The Tarot of Eli, LLC-Court Cards: Thoth Tarot-Princess of Disks & The Mystic Palette Tarot-Page of Coins

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The Princess of the Echoing Hills; The Rose of the Palace of Earth; Princess and Empress of the Gnomes; Throne of the Ace of Disks

This Thoth Court Card is about Mastery of Creativity and Birth of New Forms. She is the pregnant one. As you may have gleaned by now, all these cards represent states of conscious energy that weave a pattern of energy conscious, a "personality", in the material world (you) and the Princess of Disks is Earth of Earth; Hence, she's the carrier of the highest- high and the lowest- low forces of the Tree of Life!

The Greeks called this state of consciousness, Persephone, the goddess who enters Hades, every winter and escapes Hades and manifests on Earth every spring. She is the pioneering nature of fertility (represented by the Aries horns on her head) and the serpent transforming into an ermine cape, represents her ancient earthly passion to create, from the Highest High (Kether) to the Lowest Low of Malkuth (High and low are not values). She is both pregnant with the highest/lowest of the suit of Disks, and with everything between the Highest-High and Lowest-Low of every tarot suit. She carries within her body the potential of all possibilities and the key to perpetuating the life of the Universe. Therefore, she is on the brink of transformation, and as the Princess of Disks, the Earthly part of Earth-The Malkuth of Malkuths, she also implies that material transformation is possible here. Shown brooding in wonder, she is strong and beautiful while pregnant with the secret wonder of the future.

Her lighted crystal staff, shows her desire to give birth to new forms that are in alignment with who she is. The diamond is the sacred stone of Kether, The Highest High and whose tetrahedral form represents the basic structure of all carbon-based life. Her determination to manifest the organic balanced harvest is shown by the pedestal of grains that she is standing on.

The balanced union of female magnetic and male electric forces are represented in the yin/yang center of the Great Seed/Shield composed of 36 sections, which illustrates the creative approaches to Motherhood issues or issues surrounding her own mother-Demeter.

Winter is at an end, shown on the Thoth Deck Princess of Disks as the ermine cape becomes an implication of snow on the ground, amid winter trees bereft of leaves; trees that will soon sprout green leaves. She is crowned in the horns of a Ram, illustrating the first House of Spring that astrologers call Aries-The Ram. Therefore, what is presented is a lovely Priestess of Demeter, who wears the crest of the Ram and in her right hand a scepter descending into the Earth where its head becomes a diamond. To Qabalists, the Diamond is the Precious Stone of Kether (The Highest and purest Light) and symbolizes the Purest Light formed in Matter-the Lowest of the Low- in the “diamond form of as above-so below". When this card is thrown, for male or female, this card represents the: creative part of the Earth anima within the organic form.

In the verdant archetype of the Princess of Disks from the Thoth Tarot, we encounter more than just the Earthy aspect of Malkuth — we encounter a living glyph of regenerative power, seasonal rebirth, and the sacred cycle of descent and ascent. This card resonates deeply with the myth of Persephone, the Greek goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld — a myth that is, in itself, a profound initiatory allegory embedded with Qabalistic symbolism.

The Archetype of Earth in Bloom

The Princess of Disks is the final Heh (ה) in the Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh formula — the daughter, the Earth — and she holds within her the seeds of all future creation. Dressed in greens and browns, crowned with the horns of Aries and a disc bearing a six-petaled rose (the Rosy Cross), she stands surrounded by new life. This imagery evokes Demeter's daughter, Persephone, who dwells in the underworld for part of the year and then returns, bringing the flowering of springtime.

Persephone is not only the maiden abducted into Hades but the goddess who chooses to become Queen of the Underworld. This duality — both innocent spring blossom and sovereign of the dead — mirrors the initiatory path of the Neophyte in Malkuth, where one must master the physical realm and confront the cycles of life, death, and rebirth.

Descent, Gestation, and Return: The Path of the Seed

Crowley writes that the Princess of Disks is the “brilliantly fertile earth.” In her womb is the hidden spiral of time, the serpent coiled within the seed. Persephone, too, becomes the seed — planted in the dark soil of the underworld each autumn. Her myth is not only agricultural but alchemical. She descends into the Nigredo, the blackness of earth and shadow, where transformation occurs unseen. There, like the Princess of Disks, she gestates the mystery of return.

