| ABOVE: |
Pineal gland
Heaven, God |
| ABSINTHE: |
A liqueur containing wormwood |
| ABYSS: |
Pitfall, womb of the earth, subconscious |
| ACE: |
Gift, impetus, new
consciousness |
| ACORN: |
Fertility, fecundity,
spiritual growth |
| ADAM: |
Humanity, earth life |
| ADAM KADMON: |
Primal energy, first man and woman
The world soul |
| AGATE: |
A protective stone against:
Red - Spiders and Scorpions
Green - Disease in the Eye
Brown - Evil Eye
The Brown Agate additionally makes a warrior victorious, protects against all poisonous reptiles, wins love, gives riches, happiness, health and long
life |
AIR:
 |
Spirit, mind
Masculine element
Ranked highest in the elemental cosmology
Breath of life, speach |
| AKASHA: |
Record of experiences, karma |
ALBUS:
 |
A geomantic sign meaning White Head, Wisdom, Sagacity or Clear
Thought, related to the Astrological Sign of
Mercury, watery, Cancer, 12 |
| ALLIGATOR: |
Connected with Water, Serpents,
Dragons or Death |
| ALMOND TREE: |
Sweetness, delicacy, possibly virginity |
| ALOE: |
Used in spells to bring about
restriction |
| AMBER: |
Aligned with the Sun
Protection against evil fortune and attacks from witches |
| AMETHYST: |
A protection against sorcery if the names of the Sun
and Moon were inscribed on it. The amulet was then
tied to the neck with the hairs of a peacock and the
feathers of a swallow |
AMISSIO:
 |
A Geomantic Sign meaning Loss or
That which is taken away
A bad figure
It corresponds to Venus, Fire, Libra and 8 |
| ANDROGYNY: |
Union of the strongest
and most striking opposites |
| ANGEL: |
Hidden forces,
heavenly power or wrath, messages from heaven,
sublimation of earthly desires
Messengers
Raphael - key #6, super conscious, angel of air, God
as healer, charity
Michael - key#14, angel of fire and sun, Son of God,
Holiness
Gabriel - key #20, angel of water, calls to God,
strength |
| ANIMALS: |
Five senses, emotions, desires
(note their actions) |
| ANKH: |
A symbol of life, associated with the Phallus
Also known as the Crux Ansata
Formed from the male (Osiris) and female (Isis)
symbols
Union of heaven and earth, masculine and
feminine
A key for unlocking the mysteries of life and death
With eagle - freedom from bondage |
| ANTLERS: |
The Celtic Horned God
Fertility
A Shaman |
| APPLE: |
Earthly desires, fruitfulness,
fecundity, ripeness, desirable |
| APPLE TREE: |
The temptation, taken from the Garden of Eden |
| AQUAMARINE: |
Related to a happy
marriage |
AQUARIUS:
 |
A
Zodiacal sign which reigns over legs, ankles,
lameness, fractures, gout, cramp, rheumatism, foul
blood
Denotes questions concerning any form of mining or
ballooning. |
AQUISITIO:
 |
Geomantic sign meaning success, obtaining or absorbing
It is a good figure, corresponding to Jupiter, Air,
Aries, and the number, 7 |
| ARBOR: |
A shelter constructed from nature |
| ARCANA: |
Means secret or hidden |
| ARCH: |
A new life or beginning,
fresh insights, a birth portal |
ARIES:
 |
A
Zodiacal sign governing small pox, measles,
pasture grounds, ceilings, warrens or hiding places
and land recently ploughed |
| ARMOR: |
Protection, defensiveness |
| ARROW: |
Direct will, phallic, vengeance,
the rays of the Sun and divine light and fire
The weapon of Apollo, Diana, Artemis |
| ASH: |
Identified
with Odin, the World Tree, Yggdrasil, was an ash
Rebirth and the Seat of Justice |
| ASPEN: |
Tree of the Autumnal Equinox, old age and shield
makers, associated with Hercules
The measuring rod used in Ancient Ireland to gauge corpses for their
coffins |
| AURA: |
Electricity, colors designate health, force field
around the body |
| AURABORA: |
Enlightenment, purity of thought, promise of peace |
| AXE: |
Light
and its power |
| BABEL: |
House built on words, lost word of God, language |
| BANNER: |
White banner with red cross - innocence and blood
