post I made to a thread:

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2018 addition to this thread 

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Card 0: The Choice



one of the key aspects of this card is counter-positioning.

That is: one thing is placed in distinction/answer to another.

We have the:

* sun / moon

* earth / water

* weight on one shoulder vs weight on other

* leaning to one side (the body) / walking stick on the other

* left field: foot and the crocodile's mouth (this was actually the dream that I had a couple of days ago, which sparked these observations).

THE CHOICE is obviously about the positive and negative path.

But I think the emphasis (of this archetype) is not the actualisation of choosing (which takes place in all the other archetypes) but that The Choice is ACTUALLY AVAILABLE.

That is, it is within the purvey/awareness of each being, in EVERY SITUATION, to actually be able to make a choice in the first place.

You can make a counter-positioning to whatever life throws at you.  It's not about choosing one path or another; it's the fact that a Choice is INBUILT.

- every negative experience is possible to be COUNTERPOSED by a positive move/act.

- every positive experience is also possible to be COUNTERPOSED by a negative move/act.

It's basically saying that there is NO SITUATION in which the Choice is not available to be exercised in awareness.

And we can all think of the most dire things; but this is basically the Enabler.

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got a couple of deliveries.  Just waiting on shoes now :)

post by xise here.

Nice.

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In the past several years, I would say that my brief contacts with television shows and people who are Sufi Muslims has completely changed my view of Islam. Though it's a minority - estimated to be around 5% of current 1.8B people who practice Islam (you're still talking almost 100 million), it's definitely shown me how Islam can be a religion of complete peace.

In terms of television, the Turkish series (with english subtitles on Netflix) Erutugrul Ressurection has a small subplot involving Ibn Arabi, a Sufi Muslim. The show is mainly about the political drama of a Turkish nomadic tribe migrating away from the Mongol invasion of Central Asia though, so I would only recommend it if you like that stuff.

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working on card 14 right now.

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from the latin:

a - 'not'

noxious - 'harmful'.

ANOXA.

related words: innocent, obnoxious.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/noxious

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