XXI - The Universe

Titles: The Great One of the Night of Time; The World
Hebrew letter: ת (Tav = cross = 400) [Double Letter = Planetary Trump]
Element: Earth
Astrology: Saturn ♄ (rules Capricorn/Aquarius, exalts in Libra; detriment in Cancer, fall in Aries)
Path on the Tree of Life: 32nd Path (Yesod ↔ Malkuth; 9 ↔ 10)

Symbols/Colours:

in the card itself there is consequently a glyph of the completion of the Great Work in its highest sense, exactly as the Atu of the Fool symbolizes its beginning;
in the present card she is represented as a dancing figure;
in her hands she manipulates the radiant spiral force, the active and passive, each possessing its dual polarity;
her dancing partner is shown as Heru-Ra-Ha of Atu XIX;
in the corners of the card are the four Kerubim showing the established Universe; and about her is an ellipse composed of seventy-two circles for the quinaries of the Zodiac, the Shemhamphorasch;
in the centre of the lower part of the card is represented the skeleton plan of the building of the house of Matter; it shews the ninety-two known chemical elements, arranged according to their rank in the hierarchy;
in the centre, a wheel of Light initiates the form of the Tree of Life, shewing the ten principal bodies of the solar system;
all these symbols swim and dance in a complex but continuous ambience of loops and whorls;
the general colour of the traditional card is sub fusc; it represents the confusion and darkness of the material world;
Earth is no longer black, or of mixed colours, but is pure bright green;
the indigo of Saturn is derived from the blue velvet of the midnight sky, and the maiden of the dance represents the issue from this, yet through this, to the Eternal.