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Both Rods and Wands are the Alchemical element Fire. This Ace represents the Vital Force (Sex force) of energy, that enlivens, fertilizes animates all things. It is attributed to the Spirit, as it is the spiral "breath" in all things. The Root Greek Word, Spiro-meaning "breath", is the foundation of the English word Spirit, as it is for the word Spiral. Both Spirit and Spiral refer to this Universe of Energy, as it is a Spiral Multi-verse, and all living things breathe. Breath is a Collective Unconscious operation that is part of all beings' "instinctual" wet ware. Thus, we could point out that the senescence of the Spirit is in the breath, which is what many philosophies do. For instance, the Sanskrit (Hindu) word Prana, and the Chinese Word Chi are both achieved and expanded in flow through breathing, and breathing Yogas; they are both: life and/or Spiritual Force. They represent the Fiery force of Life, i.e., Spirit.

The Tarot of the Old Path, Ace of rods, displays a white willow wand, bearing twelve leaves that symbolize the 12 months of the year. Here, the animal symbol for pure Spirit or Pure Soul, is represented by the Peacock butterfly. In the language of flowers, fertility is represented by the wheat ears at the base of the rod. According to the Tarot of the Old Path, these three wheat ears also represent the Trinity of Womb, Maid, Mother and Crone.

The Element of Fire is represented in the Red/Gold Sunset glowing above the man-made stone zodiacal monument and painting the hillside in a red fiery glow.

THE ACE OF WANDS, although the Gold Foil- Tarot -Ace of Wands, shows a leafing club/Wand, as does the RWS Tarot, the leaf shapes are those of flaming Yods (meaning-hands) going in the directions of the individual Sephiroth on the Tree of Life. The All-Powerful name of God in the Qabalah is Tetragrammaton and the Yod is the first Hebrew letter, of the Hebrew spelling of that name - YHVH (you may look all this up in the book QABALISTIC TAROT by Robert Wang). The Yod, is associated with the English word, "Father".

When you look upon the Ace of Wands, you are viewing the Fire (Father) aspect of the One Energy that is in all things, as well as, in all Sephira on the Tree of Life. This One Energy is suggested as the life force in the sprouting wood wand of the Gold Foil Tarot. This is "the One Energy that cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed", according to the study of Thermodynamics in Physics and is called the 1st Law. The laws of thermodynamics may seem deceptively simple to state, but they are far-reaching in their consequences. The first law asserts that if heat is recognized as a form of energy, then the total energy of a system plus its surroundings is conserved; in other words, the total energy of the universe remains constant. Then there is also another Universal Constant called "Transformation" and/or change. The motion of energy (transition) moves from one opposite to another. and/or one transformation to another. This is represented in Alchemy as Putrefaction, Dissolution, Solution, and Coagulation.

The Fire also represents Spirit which "Knows Itself through form/measurement", and thus is loosely explained as the underlying Fire in all things (Sex/fertile/fecund, vital energy). However, this is in no way a complete understanding of the Spiral Energy {Spirit} that is all around us, as us, below us and above us, and unseen by us; However, deeply felt by us as the " Inner-Self". The Ace of Wands is the invisible "movement within all motion", i.e. "Will to Force", which is about as clear an understanding as we can get. The Qabalah, calls it, ".... the primordial Energy of the Divine manifesting in Matter", yet it is at so early a stage that it is not definitely formulated as Will (Conscious Spirit) and has no form until Binah-the third Sephiroth-Understanding, who is the Great Mother, begins form/measurement, by "Understanding" it. One can say the Kether-One Energy, is passive until it is "switch on" by the Will to Force, which is the 2nd Sephiroth-Chokmah, who is called "Father God".

Please note: The small cards, known as Minor Arcana, are not Divine Persons as are the Atu (Major Arcana). Rather, they are sub-elements and/or "blind forces" under the Demiourgos (Creative Intelligence), Tetragrammaton. These "blind forces" are ruled by the Intelligentsia, in the Yetzirah World, who go forth from the Sechemhamphorach (Lord of the Universe). Lord being an Anglo-Saxon word for Husband or Husbandry and means that he is "keeper of Her Forms". In other words, "There was no Father 'till she Named Him Father" (Gnostic Text), simply stating the Form of Father (Fire-Light) belongs to Her creative Dark-Womb. This is one of the many mysteries studied by the Qabalist and theoretical quantum physicists. A study just too lengthy and in-depth for this one blog excerpt but one that enhances self-knowledge, for this implies that we are not "light'" but have the power to form it into "information" and manifest it as "ourselves". Thus, one can say that we are Space/Spirit who forms Time/Light, as first "self-image".

