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Essay: Horcruxes and King's Crosses
AUG 26, 2019-1 MIN
Essay: Horcruxes and King's Crosses
AUG 26, 2019-1 MIN
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Part I of <i>The Tarot Hallows</i> essays: <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Horcruxes and King’s Crosses<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the last ten Quantum Harry essays I’ve been writing about each of the seven
columns in the grid of Tarot Major Arcana cards numbered one to twenty-one, with
three rows and seven columns (see <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2018/12/episode-30-harry-and-tarot.html">Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 30: Harry and Tarot</a></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">) aligning with each
of the seven books of the <i>Harry Potter</i> series, as well as the seven sets
of sequential cards (1-3, 4-6, 7-9, etc.) also aligning with each of the seven
books, in order. The last essay will actually be four essays, as this is the
blog version of the final episode of <i>Quantum Harry, the Podcast</i>, which
is an extra-long installment. This will be the first of four essays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one aligned with <i>Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows,</i> has the Chariot (card #7) at the top, Temperance (card #14) in the
middle, and the World (card #21) at the bottom. In the first book of the series,
the Magician (#1) was the top column card and first sequential card. (See <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2019/01/episode-31-devil-you-know.html">Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 31: The Devil you Know</a></i></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">and <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2019/02/episode-32-mirror-and-stone.html">Episode 32: The Mirror and the Stone</a></i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">) In the fourth book of the series, the column
and sequential cards intersect at Force or Strength (card #11), forming a cross.
(See <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2019/05/episode-37-goblet-of-memory.html">Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 37: The Goblet of Memory</a></i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">) There is a final intersection: the sequential
cards for the seventh book, the last set of three in the cards numbered one to
twenty-one, are the Sun (card #19), Judgment (card #20), and the World (card #21).
All roads lead to the World card in this book, symbolizing wholeness, completion,
and <i>home</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Chariot card being the ruling card for this book sheds new light on the
seemingly-endless travel in <i>Deathly Hallows</i>: it shows a figure who might
be a prince, king or magician using a wand, not reins, to drive a chariot with
dark and light draft-animals, sometimes shown as a black sphinx and a white
one, but often as a red horse and a blue horse. In addition to representing the
opposing forces shaping Harry, making him Liminal (see <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2017/10/episode-8-have-you-tried-not-being.html">Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 8: Have You Tried Not Being Liminal?</a></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">), these horses
can stand for Hermione and Ron, Harry’s best friends, who are opposites in some
ways but learn to “pull together.” He could not make the journey without them,
and when Ron is away for a little while, Harry and Hermione are nearly killed at
Bathilda Bagshot’s house in Godric’s Hollow. Red also happens to be Ron’s
emblematic color and blue is Hermione’s, while Harry’s is green, like his eyes
and the Killing Curse that repeatedly fails to kill him. (See <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2017/09/episode-7-fountain-of-youth.html">Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 7: Fountain of Youth</a></i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
light and dark horses can also symbolize Harry’s journey to wholeness; he
cannot achieve this by ignoring his “dark side,” the Voldemort in him. He
carries a piece of his enemy; his understanding Voldemort helps him to succeed,
even as it sometimes frightens Ron and Hermione. The Chariot is another
archetype Harry embodies, a union of opposites, a Tarot version of the
archetype of the Liminal Being, as well as pointing to the extreme level of
travel in the seventh book. But in addition to symbolizing the archetypal
Liminal Being and travel, the Chariot may also be a link to the Horcruxes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The word “Horcrux”
was coined by JK Rowling, and could have multiple origins. In a paper presented
at Phoenix Rising in New Orleans in 2007 (“Of Horcruxes, Arithmancy, Etymology and Egyptology: A Literary
Detective’s Guide to Patterns and Paradigms in <i>Harry Potter</i>”),
Hilary K. Justice suggests that one possible etymology combines <i>hors,</i> a
French root meaning “out of” or “outside of” with <i>crux</i>, meaning “essence,” as in “the crux of the matter.” This gives
us an object holding part of one’s “essence” (or soul) “outside of” the body. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I engaged in some etymological digging of my own
and found that the <i>hor</i> part of “Horcrux” is close to the <i>hora</i>, a
circle dance in Israel and Romania, which may relate to <i>hor</i> also being the Latin root for <i>hour</i>, pointing to another circular
image: a clockface. <i>Crux</i> means
“cross” in Latin, and combining a circle and cross results in a simple wheel with
four spokes (like the logo for Quantum Harry.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This circle divided
into four quadrants has long been a symbol of the Earth, suggesting a compass
and the cardinal directions: north, south, east and west. It is the symbol used
for Earth by astronomers, including those at NASA, who prefer to say that the cross
represents the equator and a meridian. This is also the shape of an ancient
race game that evolved into Pachisi,
Parcheesi and Ludo<i>,</i> among
others (it is also the format for an early <i>Harry Potter</i> trivia game,
pictured above). All of these games share the goal of reaching the center of
the cross, a center often called <i>home</i>,
which relates again to the Chariot card because this card is linked to the
astrological sign of Cancer, which is focused on issues related to the <i>home</i>.
