The Aeon Shin
to Resh to the Tree to Tau

Shin (ש)

Shin, the thirty-first path, connects Hod and Malkuth. It is the character "Sh" or "S".

Shin is one of the three mother letters, which represent primal elements. They are the axes that create space. Its attributions are:

Element fire
Directionnorth/south
Number ש‎ = 300
Nameשינ, or
שין
MeaningTooth[1] (the Holy Spirit)
Tarot trumpThe Aeon (Judgment in classical decks)
ColorOrange scarlet
Yetsiratic Attribution[2] Perpetual Intelligence, because it regulates the motions of the Sun and Moon in their proper order, each in an orbit convenient for it.

The Ari and the Gra teach that ש connects Chokmah to Binah.

300 is also the enumeration of רוח אלהימ, Ruach Elohim, the Breath of God.[3]

[1]שן, shen, means tooth or ivory
[2]From the 32 Paths of Wisdom, often printed as an appendix to Sepher Yetzirah.
[3]This is true unless you spell 'Elohim' with final Mem. In that case it becomes רוח אלהים, or 860. This is part of why gematria is such an exact science.
[1]שן, shen, means tooth or ivory
[2]From the 32 Paths of Wisdom, often printed as an appendix to Sepher Yetzirah.
[3]This is true unless you spell 'Elohim' with final Mem. In that case it becomes רוח אלהים, or 860. This is part of why gematria is such an exact science.