Before we pass out from over extension of our reasoning processes, it is enough to know for now, that we understand that the Element of Spirit (Fire) has its own Lords of the Atu or Major Arcana, (Magus, Emperor, Hermit etc.). And each Atu possesses its own private, personal, and particular Universe, making a "multi-verse", with all Demiourgos complete, just as EVERY MAN AND WOMAN is a complete composite of the 10-dimensional Universe depicted by the Sephiroth on the Tree of Life! This Homo Sapiens Archetype is called Adam Khadmon- The Divine Human.

Now all of us are taught that we are built "incomplete" and must seek Goodness (God-ness-----Demiourgos-ness) to "make it to heaven". Somehow, incomplete became imperfection. This is an error, for we are perfectly designed to pursue even Greater Imaginings of Self, which is something that is "Perfect" and/or "complete" cannot do. Perfection is stasis and non-motion. Life must move, to be Alive. Potential must be sought and is never found in "perfection". This being so, many religious people believe they are in the image of God/Spirit, and/or made by God/Spirit and have inherited the Divine Creative mind of Imagination and Rationale (Creativity-making you a Demiurge), but somehow, this Divine All Knowing, All building, All Creating Power, has judge you a sinner and/or an error! Really...? Who would worship such an incompetent god? An image of the Divine, created by Divine Will, would not be created as dysfunction, simply because The Divine Creative wouldn't create what it wouldn't want to be. Therefore, you are made in a completeness of joyous curiosity, a Wholeness collective of tens of dimensions of intelligence that must always progressively identify Itself as evolutionary Self-Awareness through creation of "self-image", for the infinite cannot measure itself! The Qabalistic World of Assiah, the Physical world, has been created to give Self-Measure and thereby, turning information into in-form-action (experience) which turns information into knowledge.!

You are the Child of The Divine Creative and what you are falsely taught to believe self is a sinner, or an incompleteness; these thoughts belong to the "mind virus" that sucks away your life -force. Yet to this "imperfect" child of the Divine, is granted the unending potential Wisdom and of "free thinking" (freedom of choice/free to choose one's fate) that empowers progressive creation! Without error, there is no correction, which we call Wisdom. This understanding is lost to you because you are taught to belittle your identity or are belittled by cultural definitions that make you believe someone else has rule over you, even though you are made "in God's image" and have that freedom of choice/to choose your own fate. In other words, manifesting as any perspective of Self you choose. This negates the lie that you are an infection of the "false ego", and who promotes ignorance as "faith". In other words, you allowed someone else to measure you and define you and suffer from amnesia that came from being "beaten about the head" with worded clubs, and viral programs used to keep you lost from your true trinity family. How ridiculous! Because of this assault on yourself value, you may have forgotten that Goddess/God doesn't build what Goddess/God doesn't want! The Mother of Form is known as Mother Binah, the 3rd Sephiroth on the Tree of Life. She is known as "Understanding" and she "understands" you into being!

RWS-Ace of Wands

Before I wander too far from the Minor Arcana, you should know that the Major Arcana are the subtle forces "behind the scenes", while the Minor Arcana represent the psychical, "in your face", objective world's personification of these Cosmic Forces; "As above, so below". This symbol of " If it is there, it is here, and if it is here, it is there, if it's not here, then it is not there", which is the Tao's way of saying "as above so below".

The Ace of Wands/Rods is often called the "seed of Fire", and/or the spermatic effect of the "Big Bang". It is raw, unbridled, tremendous outgoing force, for a society or an individual. It suggests the root energy of life itself and the effect of its movement. This may cause an intense struggle for an individual as they advance towards significant self-knowing. In a society, it is the cause of birth or fall of nations, such as occurred during the French and American revolutions.

When the Ace of wands/Rods is thrown in a divination, it implies:

• Energy. 
• Initiative.
• Passion.
• Willingness to take risks.
• Courage.
• Decisiveness.
• Potency. 
• Pioneering spirit (the ace is always recognized as an opportunity that lies within us and wants to be used.)

When Reversed:

• Destruction through exaggeration.
• Failure due to arrogance.

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