[split] Wanderers, Adepts, and how do they relate to the Archetypes?

[Diana]

I and two others have a study group, focused for the past year mainly on the Archetypes. I find all the Archetypes interesting to say the least, but, like Louisabell, the one I am most drawn to is the Catalyst of the Spirit (the Star).

The Catalyst of the Spirit represents many things to me. For one, it represents letting go of that which is not needed (detachment) by the pouring out into the dark pool; and keeping that which is needed, the processing of which results in the enormous blooming growth in fertile ground, and the transformation indicated by the butterfly having emerged from the chrysalis state now in full expression of self. This detachment is a dissociation from the constraints of this reality, the human judgments, the idea of right and wrong, and the human drama (seeing others as self and having no attachment to the human "husks"). It has come to the attention of the self through the illuminations of the Potentiator of the Spirit (the lightning-struck tower).

I like that the figure is naked, in other words, not hiding anything, truthful and transparent—and in being so has a better chance of "grasping the light of day" and not "groping in the moonlight," indicating that self-honesty is a more direct path to the spirit rather than self-delusion and the masks that we wear and play with in this density. Those masks and roles we play, represented in the Significator of the Mind, are fine; they are necessary in working out that which we have come here to do and be, to play out pre-incarnative biases represented in the cartouches at the bottom, and to act and interact in this world and with catalyst and choices. But in order to get closer to the intelligent infinity, and the adept's ability to access intelligent energy, all catalyst and all 3rd-density paradigms must be processed with no attachments, as I see happening in the Catalyst of the Spirit.

I think this is where the idea of hope or faith comes in; the actions of the Potentiator of the Spirit—the lightning-struck tower—in illuminating at times through destruction of paradigms and belief systems constructed by the self and clung to, one becomes more and more aware of the nature of these constructions, thereby realizing the illusory nature or transience, and comprehending that reality is so much more than what we see here, that there is a part of ourselves (the spirit) which lies beyond physicality and mentation, and that the spirit is equipped to deal with catalyst efficiently in order to prepare one's self more and more for contact with intelligent infinity.