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EIGHT OF SWORDS, Lord of Shortened Force (Jupiter in Gemini).
This is Hod in Yetzirah, the influence of Hod in the Astral World. The
weakness of Jupiter (expansiveness), here in its detriment, allows the natural
dualities of Gemini to affect its positive energies. They are cut back or
shortened, by a desire to go first in one direction and then another. The
application of Jupiter force in this sign maybe erratic and unstable,or it maybe
intense and positive, though brief in duration. Crowley attempts to show this by
making all eight Swords different. Waite, on the other hand, illustrated the
effect of this condition of energies: shortened force, narrowness or restriction, a
prison