Meditation to Enter the Tenth Sephirah, Malkuth
This guided meditation on the magical image of Malkuth is part of the 2026 Tarot Pathworking on the Tree of Life series. You can use this stand-alone meditation for personal practice to connect more deeply with the magical image of Malkuth and the qualities it represents, such as grounding and to increase awareness of, and presence in, the physical world around you. We will use the magical images of the sephiroth to begin and end our pathworking process, and Malkuth will start the paths of Tav, Shin, and Qoph.
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Find a video recording of the meditation at the end of this post.
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Overview of the Meditation Into the Magical Image of Malkuth
This meditation can be done seated or lying down. Eyes are typically closed, but you can adjust as needed to get the most out of the experience. You might like to have an eye pillow or sleep mask for darkness, and a blanket or sweater to keep you warm.
This meditation uses your imagination to enter a scene and interact with the characters there. We will start in a familiar environment, in this case a favorite coffee shop, walk down the street to an art gallery, go into a large, circular gallery, and notice a series of statues. I’ll guide you to one of the statues, then we’ll explore it in more detail. As we connect more deeply with the statue, we’ll transfer to the location of the story it’s depicting. From there we can talk with the subject of the statue and explore the environment. Then we’ll thank the person we’re visiting, find ourselves back in the art gallery, and walk back to the coffee shop, at which point we’ll realize we’re back in the here and now, in your own chair in your own space.
Let’s begin.
Preparation
Come into a good meditation posture. If you are doing this meditation seated, sit toward the front of the chair with the spine straight, the chin tucked in slightly, and the feet flat on the floor. The feet can rest on a cushion if that’s more comfortable. Check in with your body and see if you need to make any adjustments for comfort. You’ll want to find a posture you can hold for the length of the meditation, which will be about twelve minutes.
Be aware of your body, how it feels, what’s supporting it, the space around you. Place your hands palm up in your lap, or by your side. Adjust as needed to be comfortable and allow for best meditation experience.
Turn your awareness now to your breathing. Watch how the breath flows in and out of the body. How your breath connects your body to the space around it. Allow the breath to soften and deepen until you’re breathing deep down into your belly.
The Cafe: Our Rendezvous Point
In your mind’s eye, imagine or remember a favorite coffee or tea shop, someplace that you always feel welcome and comfortable, but can also sit quietly undisturbed. Are you inside the cafe? At a sidewalk table? Outside on the back patio? What time of year is it? Do you smell anything? What do you hear? Imagine the scene as fully as you can. This cafe is our rendezvous spot and we’ll start and end the meditation here.
You’ve finished your drink and are looking around. You’ve been here many times and enjoy visiting the little shops up and down the lane. You always find just what you are looking for or the most serendipitous treasure. Making a decision, you get up and walk down the lane.
You pass several shops that you’ve seen before, but soon you come across something unfamiliar. It’s an arched wooden door mostly hidden by the ivy that covers this old stone building. You are excited to discover something new. Display windows, also draped in ivy, flank the door, and as you part the ivy and gaze in the window you realize it’s an art gallery. There’s no “open” sign on the door or in the window, but you’re interested enough to clasp the latch and try the door. It opens! You head inside.
You look around the entry room, a little gift shop full of curious trinkets and enticing gems. The person behind the register smiles and nods but doesn’t say anything. Directly across from the main door is wide archway into the next room. You walk ahead to see lies beyond.
The Gallery of Magical Images
Through the archway, you enter a surprisingly large rotunda. It’s astonishing that such a room is found in what at first appeared to be a small and out-of-the-way shop. Your mind flits past jokes about science fiction and fantasy stories, but you’re too caught up in the wonder of this space to give them any heed.
Around the outer edge of the rotunda are a series of statues. Some catch your eye immediately, others you can’t seem to focus on. You wander around the hall, exploring.
What do you see? What’s above you? What is the floor like? Where is the light coming from? What material are the statues? What catches your eye? What’s that pleasant smell? It’s making you hungry for Italian food.
As you look around, you settle not on the statue that first caught your eye, nor the ones that seem to fade from view every time you glance at them. Instead, a rather plain, rough stone statue catches your eye. Somehow it feels like the perfect place to begin your exploration of this magical gallery.
