The Catalyst of the Spirit

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i always thoughts she was pouring water on two patches of earth. one brings forth beauty (STO) the other takes and gives nothing (STS). if spirit (water) is an energy that can be hoarded perhaps that's why the STS side is also visualized as a lake/pond

Agree. The right hand pouring on the lands is "fruitful" in that faith by the STO person results in work and assistance to "otherself." But the STS path has no need for faith at all. Such a person has equal access to it, but the nurturing aspects of faith are rejected by the STS person who merely returns those energies, unused, aback into the pool of spirit. (Water in all the cards is symbolic of the vast potential of spirit. Moving waters is spirit in action.) The STS person does not need faith because their energies and activities are devoted to the practical of self here and now.

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The Devil Card (15) shows hooded humans. If the Mind (card 1) is clear seeing (figure has full vision in the card to show that the intellect is fully present and aware), and the Body (card 8) is not seeing (figure is blindfolded in the card to show that the body consciousness is not available to us consciously, and that it operates automatically), then the hooded figures represent a form of complete blindness to spirit.

We have no living senses, while incarnate here, that know we are spritual beings. We cannot hear the Music of the Spheres. We cannot sense or communicate with our dead loved ones. We are spiritually blind in those hoods.

Faith allows us to work on spirit, sensed barely in the starlight. We can't "feel" spirit, but if we have faith that there really is such a thing, then we can still work on spirit despite our blindness.

All of us on this forum are testament to this process and how it works as Catalyst.