The Tarot of Eli 2, LLC: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot-2 of Wands & The Manara Erotic Tarot-2 of Fire.

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The Rider-Waite-Smith -2 of Wands displays a world globe in the hand of the personage. Also shown on the 2 of Wands card is a leafy wand/staff in the other hand. The Minor Arcana and/or "small cards", are very pertinent to everyday life and emotional decisions, representing specific actions, experiences, and states of consciousness. Therefore, I find them immensely powerful in the moment of daily life. The Primary meaning of the RWS and Manara card is creative inventiveness expressed boldly, even rashly. Here, a brilliant and original idea emerges as a product of a free, intelligent, and independent mind. Represented here, is a person who insists on doing things their own way, refusing to be channeled by outside authority or any organization. This one is totally immersed in the work, so much so that they may be very irritating to another person who is not so dedicated. Shown on both cards the roses symbolize love (rose upholstery of the Manara armchair), and the white lilies represent rebirth and purity (white underclothes on the Manara).

This meaning of independent inventions is subtlety shown in the Rider-Waite-Smith. We see a tall man looking over the battlements, towards sea and shore. In his right hand is a globe and a staff is in his left and rests on the battlement, while another staff is fixed in a ring. The Rose-cross and white lilies should also be noticed on the left side. White lilies are purity, and the Rose -cross is a symbol much like the Ankh, depicting The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn that made use of the rosy cross as well, including "The Ritual of the Rose Cross," designed for spiritual protection and as preparation for meditation. Based on the Rosicrucian symbolism of the Red Rose and the Cross of Gold, it is also a key symbol of the Golden Dawn's Second Order.

Therefore, on the Rider-Waite- Smith card we have an image of a ruler caught in a dilemma. Between the alternative readings of Globe and the staff. There is no marriage possible, on one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence--- on the other, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification. The image suggests that a lord overlooking his domain and is alternatively contemplating a globe, looking like he is caught in a malady, the sadness and mortification of Alexander amidst the grandeur of the world's wealth. Therefore, caught between the need to go forward into Spiritual introspection of a hermetic, leaving the wealth and power of rule of the world behind. Or going for physical wealth in any way possible despite the damage it may cause the soul. Therefore, this card represents business and wealth.

In Western Hermetic Qabalistic Tarot, the 2 of Wands represents the unlimited dominion of the Divine Creatrix (Will to Form) and the Divine Creator (Will to Force). This Unlimited Willed Energy is oppressed/limited in forms; a necessary oppression to be sure, but still in each of us the enclosed Energy fights to join with the Totality. By invoking more of the One Energy, one changes the form of Time/Space (we are space/spirit, which is encompassed in a measurement of information/time), two more energetic boundaries than our original form of Light. The one who invokes the Truth of Self, is often accused of "insanity" because their reality (boundaries) has changed from the normal- form- boundaries of time/space, to that of the para-normal. That expansive perspective makes both genius and insanity seem to be the same. One must remember that the mundane form is bound by a lesser vibratory perspective of self-absorbed behavior and fears the greater unknown and therefore, lives a "scattered" life of "reaction". While often the "insane" and/or "metaphysical" have one powerful focus of action at a time in the Now. They know their intent which often makes them unconcerned with "material things", considering the collection of them as illusions of security conjured up by the senses of the body and the animal fear of death. They Know they are Wealth, Health, and Wellbeing and thereby, unconcerned about nonexistent lack. All is Mind, and as I declare myself, so I shall be. I AM, is your only truth, what you "Am", is all assumption, a story we tell ourselves.

The Erotic Tarot of Milo Manara, 2 of Fire, displays dominion rather than titles it so. Mars, in the house of Aries, is assigned to this card, as it is in the Thoth Tarot. However, instead of the Dorjes-Tibetan Thunderbolts- with the Heads of the Kha-Dro-Ma, which are the "Highest state of Female" and/or Tibetan Angels, Milo illustrates 2 women displaying their Yoni/ Vesica Piscis. The Domain of the Yoni is all form, both living and nonliving. It is the Vesica Piscis, the Womb of the Creatrix. Hence, the woman proudly displays their Yoni-Power to the misogynistic world of man. After all, it is the gateway to all life and every woman should know her power to give life and to form the Races of man.

