Overview

If you've been following along (regardless of whether you've had time to post about it) congratulations! You've completed a full circle from Aries at the start of spring (in the northern hemisphere) to Pisces and ready to begin again at Aries. Feel free to leave any final thoughts on discoveries during your decan walk, what you think of it as a practice, whether you intend to continue noting these astrological correspondences in real etc. (As you might know from @Nemia's Keeping Time with Tarot thread, there's plenty to gain from following the tarot calendar year after year.) And don't miss Meleen's conclusion in the second half of this post - DECAN WALK – ...and conclusion – Tabula Mundi Tarot "If you are alive, you are on a decan walk, but it is the act of consciously participating in it and observing it that makes it a solar rite." Thanks to all who took this ride! Although it's been quiet lately, I've really enjoyed it.

The third decan of Pisces, a decan ruled by Mars. This is the final decan as we swing back around to Aries a year after we began here, but there will be one more post at TM after we finish, so I'll be adding a final topic here later. Part 1 at TabulaMundi.com DECAN WALK – PISCES 3, TEN OF CUPS – Part I – Tabula Mundi Tarot Part 2 is up DECAN WALK – PISCES 3, TEN OF CUPS – Part II and conclusion – Tabula Mundi Tarot Telos Tarot of 777 Related Cards for this Decan The Moon for Pisces The Tower for Mars Queen of Wands (last decan of Pisces and first two decans of Aries)

The second decan of Pisces, a decan ruled by Jupiter. ***Pisces is the final sign in our decan walk. Followed by Aries, where we began a year ago, and where a new cycle begins.*** Part 1 at TabulaMundi -- DECAN WALK – PISCES 2, NINE OF CUPS – Part I – Tabula Mundi Tarot Excerrpt: Telos Tarot of 777 Waite-Smith, Thoth. Tabula Mundi Related Cards for this Decan The Moon for Pisces The Fortune/Wheel of Fortune for Jupiter King /Thoth Knight of Cups (last decan of Aquarius and first two decans of Pisces)

Part 2 is up DECAN WALK – PISCES 1, EIGHT OF CUPS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot Reflections on the decan as it happens.

The first decan of Pisces, a decan ruled by Saturn. ***Pisces is the final sign in our decan walk. Followed by Aries, where we began a year ago, and where a cycle begins again.*** Part 1 at TabulaMundi -- DECAN WALK – PISCES 1, EIGHT OF CUPS – Part I – Tabula Mundi Tarot Excerpt: Continue reading... Part 2 DECAN WALK – PISCES 1, EIGHT OF CUPS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot Telos Tarot of 777 Tabula Mundi Tarot Related Cards for this Decan The Moon for Pisces The Universe/World for Saturn King /Thoth Knight of Cups (last decan of Aquarius and first two decans of Pisces)

My reflections on this right now consider the counterbalance - there's an in between state - perhaps a goal is contemplated but the strategy needs to be decided - before movement. Like the guys in the back of the RWS the thief hasn't thought of (or did but took the risk?), and like the elderly guy on this card (Saturn - restraint - and a sort of meat 'tenderising' - having had enough time to marinate and consider all things in the world and to throw away the toxic masculinity that may have burdened his youth). But then we have women being more masculine too. It's weird that we (me) can look at cards for years and not think about something - or maybe we do but it is fleeting and disappears. But maybe that's an element of what this card is saying. My information superhighway isn't backed up - the traffic flows speedily past - it goes quickly on its way and sometimes I have to catch up.... All 7 suit-cards are like a set of scales of Venus/Libra, a weighing up process. Here, one sword is balancing / weighing up 6 swords with 3 suspended on either side. On both sides there is a 'positive' a 'negative' and a 'neutral' or unknown. Maybe it's a me-them-all of us consideration or one/the other/everything. Positive/negative can indicate gender among other things, but the unknown requires intuition, which may be why he's wearing the dress. That one thing needed in this mix. Swords are masculine so penetration is an element - which indicates penetrative thinking. But here we have to make decisions from the big head not the small one... again, this is probably why he's wearing the dress among other things. The great minds like Einstein and Jung had feminine elements in their process and didn't question it (despite their work being Aquarianish-oriented - probably why he's the water bearer - emotionally aloof but still sensitive), yet look around and we have so many men in positions of power now that are overly masculine and totally lack any feminine touch. Earth is a female - look what they've done to her in their decision-making. Lots more I could say - but this seems to be what's going on in the wider world. I'm not sure there's any relevance to what we're looking at here in this decan. Just another rambling reflection.

