Lemniscate

This pattern, called the "lemniscate," is the mathematical sign for infinity. As pictured here, the almost hypnotic sweep of the brim's red outline connotes the movement of the opposites, each endlessly changing into the other

Nichols identifies the lemniscate on the Magician's hat as the mathematical symbol for infinity and interprets its sweeping outline as a visual enactment of the Jungian dynamic of opposites in perpetual mutual transformation.

Nichols, Sallie, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, 1980thesis

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The shape of her hat suggests the lemniscate hat worn by the Magician. Like the Magician, she must possess magic powers, and like him, she represents an inner figure active in the hero's unconscious

Nichols extends the lemniscate's significance from the Magician to the Strength figure, arguing that the shared hat-shape signals analogous magical and psychological powers operative in the individuation process.

Nichols, Sallie, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, 1980thesis

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The Marseilles woman on the Strength trump has a hat similar to the Magician's. She is, therefore, given the same lemniscate in this deck.

Place confirms the iconographic transfer of the lemniscate from the Magician to the Strength card and contextualises it within the Golden Dawn's astrological correspondence system linking Strength with Leo.

Place, Robert M., The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, 2005supporting

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Lemniscate Leo Le Sorti Levi, Eliphas

The index entry positions the lemniscate as a discrete symbolic term within the broader iconographic vocabulary of the Tarot alongside Leo and Levi, indicating its recognised place in the reference apparatus of the tradition.

Place, Robert M., The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, 2005aside

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medial lemniscus, 25; lemniscal activity, 24–26, 32, 155; lemniscal fibers, 29, 145, 161, 165; lemniscal pathway, 3, 24–25, 173, 175

Craig's index entries document the neuroanatomical lemniscal pathway terminology, which shares etymological roots with the symbolic lemniscate but operates entirely within somatic neuroscience rather than depth psychology.

Craig, A.D. (Bud), How Do You Feel? An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self, 2015aside

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