This descent and return pattern aligns perfectly with the symbolism of Path 32 on the Tree of Life — from Malkuth to Yesod — where the soul descends into form but must awaken and return with awareness. Persephone’s yearly return to the upper world reflects the Hermetic formula of resurrection, of Isis raising Osiris — of the Daughter awakening the Sun.

The Womb of Alchemical Manifestation

The orb she holds and the roots that surround her suggest a Hermetic vessel, a vas hermeticum. In alchemy, the closed vessel allows for the interior heat and fermentation necessary to transform base matter into gold. Persephone, in this sense, becomes the Philosopher's Garden — the enclosed, fertile ground in which spiritual transmutation takes place.

Similarly, the Princess of Disks transforms the raw energies of the Elemental Earth into fruition, holding the promise of the future within her body. She is both the land that lies fallow in winter and the burst of green that breaks through in spring. Persephone and the Princess are both keepers of sacred timing, and their power is most potent in transition — from dark to light, from womb to world, from potential to manifestation.

Malkuth as the Garden of Persephone

In the Qabalistic worldview, Malkuth is the Kingdom, yet it is also the exile — the furthest point from Kether. But this exile is not abandonment; it is initiation. The Princess of Disks walks this sacred ground, reminding us that the end of the Tree is also its beginning. Like Persephone, she embodies the dignity of the Earth, the initiate who brings light from the depths.

She is not passive. She is pregnant with the future, armed with a staff bearing the seed of renewal, and she rules in her domain with the wisdom born of seasonal sacrifice. Like Persephone, she is both Daughter and Queen — both bloom and bone.

Closing Thoughts: The Key to Earth’s Secrets

The Princess of Disks and Persephone together form a sacred key — unlocking the Earth mysteries of manifestation, descent, rebirth, and the cyclical wisdom of nature. They teach us that the path to mastery of matter is not through domination, but through cooperation with the cycles, through stillness, patience, and the willingness to go within and return renewed.

In your workings with the Princess of Disks, consider invoking Persephone. Ask her to show you how to plant your intentions in fertile ground, how to find beauty in darkness, and how to return from your own underworld with the sacred fruit of wisdom in hand.

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(Ritual of the Verdant Gate: Invocation of the Princess of Disks as Persephone can be found on magick website:)

In our Native state of Photonic/Celestial Mind (Soul), We are all Androgyny and/or Hermaphrodites, ( also the physical copy of our Soul as the Right-female side of brain and Left-male side of the brain) and both Sexes/Polarities of the Divine Creative Energy Mind can become pregnant with desire ( Male-desire to control) and creative ideas (Female- desire to create and nurture anew). This creative idea and the desire to manifest it, has been gestating within your nature for some time.

The Mystic Palette-Page of Coins shows Persephone, with a golden sigil for earth as her headdress and hugging a fox kit while a squirrel perches on her shoulder and a tortoise observes below. With her it is all about the hug for she reacts by the showing of affection. Whether it is a hug, a touch of the hand or an arm on the shoulder, her affection and reactions are genuine. She may be a bit naive as she brings information concerning the physical world. All that pertains to the Thoth Card also describes the fecund and fertile spring of the Page of Coins.

For a woman, this card can represent the need to resolve motherhood issues. For male and female, this card can represent the need to resolve or restructure relationship issues with Aries or Scorpio people in your life. (Aries-March 21 -April 21) (Scorpio: October 21-November 21). Due to the very nature of the Page of Coins or Princess of Disks "tunnel focus" on creation, this card can warn us of the dangers of becoming so focused on one thing and therefore, not observing what is in the life all around us.

On the Thoth Card as would Freya, (Norse Grove Goddess) she stands in a grove of sacred trees, before an altar suggesting a wheat sheaf which is a symbol for Demeter (Persephonie's mother). But she is not alone. Contrary to the sexism of divisionism thought, she is never without He and He is never without She, so she holds in her left hand a disk of Seeds, which bears the Chinese ideogram denoting the twin spiral force of Goddess/God (Creation), in equilibrium (Yin Yang). Also, the design of the Seed Shield resembles the Rose of Isis (Lotus), the Great Fertile Mother of the Nile delta.

