Tarot Pictograms and Correspondences in Magic(k) for Sigil-making and Artistic Approach :)

Hi everyone 🙂

Mystery Monday is here, and it is a time to come back to the divination topics 🙂

I hope this post will be simple and concise, despite the fact I usually enjoy writing longer ones 😀

This post was inspired by our discussion with Judith on her blog 🙂 She proposed a very interesting, creative, psychological, and deep practices of working with Tarot (Tarot Dreamscapes in this case). Check it out if you are interested in this topic 🙂

It is true that when we discover the possibility of magic or spiritual work related to Tarot, we usually start with the physical use of the palpable paper cards. We carry them in our pockets (as simple as it sounds, it actually has powerful effects), put them under the pillow, attach them to candles, or sprinkle with water… Some spells even require burning the cards, or planting them somewhere, or sending them with the wind.

And of course, it leads a point, when we realize, that it’s a terrible waste. Some of us print cards for this purpose; I personally was initially inspired by the sigils and started to create sigils for each Arcana, but it was long and tiresome work, to be honest. Thankfully, I’m not as inspired by Chaos magic(k) to destroy these signs each time I use them, but still.

Soon enough, I realized that if I came up with this idea, someone else should have done it too, and searched the internet with “Tarot Gliphs”, “Tarot Sigils”, “Tarot Pictograms”…. and I found many variants of that.

Like this one, for instance (found it on Pinterest). It’s the easiest and the most intuitive one, I suppose. You can not only visualize them as seeds, but also draw this symbols on fruit pits and plant them – literally. Or draw it on your skin before falling asleep instead of putting a paper card under your pillow:

Or we can try using the correspondences from this table:

I saw a similar table in some works on hermetic/high magic(k) Golden Dawn related books, and I personally have it stored from D. Kraig’s book, but in my native language. Of course, some of these correspondences from the second table may sound weird. My version of the table also features colors, plants, and smells attached to the Major Arcana (which helps me in my meditation rituals).

It’s all about our power of association in this case that makes it work (similarly with sigils in connection to our aims, or sympathetic magic(k)). If we can draw the Fish-Hook, Hebrew letter Tzaddi, or simply the Star, while visualizing the Star Arcana and concentrating on all its qualities, we can use these symbols interchangeably with the palpable cards; the effect will be similar.

I used these symbols as part of my sigils in which I tried to reach for the Tarot Arcana energy, or treated them as sigils, drawing them on every suitable surface or carving them in the candles, or wherever needed. It was a game changer for me. I believe these symbols can be used in any form artistic approach to Tarot magic. It was always displayed in front of me, since I have begun my Tarot-journey; I’m surprised that it took time for me to understand it!

Something that can also be used for Minor Arcana (it’s from Elemental Powers for Witches by F. Barrabbas, but I guess it also can be traced back to hermetic magic(k) as well):

Wands – Red, Cups – Blue, Swords – Yellow, Coins – Green.

🟢Ace – circle;

💡Two – light;

🧿Three – eye;

❌Four – cross;

🧙‍♂️Five – stave;

🪞 Six – mirror;

❤️ Seven – heart;

📜Eight – scroll;

⭐Nine – star;

🌸Ten – flower.

We can play, experiment, and create using these possibilities a lot. This approach works for me in magic(k), and I hope it can be an interesting solution for you as well 🙂

At least, why not try it and see if it’ll suit you? 🙂

Thank you so much for reading this post!

PS: Yep, I followed Mrs. Claire Gutknecht‘s advice and experimented with AI picture-generator, and found the style I actually like, so I’ll use it – especially since the facial features of most of the women generated in this style remind me a bit of myself 😀 This girl has something with her hands though, but whatever, it’s AI.

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