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1 The Magician
Typically taking power through one’s own tools
Recognizing that the tools are within us.
This is the number 1 of the Major Arcana.
Number 1, in my free association this strikes me as an ‘ego’ issue.
In the journey of my creative imagination, the Magician is a politician.
He has secrets and lives up to that saying ‘he has all the cards.’
I see him as Machiavelli’s Prince. Strategic, sometimes underhanded,
Always attempting to gain and hold onto power.
The Magician card is associated with the planet Mercury and the signs Gemini and Virgo.
The Magician archetype is the creator of worlds.
His shadow is the trickster and the innocent.
The Tiger Tarot Magician
The magician bursts forth from the petals of a flower, fully clothed. The magician’s hand is held above the tiger woman’s open hand as though about to drop something into her palm. The tiger woman is accompanied by another woman with a headpiece that looks like a waning crescent moon. Something new is about to begin. The tiger woman and her companion with a decorated face are nude and vulnerable.
