(03-30-2009, 12:25 PM)3D Sunset Wrote: Why not briefly examine the major roles of the Arcana and discuss our perspectives of what they may represent within the Archetypal mind.
Let's begin by looking at the Matrix of the mind. What are the questions and feelings we each have about the Matrix of the Mind, termed "The Magician".
Here are some questions I'd like to explore about the Matrix of the mind:
1. Why was the card dubbed "the Magician"?
The Magician seems to be resonate with the word Alchemist, both words in this context implying He/She which is able to be transcendent, able to indeed ultimately transcend to that space where all is merged, all is resolved, all is absolved, where all is ultimately able to be turned into Gold, as it were. God's gold. We are IT, God's in the making. We are "THE TRANSMUTATION" of the Alchemist, at the hand of ourselves "THE ALCHEMISTS", transmuting our experience into that which is Purity, as in absent the connotation of that which is less than, as in the highest of all precious metals = Gold. We are Golden, forged through the fire of our experience, at and by the hand of the Magician/Alchemist, our own hand. We are the Magician performing the inner work of the "Kingdom Within" by and through the works of our inherent High Majikal abilities afforded us through the highest marriage of all, free will spiraling ever higher in sentience.
Quote:2. What is the purpose of the "Magic" associated with this Magician?
As stated above. The way of Magic is by way of the inner path, i.e. ultimately turning one's self into Gold, God's Gold, God's in the making, having little if anything to do with that which is of the outer, but not altogether ruling out that the inner may be made manifest reflected in the outer, and thus viewed/experienced as though Magic by the carnal or uninformed mind, but understood to be True Magic, as in, through the spiritual dedicated conscious informed path unfolding elegantly ineffably graciously as though a sacred walk, this before our very feet that we unfold, unfolding effortlessly or laboriously, whichever our choice...by and through our choice
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Quote:3. Why is the matrix the first archetypal role?It is where all merges, is held, is contained in non-contained form, aspires to, where all descends from, ultimately ascending back to, but as if though on an ever higher spiraled return to a yet higher experience and knowledge upon the return where all is merged. Thus the MATRIX, from which consciousness hails as a vessel, to ultimately return to, which seemingly is presently on another level and order, but is not, is thus contained wholly within the Matrix of Mind.
Quote:4. Does the term Magician imply a male?No. It is Archetype, devoid of gender, where gender is reconciled. It is neutral in archetype in as much as it is more likened to a space/energy/frequency/vibration/vessel/intersection as part of the sentient consciousness contained as and within, and likewise inseparable, from mind. Magician/Mind/Matrix, where all experience is coalesced and merged to be turned/transmuted to gold therefore has no energetic gender as archetype, whereas the remaining archetypes do.
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