Kundalini

[Nau7ik]

Kundalini awakening can be experienced by either polarity.

There are some Tarot cards which deal specifically with this “serpent force.” Kundalini is sometimes referred to as the “fiery serpent.”

Key VIII Strength is all about Kundalini.


Let me explain... In Hebrew occultism, Key VIII is assigned the letter Teth מ. Teth signifies a serpent. It is also attributed the zodiacal sign Leo. ♌️ resembles a serpent.

In the images, we see a woman opening the jaws of a lion. Above her head is the infinity symbol the same as the Magician, meaning that something of the qualities of the magician have been transferred over to the woman. The woman is the Empress, the creative imagination, the potentiated subconscious. Around her waist is a chain to roses woven together. This indicates the weaving together of desires which support our main purpose and rejection of all desires which do not. Then we are able to control and direct with the creative imagination the serpent power.
Her gown is white to indicate purity and freedom from mixture.

The lion represents the subhuman forces of nature. Within man, I believe these are the lower triad of chakras 1-3.

The function attributed to this card is digestion. Digestion of mental food. “Until one is wise enough to select and digest the proper sorts of food, he is not ready to experiment with the higher laws of control which enable adepts to perform their mighty works.”

The images then shows us that subconsciousness is at all times in control of the serpent force, the Kundalini. It always directs the activities of subhuman forces of nature. Subconsciousness then is always amendable to impressions originating at the self conscious level of mind.

What matters, therefore, is the kind of patterns we set. Our mental patterns are determined by self-conscious interpretation of experience. Let observation and attention (the Magician) be faulty, superficial, negative, or fearful and the resulting sequence of subconscious reactions is bound to be destructive. Then the spoken word and unuttered speech of thought (the Chariot) will be vehicles for a destructive pattern, and we shall set wild beast at our own vitals.

Change the pattern, and you change the result. Make it accurate, profound, courageous, positive, then you tame the lion, and he becomes your servant. This, indeed, is the secret of all spiritual activities, the secret of strength, the secret of ultimate mastery. Your personal applications of this secret to your own life will change everything for the better. Carry it further, into all your social relations, and you will become one of that increasing number of builders of a new, free world that shall realize the glory of the Eternal Splendor of the Limitless Light.

—Paul Foster Case, The Tarot