Red banner - action and vibration
With Red Five Petaled Rose -
symbol of Mars and the life force
Held in right hand - conscious awareness,
self-consciousness
Held in left hand - automatic reactions,
sub-consciousness, has become automatic
Betokens freedom from material bonds, vibration,
action |
| BATTLEMENTS: |
Not the final boundary, gateway to beyond |
| BEAR: |
A lunar animal, symbolic of the lowest instincts
May represent the autumn/winter months |
| BEARD: |
Masculinity, strength
White Beard - age and wisdom |
| BEASTS: |
In four corners, the fixed signs of the zodiac,
the four elements |
| BEES: |
Order, sociability, industry, royalty,
wealth, the soul, diligence and eloquence |
| BEETLE: |
Things
unclean or horrid, An ingredient in some spells |
| BEGGAR: |
The lowest
level of economic or social status
An impoverished soul |
| BELOW: |
A sign of mortality, flesh, human or animal
intelligence as distinct from spiritual or divine
intelligence |
| BELLS: |
Cosmic harmonies
The connection between heaven and earth |
| BELT: |
Limitation, time
A vow, initiation
When slanted suggesting the slanting circle of the elliptic
representing the influence of stellar forces
Girding the Loins - preparation of a
task or journey |
| BIRD: |
Messengers, telepathy, freedom, the element of air
Ideas, messages |
| BLACK: |
The void before there was
light
Unknown, shadow, mysterious, protection |
| BLINDFOLD: |
Not focused on materialism, inner vision
at the expense of outer |
| BLOOD: |
Life or vital power
As wine is a symbol for blood, so blood is symbolic of
wine |
| BLUE: |
Faith, peace, serenity, patience
The color of the fifth (throat) chakra |
| BOAT: |
The
transition from life to death
A personal journey or progress through life
The relationship of conscious to unconscious |
| BOAZ & JACHIN: |
Pillars which according to tradition stood at either
end of the Temple Veil in Jerusalem before the
destruction of the Temple and the Jewish captivity in
Babylon
They represent according to different sources mercy
and severity or spirit and matter |
| BODY: |
Tabernacle, temple or kingdom of God |
| BOOK: |
Record of truth, measure of time, memories, akasha,
Torah
Knowledge, wisdom |
| BREAD: |
Flesh, the body, life substance |
| BREATH: |
Ego, solar and lunar energies, inspiration,
spirit, life |
| BRIDGE: |
The threshold between two
realms
The ability to overcome what is within the gap |
| BROWN: |
Grounded, potential for
growth
Barrenness, stagnation |
| BULL: |
Sign of Taurus, the element of Earth
Symbolic of the Sky, Sun, Moon, and Earth
The heavenly sperm that fertilized the earth
Masculinity |
| BUTTERFLY: |
Soul, rebirth, immortality, element of air,
happiness, freedom
A transformative journey |
| CACTUS: |
Keeping one's own
counsel, surviving where nothing else can, and also
(because of the thorns) self-protection, virginity |
| CADUCEUS: |
Moral balance, healing energies, two entwined
serpents indicate sickness and health, Kundalini |
CANCER:
 |
Zodiacal sign of the
Crab ruling asthmas, lung diseases, cancer,
insanity, seas and watery places, hydraulic machines,
and aquatic experiments |
| CANDLESTICK: |
Seven candles, chakras, spine |
| CANOPY: |
Protection, mind, celestial influence |
CAPRICORN:
 |
Zodiacal sign of the Goat which governs sprains
and broken limbs, barns, hot-houses, storage rooms,
barren fields, tombs, mausoleums etc. |
CAPUT DRACONIS:
 |
Geomantic sign meaning the Dragon's head, a
very good sign indicating natural, steady progression
towards serenity and being in touch with peaceful
energies |
CARCER:
 |
Geomantic sign meaning
prison or to be bound, it is either good or bad
according to the nature of the question
It has the nature of Saturn, it is earthy, its
zodiacal sign is Pisces and its number is 10 |
| CAT: |
Power of darkness, astral world, nine lives, good
