08-07-2014, 07:18 PM
I'm wasn't saying that the entirety of archetype #19 depicts the Oversoul; only that the image of the sun in the card depicts the Oversoul. But, now that I think more about it, the Creator can be located in many kinds of experience, both within and beyond the self. I'm thinking that maybe it is not necessary to postulate exactly which form of the Creator the image of the sun refers to.
Until this very moment, I had misread Ra in this quotation:
80.17
Somehow I had assumed that the "living entity which either radiates or absorbs" was represented on the card by the image of the sun. But, now that I am rereading and reflecting, it could also be that the image of the conscious and subconscious holding hands in the circle of flowers is the "living entity" and that "the love and light of the One Infinite Creator" refers to the image of the sun as it shines upon the spirit.
I spent a couple of hours meditating on the archetypes today and one of the things I came back with is that the Significator, #19, shows that your very existence is an act of service to the Creator, indicating that you are always serving the Creator no matter what you do and that the joy you experience in your life, no matter what the context, originates from the act of service that you cannot help but perform.
Can you explain this? I don't see any imagery that explicitly suggests STO and STS in this card, though on a implicit level the male/female polarity contains in microcosm all other polarities.
Until this very moment, I had misread Ra in this quotation:
80.17
Ra Wrote:The Significator of the Spirit is that living entity which either radiates or absorbs the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator, radiates it to others or absorbs it for the self.
Somehow I had assumed that the "living entity which either radiates or absorbs" was represented on the card by the image of the sun. But, now that I am rereading and reflecting, it could also be that the image of the conscious and subconscious holding hands in the circle of flowers is the "living entity" and that "the love and light of the One Infinite Creator" refers to the image of the sun as it shines upon the spirit.
I spent a couple of hours meditating on the archetypes today and one of the things I came back with is that the Significator, #19, shows that your very existence is an act of service to the Creator, indicating that you are always serving the Creator no matter what you do and that the joy you experience in your life, no matter what the context, originates from the act of service that you cannot help but perform.
ricdaw Wrote:If card 19 is the Oversoul, it implies that your higher self has sub-selves from both polarities. (Because that's in the picture.)
Can you explain this? I don't see any imagery that explicitly suggests STO and STS in this card, though on a implicit level the male/female polarity contains in microcosm all other polarities.