A Collective Oracle For The Meeting in the Motherly Womb
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Today, Tuesday, the day consecrated to Mars under Archangel Camael, the planets Venus and Jupiter have met at the fourteenth degree of the nadir in Cancer, the watery womb of the Mother. This conjunction happens in the deepest point of the zodiac, the place of ancestral waters and hidden nourishment.
The reading was conducted by candlelight, with the Moon waning in Aries at the zodiacal ascendant, myrrh rising in the air, under the protection of Our Lady in the week of her Dormition. It is an offering to that Marian season, and also an honour to Saint Joseph, guardian of the Holy Family and keeper of the invisible household of the Spirit. The table was set for a work that contemplates the collective body, since this is a gate where personal and universal roots meet, and where what is received in the womb is offered back to the many.
I. North – What Sacred Memory Does the Mother Return Now to The World?
3 of Wands
The card rises in the quarter of the roots, at the Imum Coeli, but its fire speaks in the tongue of Aries, the first sign, cardinal flame bursting at the horizon. The Three of Wands belongs to Binah in Atziluth, the Supernal Mother in the world of pure fire, the silent architecture of the Divine Understanding clothing. The solar presence within Aries lends this fire the Light of conscious vision. It the directed flame that watches the shore for returning vessels.
The paradox is profound; while the conjunction itself takes place in the cardinal waters of Cancer, this figure stands upon a promontory of fire, binding the ascending force of the east to the depth of the north. In the angelic order, the Principality Hahasiah (51) and the Principality Imamiah (52) govern this second decan of Aries. Hahasiah holds the Psalm that sings, “The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever; the Lord shall rejoice in his works” (Psalm 104:31). Whilst Imamiah bears the verse, “I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness; and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high” (Psalm 7:17).
This northward root calls for the remembrance of a covenant of fire. A heritage of first light, of initiatory dawn, now being returned to the world through the vessel of the Mother. It speaks of collective readiness, the courage to stand upon the promontory and greet what is returning, the ability to recognise the familiar banners of a ship long awaited. This is the heritage being poured back into the common soil: a vision of what the beginning looks like when the foundation is already secure.
II. South – How Can This Inner Fecundation Manifest as a Collecive Work?
Major Arcanum IV – The Emperor
The Emperor stands in the south, facing the sun’s zenith. His path in the Tree of Life is the 28th, the current flowing from Yesod, the lunar-maternal ninth sphere presided by Archangel Gabriel, to Netzach, the seventh sphere, seat of Venus and Archangel Aniel. This is one of the planetary forces present in the conjunction, now anchored in the axis from root to crown. The astrological force of Aries emerges again, the pure cardinal fire, the sovereign motion that establishes order without hesitation. In this way, the reading repeats its fire-water polarity, conducting the flame of initiative to the womb of reception.
The Hebrew letter attributed to this path is Tzaddi, the hook. The Emperor casts this hook into the depths of the collective well, drawing from its waters the law and structure by which the body may stand upright. The hook is also a fisher’s implement, a reminder of the Apostolic image of the fishers of men, those who draw others into the net of Divine order. The Emperor’s rule is the architectural setting of a place in which life may grow without distortion.
This card speaks of the necessity to translate the invisible conception of the north into visible institutions, alliances, and forms. The Emperor manifests the fecundation as a body of work, a fortress, a pattern of governance that safeguards the tender growth of what has been conceived in the womb. It is a call to responsibility in the communal sphere, to the building of a vessel strong enough to carry the new wine without rupture. The conjunction of Venus and Jupiter lends to this figure a benevolent majesty, a rulership that expands through Grace and draws its power from the beauty of harmony.
III. West – What Alliance is Offered As Guardian of This New Spiritual Home?
Queen of Swords
In the west stands the Queen of Swords, sovereign in Briah of Air, ruling over the sylphs and sylphides amongst the mental realm. Her dominion stretches from the last decan of Virgo to the last decan of Libra, and her throne is firmly planted in the sphere of Binah, for all queens dwell there, but her particular crown is adorned with the balance of cardinal air in Libra. This is the house of the Other, the mirror in which the Self recognises its image.
The Queen of Swords is the mother of discernment, the one who cuts away falsehood even when it is woven into the familiar fabric. She keeps the gate between Word and silence, ensuring that only what is aligned with truth may enter the garden. Her alliance is given through fidelity to form. She mirrors the ascending fire of Aries in the ascendant by holding the descending measure of Libra in the west, balancing the chart’s axis in a perfect counterpoise.
For the collective, she represents the guardian relationship that can keep the new home from being invaded by distortion or illusion. She brings the alliance of those who are willing to speak truth without compromise, who can wield the sword of mind with precision and compassion. This is the figure that will stand beside the Emperor, ensuring that the structures built are not corrupted by deceit, and that the heritage received in the north remains untarnished in its transmission to the future.
IV. East – What Posture Must the Collective Embody to Sustain This Abundance of the Womb?
Major Arcanum I – The Magician
The Magician rises in the east, the place of dawn and emergence, ruling the 12th path. This connects Kether, the Crown, to Binah, the Understanding, in a direct descent of supernal light into the maternal sphere. It is the third time that Binah appears in the reading, making her presence as the Mother inescapable; she is the spine of the entire Work, the pillar through which the Divine pattern takes flesh. Binah’s archangel is Cassiel and, under his silent authority, the Magician draws down the unformed power of the Crown into the structured matrix of the Mother.
The Magician has long been tied to the Logos, the Christ-Magus and, in other tongues, to Hermes-Thoth, the psychopomp who moves between worlds with perfect measure. It affirms that the Work above and the Work below are not two, but one mirrored in another, with the Magician as the axis. This path bears the letter Beth, the House, which in the Sacred tongue is the primordial vessel where the Divine Wisdom takes form. Beth is the womb and the temple, the space prepared so that the Word may be received and sheltered.
This card calls for the embodiment of a posture that combines contemplation and action, that draws upon the infinite without severing the bond to the finite. It is an invitation to become vessels in which the Heavenly fire can dwell without consuming, to be mouths through which the Word is spoken without distortion. As the Magician, the body becomes the altar, the mind becomes the temple, and the will becomes the prayer. This is the stance that will sustain the abundance of the womb through the cycles that follow, preventing the loss of the seed to the winds of forgetfulness.
Coda – A Contemplative Meditation
The scent of myrrh now hangs in the air, a reminder of the burial spices and the bridal perfumes alike. The Moon is waning, carrying away what is complete, leaving only what must root itself deeply. The week of the Dormition draws the heart to the mystery of the Mother’s passage into the fullness of her Son’s realm, the invisible household where Saint Joseph stands in quiet guardianship.
The collective body stands now before a choice: to receive what the Mother returns, to shape it into a work that endures, to guard it with truth, and to embody it with grace. The conjunction of Venus and Jupiter in the womb of the zodiac has offered a moment of rare fertility; its fruits will be known in the seasons to come.
Let the meditation close with the words of the Psalmist, taken from the verses of the north’s angels:
The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever; the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
Gloria Domini in aeternum; laetabitur Dominus in operibus suis.
I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness; and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.
Confitebor Domino secundum iustitiam eius et psallam nomini Domini altissimi.
Fiat Lux.