Someone on an FB group asked today about the interpretation of Aeon, and I thought I would post my answer here as well:
"It is first necessary to understand that Aeon has been revisioned by Crowley to fit the New Aeon metaphors. In the Old Aeon of Osiris, the Airy nature of the time denoted a Judgment—so the Last Judgment, the point at which, Crowley says, the world was to be destroyed (transformed) by Fire. [which Crowley notes occurred in April, 1904, with the reception of Liber AL] Now we have a Fire god or metaphor, Horus, in charge. This has changed the orientation of the card, from one incorporating Fire as a kind of measurement of value (so we can judge something), to one expressing Fire as a birthright and a sign of authority. Crowley says the main idea, in reading it, is that it is a definite demarcation between the past and the future—so an act or an attitude where you can say "everything changed here to the new way". You might think of it as setting fire to old rule books, that are burned to ashes. Now new ones must be written. Some elements of the old remain in memory, to guide certain ideas. But the authority is changed to a new element. The rules change too."
With that in mind, I consecrate 2009 to Hadit, the Thelemic Apocalypse, the changing of the guardians and the rules, and the writing of the Thoth Tarot commentary. May the latter enlighten us about the new rules.
Hail Hadit!