One may see her as Persephone arising from the nether world of winter into the bright light of spring, symbolizing that from the deepest, darkest depths of the subconscious arises the Wisdom of "Womb-Rite"; the resurrection and regeneration of the Living. As a personality, she is very "earthy", loves body and the fertility of life, making her seem less spiritual than others as she lives in the sensual moment.

However, one who thinks she is "shallow" would be unable to see that stability is based purely on "the clothoid curve of momentary movement " (the spiral seen as- now) and not a linear line of addition. Thus is she serpentine in her motion which is also represented by the spiral horns and the swirling ermine cape. The universe is Spirals upon Spirals, dimensions upon dimensions, union upon union and suffers no division. To enjoy her, you must dance with her in her sacred grove of Life and learn to spin in joyous celebration of renewal.

This is the Lady of Rebirth and Renewal and to understand the Highest- High and Lowest Depth of the Ultimate Womb---is to meditate long and hard on this card, and to read the Goddess Myths with the eye (I) of the soul. In this world, where love is a profit sharing endeavor, it is hard for most of us to believe that "Love built Me to be Itself"----Love is Now and fears no future. But the truth is, " Creation is Love made manifest" and we are the image of Love made manifest by the Womb of the Divine Creative. Who is both Creator and Creatrix.

Scry this Princess of Disks/ Page of Coins card and know, it’s great to be you! In your uniqueness you are united with us all on the Highest High and Lowest Low, as we are all quantumly entangled as a "collective". The Princesses of any suit are the “womb intelligence” that carries the seed of the element they represent; thus, the Princesses are the pro-generators of the Aces.

The Ace of Disks is the seed of the most condensed Energy Transformation (organic material) that we call Earth (Lowest Low means "most condensed") and Earth is ruled by the Princesses, each in their own section of the Northern quadrant. In Western Hermetic magic, together with the Ace of Disks, she rules the Aries/Taurus/Gemini celestial quadrant above the North Pole and the area of Europe and Africa.

The knowledge of the new Aeon of Horus dispels the archaic concept of Earth as an evil, passive, immobile, even dead element. Rather, Earth is a transformation of Intelligent Energy Conscious that many moderns call Gaia who is represented in the tarot as the Queen of Disks (Mother Earth) in her younger state of Spring, she is the Princess/Page.

Now this idea of Goddess/Creatrix, may all be new to us who view ourselves via the indoctrination of the "Divide and conquer" military industrial complex of the Patriarchy, where a male Monarchy God is pursued out fear of displeasure, but as I tour my Soul, I find a Perspective-Personality, of Native American manifestation, who named this Intelligent Force of Earth, Grandmother River. These indigenous people, as did the Alchemists, seemed to understand that the “Water and Sun" union, transformed soil into living forms, long before our scientist "discovered" this very concept in the study of Thermodynamics.

To the Native peoples of Earth, water was often seen as the "Blood of Earth", the topsoil, its flesh and the grasses as Mother's hair. When Priestesses worked in their Temples of ritual and worship, they kept the earth green, lush and fertile. Woman invented agriculture and these special women talked, worked with both Gaia and their people to keep the land and people vibrant. However, by eliminating them, the Patriarchy began the process of sickness, and ill-land while creating a femicide of those who they ruled and deserts out of the once fertile land. Humankind is now clawing for existence, rather than basking in the fertile and fecund land of the nurturing Priestesses.

The Thoth- Ace of Disks, the Force behind the Princess of Disks, is invariably linked to the Princess of Disks and is a styled rendition of a Molecule, (the union of atoms) show in the back ground of the Emerald Green of the Aeon of Isis (Grandmother River). This Emerald Green is of the King-Scale color decided upon by the Egyptian Hierophants. However, this green is not the original vegetable green of Isis but that of the “emerald-spring green" of the new Aeon following the resurrection/birth of Osiris as Horus. Nor are the disks considered to be the dead chemistry of coins or pentacles; rather they are the whirling emblems of Star, Planets, and atoms etc., all of which are whirling spheres.

