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the Manara erotic tarot- key 19-the sun ( Il Sole )
The Erotic Tarot- Key 19- The Sun, reminds me of the ancient Greek story of Icarus.
In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Ancient Greek: ἴκαρος, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Often depicted in art, Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax.
However, the ladies' wings are more sturdily constructed, and won't melt in the sunlight if flying high above the restrictive clouds. Even the meaning applied to the card is arrogance, freedom, life, desire, clarity, and direction. Hence, the lady is free of cultural clothing and/or cloaking and flying freely towards the light of the Sun/Son. Also, in tarot, nudity means unveiled and purity. The circle with a dot is the symbol used for the Sun.
The Thoth Tarot- ATU 19- displays the Hebrew letter Resh, Means-Head, at the bottom left of the card. Thus, the Head is seen as the Sun of the Body. It is the Head-Sun/Son that rises above the Earth and the lower animal thoughts of the survival thinking.
The Sun is cited as the Thirtieth Path and/or the Collective Intelligence, in Dr. Paul Foster Case's Tarot instruction called [The Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom]. The Collective Intelligence of the Sun (Son) exercises control over the 12 signs of the zodiac (12 guideposts of Personality), as shown on this card by the 12 rays radiating outward from the central orb, as well as a link between the personalities that have been experienced in different incarnations.
The Path of Resh is the first of the Personality triad of paths, rising on the Tree of Life, from Yesod (foundation) to Hod (splendor). The student encountering the Path of Resh will experience the intellectual-formative side of this conscious energy as an activating force of the Personality. Just as the Higher Self and the Spiritual Self are composites of the masculine-intuitive dynamic, Yod and a feminine-Intellectual-formative, Heh, that together combine opposing forces, producing a set of equalized forces called Vau, so does The Path of Resh.
All of this is explained in greater detail in my class reference book by Robert Wang: THE QABALISTIC TAROT (a textbook of Mystical philosophies). For now, suffice it to say that The Sun-collective resembles all the component parts of the Personality, on these lower paths, by infusing them with "light and Warmth" which are considered intellectual qualities. Thus, the Path of the Sun (Resh) is considered the highest level of human intellect, as The Star-Key 17, is considered the highest path of human emotions.
What may be curious to the discerning student of Tarot, is that when you combine The Sun 's high intellect with the high emotion of The Star card, the balanced effected is represented by The Tower-key 16, which seems the opposite of balance, if not outright chaos. However, what we are witnessing here, is the destruction of the unworthy elements of the "man-made personality", so that the Sun (son) Solar/Soul Personality is free to arise to its Source.
The Lower Paths on the Tree of Life, Tau, Shin and Resh, (The Universe, The Aeon, The Sun-), are the symbols of the component parts of the Personality which functions through the body-vehicle, as Spirit's experience-collecting apparatus. The Higher Self must function through the Personality if it is to influence the physical plane, as Pure Spirit must function through the Higher Self and the Body to establish "Whole Shelf". The fact that we perceive separation between these aspects of our "Wholeness", necessitates understanding of each of the components that are in a state of infinite connectivity. The Tree of Life does describe, by its pattern, a degree of separation, as Sephiroth, but the Paths show us they are all connected, and that the perception of separation is to expedite understanding of a dimension of conscious energy and is not a fact.
Perception is noted for its wide varieties from one organism to another, so it is up to each individual student to create their own Qabalah. The Path of Resh is crucial in developing the individual Qabalah. Upon journeying this Path of the Collective Intelligence, one will receive the imprint and acceptance of "Spirit guides": or those beings who direct the inner learning experience of the student. On the Path of Resh (head) the candidacy for Tiphareth (Beauty), The Conscious of the Son (Sun), and /or Higher Self, is begun.
The Path leading into Hod, is where inner discoveries are made as the Inner Teachers (the soul has collected many) exert their influence on the material world, clarifying the relationship between mind and body.
The Path of Resh will help the student understand the control and limitations of intellect. The Path of the Sun is also the path of” awakening", that helps the student understand the use of the tremendous "Sexual Force" of Yesod (Foundation) that is known as the "secret" or Arcane force manipulated by the initiate of the Mysteries. This force has many names, such as "Serpent Force", Kundalini, or "Life Force", all of which fall short in proper perception, as most definitions do. This force must be experienced to be understood, and proper preparation for its "rising" must be made by experiencing Perceptual Intelligence on the Path of Shin (The Aeon).
Yesod, is attributed to the Moon which governs the ebbing and flowing of the Astral Light (Akashic Fluid) and is the sexuality beneath our material existence. Hod is Mercury, the first similarity of the specific Personality. The Personality is hermaphroditic, as male, and female qualities have yet to be separated out as specifics, The Path of the Sun, when considered developmentally, is the point of childhood of the emerging Personality as it builds toward an earthly incarnation. By traveling upward, towards Hod, we are once again experiencing this initial innocence: a kind of re-experiencing youth and/or a rebirth. The initiate reaches a stage where there is some recollection of the Source from which we emerged.
