Tarot Arcanum 50: Affinity
Affinity as an efficient cause for the awakening of emotions. Symbolizes the human virtue of personal attractiveness.
Modulating Attribute: It is associated to the planet Mercury, the letter T, and the number 5. It represents the principle of natural incentive as a modulating power of actions.
Transcendental Axiom: “Woman, thou art an ember in the fire; and thou, man, the wind that livens it.”
Forecasting Element: As an element of prediction it promises illusions, passions, appetites, desires, love, hallucinations, recklessness, dangers that are ignored.
