The Magician
#1A thread to discuss the iconography of The Magician
The Tarot will lose all its vitality for one who allows himself to be side-tracked by its pedantry. - Aleister Crowley
He appears to be a dentist : is the object in our juggler's right hand then not a coin, or an acorn, but a tooth:OPen wrote:From The Children of the Planets by the Hausbuch Meister - this is Luna. Wikimedia's image bank says the date is sometime after 1480.
There are pertinent elements to tarot imagery I think; this image has been discussed before, I am not sure if it was here or over at AT, i'll try and track down a link.Pen wrote:Steve, you must be right. This is what happens when you allow room for amateurs on the forum! I think I'll leave it though, unless anyone objects - if nothing else it's an example of how easy it is to misinterpret an image. I know that somewhere there is an image from The Children of the Planets that shows a magician-like figure complete with table, objects etc. - I'll try to find it.
Or could it be that our tarot magician is really a dentist...?![]()
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Here is one:SteveM wrote: There are pertinent elements to tarot imagery I think; this image has been discussed before, I am not sure if it was here or over at AT, i'll try and track down a link.
If you haven't already, you really should read this old thread:Pen wrote:Re. the monkey on the back of the Fool-like figure to the left of the mountebank, I googled the expression 'a monkey on his back' and came up with rather an interesting article that connects in different ways to tarot and the character we call the Magician.
http://www.newagejournal.com/monkeyb.shtml
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