Hod

Work with Michael/Raphael for communication, learning, magical technique.

Tradition · Kabbalistic

Correspondences

Number: 8

Symbols and forms

Alternate Names: Glory

Nature and meaning

Translation: Splendor

Details

Position: Lower left
Pillar: Severity
Qualities: Primary
Intellect communication
Essence
Creative force as thought
Experience
Logic language magic
Spiritual state
Divine logos
Divine Names: God name
Elohim Tzabaoth
God name translation
God of Hosts
Archangel
Michael
Alternate archangel
Raphael
Angelic order
Beni Elohim
Angelic order translation
Sons of God
Correspondences: Planet
Mercury
Element
Water
Colors
Atziluth
Violet purple
Briah
Orange
Yetzirah
Red russet
Assiah
Yellow brown flecked white
Stones
Opal Fire Opal Agate
Incense
Storax Mastic
Body
Right hip leg
Chakra
Sacral Chakra
Tarot
Major arcana
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Minor arcana
Eight of Wands Eight of Cups Eight of Swords Eight of Pentacles
Paths Connected: To geburah
Path 23 mem hanged man
To tiphareth
Path 26 ayin devil
To netzach
Path 27 peh tower
To yesod
Path 30 resh sun
To malkuth
Path 31 shin judgment
Magical Image: Hermaphrodite
Virtue: Truthfulness
Vice: Falsehood dishonesty
Illusion: Order
Qliphoth: Samael
Qliphah: Samael
Qliphoth Translation: Poison of God (deceptive intellect)
Experience Description: The realm of thought, logic, communication, magic as technique. Where divine force becomes intellect. Language, mathematics, ritual structure. Hod is the objective analysis of reality—thinking rather than feeling. Also the sphere of magic as craft.
Practical Work: Meditation
Contemplate thought itself, the structure of language, the mechanics of magic
Invocation
Work with Michael/Raphael for communication, learning, magical technique
Warning
Hod without Netzach becomes sterile intellectualism, magic without soul
Resonance
Magicians scholars those working with systems
Related Concepts: MercuryHermesLogosMagic as techniqueIntellectCommunication
Deities Associated: Mercury Hermes Thoth Odin

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ℵ Gematria 7

Mem Correspondences
Ayin Correspondences
Peh Correspondences
Resh Correspondences
Shin Correspondences
Logos (λόγος) Correspondences
Ten Correspondences

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Eight Sephira

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