eyesight, the sinister aspect of Venus
Black Cat
Associated with misfortune, death and witchcraft,
related to the waning moon |
CAUDA DRACONIS:
 |
Geomantic sign meaning the Dragon's tail,
a very bad sign indicating betrayal, lies,
obscene and cruel behavior, hypocrisy an perfidy,
hidden watchful enemies, dangerous seduction and
lethal partners |
| CAVE: |
Dante's journey into the underworld, the Mystic’s
dark night of the soul |
| CENTAUR: |
Half man and half horse,
symbolic of the spiritual nature unable to control the
animal, also symbolic of wisdom
Centaurs were known to have the twin gifts of prophecy
and divination, and a reputation for intemperance |
| CERBERUS: |
The three-headed dog who
guards the Greek Tartarus or Hades, associated with
death |
| CHAIN: |
Largely self-imposed, restriction |
| CHAIN OF ROSES: |
Union of desires so strong that the wild unconscious forces bow before it |
| CHALICE: |
The Cup of Life, the
Grail
A female symbol, the holy vessel |
| CHARIOT: |
human personality, which can be a vehicle for the expression of self |
CHEN:
 |
Chinese trigram
representing moving or exciting power, northeast,
inciting movement |
| CHERUBIM: |
Sacred wisdom, innocence |
CHI CHI:
 |
An I Ching Hexagram formed from
the two trigrams, Li (below) meaning the clinging
fire, and K'an (above) meaning the abysmal of water
The figure of perfection and the pause for thinking
that perfection brings, things can only get worse |
CH'IEN:
 |
The trigram from the I Ching, its
significance is untiring
strength and power, its direction is South |
| CHILD: |
The regenerated personality |
| CHOSEN PEOPLE: |
Humanity, spiritually enlightened |
| CHRIST: |
Higher self, cosmic truth, spirit, the heart |
| CIRCLE: |
Spirit, eternity, circles of manifestation,
perfection,
retention of power, heaven, Sun, Moon, imprisonment or
enclosure, protection, exclusion, division, control
In its numerical sense it makes as zero the entire
number system after nine |
| CIRCLE in a SQUARE: |
The unity within the Quaternary of elements, the Freemasonry concept of "Squaring the Circle." |
| CITY: |
Thought centers |
| CLOAK: |
The mantel of discretion. |
| CLOUDS: |
Storm clouds indicate unwise thinking, human
thoughts in discord |
| CLOVER: |
Domestic virtue and good luck for
women,
trinity |
| CLUB: |
A weapon associated with giants or heroes of gigantic
strength |
| COCONUT: |
Purity or chastity |
| COFFIN: |
The tombs of world belief |
| COLORS: |
Black - negative, ignorance, passive, female
Blue - peace, life, intuition
Gold - enlightenment, soul power
Green - healing, growth, desire
Grey - balance of opposites, harmony
Indigo - peace, devotion
Red - courage, vitality, passion, action, energy
Silver - magnetic, mystical
White - truth, perfection, purity
Yellow - knowledge, intellect |
| COMBINED ANIMAL PARTS: |
Bat Wings, Goat Legs, Horns, Bird Feet
An animalistic, instinctive nature |
CONJONCTIO:
 |
Geomantic
sign meaning reunion, the union of two elements
that naturally complement and attract each other,
pulled by a magnetic, cosmic force, yin and yang
coming together, a sacred marriage, an unbreakable
bond |
| CORN: |
Plenty, fertility,
resurrection |
| COSMIC LEMNISCATE: |
A symbol of eternal life and dominion
Harmonious interaction of the
conscious and subconscious, idea and feeling, desire
and emotion |
| CRAB: |
The sign of Cancer, sacred to Diana
The fertilizing power of water |
| CRANE: |
Justice,
wisdom, longevity and the good and diligent soul |
| CRAYFISH: |
Unconscious mind, the early stages of unfolding, primordial and primitive |
| CRESCENT: |
Soul |
| CROSS: |
Solar cross - with equal arms indicates union of
male (positive) and female (negative), union with
God, balanced energy
Triple cross - intellectual and physical worlds,
divine, generative power |
