KariRoad
My favourite card, love to discuss.
Wisdom, sex appeal, mystery.
Wisdom, sex appeal, mystery.
ozzimo said:He is standing on a snowy peak
to indicate that he awaits us
at the summit of our evolution,
our spiritual evolution.
I would like to point out
that it is only the fool
that you see so aloft
before his descent,
The fool numbered as 0 the Hermit is 9.
Both 0 and 9 typify the absolute.
zero is the absolute as it leaves the source
and enters into manifestation.
Nine is the absolute as the goal of existence.
you can find these two ideas
pictured in these two cards :
The fool zero is a youth looking upwards
to the morning light
as he descends into manifestation.
nine is a white bearded
Ancient, at night, looking down.
There is a sexual element
to this Hermit card :
Its been said that the object
of occultist and mystics alike
is the union with the Hermit.
The letter Yod stands for
the occult extension of sex union.
The union of the lower self
and higher self.
"It is the melting of the personality
into something which takes possession of it".
In it "all sense of self-consciousness is lost
and the personality is fused
with the universal consciousness".
For us who give up our personal will
and identified our will
with that of the higher self
meet the Hermit
A One-Mile-Long One-Liner:Teheuti said:BTW, in a great, unexplained one-liner in Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Waite reveals that the Hermit is Persephone - probably a reference to the corresponding zodiac sign, Virgo. As Queen of the Dead she makes the journey to and from the underworld twice a year, bringing Spring to the upperworld and leaving Winter behind her when she returns below.
In one of his Golden Dawn teaching papers (can't look it up right now), he makes it clear that he uses the GD astrological and zodiacal associations. Indications of this can be seen in a few of the cards, although it's not made obvious in all of them.KariRoad said:Please also, if I may ask: where might I find Waite's association of IX The Hermit with Virgo?
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