I don't have time to translate now, but Klea in her
Au Fil d'Arcane offers up twenty pages! on this card.
Rgarding the three figures, she suggests they are three phases of self:involution, cessation and evolution.
To paraphrase, she says that the one at the top, in position of "cessation," may tend to think that s(he) has reached the goal, the heavens and, therefore, believesthat things will not move.
This provides a precarious position for the other two creatures, one going up and one going down. If the top creature is fixed, then the other two "parts" of oneself will remain "fixed," like the sides of a triangle, with their roles being that of "maintaining" the balance of the wheel.
One looks like a monkey (imitator), the other like a rabbit (cowardice) and the third, on top, like a dog (resignation).
I think the suggestion is that the Wheel MUST turn in order for us to grow and remain whole and balanced.
Klea then does five pages total on EACH he three figures. Looks like an interesting read for some time in the future for me, unless someone else wishes to translate some of it.
I like some of what Silvie Simon says in
The Tarot She uses the Grimaud card.
On this Wheel of Becoming, we see three animals, half-monkey, half-monster. The one on the left, dominated by his instincts and senses, descends into matter, doubtless against his will; his energy is from his animal nature. The second animal, on the right of the wheel, is conscious and intelligent, for he is yellow; he looks heavenward as he climbs up. The third, seated on top of the wheel, is man crowned, spiritual man, for he is colored blue, his wings allow him to rise, and his sword of justice is white and pure.
The Wheel symbolizes those rhythms that rule us, the world revolving, the eternal new beginning. It is the round about of the universe, with good succeeding evil, day after night, death after life, every concept bearing its converse.
There is moreabout the numbers that many would already use, the 10, and the 1+0. Of course, Fate. Change coming from decisions outside ourselves, from chance, which we may view as "good" or "bad" for us but which may not be in our best interests.
I like what Klea says about the three aspects of ourselves. It always bothered me to think of the top creature as having "arrived," with wings to allow it to soar away. I like the idea that we must remember that if the wheel doesn't turn, aspects of ourselves remain fixed and don't grow from experience.
I also like to use the image for querents of trying to stay centered in the middle where the wheel turns but the center doesn't move. Thus we can grow, if we work at balance in all aspects of our personality, even when we encounter great highs and lows in life.
terri