| CROSSED CIRCLES: |
The Golden Dawn used the crossed circle to represent CHOKMAH |
| CROSSED KEYS: |
Silver and gold representing the lunar and solar currents of
energy |
| CROSSED SWORDS: |
Fighting |
| CROWN: |
Mastery, attainment,
royal status, divinity, priesthood, creativity,
the formative and material word, may be set against the
cosmic purpose
Kether
Triple Crown -
the Three Worlds: Heaven, Hell and Earth |
| CRUX ANSATA: |
The ankh |
| CRYSTAL: |
Healing and protection, a tool for seeing, sometimes
as a substitute for the more highly valued Scrying
Tools: Diamond or polished Coal |
| CUBE: |
The
square in three dimensions, Earth, order and measurement,
that which was, is and shall be, material
manifestation, physical world
Half Cube - only the visual sensory side of reality is being seen |
| CUPID: |
Choice |
| CUPS: |
Symbol of knowledge and preservation, love,
pleasure and enjoyment, associated with water
Silver - the subconscious
Gold - the conscious |
| CUIRASS: |
The protective power of creative
imagination |
| CYPRESS TREE: |
Sacred to Venus,
wisdom
Chokmah |
| DAGGER: |
Weapon of treachery |
| DANCER: |
Rhythm, attainment, victory over the elements |
| DECAGRAM: |
A ten-pointed star
Unity, spiritual achievement, death, perfection, or
totality (of the self, the Universe) |
| DESERT: |
Lack of substance or life, barren thoughts |
| DESOLATE PEAK: |
the Rosicrucian mystical journey |
| DEVIL: |
Sensation divorced from understanding by spiritual
blindness, false concepts of the physical world,
bound by material, slave to necessity and blind
chance |
| DIADEM: |
Dominion |
| DIAMOND: |
Great
power and wealth |
| DOG: |
Guardian, fidelity, companion to man, helper,
friend, all non human forms of life are elevated and
improved by the advance of human consciousness, domestication,
the superconscious |
| DOLPHIN: |
Ancient friend of man |
| DONKEY EARS: |
Stubbornness |
| DOOR: |
Portal, entrance to the temple, threshold |
| DOVE: |
Peace, Holy Spirit, bird of Venus |
| DRAGON: |
Evil,
wisdom, the celestial kingdom, celestial order
established upon earth, the waters of the earth, air,
the guardian of esoteric wisdom or of great wealth |
| EAGLE: |
Higher thought power, aspiration, hope, denoting
the four seasons or four suits of the Minor Acrana,
associated with the Scorpion sign of the Zodiac,
symbol of power
Freedom, majesty, strength |
| EAGLE (Two Headed): |
Omnipotence |
EARTH:
 |
One of the four Greek elements
Concrete physical manifestation,
feminine and frequently maternal |
| EAST: |
Within, hidden, interior |
| EDEN: |
Paradise, solar plexus |
| EGG: |
Immortality
and resurrection, the cosmic egg is the world egg,
containing all levels of creation,
ideas, seed forms
The Egg with the Serpent around it -
wisdom producing or nursing life
With wings - spiritual life or life
ascending
A Gnostic symbol |
| EIGHT: |
The intermediary between terrestrial order (the
square) and eternal order (the circle), associated
with the Serpents of the Caduceus, with infinity, with
the balancing of forces or with the equilibrium of
different forms of power
The number of regeneration, genius, strength,
inspiration, evolution, justice |
| ELEMENTS: |
Fire, air, earth and water |
| ELLIPSE: |
Super conscious |
| EMERALD: |
Fidelity, unchanging
love, aid in the forecasting of events |
| ETHER: |
Fifth element, quintessence, life substance |
| EVE: |
Feminine principle, receptivity, soul, feeling |
| EYE: |
Meaning third, organ of true spiritual vision |
| EVIL: |
Errors in thinking, missing the mark |
| FALCON: |
Swiftness,
strength,
wisdom, cruelty |
| FAN: |
Related to the Moon, a symbol of power or authority as
well as of air, wind and the celestial kingdoms |
| FEATHER: |
Eagle, scorpio
Wind, air and freedom |
| FEET: |
Support, progress, comprehension
