Major Arcana

0 🞂 0 Fool 0

Spheres: sphere 00 01sphere 01 02
Fool’s Number: 0x00 (0)
Emanation Number: 0x00 (0)
Pronunciation: nĕsh-nĭn-hēzh /nɛʃ.nɪn.hiʒ/

The Fool is the first step on the path. It is the blind choice to be without knowledge of what will be.

1 🞂 1 Magus 2

Spheres: sphere 01 02sphere 02 03
Fool’s Number: 0x01 (1)
Emanation Number: 0x02 (2)
Pronunciation: hēzh-hēzh-ēs /hiʒ.hiʒ.is/

The Magus is mastery. It may seem odd that this comes immediately after the Fool, but it is a simple and direct sort of mastery. When walking into a room we may flip a light switch to turn on the lights. If the electricity is working and the wiring laid out in a reasonable manner then we know how to control the lights without being told. This is the key. The Magus knows how things should be and how to work with what they have available.

2 🞂 2 Priestess 1

Spheres: sphere 02 03sphere 00 01
Fool’s Number: 0x02 (2)
Emanation Number: 0x01 (1)
Pronunciation: ēn-ēsh-ŭsh /in.iʃ.ʌʃ/

3 🞂 3 Empress 8

Spheres: sphere 00 01sphere 05 11
Fool’s Number: 0x03 (3)
Emanation Number: 0x08 (8)
Pronunciation: no͞om-ŭl-hĕr /num.ʌl.hɛɹ/

4 🞂 4 Emperor 3

Spheres: sphere 05 11sphere 03 05
Fool’s Number: 0x04 (4)
Emanation Number: 0x03 (3)
Pronunciation: o͞os-ăs-fo͞om /us.as.fum/

5 🞂 5 Hierophant 4

Spheres: sphere 03 05sphere 01 02
Fool’s Number: 0x05 (5)
Emanation Number: 0x04 (4)
Pronunciation: ŭsh-o͞oz-o͞ozh /ʌʃ.uz.uʒ/

6 🞂 6 Lovers 9

Spheres: sphere 01 02sphere 05 11
Fool’s Number: 0x06 (6)
Emanation Number: 0x09 (9)
Pronunciation: ho͞om-jĕp-ēr /hum.d͡ʒɛp.iɹ/

7 🞂 7 Chariot 6

Spheres: sphere 05 11sphere 04 07
Fool’s Number: 0x07 (7)
Emanation Number: 0x06 (6)
Pronunciation: o͞oz-choi-fou /uz.t͡ʃɔɪ.faʊ̯/

8 🞂 8 Justice 5

Spheres: sphere 04 07sphere 02 03
Fool’s Number: 0x08 (8)
Emanation Number: 0x04 (5)
Pronunciation: ăzh-äm-chŭs /aʒ.ɑm.t͡ʃʌs/

9 🞂 9 Hermit 10

Spheres: sphere 02 03sphere 05 11
Fool’s Number: 0x09 (9)
Emanation Number: 0x0a (10)
Pronunciation: ēm-ĕb-ŭr /im.ɛb.ʌɹ/

10 🞂 10 Fortune 11

Spheres: sphere 05 11sphere 06 13
Fool’s Number: 0x0a (10)
Emanation Number: 0x0b (11)
Pronunciation: o͞oi-vĕr-fŏth /uɪ.vɛɹ.fɑθ/

11 🞂 11 Strength 12

Spheres: sphere 06 13sphere 03 05
Fool’s Number: 0x0b (11)
Emanation Number: 0x0c (12)
Pronunciation: jŭs-fôṙ-to͞om /d͡ʒʌs.foɾ.tum/

12 🞂 12 Hanged One 07

Spheres: sphere 03 05sphere 04 07
Fool’s Number: 0x0c (12)
Emanation Number: 0x07 (7)
Pronunciation: ŭz-dou-o͞ow /ʌz.daʊ̯.uʊ̯/

13 🞂 13 Death 13

Spheres: sphere 04 07sphere 07 17
Fool’s Number: 0x0d (13)
Emanation Number: 0x0d (13)
Pronunciation: ăou-tŏth-chō /aʊ̯.tɑθ.t͡ʃoʊ/

14 🞂 14 Temperance 14

Spheres: sphere 07 17sphere 05 11
Fool’s Number: 0x0e (14)
Emanation Number: 0x0e (14)
Pronunciation: cho͞om-ā𝑡ℎ-kĕr /t͡ʃum.eɪð.kɛɹ/

15 🞂 15 Devil 16

Spheres: sphere 05 11sphere 08 19
Fool’s Number: 0x0f (15)
Emanation Number: 0x10 (16)
Pronunciation: o͞ol-ōg-fĕt /ul.oʊg.fɛt/

16 🞂 16 Tower 17

Spheres: sphere 08 19sphere 06 13
Fool’s Number: 0x10 (16)
Emanation Number: 0x11 (17)
Pronunciation: äi-gō-thŏth /ɑɪ.goʊ.θɑθ/

Having entered into desire through the Devil we now encounter desire in its immediacy. It hits us like a lightning strike. Pain is not an abstract desire to avoid; the hurt is real, immediate. Likewise desire and want hits us and moves us in spite of ourselves, whether it be experienced as pleasure or pain.

