The Movement from the Experience into the Significator

[Plenum]

once one has accepted the catalyst that has been offered (catalyst of the body = Wheel, catalyst of the mind = Empress, catalyst of the spirit = Star), the actual Experience can be had. The three Experience cards represent an aspect of constraint or difficulty, which must be worked through and processed before the resolution can be had at the level of the Significator.

this movement from the Experience into the Significator can be best summed up as the following pattern:

for the body: Enchantress --> Hanged Man = pain --> discipline

for the mind: Emperor --> Hierophant = burdens --> responsibilities

for the spirit: Moon --> Sun = confusion --> clarity

now because these three aspects of Experience (pain, burdens, confusion) are difficult and unpleasant, most would prefer not to deal with it, and either choose to ignore it if possible, or suppress it by some sort of chemical means or other addiction. But, deep down, these aspects will re-surface; as Experience is as unavoidable as the Catalyst which triggered it.

now the archetypes themselves don't apply to specific situations; they are the general patterns of movements at a deep level of mind; it is the energy which throbs and pulsates in response to the triggered 3d space/time stimulus.

91.37 This is a fairly adequate statement. The term “efficient” might also fruitfully be replaced by the term “undistorted.” The archetypical mind, when penetrated lucidly, is a blueprint of the builded structure of all energy expenditures and all seeking, without distortion. This, as a resource within the deep mind, is of great potential aid to the adept.

The archetypes themselves form a sequence of 7 in each of the body, the mind, and the spirit aspects of self. But in truth, the first two in each sequence (the matrix and the potentiator), and the last two in each sequence (the transformation and the great way) operate in a fairly independent way, and have less need to be invoked.

It is the middle three cards in each sequence which illuminate the nature of the 3d mind in processing our reality. This is the movement from the Catalyst --> the Experience --> the Significator.

or expressed another way, the catalyst is the trigger, the experience is the unpleasant or difficult event, and the significator is the resolution or understanding that is yielded from considered reflection of the event.

once this is laid bare, the motions of the mind can be much better appreciated. All the turmoil and difficulty arises from the flood of Experience that fills our life; if we give ourselves the time to process this Experience, and yield the dross to gold, the Significator becomes increasingly laden with the understandings and acceptances of that of a wise mind. That takes attention, and it involves commitment to the process. But its entirely possible, and open to all.