One in water, the other on land - equally at home in the conscious or subconscious |
| FEMALE: |
The subconscious mind |
| FENCE: |
Limitation |
| FIELD: |
Substance, body |
| FIG: |
Fertility |
FIGURE EIGHT
ON ITS SIDE: |
Cosmic lemniscates, harmonious interaction between
conscious and subconscious, between life and
feeling, desire and emotion, dominion over the
material, eternal life |
FIRE:
 |
One of the four elements of the
Greeks
Associated with the Sun, lightning,
light, gold, volcanoes
Some volcano myths tell that man first obtained fire
from the volcano (or earth) |
| FISH: |
Symbol of ordination of dedication to spiritual
service, creativity, pregnancy, virgin birth, increase, ideas
King of Cups - the fish comes from the sea of
universal subconscious
Page of Cups - arising from one's own subconscious,
idea or thought |
| FIVE: |
The
most holy or lucky number, or the number of
uncertainty or discouragement
The Pentagram, man, the five senses, the four cardinal
points plus the centre, the four Alchemical elements
together with that which encompasses them all
Five frequently occurs in nature and is associated
with an erotic meaning, as most odd numbers it is a
male number |
| FIXED SIGNS: |
Fixed conditions in the mind or on earth |
| FLAME: |
Spirit |
| FLOWERS: |
Vegetable kingdom, reproductive organs
White - spiritual thoughts, love, happiness
Red - human desires |
| FLYING CREATURES: |
Telepathy, messengers, mental thoughts |
FORTUNA MAJOR:
 |
Geomantic Sign meaning Great Fortune, Success,
Interior Aid and Protection
A very good sign which equates to Sun, Earth,
Aquarius, and the number 12 |
FORTUNA MINOR:
 |
Geomantic Sign meaning Lesser Fortune or External Aid
and Protection
Not a very good figure, it equates to Sun, Fire,
Taurus and the number 10 |
| FOUNTAIN: |
Peace,
rest, spiritual strength or nourishment, the Water of
Life (Inner Life, Celestial Life or Eternal Life)
coming forth in abundance to give strength |
| FOUR: |
The world, the earth, the
establishment, rational thinking, The number of the
elements, the winds
A totally 'safe' number, the square, and by
implication the cube and the
tesseract, a feminine number |
| FRANKINCENSE: |
Consecration, spirituality, love |
| FRUIT: |
Fertility |
| FURNACE: |
Testing,
trial, purification, sacrifice by Fire, renewal by
Fire |
| GABRIEL: |
Strength of God
The archangel of water (spirit and emotions) |
| GARDEN: |
Solar plexus, substance, Earth, sub-consciousness |
| GARLAND: |
Festivities, fruitfulness |
| GATE: |
The
meanings of Door or Window with the additional
connotation of keeping the wild and unfamiliar out and
the tame and known in
It is a symbol of ingress of any kind, but equally of
egress, things or forces let out |
GEMINI:
 |
Zodiacal Sign of the Twins, duality of all things |
| GENTILES: |
Worldly thoughts |
| GEOMANCY: |
Literally divining by Earth, a system of divination in
which marks are made upon the ground or upon a piece
of paper |
| GIRDLE: |
Spiritual force, time |
| GLOBE: |
Cosmic egg, universe
Winged Globe - transcendence, knowledge, exultation,
symbol of dominion |
| GNOMES: |
Spirits of Earth |
| GNOSIS: |
Knowledge |
| GOAT: |
Bestiality and overindulgence in sex, depicted as
fertility when in the arms of the Queen of Pentacles,
the Devil |
| GOLD: |
Metal of the sun |
| GRAPES: |
Pleasure, abundance, life, fertility,
sacrifice |
| GRAPEVINES: |
Growth and continuation in abundance and pleasure,
nervous system |
| GREEN: |
Balance, harmony, healing, prosperity |
| GREY: |
Reconciliation of opposites, neutral, uncertainty |
| HALO: |
Auric egg, spiritual force, the path of the saint |
| HAWK: |
The soul, solar
transfiguration, mind of the evil doer, victory over
sin |
| HAND: |
Right - positive, masculine
Left - negative, feminine |
| HEAD: |
Crown, place of intellect |
| HEART: |
