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The Gold Foil card (RWS)shows the mundane divination meaning of, loss, defeat, failure where contest is decided and finished against the person and the victor claims the spoils. The spoils be the swords of defeated foes, strewn over the ground. The "winds of defeat" are implied by the dark wind tattered clouds above and the head bowed stumbling figures in the back- ground. The Gold Foil Tarot are gold gilded copies of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot cards. However, Waite, being true to his oath of secrecy, doesn't illustrate the more arcane meanings of Western Qabalah, of which his lodge-The Golden Dawn taught as "initiations".

Presented on the Rider-Waite-Smith/Gold Foil-Five of Swords is a disdainful man, who looks after 2 retreating and dejected fellows. Their 2 swords lie on the ground. The thief carries 2 others on his left shoulder, and a 3rd sword in his right hand, pointing to the earth. He is the master in possession of his field.

The Tarot of the Old Path illustrates a Swiss soldier from the canton of Uri. In medieval history the Swiss where often soldiers for hire and /or mercenaries. Also, the Artist of the Tarot of the Old Path is paying tribute to the publishers of the Tarot of the Old Path, AG Muller $ Cie of Switzerland.

The standard bearer, wearing a bull like helmet, is blowing a horn in triumph while the soldier in the foreground is brandishing two blood-stained swords and yelling in battle frenzy.

Here the battlefield is littered with swords

The yellow battle standard is whipping in the Wind, representing the element of Air that rules this card and the partially shown face of a red bull with a ring in its nose is illustrated on the standard.

This is a severe battle and victory may be short lived. So, the Primary meaning of this card pertains to momentary triumph using severity and strength---a triumph that may become humiliating.

This card also implies a spontaneous decision reached with little or no hesitation which may lead to results-good or bad-depending on the circumstances. Here feelings reign supreme, rather than thought or intuition. Here one may have a vague suspicion that a course is appropriate and therefore, acting rashly. Then there is the fact that this could also be about a powerful sexual attraction, a very intense love, or a hasty marriage. Therefore, the significant consideration here is that a binding commitment is made hastily. This card implies that the querent will surely win in the contest, but there may be unforeseen consequences such as a lack of sensitivity and/or interest only in self-gain that blinds one to unforeseen circumstances.

The 5th Sephiroth and ruler of the 5's is called Geburah, and is the 5th Qabalistic Sephiroth of Severity. Severity is corrective, not evil. Severity, a form of "tough love", is needed to get one to reconsider their life choices. This is because it is often easy to forget that the physical brain is not "you", it is a wet-ware artificial intelligence computer whose data is indoctrinated definitions of things by cultural number and language; we often call this wet-ware the " false-ego". Those worded definitions are made after Self has already inhabited and/or created its avatar (body), thus they are classified as illusions, not Truth! Your truth is "I AM", denoting existence; However, what "I AM" is all assumption and therefore, an experiment in Self-Awareness. Remember, everything is an experiment until it "isn't". When proven empirical, the experiment is over.

Geburah, with all her strength, severity, and tough love, helps us remember who we really are, and not what we are made to pretend to be.

Yes, it is true, dear ones, truth is made manifest as a known thing of Wisdom. And we are known into being, thus we never came seeking our truth, for it is you as a Psyche/Soul and not an indoctrinate idea of self. It's time to get real, as no other person than yourself can know the truth you represent. Your parentage began in the Universal Collective Unconscious that is the Divine Creative and/or the Central Sun of the Milky Way Galaxy. Hence, the Soul/Psyche already Knows who you are. That is how one becomes manifest; by putting the data carried by light into form! The Created, are ideas loved and known into being as "Self", not a being who seeks definition and love from the outer world! Ideas are known as form and presented as images; in matter of fact the word idea came from the Greek I Dea, another name for the Mother Goddess of All Forms. Therefore, the worded thought of the brain, is just definition of a form that is previously created by the Creatrix and therefore thought without wisdom. In our society your "identity" is created by the "few who wish to rule the many" by ruling definition (media-controlled word hypnosis) and thereby, ruling the fear-based imagination of the body's subconsciousness. Each of us is a Spirit/ God(dess)-image who proves idea by making it function as a manifestation. To be is to be proven as a creation of the One Self-upon self-reflection of "What I AM" and/or I AM Me. The "Me" part of this plane of Self-Reflection, is totally assumed, thereby, being changeable at any time of introspection. What one forgets, is that the Pentagram is the symbol for the human. Standing up it is a body run by the Will of Spirit, upside down it is a false ego ruling the body by fear. Hence upright is "Live" and upside down is "evil" and/or live spelled backwards and has been displayed through time as the false-ego- bogeyman-the "Devil" which is merely "lived" spelled backwards and an indoctrinated program deeply inset in the subconsciousness by dogma and indoctrination. Indoctrination is not education for the former is "pleasure-pain" training supporting a form of ignorance, while the latter is searching for knowledge.
 

The normal disruption of Mother Geburah's strength is not the cause of disaster! This is because weakness is the cause of the 5 of Swords disaster! A weakness brought on by pacifism, and enfeebling sentiment or even treachery. If the image is presented properly as Western Hermetic Qabalistic philosophy, the hilts of the swords would form the sinister image of the inverted pentagram; where the body's fears have conquered the will that is Spirit, usually by the treachery of sensations illusions; pleasure pain training, and the illusion of the cultural 2-dimensional definitions of "good and bad" as truth. Since feeling fearful is often more sensual than feeling willful, the ever-present doubt brought into belief by the victimization and/or indoctrination that keeps the scattered will from collecting into force. Here, we are defeated by the "divide and conquer" dogma of those few who wish to rule the many and rapidly seek surcease of the pain inflicted by such falsehood. This causes rapid or rash decisions that look to be pain release and usually cause us more. emotional discomfort.

Wholeness is an established equilibrium of Spirit, Mind and Body. When we believe that anyone of this Trinity of Self is seen as lesser value than the others... we are easily defeated because our identity is built on "sandy ground". Hence, the Qabalistic axiom of, "Above all things, know thyself", rings true again. It is time to understand that you are not a body alone, but a trinity of Psyche that is Spirit, Mind and Body. All that is sacred, and all truth resides in the "Mind". All is Mind, so get the Spiritual Will to be the Mind, rather than media supported propaganda, and the body will follow along as a sacred presence of Spirit on this earth.

When the Five/5 of Swords is thrown during a reading, the querent:

• Is usually caught in the fears of the past.

• Is experiencing a self-defined prison of negative, self-defeating beliefs.

• Defeat on a mental level, bringing humiliation and weakness causing rash decisions.

• The Querent is involved in a conflict that appears to have been won but brings unresolved problems. 
• One's trapped in a self-designed prison of negative energy from the past and strikes out in the present.

• We are only defeated when we stop seeking another way. So, there is no 5 week, or 5-month period of duration suggested here, since it is the querent's own mental negativity that is involved here, and they could change perspective at any time and free themselves from the fear of failure.

If reversed, it implies:

• The suggestion here is to give up fighting, swallow your pride and acknowledge your limitations, and then proceed in a new direction.

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