Part 2 is up. DECAN WALK – AQUARIUS 3, SEVEN OF SWORDS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot Flux. The time between the new moon eclipse and full moon eclipse. Lunar new year and year of the Fire Horse. Plus more...

The last decan of Aquarius, a decan ruled by Mercury. Part 1 at TabulaMundi -- DECAN WALK – AQUARIUS 3, SEVEN OF SWORDS – Part I – Tabula Mundi Tarot Excerpt: Part 2 DECAN WALK – AQUARIUS 3, SEVEN OF SWORDS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot Flux. The time between the new moon eclipse and full moon eclipse. Lunar new year and year of the Fire Horse. Plus more... Tabula Mundi Tarot and Telos Tarot of 777 Related Cards for this Decan The Star for Aquarius The Priestess for the moon King/Thoth Knight of Cups (last decan of Aquarius and first two decans of Pisces)

Part 2 is up DECAN WALK – AQUARIUS 2, SIX OF SWORDS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot Down here it's hot, and we're moving slowly toward autumn. 🙂 Makes for an interesting decan walk, following along, but I go by the northern hemisphere associations for readings anyway. I'm not so much into astrology timing as I am in what the astrology on the cards was meant to add to the Thoth meanings.

I love this decan as well. All the Sixes have this underlying positive energy that comes from Tif'eret, the solar sephira. It's the direct reflection of the divine light, in the middle of the Tree. I call Virgo and Aquarius the paradoxical zodiac signs - mutable Earth and fixed Air. That makes them interesting. Aquarius is the middle of Winter, and the middle decan of the fixed sign is the apex of the season. From now on, we're moving towards Spring, slowly at first, but noticeably. I have become much more receptive for seasonal changes since tracing the decans. Clear Aquarius nights are so beautiful - the nights are long and the skies often clear and sparkling. My stepfather was a typical Aquarius - a visionary scientist with innovative ideas. What a beautiful sign to be born in. Happy birthday to all Aquarians!

I love this decan 🤩and will have to make time to at least take a photo of the cards on my desk.

The second decan of Aquarius, a decan ruled by Mercury. Part 1 at TabulaMundi -- DECAN WALK – AQUARIUS 2, SIX OF SWORDS – Part I – Tabula Mundi Tarot Excerpt: "You can see how the Tabula Mundi Tarot image combines the far-seeing and aspirational brilliance of The Star/Aquarius with the knowledge and intellect of The Magus/Mercury: the orrery and the sextant, tools of celestial navigation. Likewise in the Telos image is an "armillary sphere" or spherical astrolabe, marking out the latitudes and longitudes. The decan, and the card, describes getting where you want to go via the means of intelligence." Tabula Mundi Tarot Waite-Smith and Telos Tarot of 777 Related Cards for this Decan The Star for Aquarius The Magus/Magician for Mercury Prince/Knight of Swords (last decan of Capricorn and first two decans of Aquarius)

This morning I've come in and looked at this, and I'm querying "defeat over what or who?" in a fixed mind-sign. There's 3 people and 5 Swords. What happened to the other 2 people? Are they aspects of the person holding the swords? Is this a defeat of others or aspects of the self? With Venus there, I'm thinking of an integration and balancing out. One guy in the background is grieving - but standing still. The other guy in the background is moving away. The Knight (in RWS) charges as he does battle moving to the left of the image (past). Our experiences may not accord with the Decan elements like some astrological convergence, but I feel a sense of ridding parts of my self that those 2 guys in the background represent. And there's other elements of self that I overcame years ago. Just some ideas.