This symbol is also reminiscent of medieval labyrinths, like the cross-and-circle
design of the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, seen in the photo below. (See <i><a href="http://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2018/04/episode-18-wide-world.html">Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 18: The Wide World</a></i>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">)</span></span></span></div>
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out of the four alchemists recognized—Fire, Air, Water and Earth—linked to
Voldemort, since his birth-sign, Capricorn, is an Earth-sign. Earth is also the
element of the Devil archetype, which Voldemort embodies, and in turn,
Capricorn is the astrological sign linked to the Devil card in the Tarot Major Arcana,
which depicts a rather goat-like Devil. (Capricorn means <i>horned like a goat</i>.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
another combination of opposites, the circle with an embedded cross was also
called a Sun Cross, Solar Cross or Solar Wheel; it is linked to prehistoric
cultures, particularly the Neolithic to the Bronze Age periods in Europe. Thus,
a wheel with four spokes can also be linked to the Sun card and therefore to
death, resurrection, and the phoenix. Voldemort’s wand, until almost the end of
his life, contains a feather from a phoenix, and the purpose of his making Horcruxes
is to make him <i>like</i> a phoenix, one
who cannot die. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For a symbol that could mean “Horcrux”—a circle
with a cross—to be equated with the Sun also fits with the locket Horcrux being
a symbolic sun, like the golden ball in the Grimm fairy tale of the Frog King.
(See <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2018/11/episode-28-grimm-campaign.html">Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 28: The Grimm Campaign</a></i>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">) The locket happens to be the Horcrux aligning
with the fifth book, <i>Order of the Phoenix</i>, the one aligned with the
fifth column of Tarot Major Arcana cards, which has the Sun card at the bottom.
