Courting the maiden

[Jade]

The example I gave is one where your own High Priestess would tell you that the best service you could provide would be to not act. Who knows, maybe because of this such a case will come to be part of your experience and it will be a challenge to make a choice between what you consciously perceive and what you unconsciously perceive.

I feel like sometimes the gears almost catch so that we are in sync but then it doesn't work. In our analogy we were talking about a starving entity! I feel like there's some serious goalpost shifting going on in this discussion. I've obviously had catalyst where it was better to not serve an entity than to serve it. I understand what this means. But if you are starving, don't you feed yourself? Why treat the other selves differently? Anyway, I really only had one point:

Many use the trunk and roots of mind as if that portion of mind were a badly used, prostituted entity. Then this entity gains from this great storehouse that which is rough, prostituted, and without great virtue. Those who turn to the deep mind, seeing it in the guise of the maiden, go forth to court it. The courtship has nothing of plunder in its semblance and may be protracted, yet the treasure gained by such careful courtship is great. The right-hand and left-hand transformations of the mind may be seen to differ by the attitude of the conscious mind towards its own resources as well as the resources of other-selves.

To me, the "go forth" implies outward action. And again, the Fool's journey is about integrating the mind/BODY/spirit complex, not just balancing the mind and saying hey I'm good.

And yes, this is all about relativity. I made this thread about my perception of my husband's experience of "courting the maiden", so this thread is one person's anecdotal experience from a third person perspective. I think previously an assumption was made that "courting a maiden" implied that all maidens like to be courted in a specific way, like flattering their ego or some such. My husband's experience was through how he treated me, which involved none of the negative aspects that seem to be associated with courting, and I of course never intended to imply the negative aspects. But I am very glad we are having this thorough discussion, because the whole of the card is about what energy we are using when we treat others, and we obviously all feel a little differently.