firemaiden
XI - Strength
link to image: Kraft
As I see it, Strength is depicted here as the spirit of woman at full-moon, when her magic is highest. All her chackras wide open and spiraling energy, she dominates the great eagle-feathered lion-clawed snake-skinned white goat/stag thing before her. His horn is the crescent moon. As she steps on his claw - she unifies all things in the cosmos, joining in the great cycle of ends and beginnings, waxing and waning, submission and dominance.
Oh dear... we will need, I think, a translation for the translation.
*DA-SEIN
I didn't know what the "muladhara" was so I looked it up. The Muladhara Chakra - is the "bliss center for the physical body" -- corresponding to the perianal area. Now I see how MP has included the Thoth "Lust" meaning for this card.
I think this uniting of polarities is depicted in MP's painting. Furthermore, perhaps the animal upon whose paw she rests is a deity? I am intrigued by the illustrations on the Muladhara Chakra site -- see the deities at the feet of the goddesses -- oh great knowledgeable ones of AT, enlighten us!
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link to image: Kraft
As I see it, Strength is depicted here as the spirit of woman at full-moon, when her magic is highest. All her chackras wide open and spiraling energy, she dominates the great eagle-feathered lion-clawed snake-skinned white goat/stag thing before her. His horn is the crescent moon. As she steps on his claw - she unifies all things in the cosmos, joining in the great cycle of ends and beginnings, waxing and waning, submission and dominance.
Translation
Painted with red, she dances in the middle.
She is surrounded by a fine net of channels left and right.
In the Muladhara --where the spirit of fire lives --amidst the flames
which are her nourrishment
she is the moment of creation
like a spark in the light.
Her BEING-THERE* a flowing
LETTING GO OF SELF.
Oh dear... we will need, I think, a translation for the translation.
*DA-SEIN
I didn't know what the "muladhara" was so I looked it up. The Muladhara Chakra - is the "bliss center for the physical body" -- corresponding to the perianal area. Now I see how MP has included the Thoth "Lust" meaning for this card.
[...]It is, according to Shakta Tantric doctrine, the seat of Kundalini, the latent cosmic energy or shakti that resides in every living being. When this latent power is activated [...] it rises through each of the rear or spinal chakras, and up through the top of the head, to the Sahasrara or "Thousand Petalled Lotus" located above the crown. There it unites with its opposite polarity, the Paramashiva or Supreme Godhead Consciousness, and the yogi attains total Liberation from phenomenal reality..
I think this uniting of polarities is depicted in MP's painting. Furthermore, perhaps the animal upon whose paw she rests is a deity? I am intrigued by the illustrations on the Muladhara Chakra site -- see the deities at the feet of the goddesses -- oh great knowledgeable ones of AT, enlighten us!
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