(See <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2019/06/episode-38-order-of-heretic.html">Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 38: The Order of the Heretic</a></i>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">) Finally, this symbol is also called a “Chariot
Wheel” because of the Sun god’s chariot linking heaven and earth in the myths
of many ancient cultures, connecting this both to the ruling column card for the
book, the Chariot, <i>and </i>its first
sequential card, the Sun. This is another reason that the Tarot archetype of
the Chariot is the equivalent of the mythic archetype of the Liminal Being, one
who crosses thresholds and is an <i>axis mundi,</i> a link between worlds.</span></span></span></span></div>
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etymologies for <i>Horcrux</i> may <i>both</i> be something Rowling intended: a
word meaning that a person’s essence is elsewhere, outside their body, and a
word combining <i>circle</i> and <i>cross</i>, pointing to the Earth, which
Voldemort hopes to rule over; the Chariot, a Tarot archetype embodied by both
Harry and Voldemort, as it is the Tarot equivalent of the Liminal Being; and the
Sun, which in turn is linked to the phoenix, once a source of Voldemort’s power,
and an entity he wishes to emulate by creating Horcruxes, so that, like the phoenix,
he will be impervious to death.</span></span></span></span></div>
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the Chariot (#7) is the Tower (#16, since 1 + 6 = 7). In <i>Deathly Hallows</i>,
the Lightning-Struck Tower, the title of the <i>Half-Blood Prince</i> chapter in
which Dumbledore dies, is least symbolic of all. Hogwarts is under attack; giants
are literally tearing down the walls. It is a cataclysm, a violent rupture in
the fabric of wizarding reality. However, we can see the Tower card as both
upright <i>and</i> inverted here, since Hermione
and Ron visit the Chamber of Secrets, the inverted Tower of the second book, to
retrieve basilisk fangs. (See <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2019/03/episode-33-inverted-tower-of-secrets.html">Quantum Harry, Episode 33: The Inverted Tower of Secrets</a></i>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">)</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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the seventh column of cards is Temperance (#14), which was also a sequence card
for the fifth book. The back-and-forth of the liquid between the vessels on
this card shows the mixing of water and wine; watering wine ‘tempers’ it, makes
it less potent, and wine makes water <i>more</i>
potent. It is another union of opposites, like the Chariot’s dark and light draft
animals, and, as such, it is also about balance. Voldemort, in contrast, would
eject all Muggleborns from the wizarding world, seeing no value in diversity.
He is clearly incomplete because he has repeatedly ripped his soul to make
Horcruxes, but also because he rejects both the Muggle part of himself and his link
to Harry; as a result, he can no longer send even misleading images to Harry’s mind,
as he did in <i>Order of the Phoenix</i>, because he recoiled in horror when he
was exposed to Harry’s prodigious power to love. This ability to bridge worlds
is the power Harry has that Voldemort does not, and is well summed-up by <i>love</i>.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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is again the Angel Temperance, an archetypal Crone, when she helps Harry cope
with Dobby’s death, as she helped him cope with Sirius’s death in <i>Order of
the Phoenix.</i> However, Harry also embodies the Angel Temperance in <i>Deathly
Hallows</i>; the ‘third eye’ on this card links to his “seeing” through his
enemy’s eyes, an ability he integrates into his skill-set. Harry’s being a Pope
or High Priest (card #5) is linked to Temperance as well (#14, since 1 + 4 = 5).
He has been a holy man ever since he was a bishop in the life-sized chess game;
here he transcends worlds by seeing through the eyes of the Other (Voldemort)
and by dying and returning to life, an intercessor for the entire wizarding
world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of life, instinctively summoning the shades of his parents, godfather and Remus
Lupin with the Resurrection Stone, presenting himself to die because it is
necessary to save his world, to protect those he loves <i>and</i> those he doesn’t. Harry-the-Hero does not just die for people
he loves; his love protects <i>everyone</i>.
Harry, High Priest, Liminal Charioteer and Angel Temperance, refuses to run, as
Aberforth suggests; the Master of Death transcends life <i>and </i>death and bestows his grace on all.</span></div>
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card aligned with the seventh book in the series is the Sun (card #19), symbolizing
another integration of opposites—life and death, since the Sun daily dies and is
reborn, linking this to the dying-and-reborn phoenix. Harry dies and is
resurrected in this book, but a doppelganger for him, Neville, also evokes the
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been the Prophecy Boy, and after Harry returns from death, he echoes Harry’s
actions in the second book by stating his faith in Dumbledore as Harry did, with
a cry of, “Dumbledore’s Army!” Instead of Fawkes bringing the Sorting Hat,
Voldemort summons the Hat, which he plans to destroy because he only wants
there to be Slytherins at Hogwarts in the future. He puts the Hat on Neville
and sets it on fire, a substitute for Fawkes, who was the symbolic fire of the
Holy Spirit on Harry’s head in the Chamber, evoking the story of Pentecost.
