A New Age

It's a been a while since I have pulled out the Thoth, so I am a little rusty with it's version of the facts. From my memory, this card shows the birth of the Age of Horus. And if I remember rightly, Horus is represented by the child in the foreground. This (I think) comes about from the death (and age) of Osiris. I remember reading something about Aleister Crowley changing the Judgement card to The Aeon because it illustrates a new beginning or birth more clearly in our modern times.

Ok, so I just went and dug out Lon Milo DuQuette's Understanding the Thoth Tarot to get the low down. In it, he says that Crowley's reason for changing the Judgement card was due to it representing the Last Judgement (or Age of Osiris) which is now obsolete. Crowley says that the birth of Horus began in 1904. In this card, we can see three figures; Horus, in the front, looks to be the product of the two behind him. For me, this would suggest new and exciting beginnings that are formed from past efforts. Being a major card, these beginnings are likely to be large or dramatic. When I think of cards like Death or The Tower, I think of radical change and a complete wiping of the slate, but here, I see new starts which use previous energies and support as a way of moving forward. It could simply be knowledge from a past 'age' or cycle that we use to fuel our next step. As an example, the experience I have built up through work in the last eight or nine months may very well be what helps me to begin something new and a bit different, regardless of the fact that a lot of that kind of work has stopped for me now.

Even though I have not heard from the friends who are starting up their new agency, I wonder if they are wrapped up in this card at all; possibly under the surface, not formed completely as yet, and waiting to be born. That situation would fit into this card quite tidily, since what they are creating now is only due to the cycle of work at my agency dying to some degree in the last few months. Their new agency could very well be like Horus, the New Aeon.

I haven't felt so wonderful today. My neck and joints have ached, my stomach has been on the bad side of crazy, and I have been tired. My friend came around to pass on The King's Speech to my parents and she and I sat in the garden with a coffee for an hour or two. It would seem that there are problems between friends of mine at the moment. I am trying to stay out of it as it is nothing to do with me; my own social engagements away from here have allowed me to do this, since I have been booked up for a while and have kept out of 'the group' for the last few months. To be honest, with all of this kind of petty squabbling and the like, I think I'd prefer to keep it that way.



Illustration from The Thoth Tarot by Lady Frieda Harris