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Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France
Versailles and the Jack of Clubs
[Reprinted in English on July 25, 2024, with permission from Guilhem Morera of www.astrocartomancie.com]
Versailles and the Jack of Clubs
On the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, a painting by the painter Charles Le Brun depicts the Sun King in the center, the Greek gods in the sky (the personification of the 7 planets), and at the bottom naked children busy with different activities. In the center, at the foot of the King, 2 of them are playing cards. They are holding white cards in their hands. On the floor we can see 2 cards: the Jack of Clubs and the 6 of Hearts.
In his latest book [Versailles, the Other Story. Volume 1, The Secret Science of the Sun] on the sacred geometry of the Palace of Versailles published by Epistemea, Howard Crowhurst explains that the location of this castle was not chosen at random. Indeed, at this latitude, the axis on which the Sun rises on November 1st – which was once the beginning of the Celtic calendar – also called Samhain in the ancient pagan tradition: the day of the Druids (later to become the day of the dead) – corresponds on the other side, to the west, to the sunset of August 15th (the day on which the Virgin is celebrated). Thus, the King's Chamber was positioned facing the sunrise on November 1st, while to the west, the Hall of Mirrors is turned towards the sunset of August 15th.
Excerpt from Wikipedia: The Hall of Mirrors is a large Baroque-style gallery and one of the most iconic rooms in the Royal Palace of Versailles… The hall's 17 windows open towards the park. On the opposite interior wall of the room are 17 mirrors of equal size, composed of over 350 individual mirror surfaces.
The entire Palace of Versailles with its gardens and canals was built perpendicular to an East-West axis. On the same axis, at this latitude, the Sun rises in the East on November 1st and sets on the other side, in the West, on August 15th (imagine that on that day the Hall of Mirrors seems to catch fire with all the mirrors reflecting the setting sun on the horizon).
6 of Hearts and the Jack of Clubs
And all this makes sense if we know the story of King Louis XIII.
After 23 years of marriage, this king, known to be very pious, still had no heir. A priest then had a vision in which the Virgin appeared to him and showed him the royal child. In his vision, she told him that he had to do three novenas (3 series of 9 days of prayers) so that an heir would be conceived by the queen. All this was reported to the religious hierarchy, the vision was validated by the highest authorities of the Church, and the priest was presented to the King and Queen of France… who therefore charged him with these prayers. And the miracle happened. Exactly 9 months after the end of the prayers, the queen gave birth to a son, the future Louis XIV: the Sun King.
In gratitude, Louis XIII dedicated the kingdom of France to the Virgin and declared that August 15 (Virgin's Day) would henceforth be a public holiday.
He also undertook the construction of what would later become the Palace of Versailles.
So let's get back to the cards that can be seen on the floor of the painting in the Hall of Mirrors: the 6 of Hearts and the Jack of Clubs.
In Astro-cartomancy, the 6 of Hearts is the card corresponding to December 25: Christmas Day: the birth of Christ – Sol invictus, The Sun: The Sun King; as for the Jack of Clubs, it is the card of August 15: a Jack of Clubs of the astrological sign of Leo.
This becomes even more clear when we learn that under the reign of Louis XIV, the Jack of Clubs was represented with a Sun on his chest.
Here is the proof of the use of Astrocartomancy and the presence of the Order of the Magi in France in the 17th century. A very well-kept secret since we had to wait 200 years later, for the book by an American named Olney Richmond, published in 1893, for this knowledge to be revealed for the first time.
Thanks to Howard Crowhurst for uncovering the secret of the Palace of Versailles and the presence of these cards in this painting of the Hall of Mirrors!
Article link: https://www.astrocartomancie.com/versailles/
Guilhem Morera is the author of La Cartomancie des Anciens Mages, au Le Petit Livre des 7 Tonnerres (2012) and co-author with Howard Crowhurs of Le sens cache dujeu de 52 Cartes (2016).
