05-17-2016, 02:09 PM
Allright maybe my analogy was superficial itself and it has clouded it a bit. What I am trying to convey is the fact that the transformation of the mind can be seen as courting the high priestest but does not EQUAL courting the high priestess because courting is too narrow to cover this archetype. If I take the same analogy and apply it to friends or animals it still works. Courting is about attracting or pulling others to you, whatever the mean is. If for exemple I decide today to go take a walk in a forest and encounter a squirel. At this point the magician has already expressed a will to go on an adventure where transformation will occur but there is no courting involved. If when I meet the squirel I walk up to it it will most likely run away and it definitely was courting because it was an act of pulling towards me, maybe even too forceful for a squirel. If however I stop and am curious and all ears about it and let it decide wheter it is afraid and run or if it is curious and want to approach me then it is not courting but there is this exact act of faith and transformation will occur without courting. I think it really is a question of what is your relationship with your high priestess and just like I have said one can have as many different relationship with his high prietess as one can have with any other beings. There is not only one way of dealing with it just like there is not only one way to deal with anybody.
Again I don't dismiss the validity of the archetype or your analogy, it is simply one focus upon many that it can have. That's actually the tarot's strenght that there is lots of room for interpretation. I just hope that you understand it is possible that your analogy doesn't cover the archetype entirely. Just one person who doesn't relate is proof to me that it is not all-encompassing. But again you can blame it on me not understanding but I think I do. I have read the session and have not cringed while reading it. I would mostly agree that your analogy may cover the majority of people though and still think it is a good analogy nevertheless.
Again I don't dismiss the validity of the archetype or your analogy, it is simply one focus upon many that it can have. That's actually the tarot's strenght that there is lots of room for interpretation. I just hope that you understand it is possible that your analogy doesn't cover the archetype entirely. Just one person who doesn't relate is proof to me that it is not all-encompassing. But again you can blame it on me not understanding but I think I do. I have read the session and have not cringed while reading it. I would mostly agree that your analogy may cover the majority of people though and still think it is a good analogy nevertheless.
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