Excerpt from Rabbi's Tarot

THE HIEROPHANT

VAV, spelled in Hebrew VV, means NAIL. It is the sixth Hebrew letter and the second SIMPLE LETTER. It stands for the faculty of HEARING, direction SOUTHEAST, for the TRIUMPHANT AND ETERNAL INTELLIGENCE, Zodiacal sign TAURUS, the Bull. The color is RED-orange, note C-SHARP, and the numerical value is 6. In Roman characters it is V.

The letter, which is written VAU in English, is pronounced VAV in Hebrew. When it is intoned it is pronounced WAW. It is intoned constantly because it occurs in the Hebrew word Jehovah, which is spelled YOD HEH VAV HEH, and when it is intoned it is spelled YOD HEH WAW HEH. This is the name of the Hebrew God JAWGET. You note at once that the HEH occurs twice. The Double "H" in the letter name HEH means the inductive reasoning of the subconscious.

In us there is both the self-conscious of God and the subconscious of God, or Nature. In the word YOD HEH VAV HEH you see at once that the VAV connects the two words that stand for Reason (HEH). The VAV connects the two HEH's. YOD stands for the Spirit, or Will. When the Will goes out into manifestation it divides itself into the self-conscious Reason, or will, and the Substance, which is subconscious, or Deductive Reasoning. The link between this Reason or Will is VAV, or the Higher Self.

The esoteric meaning of the letter VAV is very confusing because its application depends on the letters that are in between it. It stands for any link or anything that connects to other things. Sometimes it designates the Higher Self because the Higher Self is the link between the Spirit and the Personality. Sometimes it stands for the self-conscious, as in RVCh (Rauch), which means Life Breath. "R" (the sun) and "Ch" (the Moon) in us are united by the self-conscious. Sometimes it stands for the body. The body is our link with the Higher Self. It communicates with us through the body.

The two meanings this card particularly calls attention to are the Higher Self and the body. The Higher Self is the link of the human with his Spirit, and the body is the link between the Higher Self and the self-conscious.

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