You walk over to it and observe the rough hewn material, the dull color, and the sense of deep history. You glance around and notice a sign that says “Feel free to touch the artwork,” so you reach out and touch the material. What does it feel like? You can walk all the way around the statue and do. How big is it? As you return to the front, you notice the subject. A young woman, seated in this rough stone throne. Her feet are bare, her hair loose, a simple crown on her head. She sits with a symmetry that speaks of sovereignty. You spend a moment gazing at this ancient but astonishingly lifelike representation.
Meeting the Magical Image of Malkuth
The lights flicker and you find yourself in an altogether different environment. The rotunda around you has become a dark, arched cavern. Before you, in an alcove lit with torches, is the rough-hewn throne. The young women seated there is now alive, flesh and blood. You are looking straight into her eyes and quickly drop your glance in a little self-conscious bow.
The young woman greets you. How do you respond?
The young woman rises from the throne and lights some incense on a side table, or perhaps an altar. It smells like… oregano. Yes, that’s what made you hungry earlier. The altar that holds the incense is a double cube, about 18 inches square and 36 inches tall.
You notice the yellow glow of the flickering torches, the dull green of lichen on the rocks that frame the alcove, the reddish brown dirt of the floor, and the black stone of the walls, the same material from which her throne is carved.
You look back at the young woman. On a leather strip around her neck, over the rough fabric of her simple gown, she wears an equal-armed wooden cross. Her movements seem cool and indifferent, but her smile is warm. Her face shows the easy beauty of youth but her eyes seem tired as if from a hard life.
As you take in all of this, you start to acclimate to this surprising scene. You start to get an interesting feeling. What is it? How do you feel here, in this environment, with this person? You consider this momentarily. Then you look a little deeper within yourself and are surprised at what you realize.
Conversing with the Young Woman from the Stone Throne
She offers to show you around her domain. She asks if you have any questions of her. You slowly, then more eagerly, begin to ask about what you most need to know. You find great benefit from her practical answers that have roots in a deep understanding.
I’ll give you a minute to talk with her. Ask her anything you like.
At last you come to the end of your questions and realize you are also at the end of your time with her. You thank her. How does she respond?
You let her know that you must leave now. You ask if you can come back to visit her in the future. How does she respond?
You start to leave, then remember one last thing you truly need to know. You ask this most important question.
Her answer is short but powerful. What does she say?
Returning Step by Step to the Rendezvous Point
You turn away again and walk with your head bowed low, deep in thought as you process this interesting experience. You look up and find that you are back in the art gallery, standing right in front of the statue! The whole thing felt so real, but at the same time you wonder if it was all in your imagination.
You look around the rotunda, then exit through the gift shop. The person behind the register nods and smiles.
You wander back to the cafe for sustenance and to contemplate this curious experience.
As you get comfortable in the cafe, in the special spot you always like to claim, and as you adjust back to the familiarity of this place you often visit, you feel you are ready to end the meditation.
Ending the Meditation
I’ll count backward from ten, like descending stairs, and by the time I get to 1, you’ll be back in the here and now.
10…9…8… You become aware of the chair you’re sitting on.
7…6…5… You become aware of the space you’re in.
4…3…2…1 Welcome back! The meditation is now over.
Wiggle your fingers and toes. Stretch and take a deep breath. You are back to reality, but with greater insight and a new contact in the spirit world.
Take a moment to think through what happened. It might be useful to journal your experiences.
Anytime you’d like to visit the young woman on the stone throne, you can follow this simple process to connect with her.
Video of the Guided Meditation Into the Magical Image of Malkuth
This guided meditation into the tenth sephirah Malkuth is part of the 2026 Tarot Pathworking on the Tree of Life series.
You can use this stand-alone meditation for personal practice to connect more deeply with the magical image of Malkuth and the qualities it represents, such as grounding and to increase awareness of and presence in the physical world around you.
We will use the magical images of the sephiroth to begin and end our pathworking process, and Malkuth will start the paths of Tav, Shin, and Qoph.
Next month we’ll visit the rotunda to find the statue of the magical image of Yesod. Then, we’ll be using these magical images to enter and end the Path of Tav for our first formal pathworking in May.
Join the Tarot Pathworking on the Tree of Life study group (free!) throughout 2026 via either of these options: Greater Seattle Tarot Meetup or the Denver Tarot Geeks.
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