Any symbol in the shape of a heart represents sub
conscious, emotions and seat of judgment
Pierced with an Arrow - conjunction,
pain, wounded love |
| HEIGHTS: |
Spiritual ascendancy |
| HEPTAGON: |
Geometrical figure
derived from a Heptagram or 7-pointed start
Dual meaning of Seven and Star |
| HERMAPHRODITE: |
Union of opposites,
complete |
| HERMIT: |
Inner teacher, higher self |
| HEXAGON: |
Six-sided geometrical
figure |
| HEXAGRAM: |
Six-pointed Star, the
Shield of Solomon
Magical power, witchcraft, union of the triangles of
water and fire, a hermaphroditic symbol, the human
soul perfected |
|
HIPPOGRIFF: |
A composite mythological animal formed from a Gryphon
(Head of an Eagle, body and hind quarters of a Lion)
and a Horse
Union of Fire (Lion) Earth (Horse) and Air (Eagle |
| HOLLY: |
Christmas, birth |
| HORNS: |
Penetrating, strength |
| HORSE: |
Vitality, five senses, fertility, controlled,
subdued life force, solar energy
Winged - Solar power, intellect |
|
HOURGLASS: |
Time passing, but also relates to
the lemniscate, an hourglass on its side, which is a
symbol of infinite time |
I:
 |
An I Ching Hexagram, increase |
| IBIS: |
Vigilance, immortal life, thought, the mind |
| ICE: |
Frozen mental attitude |
| IDEAS: |
Love, healing |
| IRIS: |
Greek goddess of the rainbow
A flower sacred to the sun |
| JACHIN
& BOAZ : |
Pillars which according to tradition stood at either
end of the Temple Veil in Jerusalem before the
destruction of the Temple and the Jewish captivity in
Babylon
They represent according to different sources
severity
and
mercy
or
matter and spirit |
| JACKAL: |
Sharp eyes, keen sense of smell, animal kingdom |
| JESTER: |
The Court Fool |
| JEWELS: |
Love and wisdom |
| JEW: |
Religious thoughts |
K'AN:
 |
Chinese Trigram
meaning
Peril, Difficulty, Danger, West |
KEN:
 |
Chinese Trigram meaning Resting, the act of
arresting or keeping still, Northwest |
| KEPHRA: |
The Scarabaeus Beetle, a dung beetle which pushes a
ball of dung around all day, the rising Sun and the
transformations of life |
| KEYS: |
That which opens, frees, allows
and (conversely) closes, imprisons and forbids,
open of the mysteries
Crossed Keys - A symbol of the Pope and
of Papal Authority,
Keys of St.
Peter, hidden doctrine, one
silver and one gold meaning solar and lunar current in
radiant energy |
| KING: |
Will |
| KNIGHT: |
Chivalry |
K'UN:
 |
Chinese Trigram, meaning capaciousness, submission,
yielding quality, North |
| KUNDALINI: |
Seven chakras rising up the spine, serpent fire |
| LADDER: |
Climbing ropes, beanstalks or pine trees the variants
are many and the meaning usually the same: a vertical
bridge between Heaven and Earth,
leading to perfection, kundalini, roadway to the
gods |
| LAMB: |
Intellect, loving, obedience |
LAETITIA:
 |
Geomantic sign meaning Joy, of joyful energy,
the dynamic whirl of a happy, life-celebrating
relationship,giving, convivial and festive occasions. |
| LAME: |
Lacking understanding or progress, disabled
thoughts |
| LAMP: |
Intelligence, spiritual light, light center in the
heart |
| LANTERN: |
Light of intellect, search for truth,
a seeker, a lost one |
| LAUREL WREATH: |
Symbol of Victory, the journey is circular, the
Fool begins again after completing a previous cycle |
| LEAD: |
Labour, responsibility, metal of Saturn |
| LEAFLESS TREE: |
Trefoil flames of the 12 sings of the zodiac, each divided into three
decans, The tree of life |
| LEAVES: |
Vitality, growth |
| LEFT: |
Sinister (Latin for left) and
sneakiness |
| LEFT SIDE OF THE BODY: |
Female, receptive, past, subconscious
mind |
| LEMNISCATE: |
A Figure 8 on its side, Infinity in Mathematics and
Eternity or Infinity in occult studies |
LEO:
 |
Zodiacal Sign of the Lion, governs fevers,
convulsions, pestilence, small-pox, measles, jaundice,
