THE PRINCESS OF THE ECHOING HILLS;
THE ROSE OF THE PALACE OF EARTH
The Princess of Disks – Princess & Empress of the Gnomes
Throne of the Ace of Disks
EARTH of EARTH
Meditation pattern: Place side-by-side Atus IV, The Emperor; V, The Hierophant; and VI,
The Lovers. Center the Princess of Disks above them. Optionally, place the Ace of Disks above
her.
Traditional Description: A strong and beautiful Amazon figure with rich brown hair, standing
on grass or flowers. A grove of trees near her. Her form suggests Hebe, Ceres, and Proserpine.
She bears a winged ram’s head as a crest, and wears a mantle of sheepskin. In one hand she
carries a scepter with a circular disk; in the other, a Disk similar to that of the Ace of Disks.
HEH-Final of HEH-Final (EARTH of EARTH): Here is the final fruition of the entire set
of Court Cards. She is the fulfillment of that initial impulse inaugurated by the Knight of Wands,
or Yod of Yod. She is that Will which is “done on earth, as it is in heaven,” the fertile, productive ripening
of all purpose, and the perfection of the alchemical Stone. “The Temple must be rightly
builded before the God indwells it.” The receiving point must be established before the current
begins to flow. It is through her perfection that the lightning-will of Yod flashes forth. It is she who
awakens the eld of the Old King. Like Nature, she is already pregnant – pregnant with possibility,
and pregnant with meaning.
She rules that quadrant of the heavens about the North Ecliptical Pole reaching from 0° Aries to
30° Gemini, centered on the Earthy Kerubic constellation Taurus, and is the Throne of the Ace of
Disks. Taurus represents that Power of the Sphinx called To Will, and corresponds to the Kerubic
attribute of Life. In her, Life and Will are one – that is, in the Princess of Disks, “life” means
nothing other than the fruition of True Will. It can, for her, have no other meaning. The Aries correspondence,
reflected in her traditional ram’s-head crest, represents that which is imperial; and
this Princess represents the actuality of imperial will – the only real governing power in the universe
– over a rightly-built Kingdom. She is not only Kallah the Bride, but also Malkah, the
Queen. She corresponds to the Natural Consciousness (Tzaddi) through which “is completed the nature
of all that exist beneath the sphere of the Sun.” This leaves only her relationship to Gemini, Atu
VI, The Lovers, Zain. The fulfillment of Heh-Final is in her wedding to her intended mate. That is, materiality
by itself is barren; matter and action must be united with an inner guiding Spirit to be consciously
living. Additionally, this Gemini symbol implies the Truth that, while the manifest Kingdom
appears to be what the Tao Teh Ching calls “the ten thousand things,” the healing realization of
this Princess is that the great diversity of things in Assiah does not detract at all from their essential
unity.
In divination, the character is generous, kind, benevolent, diligent, deliberate, careful, courageous,
persevering. Fulfillment of one’s potential (or of True Will). Pregnant with possibility
and meaning. If ill-dignified, she is wasteful and prodigal.