Prince of Disks

A naked prince with a bull's head crest rides a chariot drawn by a bull through a field of flowers and fruit, holding a globe in one hand and an orbed sceptre in the other.

The Vau of the final Heh: Air of Earth, mind applied to matter, the intelligence of the builder. He rules the last decan of Aries (the Four of Wands) and the first two of Taurus (the Five and Six of Disks). Crowley's hexagram, 53, Development, is the tree growing slowly on the mountain.

Rules Four of Wands (Aries III, Venus), Five of Disks (Taurus I, Mercury), Six of Disks (Taurus II, The Moon). The courts of the twelve arcs each take the last decan of one sign and the first two of the next, so that every court contains a hidden tension between two signs.

Crowley builds each court's hexagram from two trigrams, the suit below and the rank above: Disks give Mountain, Princes give Wind. The result is hexagram 53, Chien, Development (Wind over Mountain). See I Ching and the courts.

Sensation carried by thought: the practical intelligence that understands how things work. As an inner figure, the animus as maker. The four ranks are often read as the four ways the suit's function can be lived: the Knight extraverted and initiating, the Queen introverted and sustaining, the Prince as its intellectual form, the Princess as its embodied form.

This card corresponds to the Rider-Waite Knight of Pentacles. Crowley renamed the ranks to follow the letters of the Name: Knight (Yod), Queen (Heh), Prince (Vau), Princess (final Heh), so that the Thoth Knight is the Waite King and the Thoth Prince the Waite Knight. The figures' mounts follow the Golden Dawn: Knights on horses, Queens on thrones, Princes in chariots, Princesses on foot.