The Sinister Tarot

This text containts archetypes in the Major Arcana of the Sinister Tarot for Meditation along the Pathways of the Tree of Wyrd, and is laid out in a schematic way to enable selfstudy where the prime objective is selfdevelopment for the individual reader.

View the image of the Septenary Tree of Wyrd below, and use it together with the septenary schemeatic list to gain insight on the Sinister Tarot. This should help you to grasp the idea of the septenary way.

No.	Dark Gods	Pathways	Atu Cards
1	Noctulius	From Moon to Mercury	Atu XV (Deofel)
2	Nythra	From Moon to Venus	Atu XIII (Death)
3	Shugara	From Moon to Mars	Atu XVIII (Moon)[1]
4	Satanas	From Moon to Sun	Atu VII (Azoth)
5	Aosoth	From Moon to Jupiter	Atu XIV (Hel)
6	Azanigin	From Moon to Saturn[2]	Atu X (Wyrd)
7	Nekalah	From Mercury to Venus	Atu VIII (Change)
8	Ga Wath Am	From Mercury to Sun	Atu 0 (Physis)
9	Binan Ath	From Mercury to Mars	Atu I (Magickian)
10	Lidagon	From Mercury to Jupiter [3]	Atu XI (Desire)
11	Abatu	From Mercury to Saturn	Atu XVI (War)
12	Karu Samsu	From Venus to Sun	Atu VI (Lovers)
13	Nemicu	From Venus to Mars [4]	Atu XVII (Star)
14	Mactoron	From Venus to Jupiter	Atu II (High Priestess)
15	Velpecula	From Venus to Saturn	Atu XIX (Sun)
16	Kthunae	From Sun to Mars	Atu IV (Lord of Earth)
17	Atazoth	From Sun to Jupiter	Atu V (Master)
18	Vindex	From Sun to Saturn	Atu XII (Opfer)
19	Davcina	From Mars to Jupiter	Atu III (Mistress of Earth)
20	Sauroctonos	From Mars to Saturn	Atu IX (Hermit)
21	Naos	From Jupiter to Saturn	Atu XX (Aeon)

In the Tree of Wyrd there are only twenty-one pathways and twenty-one Sinister Tarot images, the Major Arcana (0 – XX). Thus, each Dark God together with its linked Atu Card represents a pathway on the Tree of Wyrd, and does not leave anything unconnected as found in the Qabala Tree of Life. It is simpler really and more practical that the Qabala Tree of Life, as essentially the Tree of Wyrd is to be used as a “gateway” to our consciousness. Whereas the Qabala Tree of Life does NOT act as a gateway in the same sense, since it does not help gain insight to the personal psyche adequately.

Caelethi, The Black Book of Satan II contains the symbols for each of the Dark Gods, and these are also recommended to use during the meditations.