Description

The Magician
Emma Mount – England
Medium: Oil on wood panel (sides painted black)
Art Size: 16 x 20 inches

Rider–Waite
Waite’s magician features the infinity symbol over his head, symbolizing eternity

On the table before him are a wand, a pentacle, a sword, and a cup, representing the four suits of the Minor Arcana.[9]
Such symbols signify the classical elements of fire, earth, air, and water, “which lie like counters before the adept, and he adapts them as he wills”.[10]
The Magician’s right hand, pointed upwards, holds a double-ended white wand; the ends are interpreted much like the hand gestures, in that they represent the Magician’s status as conduit between the spiritual and the physical. His robe is similarly also white, a symbol of purity yet also of inexperience, while his red mantle is understood through the lens of red’s wildly polarised colour symbolism—both a representative of willpower and passion, and one of egotism, rage, and revenge