http://www.johannite.org/texts/alchemical.pdf#page=17&zoom=auto,-163,380
http://www.universal-tao.com/InnerAlchemyAstrology/
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Scattered thoughts about tarot and astrology and the other tools of personal healing and growth
The Tarot, and Astrology too, are NOT belief systems, they require no more faith than the scientific method, and no different kind of faith than the scientist in her own hypothesis.....
Tarot, like the Runes, I-Ching, and other 'divination systems', are languages, of archetypes, ways of understanding what is only understandable through personal experience....and the experience is of the invisible, the inner world hidden within the dark gooey insides of the self, this shadowy lunar realm, is the substance which is acted upon by the lightning of force of life creating form ever-changing...here is the inner realm of subjective experience....and what gives mass to matter.....
To spend time with the imagination, and explore my personal and unique connection with the life force flowing through me, gaining sight of how it manifests through the many aspects of my experiencing and affecting self and my interaction with the life force forming my environment, has illuminated some of the darkest parts of my self and brought debilitating wounds to the surface to heal, and the tools that ensured my personal developent through serving as keys to a map of reality i form along my path, are tarot, the runes , the i-ching, and Astrology.....each of us has a personal relationship with the forces of nature - energy makes up matter, and energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed....every cell in our body is replaced over the span of ten years, we are not who we were yesterday.....we recycled...but our minds, perspectives, our imaginations, these are where the impossible first becomes possible....
I will write more about what i have come to understand about the following stuff, soon....
The Sky represents infinity, and infinity is beyond us as well as infusing us, we are able to bring the infinite into the realm of matter, but it requires simplification ....and this is astrology's usefulness....its a language, a scientific art.....but more on this later......
The Elements -
the four seasons/directions....they are essence - The 12 zodiac signs correspond to the elements...these are the Triplicities ( for example : the water signs are Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces)
Air is this intellectual realm of logic, thought, language, the wind and current of communication....
Fire is the realm od Spirit - light, heat, combustion, it is the electrical current...
Water is the plasma, fluidity of the blood, the gooey innards of the human body, it is the emotions, the subjective felt experiences of experience, its currents carry life force and the data of the mental realm to the earth of the physical relam...it is the realm of the dreamtime, of intuition and feeling, filling the form of its container and becoming toxic when stagnant.
Earth is the material, physical and manifested realm, where spirit and soul are contained.
Each element is archetypal, it represents an archetypal energy, a force of nature, and through each we begin to simplify the complexity of infinity into relatable forms....we begin to seee the infinity of the universe within the simplicity of matter....we see the Magick within the mundane....
.....fire and air provide the pattern/blueprint/programming, but manifestation only occurs through the water and earth of substance ...
The Modes -
phases of life cycle - they are the change - they Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable....the zodiac signs each correspond to these as well, these are the Quadruplicities (Cancer is Cardinal, Scorpio is Fixed, and Pisces is Mutable)
Every living thing is a teacher if we are willling to listen....to quiet the mind and hear the Divine voice within....to see that everything is more than it seems, and that which we are effected by - pleasant or not- reflects back to us a piece of ourselves, calls to that crack in the universe that we stand at the gateway to, and if we choose to take our waking mind and turn it inward, we set course towards the abyss of Da'ath, the realm of the Moon, of the soul reflecting spirit....to where the work of the Alchemist takes place....where essence meets the complexity of perception and form....and where our Magick and personal power of transformation, of its birth death and rebirth, dwells....
....Nature is the underlying order of the universe, it is the Wisdom of life's journey through time and forms upon forms...
...Energy is movement, vibrations, matter is vibrations, and the "dark" matter and energy of the universe is knowable first and foremost through the inner world of each human being, it is our job to use imagination and the abilities of cognitive ability, and self-awareness, to give the mass of dark matter form, bring it to life through our selves and that which we create.....to turn the wheel...
.....Our generations are being called to heal ourselves in order to heal our legacy and keep the spiral of evolution turning.....healing what has been harmed in our ignorance is the only way to keep learning, and to keep evolving, growing, creating the outcomes that lead to the most options, because freedom is the infinity of possibilities contained within the polarity of paradox.....
The paradox of polarity and of the tension that holds the fabric of the universe together.... to ride the turning of life's cyclical wheel , and spiral outwards ever-evolving and creating , we seek to find the balance at its center....everything in existence does so in polarity, once light was born so was dark.....true balance is not a static state, but a state of dynamaic homeostasis....As within so without....creating reality, and the matter making it up, begins with the idea of it,....what matters to each of us directly influences the matter we create and our relationship to it.
