Reference · Hermetic Qabalah

Tree of Life - Tarot

The Rider-Waite Tarot laid upon the Tree as the Golden Dawn and Liber 777 attribute it: the twenty-two trumps on the paths, the numbered cards of the four suits on the ten Sephiroth. Select any card, sphere or path for its correspondences from Liber 777: names and angels, the four scales of colour, gods, animals, plants, stones, weapons, perfumes and powers. Any card opens its full page from the Tarot guide on top of the Tree, so the reference stays close at hand.

Images: Rider-Waite Tarot. Thoth Tarot images are not reproduced because they are not in the public domain. Thoth Tarot Comparison →

Sephirah, with its four numbered cardsPathTrump on its path

The thirty-two paths

The full table of the Sephiroth and paths: letter, attribution, Tarot, King scale and the spheres each path joins
KeyNameLetterAttributionTarotKing scaleJoins
Opening the card

Attributions follow Liber 777 (1909), the public-domain table of correspondences, and the Golden Dawn papers behind it: the Sepher Yetzirah letter scheme, the four scales of colour, the trumps on the paths and the numbered cards on the Sephiroth, with the court cards on Chokmah, Binah, Tiphareth and Malkuth. Only the columns of the 1909 edition are used; the additions of the 1955 revision are left out. Court cards are named as the Waite deck prints them; Book T calls the Waite Knight the King, the Waite King the Prince and the Page the Princess. The trumps are numbered as the Waite deck numbers them, with the Golden Dawn numbering noted where the two differ. Liber AL's exchange of Tzaddi and Hé is noted on those paths. Card images are the 1909 Rider deck, in the public domain.