The dancing Twins, on the Thoth Deck Sun card, symbolize the purest-innocent repression of the electric-male (Earth) and the magnetic female (Water) principles in physical manifestation. These Twins are also a reference to the astrological sign of Gemini, the sign that links Taurus (Earth) and Cancer (Water). The ancient Greeks and Romans also referred the sign Gemini, to Apollo and the Sun.
In the Thoth Deck Sun card, the green mound beneath the Twins symbolizes fertility, as its shape shows aspiration to the Higher Self. The Children dance, free from enclosure, symbolizing freedom from the "prejudices of the people that date morally from about 25 hundred B.C." [Crowley]. Here, the Sun, is the Rose-Cross expanded from four arms to 12 rays and embracing the whole of creation in its rays, it is the “adorable Fire” that is the vital life force of all creation.
This expanded "Inner Sun" is felt by the initiate, as a very warm rising, fertile power, and adorable fire, that does change the physiology of the physical form into the ": Master’s Body".
The Hexagram is the symbol of the composite Thirtieth Path which is compressed of the Four Elements, the Signs of the Zodiac, and the Planets, all under the Ruler ship of the Sum. Thus, the Hexagram is the symbol of the perfect integration of Physical Personality and Higher Self (Tiphareth -meaning Beauty). The Sun is also called the "Splendor of the Material World”.
Representative of the intellect acting upon the dual human condition of, consciousness and the physical body. Thus, the Sun is a point of connection with the Greater Life that is comprised by balancing the human intellect with the Higher Intellect that is the "Sun (Son) of God"
For the initiate, experiencing the Path of Resh, is very profound as it is the introduction to the inner sun, which is the light of the personality, as the outer sun is the light of the physical world. What one tends to forget, while experiencing the warmth and light of this inner sum, one's personality cannot look directly into this solar intelligence, any more than they can at the physical sun, without suffering damage to its grosser parts. As shown by The Tower Card; equilibrium will be reached by "burning away" what is unworthy of the Higher Personality.
As I have said before, working on the Paths brings about definite physiochemical changes in the human body and as one of the most noted teachers of the Hermetic Qabalah, Dr. Paul Foster Case has stated in his study course, The Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom,"...marked inner differences from the average person, are due to psychological contrasts in the mental state of the ordinary human beings, but they are also the outer signs of organic changes inside the skin of the new creature. He [She] is chemically and structurally unlike genus homo. There are different constituents in his [her] blood stream. Through his [her] nervous system passes currents of force not present in most human bodies because in his [her] organism channels are open which are closed in the physical vehicle of most persons. Centers in the nervous system and in the brain, and glands related to them, function differently in the body of an adept from the way they do in the bodies of the greater number of his [her] contemporaries."(The brackets are my own addition, as it was written when the proper, He was used to describe both sexes.) This is the same physiochemical change that happens to adepts in the Tantric Arts, where balanced Divine Male/Animus and Divine Female/Anima energy opens the Divya Sidhis or magic abilities and is called in Hermetic Alchemy as the "Philosopher's Stone".
The Qabalist always bears in mind that the Personality, the component parts of which are represented on these lower Paths of the Tree of Life, functions through the body as an experience-collecting vehicle for the Soul/Spirit and as the personality is supposed to be a Mercury, messenger from Soul to body and is not originally a body device. Our personality is from an archetype developed long before we had a body. as the Soul is a Persona of the Higher Self! Hence, to divorce the body from the Spirit is a most serious mistake of divisionism, for then we are mentally and thus physically divorcing ourselves from the very Powers that created the body because they want to be it! The body is the crucible of the Alchemist, and the Sun is the important symbol, as well as the furnace heat that is the alchemical process of turning the lead of unworthy thought into the gold of Higher Mind. In fact, the twin dancing children imply a new stage in human history, where the restrictions imposed by the concepts of sin and death, are no longer part of the personality.
When the Key 19-the Sun Card is thrown during a reading:
· The querent shall experience gain, riches, glory and sometimes
· Maybe called arrogant which is often a misunderstanding of their glowing self-confidence.
· The querent might make great displays of vanity but this is only seen when accompanied by extremely negative cards.
· The dance of the divine twins can also be considered a meeting of the soul (solar) mates. However, this is most esoteric and requires a Lover’s or Love card to clarify as an exoteric event.
- The stage of complete freedom from the restrictions imposed by such ideas as sin and death.
When ill defined:
- Arrogance.
- Vanity.
- Fear of "flying too high".
- Restricted movement due to preconceived cultural restraints.
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