The Magician: Matrix of the Mind

[JustLikeYou]

Ricdaw brings up a good point. The magician has a "mind of his own" if you can excuse the pun. A hard drive is blank, but it is also without consciousness. I tend to see the magician is a pure subjectivity which lacks an object.

This particular matrix is the oddball of the three because it exists as a singularity into and out of which experience is constantly flowing. The other two matrices are much larger and have a more tangible geography. This one, however, only has a set of attitudes. Everything that is recorded in the matrix of the mind amounts to a shift in attitude. I think of the direction of growth of this archetype as moving from naivety, inattentiveness, and emotional ineptitude to a very intentional awareness. Even the substance of the Potentiator only flows through him, not into him, because all that information remains stored in the unconscious. The only thing that changes is the conscious mind's ability to access the information.

So if we stretch the computer metaphor, perhaps the matrix is more like a hacker and the potentiator is more like the Internet. The Internet of Things is limitless and nebulous, while the hacker's evolution is not properly an increase of knowledge, so much as an increase in his ability to access whatever information he might require. This metaphor, however, might fall flat when we bring the Transformation into consideration: what could it mean for the hacker to view the Internet as either a maiden or a prostitute?