In the sequence we start with the fool at zero, so even without the emergent number of seventeen there is a sense that this is the seventeenth path in the lunar cycle and associated with the beginning of the waning of the moon.

The tower is associated with the number sixteen in the Fool’s Journey. In binary sixteen, 10000, is a mark of completion, echoing zero. It the cycle of pronunciation it is the turning point backwards.

Tower is also seventeen, the breaking of the perfection of sixteen to produce the next prime. Its position on the tree also echos the Fool, but where the fool is innocent and above consequence the Tower is entirely about consequence.

Regarding these numbers, Plutarch wrote in Isis and Osiris:

The Egyptians have a legend that the end of Osiris’s life came on the seventeenth of the month, on which day it is quite evident to the eye that the period of the full moon is over. Because of this the Pythagoreans call this day "the Barrier," and utterly abominate this number. For the number seventeen, coming in between the square sixteen and the oblong rectangle eighteen, which, as it happens, are the only plane figures that have their perimeters equal their areas, bars them off from each other and disjoins them, and breaks up the ratio of eight to eight and an eighth by its division into unequal intervals.
— Plutarch
Isis and Osiris, 42

17 🞂 17 Star 15

Spheres: sphere 06 13sphere 07 17
Fool’s Number: 0x11 (17)
Emanation Number: 0x0f (15)
Pronunciation: jou-kōk-tō /d͡ʒaʊ̯.koʊk.toʊ/

18 🞂 18 Moon 18

Spheres: sphere 07 17sphere 08 19
Fool’s Number: 0x12 (18)
Emanation Number: 0x12 (18)
Pronunciation: chäl-𝑡ℎā-kĕt /t͡ʃɑl.ðeɪ.kɛt/

19 🞂 19 Sun 19

Spheres: sphere 08 19sphere 09 23
Fool’s Number: 0x13 (19)
Emanation Number: 0x13 (19)
Pronunciation: äp-thĕt-thĕ /ɑp.θɛt.θɛ/

20 🞂 20 Judgement 20

Spheres: sphere 09 23sphere 06 13
Fool’s Number: 0x14 (20)
Emanation Number: 0x14 (20)
Pronunciation: ĕi-ṙăd-pŏth /ɛɪ.ɾæd.pɑθ/

21 🞂 21 World 25

Spheres: sphere 06 13sphere 11 31
Fool’s Number: 0x15 (21)
Emanation Number: 0x19 (25)
Pronunciation: jĕr-rĭch-tĕh /d͡ʒɛɹ.ɹɪt͡ʃ.tɛh/

22 🞂 22 Lust 24

Spheres: sphere 11 31sphere 08 19
Fool’s Number: 0x16 (22)
Emanation Number: 0x18 (24)
Pronunciation: fäl-bä-shĕt /fɑl.bɑ.ʃɛt/

23 🞂 23 Rebel 22

Spheres: sphere 08 19sphere 10 29
Fool’s Number: 0x17 (23)
Emanation Number: 0x16 (22)
Pronunciation: äb-pĕv-thŭ /ɑb.pɛv.θʌ/

24 🞂 24 Art 21

Spheres: sphere 10 29sphere 07 17
Fool’s Number: 0x18 (24)
Emanation Number: 0x15 (21)
Pronunciation: vou-lĭf-sō /vaʊ̯.lɪf.soʊ/

25 🞂 25 Aeon 26

Spheres: sphere 07 17sphere 11 31
Fool’s Number: 0x19 (25)
Emanation Number: 0x1a (26)
Pronunciation: chĕr-wōj-kĕh /t͡ʃɛɹ.woʊd͡ʒ.kɛh/

26 🞂 26 Shadow 27

Spheres: sphere 11 31sphere 09 23
Fool’s Number: 0x1a (26)
Emanation Number: 0x1b (27)
Pronunciation: fĕp-yo͞o-shĕ /fɛp.ju.ʃɛ/

27 🞂 27 Headless One 26

Spheres: sphere 09 23sphere 10 29
Fool’s Number: 0x1b (27)
Emanation Number: 0x17 (23)
Pronunciation: ĕb-mĕ-pŭ /ɛb.mɛ.pʌ/

28 🞂 28 Angel 28

Spheres: sphere 10 29sphere 11 31
Fool’s Number: 0x1c (28)
Emanation Number: 0x1c (28)
Pronunciation: vĕr-ză-sĕh /vɛɹ.za.sɛh/