The Magician: Matrix of the Mind

[JustLikeYou]

Can you go into more detail on the magician being unmoved by itself? I have never fully grasped this aspect of the archetype.

I don't know who you have in mind here, but I have an answer for this one. The conscious mind is often thought of as a single point of awareness, this moment right here and now around and through which the totality of experience flows. The point of awareness does not move; rather, the world around it moves. Even your thoughts only come to you from somewhere else because your will to know them was strong enough. You conscious mind doesn't move to your thoughts, nor does it travel some distance to get there.

I assume its probably something to do with consciousness being developed through unconscious catalyst/experience? Without the unconsciousness we could not learn anything in an incarnation? Its the dance between the two that allows for inner guidance from the higher self?

While these things are true, I don't think this is what Ra means by the term "unmoved". The reason I say so is that the same relationship between Matrix and Potentiator exists in the Body cycle, but Ra describes the Matrix of the body as being in constant motion. Clearly, in this instance, Ra is referring to the perpetual motion of the material world. So, by analogy, we should look to the perpetual stillness of the immaterial world. I think the quip "Wherever you go, there you are" accurately captures this stillness.