Random Archetype Insights

[Shin'Ar]

Oh wow, this is so exciting to witness in actual progression that it make my fire surge.

Plenum, you are sensing something from deep within that is trying to reveal something to you and you are staring it right in the face.

All you have to do is keep the Light on and you will get this. You are hot on the trail and within striking distance. What you have spoken here is absolutely stunning in its explicit expression of the truth waiting to be revealed. This will give you reason to rethink how you look at the left hand path.

thanks for your encouragement Shin'Ar. You are like a giddy teacher seeing their student progress from B-grade to A+ levels. I thank you for your support and enticing words.

I guess I am still clutching at the meanings, unfortunately.

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meanwhile, in other parts of Tarot Land, I've been drawn quite lovingly to the Alchemist card, which is card 14.



so my current reading of this card is thus:

* the river is intelligent energy. It is an abundant, infinite source right below your feet (ie always within reach)

* the sun, in the background, is the source of this river. The sun is light (ie spirit)

* the angel is the higher self (or magical personality) which pours the water (intelligent energy) from one vessel to another (the two cups)

* the vessels are your body, or someone else's body, or one chakra to another; doesn't matter; it is the directed movement of energy from one part of the creation to another, done in loving fashion.

* the triangle on the chest of the higher self indivates the Perfect Alignement of mind, body, and spirit. An equilateral triangle where all is in balance and harmony, no part functioning higher than another.

this is what Ra has to say about the Alchemist

81.14 The body is the creature of the mind and is the instrument of manifestation for the fruits of mind and spirit. Therefore, you may see the body as providing the athanor through which the alchemist manifests gold.

Let me direct your attention away from your own 'connection' with the card itself, to two other points.

First of all, when you are trying to uncover details of meaning when you are alone with the cards, you are essentially reading yourself. There is no other connection/client part of this process of connection. It is solely between you and the enchanted aspects of the runes on the card.

Secondly, when reading yourself, you are essentially establishing a 'connection' between your field of consciousness and the field of the card. What is shared is not just your interpretation, but also what the card has to offer you as well.

In the Sacred Eye, that sacred space where two fields of consciousness merge, there is never just one experience being shared. It is always two, which become one in the process.

As you so clearly noted in your understanding, there is more than just the symbolism involved, there is also the 'connection' and how that connection affects the other through the process of sharing.

And so, not only are you involved in interpreting the card's intuitive offering, you are also involved in giving something of your own experience to the card.

And it is this fact, in the circumstance of there being a reader and a client, which enables a true reader to enter into that back and forth process in such a way that they can read the experiences and fields of both directions. The reader virtually enters into that sacred space between the two fields where the sharing takes place, and if attuned to that connection, may access information from either field.

In this case where one is alone with the card, as the reader you are now reading your own field and the card's field.

And as I said, because of the runes, and the enchantment, one also has the opportunity to utilize the meaning of the runes and symbols, their reason for being there and their message, as an advanced degree of reading the fields involved.

You can feel the card's influence, and interpret that influence, but, if you can also interpret the symbols as well, the degree of understanding which you will realize will be greatly increased.

Now with that in mind Plenum, let me ask you a couple questions about what you are actually seeing, rather than just feeling.

first question-

Consider the cards adjacent to this one and their correlations. I call these cards The Reaper and The Darkness.

http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=4643

The Reaper speaks to reincarnation and the cycle of life and death.

The Darkness speaks to the choices one has as it embarks on that cycle, where it can either ascend via this process, or remain trapped in the process with no actual degree of ascending into higher being/self.

Both speak to many further and succeeding dynamics of their initial representations.

So leading up to Card 14/The Alchemist, which I call The Ascended Master, we see reincarnation and following it we see the result of the cycle of reincarnation without actually evolving.

What does the order of the cards speak to you regarding Alchemy/balance?


Second Question-

If you can realize the cards speak to an ascension of understanding into higher being, you can also realize that path/direction must also play an important aspect of the message behind the cards. One cannot have ascension without movement toward a direction.

Note the feet. One on the Earth and one in the water. Which one is at rest and which is the one on which the master seems poised to make the next step?

Yes, there is always the balancing of the two, riding both fences, but there is also always direction/procession. The masters know how to achieve that balance essential for living the experience, but they also know that higher being is realized on a certain path.

There is Divine Design, and living within that Design the Alchemist is limited to the laws of that Design. Gravity is one of those natural laws of Design.

Any pagan will tell you that what is found in the chalice is not one element, but the balanced mixture of all of the elements. And in this card it is being poured from the left hand to the right hand. What this higher being has to offer is its balanced concoction and it is being offered to the right hand path as an opportunity to rise further, and to ascend higher. That which is created in left hand understanding is now offered to the still learning right hand.

Again we see the connection/blending of two fields in the divine design of balancing for the purpose of ascending higher, designated by the triangle of ascension seen between the two.

What does this blending speak to you about the cycle of reincarnation which the adjacent cards have been depicting?

Third question-

If you were the one depicted in the card and turned to look toward the sun, The Spirit/Source/Goal/, on which side do you see the path leading directly toward it?

Does it originate in the Earth place of balanced footing, or the Water point of balance?

The left hand path on which the Ascended One is poised to continue, leads back to the Earth and physical experience, while the actual left hand path extends from the right foot placement and goes directly toward the Light.

Water is always the sign of The All and the sign of God's connection with the physical.

The Earth is always associated directly with matter and the physical form of creation.

But why then is the Ascended One poised to follow the left hand path toward The physical rather than the spiritual?

And why does the left hand path leading to The Light/Source originate in the waters rather than the Earth from where all right hand path wanderers should be exiting onto that left hand path from?

When you can understand the reasons for that symbolism, you will, also have a better 'connection' and be further enchanted/enabled to read what the cards have to share with you.

Two cups. One spirit and one matter. Blending and balancing the two manifests in the state of being of the balancer.

There is always the need for balance to achieve a direction toward higher being.

A direction which does not tend toward higher being/state of being, manifests as imbalance and the continuation of the cycle from life to death, never acquiring a pure state of either.

In virtually all of these cards you will see obvious and adamant direction.

So again, ask yourself WHY does this card seem to suggest that the Ascended One is poised to walk the left hand path, but back toward The earth again rather than The Light.

THIS is the true 'meaning' of that Card, which is also represented by the vine which I spoke to you about, and the sowing of seeds and the return to the Earth of material according to natural Design.

By gravity/Design the mixture falls from one cup into the other. From one field into another, and from The Other into The One.

Every element has its natural place, spirit and earth.

Every concoction has its consequences, the blend of each.

And no element is immovable nor stale in its natural state. All proceed in one direction or another as vibrating energy.

Dust to dust my friend, dust to dust.


"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would." -Gal. 5:16


Jesus was trying to tell His followers something which was later misinterpreted to support religious laws of institution.

His true message was that there are two paths. One leads to higher being and the other returns to the lower. To get to one a particular direction must be taken, and one way does not lead directly to the other.

This card reveals that the left hand path followed to achieve higher being is sometimes made up of decisions to return to the material realm, and that balance is a continuing process of being, even in ascended levels/degrees of state of being.

This card is the Ascended One, Master of Balance/Alchemist Supreme, deliberately choosing to return to earth and continue in the cycle, depriving itself of further ascension, and why? Because it is always working to balance Divine Design, and also, chooses to be that 'divine/higher connection' between higher and lower, the ascended and those ascending, spirit and matter.

This is The Goddess/matter/descendent, being that which It is, a process of being. Not The One nor The Other, bu the Divine Process 'in between'.