09-20-2010, 07:52 PM
3D Sunset wrote: "Let us try then to tie this together in a tentative thread through the archetypal mind. The Great Way chooses environments, which, based upon the past free will choices, have produced polarizing experiences. Until the Transformation abandons one path for the other, however (initially through Foolish choices, but later based upon past experience), the Great Way cannot optimize environments based upon a preferred type of fruit."
"Once an environment is selected, then the root of the mind through the Transformation selects how it will be manipulated (positively or negatively). This then colors how the experience is presented to the Significator, and the rest flows as stated earlier."
"Although I am sure Ra is shaking his head and laughing right now, this does at least attempt to tie together the first seven with the Fool to form an "evolution model" for the mind."
"What do you think?"
I think that cards 6 & 7 are not part of an evolutionary flow. Don tried to link them that way and Ra was not supportive. Cards 6 and 7 are essentially exortations to *us* the knowledgeable students of the LOO. Card 6 (the lovers) is about that fundamental choice of being in, or of, the world. Think of that other Matrix, the movie. Remember red pill or blue pill? Once Neo learned about how all the world was an illusion, a projection of the machines and the enslavement of mankind, he too was offered a choice: take one pill and forget it all and go back to regular living, or take the other and always know.
In Card 6, no less that that same concept is depicted. Once you realize that we are here for a purpose (choose polarity) and that thoughts can make things happen (Magician), and that the Adept is one who is able to manipulate consciousness at will, you need to go one way or the other. Choosing TV is not an option. It's all about Neo's choice. What do you do when you really get it in the gut that Ra is right? Do you wait for harvest, but still keep your day job and to hedge your bets? If you choose StO, do you spend the weekend delivering meals on wheels, or do you give all that you have to the charity? This is a real scary card, the Lovers. It is the Choice that can upend your life and comforts. But if you really really really got it, wouldn't the only answer be to throw everything else away and to really *serve* the Creator and your own conscious Choice of StO?
I'm afraid of this card. It shows me my cowardice. It is a very humbling archetype.
Card 7 is the exortation and the reward for being willing to make the choice StO. It holds the promise of taking the blue pill. Maybe someday I will be brave enough . . . .
"Once an environment is selected, then the root of the mind through the Transformation selects how it will be manipulated (positively or negatively). This then colors how the experience is presented to the Significator, and the rest flows as stated earlier."
"Although I am sure Ra is shaking his head and laughing right now, this does at least attempt to tie together the first seven with the Fool to form an "evolution model" for the mind."
"What do you think?"
I think that cards 6 & 7 are not part of an evolutionary flow. Don tried to link them that way and Ra was not supportive. Cards 6 and 7 are essentially exortations to *us* the knowledgeable students of the LOO. Card 6 (the lovers) is about that fundamental choice of being in, or of, the world. Think of that other Matrix, the movie. Remember red pill or blue pill? Once Neo learned about how all the world was an illusion, a projection of the machines and the enslavement of mankind, he too was offered a choice: take one pill and forget it all and go back to regular living, or take the other and always know.
In Card 6, no less that that same concept is depicted. Once you realize that we are here for a purpose (choose polarity) and that thoughts can make things happen (Magician), and that the Adept is one who is able to manipulate consciousness at will, you need to go one way or the other. Choosing TV is not an option. It's all about Neo's choice. What do you do when you really get it in the gut that Ra is right? Do you wait for harvest, but still keep your day job and to hedge your bets? If you choose StO, do you spend the weekend delivering meals on wheels, or do you give all that you have to the charity? This is a real scary card, the Lovers. It is the Choice that can upend your life and comforts. But if you really really really got it, wouldn't the only answer be to throw everything else away and to really *serve* the Creator and your own conscious Choice of StO?
I'm afraid of this card. It shows me my cowardice. It is a very humbling archetype.
Card 7 is the exortation and the reward for being willing to make the choice StO. It holds the promise of taking the blue pill. Maybe someday I will be brave enough . . . .