.....Alchemy is the science of multiplication, it is the art of conscious evolutionary growth....taking what already exists and creating more and more complex and evolved manifestations of life- recycling, rearranging, repairing, re-ordering- a process of dissolving and coagulating to continue the spiraling and infinity of cosmic grace and beauty through ourselves as active agents of creation......
.....the paradox of correspondence......
Tarot, like the Runes, I-Ching, and other 'divination systems', are languages, of archetypes, ways of understanding what is only understandable through personal experience....and the experience is of the invisible, the inner world hidden within the dark gooey insides of the self, this shadowy lunar realm, is the substance which is acted upon by the lightning of force of life creating form ever-changing...here is the inner realm of subjective experience....and what gives mass to matter.....
To spend time with the imagination, and explore my personal and unique connection with the life force flowing through me, gaining sight of how it manifests through the many aspects of my experiencing and affecting self and my interaction with the life force forming my environment, has illuminated some of the darkest parts of my self and brought debilitating wounds to the surface to heal, and the tools that ensured my personal developent through serving as keys to a map of reality i form along my path, are tarot, the runes , the i-ching, and Astrology.....each of us has a personal relationship with the forces of nature - energy makes up matter, and energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed....every cell in our body is replaced over the span of ten years, we are not who we were yesterday.....we recycled...but our minds, perspectives, our imaginations, these are where the impossible first becomes possible....
I will write more about what i have come to understand about the following stuff, soon....
The Sky represents infinity, and infinity is beyond us as well as infusing us, we are able to bring the infinite into the realm of matter, but it requires simplification ....and this is astrology's usefulness....its a language, a scientific art.....but more on this later......
The Elements -
the four seasons/directions....they are essence - The 12 zodiac signs correspond to the elements...these are the Triplicities ( for example : the water signs are Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces)
Air is this intellectual realm of logic, thought, language, the wind and current of communication....
Fire is the realm od Spirit - light, heat, combustion, it is the electrical current...
Water is the plasma, fluidity of the blood, the gooey innards of the human body, it is the emotions, the subjective felt experiences of experience, its currents carry life force and the data of the mental realm to the earth of the physical relam...it is the realm of the dreamtime, of intuition and feeling, filling the form of its container and becoming toxic when stagnant.
Earth is the material, physical and manifested realm, where spirit and soul are contained.
Each element is archetypal, it represents an archetypal energy, a force of nature, and through each we begin to simplify the complexity of infinity into relatable forms....we begin to seee the infinity of the universe within the simplicity of matter....we see the Magick within the mundane....
.....fire and air provide the pattern/blueprint/programming, but manifestation only occurs through the water and earth of substance ...
The Modes -
phases of life cycle - they are the change - they Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable....the zodiac signs each correspond to these as well, these are the Quadruplicities (Cancer is Cardinal, Scorpio is Fixed, and Pisces is Mutable)
Other things worth bringing up -
....Nature is the underlying order of the universe, it is the Wisdom of life's journey through time and forms upon forms...
...Energy is movement, vibrations, matter is vibrations, and the "dark" matter and energy of the universe is knowable first and foremost through the inner world of each human being, it is our job to use imagination and the abilities of cognitive ability, and self-awareness, to give the mass of dark matter form, bring it to life through our selves and that which we create.....to turn the wheel...
.....Our generations are being called to heal ourselves in order to heal our legacy and keep the spiral of evolution turning.....healing what has been harmed in our ignorance is the only way to keep learning, and to keep evolving, growing, creating the outcomes that lead to the most options, because freedom is the infinity of possibilities contained within the polarity of paradox.....
The paradox of polarity and of the tension that holds the fabric of the universe together.... to ride the turning of life's cyclical wheel , and spiral outwards ever-evolving and creating , we seek to find the balance at its center....everything in existence does so in polarity, once light was born so was dark.....true balance is not a static state, but a state of dynamaic homeostasis....As within so without....creating reality, and the matter making it up, begins with the idea of it,....what matters to each of us directly influences the matter we create and our relationship to it.
.....Alchemy is the science of multiplication, it is the art of conscious evolutionary growth....taking what already exists and creating more and more complex and evolved manifestations of life- recycling, rearranging, repairing, re-ordering- a process of dissolving and coagulating to continue the spiraling and infinity of cosmic grace and beauty through ourselves as active agents of creation......
.....the paradox of correspondence......
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