Part 2 is up with personal observations for this decan. DECAN WALK – AQUARIUS 1, FIVE OF SWORDS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot

I got a lot out of your post, @Nemia. Thank you for adding that. Especially about the language.

Isn't it strange? We're in the sign of Aquarius, the long-term planner, lucid, objective and driven by the purest motifs, associated with the Star, this card of hope. And yet, here we are in the first decan, looking at Defeat. Well, without defeat, without acknowledging the possibility of defeat, there is no victory and no successful planning. It's easier said than done: learn from your defeats and mistakes. Who likes that feeling? We try to push it back into the darkest corners of our minds. I have had some spectacular defeats in my life, and since they were all self-caused, yes actually self-defeat, I don't like thinking about them. At all. But this decan forces me to do so, and I admit, my defeat experiences have shaped me. Sometimes, they have pushed me on a different and happier path (I wouldn't be where I am now without the most humiliating defeat in my life). Sometimes, they just make me feel ashamed and angry at myself. Admitting defeat and dealing with it honestly and fairly is a high art. It's easier to look away, to forget or "forget" it. Swords is an uncomfortable suit, and that's how it should be. Maybe it's one of the problems I have with so many oracle decks. There are no cards for these bleak moments when you look at yourself and say: I messed up, I should have asserted myself, I should have done everything differently. But in the tarot, there are these cards. Mars and Venus cancel each other out in this card. Gvurah is a tough sephirah. The root GVR, which is the root for Gvurah, has an interesting word family. The simplest word, gever, means both man and rooster. Man not in the general sense - for that we have ben adam (son of Adam) or ben enosh (human). Gever is a manly man, in slang Hebrew we call a super macho gever-gever. As a verb, ligvor means to overcome, to win a victory. As a reflective verb, lehitgaber (when you double the v, you get a b in Hebrew, they're the same letter) means to overcome. Gavriut is masculinity, and gibbor a hero. Gibbora is a heroine, gveret a mistress. A shopkeeper or busdriver who doesn't know my name will call me "gveret". And gvurah is heroism, toughness, courage. Hebrew is SO binary. There is no non-binary way of expressing things, every single verb, noun or adjective form is gendered. There are no generic words - even for babies, we have tinok for a boy and tinoket for a girl. It's an ancient language, and the link between masculinity, heroism and overcoming adversity or pain is written into the language itself. Anyway. The link between Mars and Gvurah is twofold - when you climb up from Malkuth and use the planets as your rungs, you'll reach Gvurah with Mars. But also the concept of being a fighter, a hero is strongly connected to Mars (who is quite an ambivalent deity as Ares in Greek mythology, meeting defeat many times, but much more positive as Roman Mars). Even the ruling court card, the Prince of Swords, fits into this decan of struggle. Venus, the planetary ruler, doesn't fit, and the discomfort results in Defeat, the Five of Swords. Even when you are defeated, you can find comfort in the knowledge that you did fight, you did try, and that you can try again.

The first decan of Aquarius, a decan ruled by Venus. Part 1 at TabulaMundi DECAN WALK – AQUARIUS 1, FIVE OF SWORDS – Part I – Tabula Mundi Tarot Excerpt: "Many don't like this card, for who wants to see a card titled "Defeat?" Decan ruler Venus just isn't very comfortable in the cool and impartial, unemotional, Saturn-ruled sign Aquarius. It doesn't help that it is a Five card, so the Mars-ruled realm of Geburah lends a destructive element. Venus is a pacifist for the most part, and seeks connection rather than solitude. But here..." Continue reading Part 2 DECAN WALK – AQUARIUS 1, FIVE OF SWORDS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot RWS - Thoth - Tabula Mundi Telos Tarot of 777 Related Cards for this Decan The Star for Aquarius The Empress for Venus Prince/Knight of Swords (last decan of Capricorn and first two decans of Aquarius)

Here is this interesting decan on my tarot calendar board.

