Fate & Divination — 83 entries | Encyclopedia of Mystery

Tarot · Major Arcana

The Fool

Beginnings, Innocence, Spontaneity

The card of new beginnings, innocence, and taking a leap of faith into the unknown with an open heart.

What it meansWaite's Fool is not a simpleton. He is a spirit entering the world rather than failing in it — a traveller from elsewhere, numbered zero because he precedes the sequence instead of starting it. The precipice is the descent into matter, and the step is taken deliberately.

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Symbol · Esoteric Symbols · 1792

Awen

The Three Rays of Light

A druidic emblem of three converging rays, signifying divine inspiration and the balance of opposing energies.

What it meansThree rays for the three shouts of the divine name, and the light falling between them as inspiration that arrives rather than being produced. The modern druid tradition reads the outer rays as the poles and the centre as their reconciliation — a balance drawn as illumination.

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Symbol · Northern European Folk

Dara Knot

Roots of the Oak Tree

Strength that is all underground: what holds through a storm is the part no one ever sees.

What it meansThe whole figure is root, and that is the argument: an oak stands through a storm because of a structure nobody has ever looked at. Strength here is defined as the part that is not on display, and the emblem shows only what is normally underground.

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