EnriqueEnriquez
Dear all,
You did great. I am still waiting for everybody to post their exercises -and there is no real rush. Even so, I can see how the objectives of the exercise have been accomplished. The important thing here was to stretch our analogical muscles a little bit by actually tracing analogies between the pips and these events that have us consulting the cards at any given time.
To summon this exercise up I would like to quote painter Anselm Kiefer again. Since we are following the tradition of the image makers, no one would be better suited to give us inspiration than one of the greatest image-makers of our time. Just as we see the tarot as poetry, Kiefer sees painting as philosophy. His work is based on Jewish mysticism, the Kabbala, Astrology, Alchemy and gnosticism -examples in the web are abundant- and I find this little passage from an interview very eloquent in regard of our work here:
“The most interesting fact about constellations is that they are completely arbitrary. When we look up to the heavens we are always in a position to see new and different pictures. We can invent them millions of times, over and over again. And this demonstrates once more the many different layers of the Mythical. And of arbitrariness in a positive sense, which allows us to invent constellations as we see it fit... This brings us back to the beginning, where we said that there is no generally valid overall meaning-nothing per se. We must all create our own meaning. An artist creates a meaning and it is possible to associate this with constellations, which are images arbitrarily drawn by human beings.”
I would like to insist in the convenience of having someone -it doesn’t have to be Satori- collecting all meanings in one single list. I don’t mean an Excell sheet, but simply copy paste, so we can have all the imagery you have associated with each one of the pips listed together. This will help us relativize the intrinsic value of each one of these images since, as Stella pointed out, a pip will look today like something and tomorrow like something else, based on the context and the question we are working with.
I am really happy with your results, and very inspired by your latest comments.
Thanks!
All the best,
EE
You did great. I am still waiting for everybody to post their exercises -and there is no real rush. Even so, I can see how the objectives of the exercise have been accomplished. The important thing here was to stretch our analogical muscles a little bit by actually tracing analogies between the pips and these events that have us consulting the cards at any given time.
To summon this exercise up I would like to quote painter Anselm Kiefer again. Since we are following the tradition of the image makers, no one would be better suited to give us inspiration than one of the greatest image-makers of our time. Just as we see the tarot as poetry, Kiefer sees painting as philosophy. His work is based on Jewish mysticism, the Kabbala, Astrology, Alchemy and gnosticism -examples in the web are abundant- and I find this little passage from an interview very eloquent in regard of our work here:
“The most interesting fact about constellations is that they are completely arbitrary. When we look up to the heavens we are always in a position to see new and different pictures. We can invent them millions of times, over and over again. And this demonstrates once more the many different layers of the Mythical. And of arbitrariness in a positive sense, which allows us to invent constellations as we see it fit... This brings us back to the beginning, where we said that there is no generally valid overall meaning-nothing per se. We must all create our own meaning. An artist creates a meaning and it is possible to associate this with constellations, which are images arbitrarily drawn by human beings.”
I would like to insist in the convenience of having someone -it doesn’t have to be Satori- collecting all meanings in one single list. I don’t mean an Excell sheet, but simply copy paste, so we can have all the imagery you have associated with each one of the pips listed together. This will help us relativize the intrinsic value of each one of these images since, as Stella pointed out, a pip will look today like something and tomorrow like something else, based on the context and the question we are working with.
I am really happy with your results, and very inspired by your latest comments.
Thanks!
All the best,
EE