Book IV Study Group

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Is the unmoving Magician struggling to taste the polarity that is enabled only by the moving, but seated, High Priestess?

Thanks, 3D, for picking up on my question. I'm not sure if it's the Magician that's struggling or if it's the bird. I guess the Magician is reaching towards the box, which implies effort, but I'm not sure it's a struggle for him as much as it is for the poor bird, stuck in the box.

But even reaching would seem to be a movement, wouldn't it? So why does Ra say he's unmoving? Unless, I guess, he's frozen forever at the moment of reaching.

I also noticed that most, but not all of the female archetypes are seated, and the male archetypes are standing. So is it also perhaps just another way of depicting the gender qualities?

I doubt it, but who knows? Ra seems to consider the images highly accurate, refined over many generations, so it seems likely to me that each position has a meaning.

Just throwing out some ideas.

Thanks. Keep 'em coming!