08-28-2012, 05:39 PM
What helped me in approaching book 4, Eddie, was a three-fold perspective:
First, I had to keep in mind that the terms Ra uses, especially "significator" and "potentiator," have standard definitions and usages. Ra always tries to stay close to these definitions.
Second, I realized that the information which was being presented in the Archetypes was the same information which had been presented in the previous 3 books, but the system of archetypes presents it in a more structured and precise way.
Third, I knew that if these archetypes are the "blueprint of all energy expenditures" in 3D, that they must be moving all the time in my life and I just don't realize it. So I would take each card, assemble all the features I thought belonged in that archetype, try to grasp it the best I could, and then I would watch my life to see if I saw anything that had those features. The Significators and Great Ways, however, were the most difficult archetypes to approach in this way because they are ever-present, rather than moving as a cycle. So, to give an example, I looked at Archetype 17, the Catalyst of the Spirit, the Star card, and saw that it was a naked woman pouring out two pitchers of water. That told me that there was an experience of extreme vulnerability and simultaneous release that I needed to be looking out for. Eventually, in the drama of my life, I would witness this, and then later I would reflect on the relationship this experience had to other experiences (such as the Potentiator and the Experience of the Spirit, for example.)
Perhaps I should write a thread about this approach...
First, I had to keep in mind that the terms Ra uses, especially "significator" and "potentiator," have standard definitions and usages. Ra always tries to stay close to these definitions.
Second, I realized that the information which was being presented in the Archetypes was the same information which had been presented in the previous 3 books, but the system of archetypes presents it in a more structured and precise way.
Third, I knew that if these archetypes are the "blueprint of all energy expenditures" in 3D, that they must be moving all the time in my life and I just don't realize it. So I would take each card, assemble all the features I thought belonged in that archetype, try to grasp it the best I could, and then I would watch my life to see if I saw anything that had those features. The Significators and Great Ways, however, were the most difficult archetypes to approach in this way because they are ever-present, rather than moving as a cycle. So, to give an example, I looked at Archetype 17, the Catalyst of the Spirit, the Star card, and saw that it was a naked woman pouring out two pitchers of water. That told me that there was an experience of extreme vulnerability and simultaneous release that I needed to be looking out for. Eventually, in the drama of my life, I would witness this, and then later I would reflect on the relationship this experience had to other experiences (such as the Potentiator and the Experience of the Spirit, for example.)
Perhaps I should write a thread about this approach...