The Movement from the Experience into the Significator

[ricdaw]

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.

I put acceptance and forgiveness in card 11 because that's what the picture suggests to me is what it means. The figure is female, but she is not passive. She is interacting with the environment "lion" consciously and actively. So this female character does not represent the unconscious or negative polarity like the other female figures, she represents something else. I posit that the something is the "act" of forgiveness (response to a "lion" of a situation that diffuses the lion) or acceptance (response to a "lion" of a situation which brings peace to the figure regardless of the lion). This "action" is a passive action, yet it can be profoundly empowering (thus name of the card, Strength). I put all emotional elements in the Body row.

None of the cards in the Mind row carry an emotional charge for me. Whereas all the cards in the Body row do.

I believe that acceptance and forgiveness are emotional constructs, not mental.

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

What about the Fool?

In a tarot reading, yes. But Ra never described that card as an indulgence. I have more to say on the Fool, but I'll post it in that thread.

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.

I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment, only that it is not an Archetype. Ra never described life down here as a game. Ra's message was decidedly not about having fun but the need to study and know the Law of One. The concepts of fun, winning, bored do not show up in the Ra Material. The concepts of unaware and asleep do.

Indeed, Ra are part of "the brothers and sisters of sorrow." They come to alleviate our pain and the call we send out. And their message is not, "You crazy Earthlings! You take yourselves way too seriously and need to loosen up! You need to get out there and have some fun!"

I don't think the idea/concept of "experience life to the fullest" is properly one of Ra's archetypes.

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 agree that the cards are useful to everyone. But the purpose of Ra's intervention, the very reason why they came, was to help wake us up; not to give advanced lessons to a population that was already doing well on its own. The cards were intended for remedial learning.