10-02-2020, 11:48 AM
Thanks for the feedback, everyone! This was something I had written some time ago and had lost to myself, so I figured I would share as I felt it held up.
Re: Interpretation through the iconography... in my opinion, the archetypes were transmitted as images because "a picture speaks a thousand words" - the deeper mind is much more able to speak to us through concept imagery than words. This being easily done with manifest reality: Clothes, animals, stars, etc can speak to us deeply if we only learn "the language". This is obviously meant to be an introduction to help others get a foothold into their own dive into the archetypical mind and not an exhaustive discourse. The images will always mean something personal to everyone, as they should, because this is a personal journey. Dissecting the images IMO can be helpful to just begin the process of of this journey. Considering what Ra says is the first step to learning the tarot:
"[89.23] Our first step, as we have said, was to present the descriptions in verbal form of three images: one, eight, fifteen; then the questions were asked: “What do you feel that a bird might represent?” “What do you feel that a wand might represent?” “What do you feel that the male represents?” and so forth until those studying were working upon a system whereby the images used became evocative of a system of concepts. This is slow work when done for the first time."
I find that mapping the images to the concepts allows a deep evocation, for myself, of the meaning of these concepts, and to have more realizations throughout my day as these images reappear to me through media, music, wayward thoughts, etc. It allows for "synchronicity" that goes beyond seeing certain numbers. Suddenly a cat may not just necessarily be a cat, it's a message from the deeper mind to pay attention in the present moment.
Anyway! I've already written an introduction to the body cycle as well and hope to work through the individual cards through the next week or two. And of course I have already written upon the mind cycle which you can find here on these forums. Happy archetyping!
Re: Interpretation through the iconography... in my opinion, the archetypes were transmitted as images because "a picture speaks a thousand words" - the deeper mind is much more able to speak to us through concept imagery than words. This being easily done with manifest reality: Clothes, animals, stars, etc can speak to us deeply if we only learn "the language". This is obviously meant to be an introduction to help others get a foothold into their own dive into the archetypical mind and not an exhaustive discourse. The images will always mean something personal to everyone, as they should, because this is a personal journey. Dissecting the images IMO can be helpful to just begin the process of of this journey. Considering what Ra says is the first step to learning the tarot:
"[89.23] Our first step, as we have said, was to present the descriptions in verbal form of three images: one, eight, fifteen; then the questions were asked: “What do you feel that a bird might represent?” “What do you feel that a wand might represent?” “What do you feel that the male represents?” and so forth until those studying were working upon a system whereby the images used became evocative of a system of concepts. This is slow work when done for the first time."
I find that mapping the images to the concepts allows a deep evocation, for myself, of the meaning of these concepts, and to have more realizations throughout my day as these images reappear to me through media, music, wayward thoughts, etc. It allows for "synchronicity" that goes beyond seeing certain numbers. Suddenly a cat may not just necessarily be a cat, it's a message from the deeper mind to pay attention in the present moment.
Anyway! I've already written an introduction to the body cycle as well and hope to work through the individual cards through the next week or two. And of course I have already written upon the mind cycle which you can find here on these forums. Happy archetyping!
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