Banner

What this is

A banner raised on its staff, flying, set at the head of the twenty-eighth folio. It is the emblem of victory proclaimed, of the standard under which people gather, and of triumph made visible. Its verses speak of success won, of leadership, and of the cause carried to its height.

What it governs

Presides over victory, triumph, leadership, and the cause proclaimed. Folio 28. It rules the standard raised over a winning field and the rallying of others to it.

Its properties

Its colour is bright crimson and gold; its number twenty-eight; its form the flag that declares whose ground this is. The quality is triumph, the courage to raise a standard and the leadership that draws others under it. In shadow it is conquest for its own sake, the banner raised over a hollow victory, pride that flies the flag and forgets the cause.

Where else it appears

The same note is the banner of the resurrection carried by the conquering figure in the old paintings; the standard the legions followed and would die to keep; the colours raised on the won field; the rallying-flag every cause lifts to gather its own. One banner, many standards declaring the same victory.

Where you meet it on the Oracle

It surfaces as the Folio of the Day and as a closing folio, and it is the natural folio for questions of fame, of being remembered, and of victory in a contest. When it heads your day, raise your standard and lead; the day rewards the bold and the openly committed. In a reading it answers questions of triumph with yes and counsels you to make sure the cause you fly is worth the field.

Why it matters

It stands twenty-eighth because victory wants to be seen and a cause wants a standard, and the Banner is the oracle's emblem of triumph proclaimed. It asks you to raise your colours for something worth the raising.

Correspondences

planet

Mars, Sun

element

Fire

zodiac

Aries

number

28

sephirah

Geburah

day

Tuesday

colour

Crimson, gold

metal

Iron

tarot

Judgement