Therefore, Milo Manara's art elevates the Feminine to her Highest Status, Life giver, and mother to all which seems to be newsworthy. Something that Alpha Males have been jealous of since recorded history. Somewhere, a man learned that to dominate, intimidate and subjugate women with male aggression and weapons, puts her status down in the eyes of all. If you don't believe that then why is a man ashamed of being called a "pussy" or Cunt? For no matter what term, you use for the Divine Feminine gateway to life, you cannot profane its truth...all things, are born of Mother's Blood and enter this world through the gateway to life and/or the "pussy". No one is born of Father's blood. Besides, the word "cunt" comes from Kuntu Zag Mo, the Tibetan Goddess Mother and, there are some scholars that say it comes from Kunti, the Chinese Goddess.

The Truth is most of the European tribes or nations, where matriarchal before the Roman's came and conquered bringing their "god of War" as the highest form of being. The Anglo-Saxon words, such as Lady -meaning "Doler of bread" and Lord-meaning "guardian of bread", show that the woman owned agriculture and the grain for bread, while the male's job was to protect the storage areas from predation.

Husband is also an Anglo-Saxon word, meaning "Keeper of her property". This is because Woman, in the Anglo and Germanic tribes, owned the land and the men protected it. Women were held in the highest esteem, because of the simple fact that they gave life and nurtured it. However, the misogynistic religions of the Romans, put a stop to all that. Woman is now an insult, because according to the Roman Catholic religion, she is responsible for "knowledge" (...eating of the fruit of knowledge) and getting mankind kicked out of the Garden of Eden...we are all supposed to be ignorant. Besides the fact that in that supposed garden of delights, man's decisions were all made for him, a welfare state and that to try and make up your own mind got you in trouble with the "Slave Master" Jehovah-the Archon, seemed to slip everybody's mind. This is even more clearly seen when we read the original text of Genesis, written in the original language of the Bible-Greek, where it states that Lilith was the "first wife", before the compliant 2nd wife Eve. Lilith got sent to the "land of demons" because she refused to take the bottom place during sex. She wanted to be "on top" and in charge of penetration. Well to paraphrase, Adam complained to his god Yahweh about this, and this Archon-God sent her into exile. This is a perfect metaphor for the Church Father's reasoning of subjugating women to chattel, by taking away their right to their own body. She has now been demoted from the Matriarchal "on top" to beneath Men. Throughout history, many women, of many conquered nations (over 9 million) were burnt, hung, drowned, tortured etc., to subjugate them to the status of chattel. The male bully, "I can hurt you, so I am better than you", is the Patriarch's value statement. Damn, fella's, a virus can "hurt" a blue whale, does that mean we males are all less than a virus?

What males fail to understand, is that we are another way to be feminine. Medical science has proven that all fetuses up to 8 weeks old in the womb are female! Male is "the other" and comes later. Oh sorry, that would be knowledge, and we aren't supposed to have that. Bad Eli! The Roman's tried to make slavery the "Garden of Eden", in religion, so the slaves made of conquered people, that built their empire, wouldn't want to make up their own minds and make their own decisions: you know, "Divide and Conquer". Yet again, there is an Anglo-Saxon phrase called "Free Doom" which we call Freedom, and it means, "I Choose my own Death". For only a person who can make up their own mind is free to choose their death. Slaves can't. Seems we have lost something in the translation. Death is inevitable to all, so being able to choose it, without fear of it, is a very advanced form of knowledge which is something called "courage". Courage means knowledge over fear. Oh, damn, there is that "K"word again, I guess I am a "pussy" who can both love and fight.

Any way you look at it, the 2 of wands card represents both Force and Potential, giving one a concentration of great creative power to completely change their environment. Either expanding and liberating their identity or confining their identity to the "needs" identified by indoctrination and dogma. The man-made identity is a "Wanna-Be" while the Divine Soul is an I Am, whose powerful presence controls their environment rather than reacting to one.

When the 2 of Wands card is thrown during a Divination, the querent is being:

• Overcome by boldness. courage, fierceness, and Shamelessness.
• Generous and proud, but also a certain amount of revenge, and resolution.
• There is a suggestion of turbulent energy, which is beyond the "ego's" ability to control but it can also become sagacious, yet unforgiving and obstinate.  
• Centering only on the love within, is the solution to this immense Power of Will, which is all around us, but of what we have so little contact with, as we have "given ourselves" to the definitions of "others"....and believe we have little, if any "Will Power".
• This card suggests that the Spirit (Will) is beginning to rebel against its predisposed boundaries...come "Hell or High Water"!
• The querent is claiming and validating the Self and instigating new self-concepts.
• Synthesizing their abilities produces a new powerful life.
• The intuition is awakening and claiming the body as a Wand of power...the inner Dragon is awakening.

If ill defined by the surrounding cards-and/ or reversed, it implies:

• Destructiveness.
• The persona becomes baffled by the vital power unleashed without a "lust for result" and/or intent, thereby, not producing the result they had expected. 

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