explosions, accidents by fire, fire, wild beasts, wild
places, ovens |
| LEOPARD: |
associated with Dionysus |
| LIGHTING: |
Masculine, positive |
LI:
 |
I Ching Trigram, brightness,
elegance, lightgiving,
East |
LIBRA:
 |
The Zodiacal Sign of the Scales,
Equilibrium |
| LIGHTING FLASH: |
The voice of God, the right manifesting itself, just
punishment, truth, reality, inspiration,
life power descends down the Kabalistic Tree of Life |
| LILY: |
Purified thoughts and spiritual unfoldment |
| LINGAM and YONI: |
Male/female, sexual symbol, procreation,
delight |
| LION: |
Fire element, the Sun,
Mars, royal power, heraldry, action, desire
body, Leo sign of the Zodiac, all powerful sub human
force,
One of the four Cherubic Animals
Green Lion - Animal nature, impure
Red Lion - Force, passion, animal reproduction |
| LOBSTER: |
The
unconscious mind |
| LOTUS: |
Divine knowledge, mystic centre, crown chakra,
purity, birth, evolution, the Mystic Center, the
last Revelation, the intersection of Heaven and Earth,
the Universe, bisexuality and the completion of a
created being into a single unified whole |
| LUNAR CRESCENTS: |
(as on the Chariot card)
Cancer which is ruled by the moon. (Golden Dawn) |
| MALE: |
The conscious mind |
| MALTESE CROSS: |
The coming together of
different forces |
| MANDALA: |
Circular symbol, simple
order in creation, all thing move to or from the
center |
| MAYA: |
Illusion regarding the world |
| METALS: |
Gold, silver, mercury, lead, copper, tin, iron,
also refers to the planets |
| MIRROR: |
Judgment, reflection |
| MIRROR of VENUS: |
Solar cross surmounted by a circle, symbol of
planet Venus, indicates fertility |
| MITERED HAT: |
The Piscean age (when shaped like a fish) |
| MONKEY: |
Simple mischief |
| MOON: |
Feminine astrological symbol of personality,
subconscious mind, reflected light of subconscious
All three phases at once - Body, Mind and
Spirit
Full - Fruitfulness, generosity
Moon in Glory - Pictorial representation
of the Full moon (around the disc are rays), the
Triple Goddess
New - The Maiden aspect of the Triple Goddess
Waning - The Crone aspect of the Triple Goddess
Waxing - The Maiden aspect of the Triple
Goddess |
| MOUNTAINS: |
Attainment, realization, path leading to the
heights, abstract thought, the long mystical journey
is through the stark mountains
The aspirations of man
Snow Capped -
Abstract principles of mathematics behind and above
all warm, colorful and vital activities of cosmic
manifestation, indicates cold,
God's ambitions for man |
| MOUTH: |
Communication,
consciousness expressed, receptive and generative |
| MYRTLE: |
Tree of death |
| NATURAL MAN: |
Seeds of what man can become spiritually |
| NINE: |
Consciousness and psychism, efficiency, renewed energy
The triad of triads and therefore a number of great
power, associated with the occult and with the triple
synthesis or disposition on the corporal, intellectual
and spiritual levels simultaneously, a male number |
| NORTH: |
Darkness, unknown, ignorance, hidden |
| NORTHEAST: |
The direction of the unknown |
| NUDE: |
Truth, free of dogma, innocence |
| OAK: |
The tree of Zeus, Jupiter,
Hercules, Thor, and all other Thunder
Gods, a royal tree, the Midsummer Fire is built with
Oak |
| OCTAGON: |
A symbol of regeneration, it is mid-way between the
square and the circle (Terrestial and celestial order)
As a geometric figure it is derived from the octagram,
it is symbolic of totality |
| OCTAGRAM: |
An eight-pointed Star, frequently employs a pair of
implied Greek Crosses in its structure, therefore
combines the meanings of Cross and Star
The Cross is symbolic of balance between opposites and
a Fire symbol
The Star is significant of the forces of the Spirit
fighting against darkness and of the Collective
Unconscious
Equlibrium of opposing forces of destruction |
| OIL: |
