Princess of Disks
Earth of Earth
The Princess of the Echoing Hills; the Rose of the Palace of Earth
Rider-Waite: Page of Pentacles
Earth of Earth: the element on the brink of transformation, carrying the whole future.
| Formula | Earth of Earth: Princess is Earth, Disks are Earth |
|---|---|
| Mix | The element doubled, the pure type of the suit |
| Letters | Heh final of Heh final (the Name, YHVH) |
| Sephirah | Malkuth, sphere of the Princesses |
| Rules | The quadrant of the earth called Europe and Africa; the heavens around the North Pole above Aries, Taurus and Gemini; throne of the Ace of Disks |
| I Ching | Hexagram 52, Kên, Keeping Still (Mountain over Mountain) |
| Rider-Waite | Page of Pentacles |
In a reading
Generous, kind, diligent, benevolent, careful, pregnant with every possibility; the one on the verge of transformation. Badly placed: wasteful, prodigal, the possibility never delivered.
Working with the card
| As a person | A strong, generous, grounded figure who holds every possibility in reserve. |
|---|---|
| As a situation | The end of a cycle that carries the seed of the next. |
| Advice | Stay with it; the result is nearly here. |
| Do | Trust what is gestating; protect it. |
| Bring | Generosity, diligence, presence in the body. |
| Beware | Wastefulness; losing yourself in contradictions. |
| Ask | What is about to be born from all this? |
Correspondences
- Princess Heh final, Earth
- Disks Heh final, Earth
- Earth of Earth rank of suit
- Malkuth sphere of the Princesss
- Assiah the world of action
- The quadrant of the earth called Europe and Africa quadrant
- Ace of Disks throne of
- Hexagram 52 Kên, Keeping Still (Mountain over Mountain)
- Earth colour element
On the card
A pregnant young woman with ram's horns for a crest stands in a grove of bare trees, holding a diamond-tipped sceptre and a disk marked with the yin-yang; she is looking down at the disk with concentration.
Kabbalah and astrology
The final Heh of the final Heh: Earth of Earth, the last card of the descent and the point where the cycle turns back to the Ace of Wands. She is the throne of the Ace of Disks and rules the quadrant of the earth called Europe and Africa. Crowley's hexagram, 52, the doubled mountain, is stillness, and he calls her the card of the Great Work about to be accomplished.
The Princesses rule no decans. Each holds the throne of her suit's Ace and governs one quadrant of the earth, counted from the meridian of the Great Pyramid, and the corresponding quadrant of the heavens around the North Pole.
I Ching
Crowley builds each court's hexagram from two trigrams, the suit below and the rank above: Disks give Mountain, Princesss give Mountain. The result is hexagram 52, Kên, Keeping Still (Mountain over Mountain). See I Ching and the courts.
Depth psychology
Sensation embodied absolutely: the fact itself, carrying the seed of the next thing. As an inner figure, the anima as the earth that will bear. The four ranks are often read as the four ways the suit's function can be lived: the Knight extraverted and initiating, the Queen introverted and sustaining, the Prince as its intellectual form, the Princess as its embodied form.
Thoth and Rider-Waite
This card corresponds to the Rider-Waite Page of Pentacles. Crowley renamed the ranks to follow the letters of the Name: Knight (Yod), Queen (Heh), Prince (Vau), Princess (final Heh), so that the Thoth Knight is the Waite King and the Thoth Prince the Waite Knight. The figures' mounts follow the Golden Dawn: Knights on horses, Queens on thrones, Princes in chariots, Princesses on foot.
Related cards
Throne of
The other Princesss
- יPrincess of Wands Earth of FireEarth of Fire
- הPrincess of Cups Earth of WaterEarth of Water
- וPrincess of Swords Earth of AirEarth of Air
The court of Disks
Correspondences follow the Golden Dawn system as used in Crowley's Book of Thoth and Liber 777. Paintings by Lady Frieda Harris, © Ordo Templi Orientis. Where sources differ.