06-26-2012, 01:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2012, 01:22 PM by abstrktion.)
@Shin'Ar,
I actually drew the figure as a few lines on a post-it note one day last spring and sort of instinctively labeled it skywalker...then laughed out loud at the Star Wars reference--now it feels like "star seed" or a Wanderer.
As I was painting it, I sort of "realized" it was Arcanum 0--which I may actually call "The Wanderer" in my own deck.
After I wrote the above, I decided to go take a look at the thread on The Choice and see what you had written--and it fits in some ways (your words are in italics):
This card symbolizes every wanderer and seeker who has left behind their old world of culture and familiarity to step into an unknown and unfolding mystical future.
This is done because all that we had previously come to know has reached the capacity of the human brain to comprehend.
It seems that your view looks at this from the perspective of this world. I think that concept could be expanded: My Wanderer is one who has reached the capacity of what s/he could learn without incarnating. So s/he leaves behind the capacities s/he has attained and descends into matter, naked, his/her understanding veiled, etc. In a way, this is "foolish" because there is the chance for loss as well as great gain (remember the Wanderers in Book IV who actually switched polarity on Venus).
And the new will be beyond our ability to understand or absorb. Does the consciousness that had only known the being of second density as some lower creature enter into the third density with any possible means of knowing what intimate sex would be like? Or what experiencing a love for various tastes of many different food types and concoctions?
Or can one of another density understand what it is to feel oneself separate from all other beings and from the Creator? To know fear, hunger, loss, etc.? The path of incarnation is full of dangers, but to remain without incarnation would be to stagnate, never to expand or grow. It is a risk we all felt worth taking--or we wouldn't be here.
This archetype is the field of consciousness evolving into its higher state, becoming its higher being, filled to the brim with what can be taken from this density, and vibrating into a new density which begins completely free and void of all need to choose direction or to polarize or orient. it begins in a new field with billions of new fields with which to mate and share, as an empty chalice/grail ready to be refilled.
I like the grail imagery and the mystery tradition behind it.
On this journey to come all is new and direction and choice will begin anew. New choices and directions await, but they begin from a perspective of complete and utter ignorance of what is to come.
This is the state of the consciousness as it enters from second into third as well. hense why this card is used to be both the first card as well as the last.
It suggests Infinity and Mystery.
Now to the particular images...
1 - I didn't really consciously or deliberately put anything anywhere. Like I said, this started from a post-it scribble. Then I was going to put the whole thing in a circle, but drew the figure too big.
2 - I faced the figure to his own right--again, without intention.
3 - I deliberately added the star -like shape near the face--s/he looks up with faith that everything will work out.
4 - There is a large "world" and a small "world"--the macrocosm and the microcosm. He turns his back on the macrocosm but remains in touch with both.
5 - The figure isn't clearly human; it is humanoid--I wanted to imply the soul without a specifically human cloaking and it looked vaguely "alien" as depicted in popular iconography.
For me, since I'm trying to strip back the archetypes rather than build them up, the most important aspects of this card would be
1) Faith (the inner knowing that helps us remember the Divine)
2) Leaving the known for the unknown (notice that the figure looks up rather than down where s/he is walking--a good way to trip in one sense, but the figure knows that true knowledge comes from "above", so to speak)
3) Turning from the macrocosm to the microcosm.
If anyone can read anything else into the image, I'd love to hear it.
I actually drew the figure as a few lines on a post-it note one day last spring and sort of instinctively labeled it skywalker...then laughed out loud at the Star Wars reference--now it feels like "star seed" or a Wanderer.
As I was painting it, I sort of "realized" it was Arcanum 0--which I may actually call "The Wanderer" in my own deck.
After I wrote the above, I decided to go take a look at the thread on The Choice and see what you had written--and it fits in some ways (your words are in italics):
This card symbolizes every wanderer and seeker who has left behind their old world of culture and familiarity to step into an unknown and unfolding mystical future.
This is done because all that we had previously come to know has reached the capacity of the human brain to comprehend.
It seems that your view looks at this from the perspective of this world. I think that concept could be expanded: My Wanderer is one who has reached the capacity of what s/he could learn without incarnating. So s/he leaves behind the capacities s/he has attained and descends into matter, naked, his/her understanding veiled, etc. In a way, this is "foolish" because there is the chance for loss as well as great gain (remember the Wanderers in Book IV who actually switched polarity on Venus).
And the new will be beyond our ability to understand or absorb. Does the consciousness that had only known the being of second density as some lower creature enter into the third density with any possible means of knowing what intimate sex would be like? Or what experiencing a love for various tastes of many different food types and concoctions?
Or can one of another density understand what it is to feel oneself separate from all other beings and from the Creator? To know fear, hunger, loss, etc.? The path of incarnation is full of dangers, but to remain without incarnation would be to stagnate, never to expand or grow. It is a risk we all felt worth taking--or we wouldn't be here.
This archetype is the field of consciousness evolving into its higher state, becoming its higher being, filled to the brim with what can be taken from this density, and vibrating into a new density which begins completely free and void of all need to choose direction or to polarize or orient. it begins in a new field with billions of new fields with which to mate and share, as an empty chalice/grail ready to be refilled.
I like the grail imagery and the mystery tradition behind it.
On this journey to come all is new and direction and choice will begin anew. New choices and directions await, but they begin from a perspective of complete and utter ignorance of what is to come.
This is the state of the consciousness as it enters from second into third as well. hense why this card is used to be both the first card as well as the last.
It suggests Infinity and Mystery.
Now to the particular images...
1 - I didn't really consciously or deliberately put anything anywhere. Like I said, this started from a post-it scribble. Then I was going to put the whole thing in a circle, but drew the figure too big.
2 - I faced the figure to his own right--again, without intention.
3 - I deliberately added the star -like shape near the face--s/he looks up with faith that everything will work out.
4 - There is a large "world" and a small "world"--the macrocosm and the microcosm. He turns his back on the macrocosm but remains in touch with both.
5 - The figure isn't clearly human; it is humanoid--I wanted to imply the soul without a specifically human cloaking and it looked vaguely "alien" as depicted in popular iconography.
For me, since I'm trying to strip back the archetypes rather than build them up, the most important aspects of this card would be
1) Faith (the inner knowing that helps us remember the Divine)
2) Leaving the known for the unknown (notice that the figure looks up rather than down where s/he is walking--a good way to trip in one sense, but the figure knows that true knowledge comes from "above", so to speak)
3) Turning from the macrocosm to the microcosm.
If anyone can read anything else into the image, I'd love to hear it.
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