The 'Seven of Swords' and The Moon in Aquarius

The sun will be in the second third of Aquarius on the 9th February until the 19th of February. Golden Dawn assigned a Minor Arcana card to each Decan, a Decan being a third of each Zodiac sign. Each Minor Arcana card, except the Aces, gets one of these
thirds. You can see a chart HERE.

This means, that the 'Seven of Swords' will be the next Tarot card for this Decan and its picture represents the qualities of the Moon in Aquarius.

This card resembles the same qualities of the 'Five of Swords' in which Aquarius still seems unable to get on well with those around him! Where he seemed to confront others with his passionate thinking in the 'Five of Swords', he now seems to be be doing it behind their backs!

In astrology, the Moon represent our emotions and the way we express ourselves to others. Given that the typical Aquarian is is a intellectual free thinker, the 'Seven of Swords show how the Aquarian expresses his intellectual free thinking to other people, and not very well it seems!

The army camp in the card symbolises a system of thought that everyone must share for their goal to be achieved. All army soldiers must be trained to the same high standard and must be able to communicate and work well as a team in order to defeat the enemy. Therefore all soldiers have to share the same system of thought.

The man featured in the 'Seven of Swords' looks as though he has stolen the Army camp swords and is running away with them. Since the suit of Swords represents thoughts and intellect, the man represents the sign of Aquarius- a man who is primarily a 'thinking' man and the Moon represents how we express ourselves to others, then we would understand that the Swords in his hands are really his own thoughts that he his obviously unwilling to express them in the same way as others! He is certainly unwilling to express himself through the Army system of thought.

Simple put, Aquarius just wont express himself the way normal people do. He prefers to express himself his way and will not work as a team. As a result he detaches himself from everyone else appearing sly and cunning as a result.

This cards teaches us to not to behave the same way as everyone else just for the sake of it. When this card appears, it tells us that we must carry out our own wishes and express ourselves in the way we want rather than to try and fit in with everyone else.

Five of Swords

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