The third decan of Capricorn, a decan ruled by the sun. Part 1 at TabulaMundi DECAN WALK: CAPRICORN 3, FOUR OF DISKS – Part I – Tabula Mundi Tarot Part 2 is up DECAN WALK: CAPRICORN 3, FOUR OF DISKS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot Telos Tarot of 777 Excerpt: Continue reading... RWS - Thoth - Tabula Mundi Related Cards for this Decan The Devil for Capricorn The Sun for the Sun Prince/Knight of Swords (last decan of Capricorn and first two decans of Aquarius)

Holidays over. I missed my chance to write about the 2 of Disks - one of my favorite cards - during its decan. I did have those cards out on the desk, though. Lately I've been doing visual journaling, so I'll have to try to incorporate these decans in my notebook. Anyway, 3 of Disks 'Work' is fitting for back to work and a ton of requests queued up for me to get to. The weight of "paperwork" is Saturn heavy. 🫠 "Just keep swimming!" -- Though TabulaMundi's post talks about the higher aspects of Saturn and Venus at work here. And in the RWS with different talents coming together on a project is also my workplace. Capricorn, and specifically this second decan of it, is where the moon sits in my birth chart.

The second decan of Capricorn, a decan ruled by Mars. Happy New Year! Rosetta Tarot Part 1 at TabulaMundi -- DECAN WALK: CAPRICORN 2, THREE OF DISKS – Part I – Tabula Mundi Tarot Excerpt: RWS, Thoth, and Tabula Mundi Tarot Related Cards for this Decan The Devil for Capricorn The Tower for Mars Queen of Disks/Pentacles (last decan of Sagittarius and first two decans of Capricorn)

The first decan of Capricorn, a decan ruled by Jupiter. I hope you've enjoyed the Solstice (or are still enjoying it if you're doing the solstice reading here or other end of year celebrations.) 🌲 Part 1 at TabulaMundi -- DECAN WALK: CAPRICORN 1, TWO OF DISKS – Part I – Tabula Mundi Tarot Excerpt: "Happy Solstice, where the Sun enters the first decan of Capricorn. The first decan of Capricorn corresponds to the Two of Disks, known as Harmonious Change. It begins at the Solstice, the Winter solstice here in the Northern hemisphere, a cardinal sign hinge point where the longest night yields to..." Read More Part 2 - DECAN WALK: CAPRICORN 1, TWO OF DISKS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot RWS, Thoth, and Tabula Mundi Tarot Related Cards for this Decan The Devil for Capricorn Fortune/Wheel of Fortune for Jupiter Queen of Disks/Pentacles (last decan of Sagittarius and first two decans of Capricorn)

10 of Wands Third decan of Sagittarius, a decan ruled by Saturn. Post at TabulaMundi -- DECAN WALK: SAGITTARIUS 3, TEN OF WANDS – Part I – Tabula Mundi Tarot Excerpt: "The juxtaposition of Caldean decan ruler Saturn with triplicity decan ruler the Sun is interesting. Saturn is dark and cold, while the Sun brings heat and light. This is the last decan before the Winter Solstice here in the Northern hemisphere, so we are approaching maximum darkness, the longest night. It feels very Saturnian. Yet at the end, at the Solstice when we enter the next decan, the light begins to increase again. This decan is also the run-up to the Christmas season, which for some, just feels like..." Read More Part 2 - DECAN WALK: SAGITTARIUS 3, TEN OF WANDS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot Telos Tarot of 777 and Tabula Mundi Tarot Related Cards for this Decan Art/Temperance for Sagittarius The Universe/The World for Saturn Queen of Disks/Pentacles (last decan of Sagittarius and first two decans of Capricorn)

Part 2 is up at DECAN WALK: SAGITTARIUS 2, NINE OF WANDS – Part II – Tabula Mundi Tarot Plus bonus Krampus art DECAN WALK: SAGITTARIUS 2, NINE OF WANDS – Bonus content – Tabula Mundi Tarot

I hadn't thought of this. That makes a lot of sense.