The Enchanting of the Wheel

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My intention in this thread is to examine the combined effect of two tarot cards: the Wheel of Fortune and the Enchantress.



Ra offered that we could study the cards in pairings - and that that could possibly elucidate the function and meaning of each individual card, by seeing what effect they have in synergy.

These 'pairings' are not haphazard though.  They apply to the Matrix and Potentiator, the Catalyst and the Experience, and the Transformation and the Great Way.  In the above two cards, we are looking at the Catalyst and the Experience of the Body, cards 10 and 11.

Card 10 is the Wheel of Fortune, and offers us the catalytic nature of unpredicted physical life.  Don asked if the Wheel represented interaction with other selves, and Ra assented, and then offered a further clarifying thought:

"This may be seen to be a roughly correct statement in that each catalyst is dealing with the nature of those experiences entering the energy web and vibratory perceptions of the mind/body/spirit complex."

so it's talking about our energy web (our physical aura), and the things that trigger awareness from an external source.

The Sphinx standing atop the Wheel (see the pic) on the platform is the self registering these inputs or triggers into awareness.

so what actually happens after the introduction of externally triggered catalyst?  we move onto the Enchantress card, with a rather undaunted lady holding the maws of a lion with her left hand (lower jaw) and her right hand (resting on the nose of the lion).

what does this signify?  to me, it represents a processing of the aforementioned catalyst, by getting 'hands on' in the experience; even though the experience might be frightful and fearful (would you go up to a wild lion and do what this woman is doing??)

the thing is, the lion is only symbolic of that which looks powerful, stern, and untamed in nature.  It is through the work of the hands that the experience of the external is processed through the self.

When we deal with other selves, we find them triggering emotions and feelings in us.  Some of those will be unpleasant, and that's the work of positivity to learn to try to understand what those unpleasant emotions and feelings are.

For eg, let's say a friend has had a sudden loss of a family member, due to illness or accident.  You hear about the news from them in person, and you talk, and perhaps try to comfort them.  And yet, you may walk away from the encounter feeling more down than before you had the interaction.  Do you blame your friend?  surely if the interaction didn't happen, you would have felt better, like before the encounter.  Did your friend somehow 'dump' negative emotions and feelings on you?  Did you get infected by their emotional state?  I mean, it wasn't you who lost a family member - why should you feel personally down about it?  Your friend is sad ... and so you need to be sad in sympathy?

I think there is more to it than this.  Aside from the positive action of trying to comfort your friend, commiserate with them, ask them if there's anything you can take off their plate, and so make life easier for them, the fact you feel down after the encounter points to something else.  Some catalyst has been triggered in you.  Maybe it's thinking about the general concept of loss, and you have some unconsciousness memories about someone that you lost yourself rather suddenly.  Maybe you think about a parent who is getting older, and that they are rather sickly, and could pass away in a few years, leaving you behind.  It's these 'other thoughts' which are the catalyst triggered in you, which are the result of interacting with the lion ('the external event') and receiving the experience through the left hand.

You can't blame the Lion for making you sad or fearful; that is just the emotional triggering that happens via any external interaction.  What is triggered is unhealed or unbalanced portions in the self.

The Work of the Enchantress is to take what comes in via the left hand of experience (the bottom of the Lion's jaw), process it through the self (maybe up through the left arm, into the head, into the two birds sitting on top of her head, and then down through the right arm back to the Lion).

We process the externally triggered experience, make sense of it, turn disorganised thoughts and emotions into something more balanced, accepting, and hopeful, and then return our response to the world (the Lion) and offer something that is purified and positive.

In a way, this work of interaction via the Wheel and the Enchantress is highly indicative of yellow ray interfacing with other selves, and how we approach it.  It is hands-on, it's not shying away, it's being present.  And to fully love other selves, it takes 'work' in the sense of having to process the things they offer you ('that are triggered in you by resonance'), and then offer them something that is a more healed pattern.  You don't perpetuate the dissonance by pointing a stick at others' issues; you process it for yourself, and then can reflect a more healed pattern, one that they can then see for themselves.  You don't necessarily do the work for them; but you show a more balanced pattern, rather than just reflecting the fracture back to them (which in that case, you both remain unhealed of the wounding).

"Each entity must, in order to completely unblock yellow ray, love all which are in relationship to it, with hope only of the other-selves’ joy, peace, and comfort."

you can't force yourself to love someone you don't feel anything for.  It's not good enough to just 'tolerate' or 'put up' with them either.  To genuinely love someone, you have to do the work of the Enchantress, and see what it is that is unpleasant being triggered in you via them (the Wheel), balance your own issues.  Once you've balanced and purified that feeling of unlove/dislike, what comes out the top of the right hand back to them is the real act of love; totally genuine and unforced.  Spontaneous.  Because the trigger in the self is no longer there.

But it does take work to Enchant.  And when others' feel that genuine love coming back to them from the right hand, it feels oh so much different from what entered via the left hand.

But that is the real Experience of the Body.  Getting hands on and interactive.  Offering the healing return of something that was originally somewhat discordant.

And what are the limits to enchantment?  I don't think there are any.  That is not to say that it is easy, or that some resolutions might seem almost impossible to arrive at.  But hey, Ra did say to have some patience

The entity which has worked long enough with the catalyst to be able to feel the catalyst but not find it necessary to express reactions is not yet balanced but suffers no depolarization due to the transparency of its experiential continuum. Thus the gradual increase in the ability to observe one’s reactions and to know the self will bring the self ever closer to a true balance.

Patience is requested and suggested, for the catalyst is intense upon your plane and its use must be appreciated over a period of consistent learn/teaching.