by danica » Tue Jan 14, 2014 4:17 pm
- Fertility, maternity
- She accepts, receives
- The Empress is very strong (although very gentle) and emanates a sense of stability
- Around the lunar crescents there are circles, like bubbles; the two bubbles touch each other at the center of Empress’ figure (each crescent seem in the center of each bubble), but do not intersect/overlap – they look like female ova, that have just been fertilized, beginning their gestation
- The Door, Gate =Yoni
- This Path is the relation of Mother and Father, the Card describes its nature: fertile, creative; the relationship of Mother & Father = the whole World for the child!
- Daleth = the perfect marriage: fecund, stable, full of love and tenderness
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- The Lotus at the center of the card (serving as a wand for the Empress) has 4 leaves – it’s the Quaternity that makes materialization possible (the basis of Pythagorean Tetractys); there’s also the “secret connection” of Netzach and Chesed, and of Venus and Jupiter: number Four geometrically perfectly represented in its dynamic as a Cross
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- She gives me this Flower-wand, and I look at it from above, it’s Muladhara; I see Daleth as basis of all sensual experience and the root, the arch-source of all phenomena material
- The Door means: a transition-point between worlds/dimensions; Doors=OPEN passages, i.e. established, existing. But Door requires a Key !
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- This whole figure is in a an egg of light; she is the potential for giving-birth as such
- Nature is in itself in balance, Equilibrium, in a way it is self-complete
- The Empress is full of passion, but yet, at the same time, completely still! (Harmony, perfect Equlibrium)
- She is Pleasure and Beauty
- There is also inertia here; it has tremendous power
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- A great, powerful Queen stands with her hands wide spread, she is all green and her hands embrace the whole World, creating it at the same time; this is the Kingdom of Nature. The Lotus-flower on her chest pulsates, bringing my attention to it – it’s in the Hub of all phenomena, the point of Peace a midst continuous cycles of changes (the two crescents and their “bubbles” represent these cycles, the rhythmic tides of Life)
- I hear music – it’s Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; all that lives, all beings of Nature, are – in their motion, growth, life and decay - as a great orchestra…. plants, animals, people, various microorganisms… their very existence creates the Symphony; we are all initiated, set in motion, by Love (not love as emotion but Love as Force & Principle of the Universe; in emotions/affections we call love we see and experience only one type of reflection of this Love)
- In this Harmony, time is in conjunction with the timeless; Nature’s true essence is not represented with the Cross, but with Circle (its perfect geometric form is the Circle); but it’s not just the Circle, it’s Circle AND Cross….when we travel “up” toward the Mystery of this Arcana, we perceive it as is graphically shown in the glyph for Venus; when we are “in” it, we perceive it as Rose-Croix
"Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our age long love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none."