11-04-2015, 07:23 PM
(03-16-2012, 07:25 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: Ra suggests consideration of the Transformation and Great Way cards in tandem. Because Ra says that only the Significator cards (and presumably also the Choice card) do not have a male or female alignment, it seems likely that all the other named pairs do. Thus, we are left with the somewhat difficult task of determining the male/female alignments of the very mixed Transformation and Great Way cards.
I don't recall Ra stating that the card themselves were either male or female, so much as that the male or female figure on the card was relevant and worth exploring in the greater gestalt of the archetype itself. Certainly, for cards with a single male or female figure, that attribute would be quite important.
I see the issue posed in the Lovers Card (whether to explore the powers? gifts? of the deep unconscious either in STS or STO) is paired with the Great Way card because that last card is the reward for doing so. It’s not enough, perhaps, to read the Ra Material, to understand these archetypes, the fundamental choice of STS/STO when there is an opportunity to put the understanding into action. That’s how I see these two cards interact. The male figure in Transformation is offered a choice and an opportunity to explore? invoke? act upon? that choice. The Adept can use the Deep Mind to manifest things into physical reality; to call events and experiences into beingness. Nothing happens if this power is only understood intellectually, that figure must choose the Transformation by choosing to Act upon the knowledge. And the result of that choosing is the Great Way card. It doesn’t matter that the figure in the chariot is manifesting wealth and power (STS) or manifesting healing and teaching (STO), the chariot is mental movement and the closest thing to "action" in all the Mental Row of cards.
If the Transformation is Words and Thoughts (inner work) , the Great Way is the Deeds (outer work).
I see the two paired cards as a sort of “walk your talk” pair. If you believe the greater paradigm (reincarnation, 50,000 year cycles, the existence of the 4[sup]th[/sup] dimension, graduation to the 4[sup]th[/sup] dimension, etc.) and you come to this understanding while still incarnate then these two cards are exhortations. The first to do the deep exploring (meditation, channeling, the study of magic) and the second to put the lessons and abilities acquired from those explorations to use in 3 dimensional reality.
Jim, Carla and Don did this very thing. They "Transformed" by initiating the Ra contact (exploring the very deepest portion of the Mind) and then they put it out there (the Great Way) by publishing the books, making this website, continuing to channel and to share thereafter.
At least, that's what these two paired card mean to me.