
Show the spirits
The spirit work
Taphthartharath is the spirit of Mercury, governed by the intelligence Tiriel. Speak your intention aloud before you shuffle; Hermes, it’s said, hears what is spoken plainly. Good card for consecrating a new deck, journal or altar.
A question to sit with
What am I ready to make real, and what is the first move?
Where the card sits
Correspondences
The Sablerune Tarot
In the making
Seventy-eight cards in fine gold line. Hear when the deck is ready to hold.
Join the listNotes on sources
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.