My Thoth card is the Seven of Disks. “Failure” is Crowley’s keyword for the Seven of Disks (Saturn, discipline, responsibility, law and order, in Taurus, “I have,” sensual, cautious, stubborn) tells us that our efforts thus far may bring future rewards, but full potential has not yet been realized. Crowley sees this card is a more negative manner, and I need to be aware that lethargy might play a role in the day. I’ve gotta tap into the energies of Earth without allowing the heaviness and slower vibrations of Earth to weigh me down.
My Legacy card is The World reversed, flavored by the Three of Cups. The World, which corresponds with Earth (cold/binds and dry/shapes, and material, stable and practical energy that is slow to change), Saturn (discipline, responsibility, limitations and resistance), Thav (mark or sign), and the Path between Malkuth (the physical world of action and physical, outer reality) and Yesod (the place where patterns and images emerge that may manifest into the physical world), is a card of integration and involvement and understanding. It may be reversed, but it is also flavored by the Three of Cups (Mercury, reason, intelligence, orderliness, communication, in Cancer, “I feel,” sensitive tenacious, nurturing, moody), which tells of the possibility of experiencing emotional abundance, emotional connections to others, and emotional support as a part of the day. I am ending a vacation today, and actually all of these cards make sense. I am going to enjoy the travelling process, with my son by my side, and absorb my experiences of the past few days.
My 6-digit date number is 6, the number of vertical and horizontal balance.
My horoscopes: “Your communications equipment may not be working well today, Sagittarius. If you absolutely need to reach someone, perhaps the best course of action is to hop in the car and visit them if they live nearby. Otherwise, you may have to wait until everything's working again. Hang in there, and don't give up on technology.”
And: “An intense card, letter or phone call could come from a brother, sister or other relative today. Perhaps this is a good chance to patch up an old quarrel with this person - but don't be tempted to start another! Emotions are running high at this time, and it wouldn't take much to set someone off. You may want to go out and do a little shopping, but be careful. Traffic is likely to be bad.”
My Shadowscapes Insight is regarding the Judgement card. What I love about this card in particular (and the Judgement card in general) is the concept of being called forward to present an accounting of my life thus far. This one is optimistic; yes, I may need to atone for any misjudgments. But after the cleanse comes a time of rest, and then rebirth with a clean slate, and a chance to try again.
Well, we did not make our 6:10 pm flight, but we will be trying again at 1:40 am. Hopefully that one will work.
Brian and I spent this afternoon learning about the birds that are in his yard. One bird is called the bananaquit; it has a yellow breast, a black head and black wings; it is a noisy, cheeky bird, bold in its actions. It builds orb-shaped nests with a side entrance. The bananaquit’s nickname is “the sugar bird” because it is known to love granulated sugar; it also tends to tame pretty easily.
The second bird that hangs around a lot in Brian’s yard is a smaller yellow bird. Surprisingly enough, it is called a Cape May warbler! How cool is that?! I did a bit of research and apparently the Cape May warbler nests in Canada and winters in the Caribbean. The first one captured and documented, in the 1800’s I believe, was caught in Cape May! That is why it is called the Cape May warbler, even though it spends months in the Dominican Republic.
The next sentence of The Emerald Tablet that I will be thinking about is “What is the above is from the below and the below is from the above. The work of wonders is from one.” Anyone who has done even a little bit of research on Hermetic magick has heard this phrase, and has thought about it a bit. We all understand that the physical world is a reflection, an imperfect reflection, of the spiritual world. Plato said that mortal life is the manifest, living, changing, limited, imperfect reflection of immortal life. But this “as above, so below” actually goes two ways; “as below, so above” allows us to understand that higher vibrating world because we understand our lower vibrating world.
In “Meditation On The Emerald Tablet,” Janet K. Turner states: “That is the whole theme of the Emerald Tablet, a continuing spiral stream of enlightenment – knowledge - by going from Above to Below and back again. No matter how small, no matter how large, it is the same – Above to Below and back again, a continuing spiraling process. After Enlightenment – what next – chop wood, carry water, do the laundry. The small chores of life can be just as entangling as the search for your essence and so to retain your balance, your Enlightenment, you must continue to employ the same process over and over again seeking your answers in the Above and bringing them down to the Below. For it is in the Above, the universal knowledge, that unseen cosmic swirl of energy and information that you must tap into for your answers – for all your answers come from Above and all your questions come from Below.” Each time we glimpse that which is “above” us, we can at the very least understand our own world of “below” in a deeper way; perhaps, if we are lucky and are able to make that glimpse into a part of our daily lives, we will raise our own energy vibrational tone that much closer to those clearer, purer tones that are of the world of “above.” By uniting “above” with “below” through that spiral of determining the question, then seeking the answer and seeking understanding of the answer, which in turn creates a new, more advanced question, we are uniting “above” with “below” through this give and take. We are the bridge that unites the two worlds! The work of those wonders we experience, those Aha! Moments, is from that union.
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