Quote:81.11 Questioner: Going back to the previous session, picking up on the tenth archetype, which is the Catalyst of the Body or the Wheel of Fortune, which represents interaction with other-selves. Is this a correct statement?

Ra: I am Ra. 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. The most carefully noted addition would be that the outside stimulus of the Wheel of Fortune is that which offers both positive and negative experience.

(03-24-2015, 10:04 AM)Spaced Wrote: In that interpretation I considered the critters hanging on the wheel to be thought-forms or held concepts that need to be addressed or balanced before the kundalini can be allowed to rise further.

(03-24-2015, 10:25 AM)Shemaya Wrote:  The arrow represents a few things to me.  It represents an influx of "shiva" / consciousness and awareness.  This is what is required to get the wheel to turn positively.

(03-24-2015, 04:34 PM)Icaro Wrote: Also, what's with the pepperoncini's in the center

Quote:93.22 Questioner: Is there any significance to the serpent? Is there any polarity to the serpent as we experience it in this illusion?

Ra: I am Ra. We assume that you question the serpent as used in these images rather than the second-density life form which is a portion of your experience. There is a significance to the serpent form in a culture which coexists with your own but which is not your own; that is, the serpent as symbol of that which some call the kundalini and which we have discussed in previous material.

(03-24-2015, 04:39 PM)Spaced Wrote:

(03-24-2015, 04:34 PM)Icaro Wrote: Also, what's with the pepperoncini's in the center

Lol, I think they're snakes

Quote:93.22 Questioner: Is there any significance to the serpent? Is there any polarity to the serpent as we experience it in this illusion?

Ra: I am Ra. We assume that you question the serpent as used in these images rather than the second-density life form which is a portion of your experience. There is a significance to the serpent form in a culture which coexists with your own but which is not your own; that is, the serpent as symbol of that which some call the kundalini and which we have discussed in previous material.

(03-24-2015, 12:43 PM)Karl Wrote: I noticed that the wheel is similar to the 8-pointed (chaos) star.


It also looks like it represents the compass directions, which often represent the physical world around us.

(03-24-2015, 04:41 PM)Minyatur Wrote:

(03-24-2015, 04:39 PM)Spaced Wrote:

(03-24-2015, 04:34 PM)Icaro Wrote: Also, what's with the pepperoncini's in the center

Lol, I think they're snakes

Quote:93.22 Questioner: Is there any significance to the serpent? Is there any polarity to the serpent as we experience it in this illusion?

Ra: I am Ra. We assume that you question the serpent as used in these images rather than the second-density life form which is a portion of your experience. There is a significance to the serpent form in a culture which coexists with your own but which is not your own; that is, the serpent as symbol of that which some call the kundalini and which we have discussed in previous material.

I've never perceived an association between the two, I guess that's not part of my culture. That's why I have a hard time with tarot cards, the images seems not symbolic for me. I guess I should look for different set of images of Tarot cards.

Quote:92.7 Questioner: In the last session we discussed the first tarot card of the Egyptian type. Are there any distortions in the cards that we have (which we will publish in the book if possible) that Ra did not originally intend, with the exception of the star, which we know is a distortion, or any additions that Ra did intend in this particular tarot?

Ra: I am Ra. The distortions remaining after the removal of astrological material are those having to do with the mythos of the culture to which Ra offered this teach/learning tool. This is why we have suggested approaching the images looking for the heart of the image rather than being involved overmuch by the costumes and creatures of a culture not familiar to your present incarnation. We have no wish to add to an already distorted group of images, feeling that although distortion is inevitable there is the least amount which can be procured in the present arrangement.

(03-24-2015, 04:51 PM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: So if you're stuck in karma, you're stuck in chaos?

(03-24-2015, 09:34 AM)Bring4th_Plenum Wrote: does anyone have an interpretation for the 2 creatures hanging on the wheel?

Quote:99.8
The creature above points an arrow at the left-hand path indicating that if this path is chosen the chips, shall we say, will fall where they may, the path being unprotected as far as the random activity of catalyst. And the intellectual abilities of the chooser of that path would be the main guardian rather than a designed or built-in protection by the Logos for the right-hand path...

(03-24-2015, 10:00 PM)ricdaw Wrote: I see the left-side creature as a repeat image of the devil in card 15.  

Both creatures are open in their third-eye chakras (see flames).

The right side (STO) figure ascends the wheel.

The left side figure (STS) descends.

Both figures cling to the wheel.  The right side figure appears to be entangled in it.  But to achieve that carefully balanced platform above and the ennobled lion, the right hand seeker must untangle and let go of that wheel.  The figure must also deal with that spear.  I assume it represents the pain that comes from the"dark night of the soul."  

The inner snakes are the various events and catalysts that beset the figures on the wheel.  All these events have a nobel or spiritual purpose (they are all snakes and the spirit that implies).

All the figures are above the winged orb at the bottom of the image; these are spiritual images all, not literal or physical creatures.  (Else, the winged orb would be at the top of the card and all the figures "below" it.)