78 Steps

Posted By Jade on June 2, 2009

The Magician’s musical note: E natural

The Magician’s gematria number: 2 (some sources give it as 3)

For a brief description of gematria, see my post The Fool: Gematria Number. Most sources list The Magician’s gematria number as 2. So using the Mystical Web Gematria Server, as I did for The Fool we get:

Hebrew query:

• beth (the Hebrew word associated with the Magician)
• house, home, or container
• bee

Gon query. The most appropriate (and amusing) results are:

• anthropology
• astronomer
• augur (meaning: a Roman religious official who interpreted omens to aid the development of public policy; to indicate by signs)
• autumnal equinox
• berry
• brush
• browse
• bow
• cosmology
• cup (fits with the Hebrew results of house or container)
• destiny
• employment
• excuses
• exertion
• fireworks
• house (again, another correlation with the Hebrew list)
• intent
• mighty
• Miss Piggy ( )
• motivation
• novel
• playboy
• play
• plants
• portal
• potentiality
• quark
• reunion
• roof
• rota (Wheel of the TARO)
• signs
• splendor
• superglue
• supernatural
• temptations
• The Way (tao)
• total
• trespassing
• unearthly
• utopia
• visitation
• waist
• years
• zenith
• Zohar (The Primary Kabbalistic Text, Zohar Is The Shortened Form Of Sefer HaZohar (Book Of Splendor, Or Radiance).)
• The entire list

The Magician’s Companion gives the value “3″ for The Magician, so here are the results from that query:

Hebrew query:

• AB (meaning: father)
• BA (meaning: to come, go)

Gon query:

• adversity
• always
• androgyny
• art
• blossoms
• Cernunnos (Celtic god)
• clown
• comforts
• compulsion
• devious
• divinatory
• eloquent
• evils
• exposing
• fix
• fools
• generosity
• gesture
• The entire list

Gon stands for Gematria of Nothing, a modern gematria system based on Chaos theory. My guess is that, given the large volume of answers returned from the Gon queries, you’re bound to find at least some results that fit the term(s) you’re searching for.

Doing a Gon search on the term “magician”, rather than the number 2, returns these results:

• “all gods are vampires” (?!)
• alliance
• analgesic
• appearances
• backlash
• balances
• “black hole star”
• blasphemed
• “blind faith”
• brilliance
• celebrate
• celibate
• chocolate biscuits
• credit card
• dead ringer
• demanding
• disbelif
• dogmatical
• dragonscale (the scale of a dragon)
• “eternal death”
• feathered serpent
• heightened
• Middle Earth
• organic life
• “The Birth Of The Son Of God”
• “The crow cawing straight to hell”
• the dark ages
• “the day of judgement”
• “The Great God Pan”
• “the inverted pentagram”
• “This will be the end of it”
• “Wealth Magick”
• “You aren’t getting short changed”
• The entire list

I’ll use the 2 correspondence, given the correlation between the Hebrew results and Gon results for that number. But I can see all kinds of new ways of looking at The Magician from the other results, especially the Gon results for the word “magician”.

Just for fun, I did a final Gon search on the term “The Magician”, which produced these results:

• “All Are My Children”
• “Ancient God of Time”
• “Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome”
• “ball & chain”
• bandage
• “Because I said so!” (yes, the result did include the exclamation point)
• Cabala
• concealed
• “Copperhead snakes”
• despicable
• “English Magick”
• facade
• “Grateful Dead”
• “He who awakens the dragons”
• LeonardoDavinci [sic]
• obedience
• sacrificial
• “the abyss gazes back”
• “This is about to be FULFILLED”
• “Unleashing the Dragon”
• “You have made a name for yourself”

Category: Correspondences, Major Arcana, The Magician, Week Card
Tags: 1, Correspondences, gematria, Magician, Major Arcana, numerology, weekly card