XI - Lust

Titles: The Daughter of the Flaming Sword; Strength
Hebrew letter: ט (Tet = serpent = 9) [Single Letter = Zodiacal Trump]
Element: Fire
Astrology: Leo ♌ - Fixed Fire - The lion (ruler: Sun, exaltation: Neptune; detriment: Uranus, fall: -)
Time: 23 July - 22 August
Path on the Tree of Life: 19th Path (Chesed ↔ Geburah; 4 ↔ 5)

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[this Trump] represents the act of the original marriage as it occurs in nature, as opposed to the more artificial form portrayed in Atu VI; there is in this card no attempt to direct the course of the operation;
in this card, therefore, appears the legend of the woman and the lion, or rather lion-serpent;
she rides astride the Beast; in her left hand she holds the reins, representing the passion which unites them; in her right she holds aloft the cup, the Holy Grail aflame with love and death; in this cup are mingled the elements of the sacrament of the Aeon;
there is in this card a divine drunkenness or ecstasy; the woman is shown as more than a little drunk, and more than a little mad; and the lion also is aflame with lust; this signifies that the type of energy described is of the primitive, creative order; it is completely independent of the criticism of reason;
this card portrays the will of the Aeon;
in the background are the bloodless images of the saints, on whom this image travels, for their whole life has been absorbed into the Holy Grail;
behind the figures of the Beast and his Bride are ten luminous rayed circles; they are the Sephiroth latent and not yet in order, for every new Aeon demands a new system of classification of the Universe;
at the top of the card is shown an emblem of the new light, with ten horns of the Beast, which are serpents, sent forth in every direction to destroy and re-create the world.