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Male
Female
Asexual
Androgyne
Hermaphrodite
Gay
Bisexual
Transgender
Transexual
Magic, back in the day when the Tarot cards were first blended with magical theory, had a rather simple view of gender. It had yin/yang, male/female, positive/negative, black/white, active/passive. Basically they are polar opposites, each attribute associated with planetary influences, masculine & feminine deities, construction and destruction. This was the world view at the time - you were either male or female, and androgynes and hermaphrodites were not known well enough or understood well enough to be taken into consideration. Cross-dressers and transexuals were relatively common, and to an extent even gender reassignment in the form of castrated men living as women. They were not really seen as being 'magically important', although there were androgynous & hermaphroditic magical constructs, like Baphomet, used in various types of magic.
I usually refer to The Fool as 'he' because most of the artwork used is vaguely masculine. In reality, The Fool is androgynous or asexual. 'It' lacks the experience, self-awareness and self-knowledge to know what 'it' is yet. The Fool has even less awareness of its sexuality than an infant because The Fool doesn't even bother to mess with what's between its legs. The Fool doesn't even have the ability to project itself onto the people it meets to know who it finds attractive or interesting. It begins life as asexual, not having tried enough to know that it doesn't like sexual relationships in any form, and because of this blank-slatedness, it appears to other people as androgynous, too innocent and vague to be attractive in and of itself.
The Magician is a self-aware man, but his sexuality is less based on societal roles for a man and more based on innate nature. The Magician is the pure essence of testosterone. He creates because he is driven to create, like a stag or a stallion is driven to sire offspring. Pan is behind it all, pushing him onward and forward, phallus erect, palms outward, that pure spring of masculine force flowing from him. He has drawn down the Sun into himself and fertilizes all that he touches. Sprouts spring from seeds, wombs fill, cities leap to the skies, planets appear from dust.
The Magician is not a mature man. He is more like a boy who has just hit puberty, 'young, dumb & full of cum'. He is the energy within us that drives us to change things for the sake of change. People who seem to thrive on chaos and drama are embodying the mindless active principle of The Magician. Change means growth and new life, even if it destroys and old, stable life. Without The Magician's powers things do stagnate and fall apart on their own, but that hectic activity hastens the process.
It is not until The Magician grows into The Emperor that the creative forces are harnessed into constructive action. The Emperor still creates, but at a slower and more nurturing pace. He has feminine forces in The Empress to temper his abandon and his Panic lust. The Magician discovers and invades new territory but The Emperor makes sure the border fortresses become empires. The Magician creates children, but the Emperor fathers them.
Female
Asexual
Androgyne
Hermaphrodite
Gay
Bisexual
Transgender
Transexual
Magic, back in the day when the Tarot cards were first blended with magical theory, had a rather simple view of gender. It had yin/yang, male/female, positive/negative, black/white, active/passive. Basically they are polar opposites, each attribute associated with planetary influences, masculine & feminine deities, construction and destruction. This was the world view at the time - you were either male or female, and androgynes and hermaphrodites were not known well enough or understood well enough to be taken into consideration. Cross-dressers and transexuals were relatively common, and to an extent even gender reassignment in the form of castrated men living as women. They were not really seen as being 'magically important', although there were androgynous & hermaphroditic magical constructs, like Baphomet, used in various types of magic.
I usually refer to The Fool as 'he' because most of the artwork used is vaguely masculine. In reality, The Fool is androgynous or asexual. 'It' lacks the experience, self-awareness and self-knowledge to know what 'it' is yet. The Fool has even less awareness of its sexuality than an infant because The Fool doesn't even bother to mess with what's between its legs. The Fool doesn't even have the ability to project itself onto the people it meets to know who it finds attractive or interesting. It begins life as asexual, not having tried enough to know that it doesn't like sexual relationships in any form, and because of this blank-slatedness, it appears to other people as androgynous, too innocent and vague to be attractive in and of itself.
The Magician is a self-aware man, but his sexuality is less based on societal roles for a man and more based on innate nature. The Magician is the pure essence of testosterone. He creates because he is driven to create, like a stag or a stallion is driven to sire offspring. Pan is behind it all, pushing him onward and forward, phallus erect, palms outward, that pure spring of masculine force flowing from him. He has drawn down the Sun into himself and fertilizes all that he touches. Sprouts spring from seeds, wombs fill, cities leap to the skies, planets appear from dust.
The Magician is not a mature man. He is more like a boy who has just hit puberty, 'young, dumb & full of cum'. He is the energy within us that drives us to change things for the sake of change. People who seem to thrive on chaos and drama are embodying the mindless active principle of The Magician. Change means growth and new life, even if it destroys and old, stable life. Without The Magician's powers things do stagnate and fall apart on their own, but that hectic activity hastens the process.
It is not until The Magician grows into The Emperor that the creative forces are harnessed into constructive action. The Emperor still creates, but at a slower and more nurturing pace. He has feminine forces in The Empress to temper his abandon and his Panic lust. The Magician discovers and invades new territory but The Emperor makes sure the border fortresses become empires. The Magician creates children, but the Emperor fathers them.
