05-13-2016, 02:18 PM
No, I'm saying that the Magician reaches for the High Priestess, because she is veiled from us. We don't really know or understand her, that is the mystery. She represents, in the mind cycle, all of our unconscious resources. All that we do not consciously know (basically everything). If it's easier to conceptualize as yang (outward) and yin (receiving), maybe you should try to overlay that analogy. Ra uses the genders, again, because it's about that great act of falling in love with that which you didn't realize you were in love with before.
The unconscious mind doesn't -need- courting. But when you fall in love, the object of your affection requires your attention just by the mere pull of that love vibration. You can't help but want to do everything, anything to please the one you love. So you listen patiently, you put up with fickleness, you go out of your way to please, because you want to, and that's ultimately what brings you the most pleasure.
The traditional analogy Ra is using is that of the lovestruck (uncontrollably so, likely hormonal) young male who finds a beautiful virginal maiden. The "virginity" represents that which has yet to be "tapped" by the "male" energy. Our unconscious resources are vast, and our potential with using them is great. We are constantly "retapping" for more, and each time, it is of the best vibration to treat it as it is something sacred, something previously unexamined, something worth taking all the time it needs to see to its end. She's likely coy and bashful, because she's never received this attention before - or at least, each "reach" is of a new type, so each experience is fresh and new.
Or, you can call up those resources whenever you need them, and say, hey, let me have some of that intuition, let me have some of them great visuals in meditation to affirm my magical nature, but you aren't actually spending time with those resources to get to know their true nature, you are getting the fruits of plunder, which is "rough, prostituted, and without great virtue". She is always ready. These experiences are not new and sacred, because they are not given the intention to be treated as such.
If you take the time to get to know the maiden, and court her properly, she will in turn fall in love with you, and then your desires will be her desires just the same. She will want to do everything she can to please you as well. There will be no need to ask for the intuition to come into play, because it will be there waiting, because a good partner knows the one it loves better than they know themselves sometimes. So it's about cultivating that healthy, affectionate, give-and-take love between "two separate entities", who come together in unity despite separation to make a greater whole, instead of just saying "Eh it's a part of me anyway, just as my legs carry me around without complainin', my unconscious mind will always be at my disposal."
The unconscious mind doesn't -need- courting. But when you fall in love, the object of your affection requires your attention just by the mere pull of that love vibration. You can't help but want to do everything, anything to please the one you love. So you listen patiently, you put up with fickleness, you go out of your way to please, because you want to, and that's ultimately what brings you the most pleasure.
The traditional analogy Ra is using is that of the lovestruck (uncontrollably so, likely hormonal) young male who finds a beautiful virginal maiden. The "virginity" represents that which has yet to be "tapped" by the "male" energy. Our unconscious resources are vast, and our potential with using them is great. We are constantly "retapping" for more, and each time, it is of the best vibration to treat it as it is something sacred, something previously unexamined, something worth taking all the time it needs to see to its end. She's likely coy and bashful, because she's never received this attention before - or at least, each "reach" is of a new type, so each experience is fresh and new.
Or, you can call up those resources whenever you need them, and say, hey, let me have some of that intuition, let me have some of them great visuals in meditation to affirm my magical nature, but you aren't actually spending time with those resources to get to know their true nature, you are getting the fruits of plunder, which is "rough, prostituted, and without great virtue". She is always ready. These experiences are not new and sacred, because they are not given the intention to be treated as such.
If you take the time to get to know the maiden, and court her properly, she will in turn fall in love with you, and then your desires will be her desires just the same. She will want to do everything she can to please you as well. There will be no need to ask for the intuition to come into play, because it will be there waiting, because a good partner knows the one it loves better than they know themselves sometimes. So it's about cultivating that healthy, affectionate, give-and-take love between "two separate entities", who come together in unity despite separation to make a greater whole, instead of just saying "Eh it's a part of me anyway, just as my legs carry me around without complainin', my unconscious mind will always be at my disposal."
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