(See <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2018/01/episode-13-deus-ex-machina.html">Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 13: Deus ex Machina</a></i>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">) The Hat is described as looking like “a misshapen
bird,” again evoking Fawkes, a phoenix representing the Holy Spirit, instead of
a dove, another bird symbolizing the Holy Spirit, who appears when John the
Baptist baptizes Jesus. After this symbolic confirmation, Neville’s coming-of-age
ceremony, he breaks free of the curse binding him and slays Nagini, whose head
spins “high into the air”—imagery suggesting again a similarity to a ball, like
a Snitch, which all of the Horcruxes resemble in some way, large or small,
physically or symbolically. (See <i><a href="https://quantumharry.blogspot.com/2018/12/episode-29-horcrux-and-hallows-game.html">Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 29: The Horcrux and Hallows Game</a></i>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
cards linked to the Sun (#19) are the Magician (#1) and the Wheel (#10).
Throughout this book, the influence of the archetypal Magician, Dumbledore, is
keenly felt. His backstory’s extremes are given before the truth. First Rita
Skeeter gets her say in a vitriolic biography, then Elphias Doge gives his
version. The truth is worse than Doge’s hymn of praise and not as bad as Rita’s
smear job; Harry finally receives a complete picture of the man in whose
footsteps he has walked on the path to death from his brother, Aberforth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The archetypal Magician dogs Harry’s footsteps
from the beginning, when he reads excerpts from Rita’s biography, and he is
with Harry at the end, at King’s Cross, which was always where he crossed a
boundary between the “real” and numinous worlds. Now he finds himself on the
platform in a misty afterlife where he speaks to Dumbledore (who may or may not
be just in his head).</span></span></span></div>
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King’s Cross for Harry’s brief afterlife could be <i>another</i>
circle-and-cross reference. A sovereign’s orb in Latin is <i>globus cruciger,</i> part of the British Crown jewels. A globe symbolizes
the earth, a 3-D circle, and the orb is topped by a cross, another union of
circle and cross, on an orb that could be called <i>a King’s cross</i>. This is
an alternate earth sign to the circle with the cross inside it and both are used
as Earth symbols by astronomers.</span></span></span></div>
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King’s Cross may offer clues as to why Harry goes there after his death. Where
the King’s Cross-St. Pancras Station sits today may have been the site of a crossing
for the Fleet River in Roman times, outside the Roman settlement of Londinium.
In Christian lore, dying is often spoken of as “crossing the river” (Jordan).
This may also have been the site of a battle between Queen Boadicea and Roman
invaders; legend has it that she is buried beneath Platform Nine in the station—rather
close Nine and Three-Quarters.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">However,
the name “King’s Cross” didn’t arrive until the nineteenth century, when a
statue of King George IV was erected at the Battle Bridge crossroads. In
folklore, crossroads are places where the fabric of reality is “thinnest”,
where travelers may meet spirits and have paranormal experiences. It is a place
of liminality. In Greek myth, crossroads were associated with Hecate and
Hermes, both <i>psychopomps</i>, entities who accompanied spirits to the Realm
of the Dead. Food was left for Hecate at crossroads during the new moon; one of
her titles was “goddess of the crossroads,” and she was a goddess of witches
and magic as well. Combining this intersection of roads with the king’s statue
gave it the name <i>King’s Cross</i>, which persisted even after the statue was
pulled down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After he dies, when Harry is at King’s Cross
with Dumbledore, who seems to serve as his psychopomp, it is clear that this <i>is</i>
a crossroads for Harry; he can choose to “go on”—which ghosts like Nearly
Headless Nick never did, so Nick has no idea what comes next—or go back (not as
a ghost). This place has always been a threshold, inherently liminal, where
Hogwarts students leave the mundane world and enter the world of magic (even if
they are from magical families). Thus it is the perfect place for Harry to make
his choice. Once again, nothing is carved in stone for Harry; his choices make
him who he is, in life and in death, and Harry, the liminal charioteer, chooses
to return to the world to save it.</span></span></span></span></div>
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