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The Magician
Feb. 25th, 2002 10:20 pmIf I'm going to start talking about my life, I'd better start telling you about the people in it. Here's the first one, as he should be for a few reasons.
The Magician
Picture:
A man sits at his desk in a high-ceilinged room lit from above by distant windows and from below by several candelabras. The room is cluttered with the tools of a hundred passions and pursuits. In the background we can see a pair of Da Vinci wings hung on a wall, a small city on a pillow under glass, a sculpture of a beautiful woman obscured on her right side by a sheet, a piece of music carefully preserved next to a battered violin, and many other things. The desk is just as bad; it is buried in papers, each one with an intricate drawing of a hand in a different position, as if trying to communicate via sign language. A chess set peeks out from under one corner of the papers, as well as a magnifying glass. The man stares intently at the clay that he holds before him as he tries to shape it with his own fingers into a small, feminine right hand.
Standard Tarot Analogue: The Magician (1)
Quote: "If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions." --Goethe
Positive Influences:
The Magician represents learning; understanding through applied effort, not spontaneous insight or enlightenment. He is expert at finding patterns and decomposing things to discover how they work; not just in the realm of the science and the world, but also in the emotional and personal spheres. He is ambitious, energetic, and creative-- and he seeks to apply his knowledge to change the world around him.
Negative Influences:
The Magician will sometimes attempt to learn things that cannot truly be understood; he also has difficulty accepting things that are less than he imagines they can be. The Magician needs to be taking action, and to be in motion even if it costs himself and those around him. As he creates his own solutions, so he often creates his own dissatisfactions, fear, and guilt.
The Magician
Picture:
A man sits at his desk in a high-ceilinged room lit from above by distant windows and from below by several candelabras. The room is cluttered with the tools of a hundred passions and pursuits. In the background we can see a pair of Da Vinci wings hung on a wall, a small city on a pillow under glass, a sculpture of a beautiful woman obscured on her right side by a sheet, a piece of music carefully preserved next to a battered violin, and many other things. The desk is just as bad; it is buried in papers, each one with an intricate drawing of a hand in a different position, as if trying to communicate via sign language. A chess set peeks out from under one corner of the papers, as well as a magnifying glass. The man stares intently at the clay that he holds before him as he tries to shape it with his own fingers into a small, feminine right hand.
Standard Tarot Analogue: The Magician (1)
Quote: "If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions." --Goethe
Positive Influences:
The Magician represents learning; understanding through applied effort, not spontaneous insight or enlightenment. He is expert at finding patterns and decomposing things to discover how they work; not just in the realm of the science and the world, but also in the emotional and personal spheres. He is ambitious, energetic, and creative-- and he seeks to apply his knowledge to change the world around him.
Negative Influences:
The Magician will sometimes attempt to learn things that cannot truly be understood; he also has difficulty accepting things that are less than he imagines they can be. The Magician needs to be taking action, and to be in motion even if it costs himself and those around him. As he creates his own solutions, so he often creates his own dissatisfactions, fear, and guilt.