There is the new doctrine of Tetragrammaton in the Hermetic Qabalah, where He' --the final earthly component of YHVH, and the Daughter (Princess), is set upon the Throne of the Mother, to awaken the Eld of the All-Father. In the words of Zoroaster, Tetragrammaton (YHVH-The Divine Creative) is a “rebounding, whirling forth, crying aloud," Therefore, the Name of Malkuth is not a dead symbol, but a whirling Sphere of Divine Action, with a stable center, much like a hurricane. The Court Cards represent the Elemental Powers of the Tetragrammaton, in the 4 Worlds of Qabalah. Therefore, as such, generally represent real people when they appear in a divination (layout). However, where this is not the case, they mean an event or situation having a certain personality. They can also represent a decision on our part, or on the part of others. In the case of the Princess of Disks, we have a situation, decision or event that is benevolent, about renewal, pregnant with expectation and new life focus and/or the brink of transformation.  

The center of the Thoth Deck Ace of Disks, is a complicate Hieroglyph representing the "the chosen priest- and apostle of infinite space" and/or the "prince-priest the Beast." (Liber AL. I.15.). In the center of all is yet another form of Tetragrammaton, the Phallus, showing Sol and Luna, with the number 666 inscribed, as to equilibrate the seven sevens adding to 156 (Babalon-The Scarlett woman.) Now to detail this explanation is far to complicated for a short blog, hence there is a book that has already delved deeply into the Phenomena that is the Princess of Disks, so I recommend that you get the Book of Thoth, and scroll to pages 210-212 for further information and references. The Prince-Priest who is the Beast, is really a magic name for the Green Man of the Organic Material that all life on earth is created from.

This central cypher is enclosed in a Heptagram that is interlaced with Pentagons whose sides are extended forming a wheel of 10 spokes, bounded by a Decagon encompassed in a circular band with the inscribed name of TO META OHEPION , roughly this is Greek for the "Great Beast" (Organic/Mammalian Matter). This card is a research and meditative must for the Student of Gnosis.

About this whirling Disk are its six wings (6 is the number of the Sun/Soul) The Thoth Deck Ace of Disks is the glyph of Earth as understood in the new Aeon of Horus. Sol and Terra are known as living beings, one's constant companions in a Universe of "I Will Be".

As I have stated, the Princess of disks represents the earthly part of Earth. This Princess is strong and beautiful and impregnated with a secret wonder (Anu DNA combine with Homo Sapien DNA) as is all Earthly organic matter and the Ace of Disks is the force she wields.

The Princess realizes that the academic world is not a source of reality, but rather a group indoctrinated assumption controlled by "rulers". Hence, the Page reaches out seeking more through arts and crafts. This young boy or girl realizes that Life is what they are, rather than life is something to be sought from "the few who rule the many".

As shown, there is a very youthful, feminine quality about the Page, which is not necessarily about age or gender, but more about the joy of spiritual awakening. Here one discovers the self-authority and the creative wonder that they lost during indoctrination and dogma brain washing.

I AM, is the name of the All-Self, and one begins the wonderful discovery here of I AM and the Me they assume they are. I AM proves existence, and Me proves freedom to choose your very own Identity as Spirit-Mind-Body. You are not written in stone, you are a bright, warm, harmony of light writing its own story in matter. This Page, although young, has a very mature sense of morals and ethics, and enjoys good health.

If the Princess of Disks/Page of Coins card shows up in a reading, it is best said:

• That rebirth is apparent from past defeat.
• Or that a new love is blooming in your life.
• It represents a young woman with rich brown or red- brown hair and dark eyes, she is generous, kind, diligent, benevolent, careful, affectionate, and endowed with persevering courage.
• She may also be pregnant with child or birthing ideas, projects, identity and self-aspects.
•  She or he is on the Brink of Transformation and Revelation.
• She or he may also have a concentrated desire to learn and is applying her/his fertile mind to scholarly pursuits.
• Renewal.
• Growth.
• Motherhood.
• Willingness to take responsibility for something greater than oneself. 

If ill-defined by the surrounding cards, it implies:

• She or he becomes wasteful and prodigal.
• Hedonism.
• Indolence.
• Sentimentality.
• Feeling out of place. 
• Difficulty in getting across idea or emotions.

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