19

19th arcanum in the first block

Spheres that use this interpretation:Year arcana and vector

Interpretations are currently available in Russian only — a translation is in progress.

The first block of the year describes a person's task towards their country and their people — that is, towards a community larger than the family. Within it, the nineteenth arcanum is responsible for the structure of power: for how power is gathered, consolidated and held.

In practical reading this is the theme of large structures. The state, big organisations, monopolies, everything built on hierarchy and on scale. A person with this arcanum in the first block more often ends up where decisions are made not for themselves but for many — even if they never set out for anything of the kind.

The reverse side of the same theme is the temptation to decide for others and to measure success by size rather than by quality. The arcanum neither promises power nor obliges anyone to seek it; it says that the question of power has been posed in this life and that there is no walking past it.

Year arcana and vector

Year → two blocks → a pair of arcana and a vector

The year, read through the arcana, describes maturity: the task for the future, the attitude to one's own health, and the goal a person came for. What is examined here is the part of it that shows the drive — how strongly a person is pulled towards changing the state of things.

The year is split into two blocks of two digits each. The first — the beginning of the year: 19 or 20. The second — the last two digits; no reduction is performed, but if the result is greater than 22, 22 is subtracted from the number as many times as needed to arrive at an arcanum from 1 to 22.

The first block is responsible for the task towards the country and the people. The relation between the blocks sets the vector: the second greater than the first — the vector points up; the first greater than the second — down; equal — a point of balance, from which both directions are equally possible.