Step 10 of 12 · Spells, Songs and Runes
The Magician
Why this step
The Magician is will made visible. On this site the card’s figure is Odin on the high seat, gathering what is scattered across the nine worlds and deciding what it becomes. The reversed reading draws a line this trail keeps meeting: power can create or control, and the two look similar until someone else is in the room. The card is a modern reading, but it gives a way to ask what the poem’s speaker wants his songs for.