General Meaning

Traditionally, The Magician is one who can demonstrate hands-on magic -- as in

healing, transformative rituals, alchemical transmutations, charging of talismans,
and the like. A modern Magician is any person who completes the circuit between
heaven and Earth; one who seeks to bring forth the divine gold within her or
himself.

At the birth of Tarot, even a gifted healer who was not an ordained clergyman was
considered to be in league with The Devil! For obvious reasons, the line between
fooling the eye with sleight of hand and charging the world with magical will, was
not clearly differentiated in the early Tarot cards.

Waite's image of The Magician as the solitary ritualist communing with the spirits
of the elements -- with its formal arrangement of symbols -- is a token of the
freedom we have in modern times to declare our spiritual politics without fear of
reprisal. The older cards were never so explicit about what The Magician was doing.
It's best to keep your imagination open with this card. Visualize yourself
manifesting something unique, guided by evolutionary forces that emerge
spontaneously from within your soul.
In the Reversed Position

The Magician card reversed suggests you may be working against your own creativity.
Perhaps you feel that your ideas are too scandalous or too precedent breaking.
Perhaps you feel it should be someone else who communicates these insights or
challenges. Perhaps you are uncomfortable with taking a leadership position, even a
temporary one.

Ask yourself what you have to lose. Have the courage of your convictions and speak
your truth.
In the Advice Positon

Have faith in your innate creativity. The Magician advises you give your
questioning nature and free-associating mind plenty of room to explore the subject
at hand. Behave just as if you were an open-minded and curious scientist. Through
this process, you may bring freshness and clarity into the situation that is both
stimulating and catalytic.

You do not have to understand it all intellectually. Besides, intuition is your ace
in the hole. Respond in a spontaneous manner to what is right in front of you.
There is no reason to hold yourself back. Your natural urges are exactly what is
needed, and, your ingenuous timing and elegant style will help smooth over any
awkwardness.

A powerful message is waiting for you! Get your Reconciliation Tarot Reading NOW...
The Magician card in all deck