“I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.”

Card I : The Magician http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/sot/sot02.htm <br class="br">The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913) <br class="br">Context: I Saw the Man.<br>His figure reached from earth to heaven and was clad in a purple mantle. He stood deep in foliage and flowers and his head, on which was the head-band of an initiate, seemed to disappear mysteriously in infinity.<br>Before him on a cube-shaped altar were four symbols of magic — the sceptre, the cup, the sword and the pentacle.<br>His right hand pointed to heaven, his left to earth. Under his mantle he wore a white tunic girded with a serpent swallowing its tail.<br>His face was luminous and serene, and, when his eyes met mine, I felt that he saw most intimate recesses of my soul. I saw myself reflected in him as in a mirror and in his eyes I seemed to look upon myself.<br>And I heard a voice saying:<br>—&quot;Look, this is the Great Magician!