The Magician [Manifestation]

Keywords: Creation, manifestation, capability, connection between realms

This is a powerful card as it represents manifestation, creativity, and resourcefulness. The Magician stands for ability to turn ideas into reality, the theoretical into physical. She represents the individual’s power to put their own potential into effect.

Our Magician’s fingers curl up to the sky, but her feet are firmly planted on the ground, connecting her to both, the Air and the Earth elements (also reaching the underworld). She interacts with all the symbols of Tarot, connecting her with everything that surrounds her, body and soul. Hers is the infinite power of creation.

The Magician encourages you to use all of your skills and resources effectively. Tap into your imagination, use all tools available to you – physical, mental, and emotional – and trust the process. Once all the pieces fall into place, you’ll be able to transform your dreams and goals into reality.

If done right, the Magician tells you, your thoughts and intentions will ultimately shape your reality.

A word of caution: For this process to work, you need to assess your potential as honestly, as possible. Yes, reach for the starts, but make sure you don’t loose your footing. Always keep at least one foot on hard ground.

Planet: Mercury (and Gemini and Virgo by default)
Element: Earth (or sometimes Air)

Reversed meaning

Lack of Manifestation: You’re struggling to turn your ideas into reality, you’re feeling stuck or unable to make progress on goals. Take pause. Stop, breathe, reevaluate the resources available to you and the goals you have set. Perhaps you will need to detour, perhaps you will need to put your plans on hold for a while. No worries. You will return to them when you are ready, if they are truly important. Just do not doubt. Visualise it, remember it. Work for it.

Manipulation: Make sure your dreams or goals are truly your own. Beware of deceit or manipulation, either from yourself or others. Stop using skills for selfish or unethical purposes, it will backfire on you sooner or later.

Insecurity: Doubting your abilities or potential is a natural feeling. It happens to the best of us. The key to success is to accept it as part of the process, not giving it bigger meaning that it deserves. If it feels less important in a day or two, it was irrelevant. Just shake it off and move on. If you don’t, you might lose confidence and ultimately lose track of your goal.

Distraction: In your tenacity, you might spread yourself too thin or lose focus, which will inhibit you to harness your resources effectively. You cannot do it all at once. Organise and focus.

Missed Opportunities: You might be at risk of not recognising or not seizing opportunities offered to you, possibly due to hesitation or fear of taking action. Remember, you will never regret trying and failing at something, nearly as much, as you will never even trying reaching your goals. Focus on what you have to gain, not on what you might lose.

A Real-life Magician: A Woman from History

Shaman queen, deleted from the history books of Japan.

The shaman queen Himiko, also known as Pimiko or Pimiku (183? – 248 CE), was a 3rd-century CE ruler of the territory in ancient Japan known as Hsieh-ma-t’ai or Yamatai, later to be known as Yamato.

Considered by the Chinese as the ruler of all of Japan or Wa. A semi-legendary figure, Himiko is curiously absent from Japanese historical records but does appear briefly in Chinese and Korean histories. Himiko was noted for being a shaman queen, unmarried, and living in a fortress where she was served by 1,000 women. Her history is irreversibly intertwined in myth, due to lack of any official history records.

As a rule, many female leadership histories were altered, falsified or erased entirely, simply because they were seen as an anomaly that defied the established status quo – the reign over men was reserved for … well, men. It was accepted as the natural state of human society, by both men and women.