09-24-2017, 09:59 AM
This comment is relevant to the thread, but it is not a direct response to any particular post. I just wanted to introduce a way of imagining our natural limitations in attempting to harmonize the three different conceptual systems with each other.
Imagine that you are watching a play in a theatre. From where you are sitting, you can see that this play has a specific dynamic, that the characters have particular relationships with each other and occupy distinct roles: perhaps from your view it is a love story and some are lovers, some are enemies, some rivals, some friends, and so on. The drama plays out according to the interactions between these characters and their relationships to each other.
This is true of all plays, of course, but the play you're imagining is unique in one important way. There are three different sections of audiences in the play you are watching, and each has a particular view of the play as it is acted out. Imagine this as a circular theater in which the three audiences are located at the three points where an enscribed equilateral triangle would intersect with the circle. And, somehow, what the audience you are a part of sees is actually a different set of character dynamics from what the other audiences see. In other words, somehow one and the same play appears as a different set of relationships between characters depending on where you are sitting.
This is the situation with the Tarot, the Tree of Life, and astrology. They cannot be smoothly mapped upon each other because to do so would require an additional dimension of imagination to which we lack access, just as we lack access to imagining a fourth spatial dimension.
Imagine that you are watching a play in a theatre. From where you are sitting, you can see that this play has a specific dynamic, that the characters have particular relationships with each other and occupy distinct roles: perhaps from your view it is a love story and some are lovers, some are enemies, some rivals, some friends, and so on. The drama plays out according to the interactions between these characters and their relationships to each other.
This is true of all plays, of course, but the play you're imagining is unique in one important way. There are three different sections of audiences in the play you are watching, and each has a particular view of the play as it is acted out. Imagine this as a circular theater in which the three audiences are located at the three points where an enscribed equilateral triangle would intersect with the circle. And, somehow, what the audience you are a part of sees is actually a different set of character dynamics from what the other audiences see. In other words, somehow one and the same play appears as a different set of relationships between characters depending on where you are sitting.
This is the situation with the Tarot, the Tree of Life, and astrology. They cannot be smoothly mapped upon each other because to do so would require an additional dimension of imagination to which we lack access, just as we lack access to imagining a fourth spatial dimension.
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