The Movement from the Experience into the Significator

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Acceptance and forgiveness are emotional energies associates with Body, not Mind.

I'm not sure I understand why it is that you make this association...

Acceptance can be of the body--if it is the body itself that you are in the process of accepting. But if it is an emotion, a habit, an attitude, a belief, a fear, etc., then the reference of the act of accepting is mental. The evidence for this is that in order to accept something, you must first reach into your unconscious mind to know it.

Forgiveness is simply a specific kind of emotional balancing: one which refers to the victim/victimizer experience.

While there are "emotional" experiences which refer to the body, these are really just cravings that we think of as emotions. Sexual lust on a purely physical level, for example, is a bodily craving, like hunger, thirst or sleepiness.

To answer your question, I view #11 as the archetype of unconscious adaptation. It restabilizes the physical balance after the potentiator has upset it and the catalyst has reacted to the upset balance. The potentiator, if it has done its job well, forms a new habit. But the body and the environment will respond differently to this habit. The new response of the body and its environment to the new habit is catalyst for bodily growth. But the process according to which the body adapts to the new environment is not itself a conscious experience.

Suppose, for example, that after a long period of living a sedentary lifestyle, I suddenly decide I want to start lifting weights regularly. The decision and execution of the intention to life weights regularly is the potentiator of the body tilting the scales of the matrix. In response to this action, my muscles will develop tiny tears that are felt as soreness for the next couple of days. This is the catalyst. Finally, the body will heal these tears in such a way that the muscles will not tear as easily if I lift weights again. This is the experience. The example I have given indicates fairly obviously why the archetype is often called "strength." The body seeks to adapt to whatever comes its way, carefully strengthening itself in order to handle the catalyst.

This process, of course, works in reverse also: with disuse, the muscular tissue will be broken down because it costs too much energy to maintain (remember that the body seeks homeostasis, the lowest energy state).

I don't see a card that says "experience life to its fullest"

What about the Fool? Besides, those who are truly relentless in their search for new and satisfying experience will typically discover, as Epicurus did, that "living life to the fullest" does not lead to a hedonistic lifestyle. Rather, a poor imagination and a scarcity of mindfulness is what leads to hedonism.

It actually discourages experience for experience sake

I disagree. #6, the Two Paths, indicates that at some point you'll discover that you can't have it both ways. Even if your purpose is to experience for the sake of experiencing, you have to evolve or else risk a stagnation in your experience. The Tarot does not discourage experience for experience's sake; rather, it teaches that if you imagine to yourself that "do what thou wilt is the whole of the law" means "sex, drugs and rock and roll," you'll find yourself disappointed. There are no oughts in the Tarot or in the Law of One, but there are consequences.

The whole reason to be a person in 3D earth is to acquire the polarity to get to 4th, then onward to reunification with the creator.

When you play a game, do you play it to win or to have fun? In fundamental terms, you play it to have fun. But in order to have fun, you have to commit yourself to an attempt at winning.

If you try to have fun without any effort at winning, you'll feel bored. If you try to win but forget that the underlying purpose is fun, you'll be unhappy and stressed out the whole time.

What you describe here I associate with the final card (Universe). It is about the reintegration of self with the creator.

That's a good association. I've been torn about my interpretation of #19 anyway. When I began to give these archetypes distinct personalities (ones which I am capable of channeling), I landed on the Keeper of the Temple for #19. The keeper is spiritual through and through, but he is not necessarily enlightened; rather, he is merely devoted.

The spiritually awake don't need the cards. I assume that the intent of the cards is to reach the spiritually asleep, and thus use the good dog/bad dog interpretation.

I disagree here. The archetypal mind is the blueprint of 3D experience. It is the instruction manual. This is useful to anyone at any level of advancement in the way that music theory is useful to any musician.

I can see that the Moon could express a warning about false gurus.

The Moon can warn against following false gurus, but the deeper warning is that you might become a false guru. This is what I mean by the shadow.

When people begin to notice a spiritual presence in you, they give you attention, respect and admiration. In a word, they give you power. But how will you respond to this power? In truth, you don't really know how you will respond to it until you experience it. A false guru craves the power and manipulates his students so that they continue to give it to him. A true spiritual teacher accepts the power given, but treats it with the utmost respect, carefully safeguarding the free will of his students.

The false guru does not consciously manipulate his students. Rather, it is the shadow whose actions seep out through the weak points in the false guru's awareness of self that does the manipulating. The guru cannot admit to himself that what he desires is power, so he relegates the part of himself that does indeed crave it into the shadow. In the shadow, the desire for power is fed and cultivated in secret, without the conscious mind ever knowing about it unless it is willing to face the small hints that it is constantly being given.

In short, the shadow is a portion of the spirit which is separated off by the mind's unwillingness to face certain parts of itself.

The temptation to false enlightenment is precisely why I identify #18 as, in fact, an advanced spiritual lesson: you can't learn it until you've taken a few steps and acquired a requisite level of spiritual development.