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There are many ways you can place the Tarot Trumps on the Tree of Life. Gray came out with a non-conventional way that makes much more sense than some of the traditional ways (e.g., the Golden Dawn). Mainly what he does is sort the Major Arcana by homogeneous ideas. Look it over and see if this arrangement resonates with you!

Cosmic Phenomena:

• on the central Pillar
• using the distance from the Earth outwards
• Moon – Malkuth to Yesod
• Sun – Yesod to Tiphareth
• Star – Tiphareth to Kether

External Rulers:

• temporality and religion
• Emperor – Chesed to Chokmah
• Emperess – Netzach to Chesed

Exoteric and Esoteric:

• the outer and inner Life
• Hierophant – Chokmah to Kether
• Hermit – Binah to Kether

Fatality:

• karmic laws dealing with compensation and balance
• how life deals with us
• in conjunction with the Cosmic Phenomena = the Space-Time Continuum
• Wheel of Fortune – Hod to Netzach
• Justice – Geburah to Chesed
• Judgment – Binah to Chokmah

Alteration:

• dealing with change
• Death – Binah to Geburah
• Devil – Hod to Geburah

Compensation:

• dealing with balance
• The Hanged Man – Tiphareth to Binah
• Temperance – Tiphareth to Chokmah

Energy:

• the uses of force
• Strength – Tiphareth to Chesed
• The Blasted Tower – Tiphareth to Geburah

Movement:

• nothing is static
• moving through Life
• moving in Life through the generations
• The Chariot – Hod to Tiphareth
• The Lovers – Netzach to Tiphareth

Inspiration:

• inspiring inner and outer action
• The Magician – Yesod to Hod
• The High Priestess – Yesod to Netzach

Who? What?:

• ideas of people and places
• The Fool – people
• The World – places

William G. Gray (1913-1992) was a British occultist, the founder of the magical order the Sangreal Sodality and author of many books. He wrote extensively on the topics of ritual magic, Hermetic Qabalah, the nature of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. His focus was on the mystical unification of humanity with divinity. For Gray, the purpose of developing contact with higher beings is the joint pursuit of the good and the avoidance of evil in the world and in oneself. In many of his works he places a high value on the use of magic for personal development towards these ends.

His major contribution to the Western mystery tradition and the occult was the development of “The Rite of Light,” also called the Sangreal Sacrament. This was regarded by many, including Israel Regardie,as having given ritual expression to the innermost mysteries of the esoteric orders in a way that did not limit itself to any given religious orientation.

Just before his death he asked author Alan Richardson to write his biography. For this reason leaders of the Sangreal Sodality call Richardson Gray’s “official biographer”. The book, “The Old Sod – The Odd Life & Inner Work of William G. Gray,” by Alan Richardson & Marcus Claridge was published by Ignotus Press in 2003.

Bibliography

• “Lessons Learned from Occult Letters” (1949 [privately owned manuscript])
• “Ladder of Lights, or Qabalah Renovata” (1968/1981/2008 [Helios/Weisers/Sangreal Sodality Press])
• “The Office of the Holy Tree of Life” (1970/1986 [The Sangreal Foundation/Weisers] incorporated into “Sangreal Rituals and Ceremonies”])
• “Inner Traditions of Magic” (1970/1978 [Helios/Weisers])
• “Seasonal Occult Rituals” (1970/1986 [Helios/Weisers] [incorporated into "The Sangreal Rituals and Ceremonies")
• "Magical Ritual Methods" (1971 [Helios/Weisers])
• “Magical Images: Ten Beautiful Lithographs of the Magical Images Together With a Booklet On their Purpose and Use” (with Bruce C. Griffin) (1972/2005 {The Sangreal Foundation][privately republished Jacobus G. Swart])
• “Exorcising The Tree of Evil: How To Use The Symbolism Of The Qabalistic Tree of Life To Recognise And Reverse Negative Energy” (1974/1984/2002 [Helios/Weisers/Kima Global] [originally "The Tree of Evil"])
• “The Rollright Ritual” (1975/1990 [Helios/Llewellyns] [republished as "By Standing Stone and Elder Tree")
• "A Self Made by Magic" (1976/ [Weisers/Llewellyns])
• “The Rite of Light: A Mass of the Western Inner Mystery Tradition” (1976 [incorporated into "The Sangreal Sacrament"])
• “The Talking Tree” (1977/1991 [Weisers/Llewellyns][republished as "Growing the Tree Within"])
• “An Outlook on Our Inner Western Way” (1980/2008 [Weisers/Sangreal Sodality Press])
• “Western Inner Workings (Sangreal Sodality Series Volume I)” (1983 [Weiser])
• “The Sangreal Sacrament (Sangreal Sodality Series Volume II)” (1983 [Weisers])
• “Concepts of Qabalah (Sangreal Sodality Series Volume III)” (1984/1990 [Weisers][later republished as "Qabalistic Concepts"])
• “Sangreal Rituals and Ceremonies (Sangreal Sodality Series Volume IV)” (1986 [Weisers])
• “The Novena of the Tree of Life” (1987 [The Sangreal Press])
• “The Sangreal Tarot: A Magical Ritual System of Personal Evolution” (1988 [Weisers])
• “Temple Magic: Building the Personal Temple Gateway to Inner Worlds” (1988 [Llewellyns])
• “Between Good and Evil: Polarities of Power” (1989 [Llewellyns])
• “The Simplified Guide to the Holy Tree of Life” (1973/1989 [Labrys/The Sangreal Press])
• “By Standing Stone and Elder Tree: Ritual and the Unconscious”(1990 [Helios/Llewellyns][republication of "The Rollright Ritual"])
• “Evoking the Primal Goddess: Discovery of the Eternal Feminine Within” (1990 [Llewellyns])
• “Growing the Tree Within: Patterns of the Unconscious Revealed by the Qabbalah” (1991 [Weisers/Llewellyns] [republication of "The Talking Tree"])
• “Qabalistic Concepts: Living the Tree” (1984/1997 [Weisers] [republication of "Concepts of Qabalah"])
• “Condensation of Kabbalah” (eBook published by Jacobus G. Swart)
• “Language of the Gods” (eBook published by Jacobus G. Swart)

Source: Wikipedia