All the letters
צ

Tzaddi

When it is flowing

You can draw insight up out of stillness. In quiet, you fish thoughts and visions up from somewhere deep, and you often surface with something original, something a little ahead of its time. You see how things could be for everyone, and you can wait patiently until the catch comes.

When it is strained

You cast the line and nothing comes, or you get so lost in the vision that you never bring it back to shore. You can drift so far into ideals that you lose touch with the people right in front of you, or wait for insight so passively that life slips by unlived. The line keeps coming up empty.

The details

Letter
צTzaddi
Category
Simple
Letter picture
The Fish Hook · meditation
Planet / element
Aquarius ♒
Card
Star (XVII)
Path
Netzach ↔ Yesod

This system, and the Golden Dawn

Sefer Yetzirah (this system)

Aquarius ♒ · Star (XVII)

Golden Dawn

Aquarius ♒ ✓ · Star (XVII)

The two systems agree on this letter.

Across the three spheres

UniverseYearSoul
Aquarius ♒In preparationIn preparation

The Year and Soul columns are being rebuilt from Hayman §§39, 41, 52 and will fill in as that reading is verified.

Sources: Peter Hayman, Sefer Yesira (Mohr Siebeck, 2004). Aryeh Kaplan; Saadia Gaon commentary.