Sophie-David
Note: There are two Tower references in the Judgement thread at Posts #15 and 17.
This is a link to The Tower graphic.
Yes, that is a powerful verse - I am not familiar with it. Now when I see "sacred tower" I think of Mary Magdala, whose last name means "The Tower" as in "The Exalted One", and who some see as the feminine counterpart to Jesus. Yes, I like your image of "the sense of your life getting larger and larger as you realize your connectedness to everything", and if Mary Magdala is the tower in the centre, well that's OK too.
My own metaphor for growth is that of a leaf circling in eddies as it is carried along in a stream. As the leaf processes through it's cycles, perhaps each its own small Fool's Journey, it continues inexorably on the bigger Fool's Journey which is the soul's progress through incarnation. Actually, I see one Fool's Journey as encompassing another, and so forth, like the Russian Faberge Eggs.
BTW, it may be that my Judgement dream about "my ship coming in" may be referring to this new part of the Legend dreams, now that last night I started the minors with the Ace of Spears: The Grail Lance. There was not an image of the ship - which incidentally I feel may be the Titanic, a ship which concludes its voyage by completely submerging, another death/transformation? - but vaguely remembered dreams in which Sophie was in some way initiating a new process.
Cheers
David
This is a link to The Tower graphic.
Its that pesky synchronicity again! I had never heard about this poet before this week, but was just reading about his work Duino Elegies in the book The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship by Linda Schierse Leonard, pages 134-135, page 139 also. Speaking of water, as we have been, the author was refering to "the image of rain as redemptive, symbolizing the tears of transformation...the source of sorrow and joy was the same "carrying stream"...Rain is an image of the cycle of growth."RedMaple said:do you know this poem by Rilke?
I live my life in growing orbits
that move out over the things of the world
I don't know if I shall ever achieve the last
but that shall be my attempt
I am circling around God
around the sacred tower
and I don't know yet
if I am a falcon, or a storm,
or a glorious song
Yes, that is a powerful verse - I am not familiar with it. Now when I see "sacred tower" I think of Mary Magdala, whose last name means "The Tower" as in "The Exalted One", and who some see as the feminine counterpart to Jesus. Yes, I like your image of "the sense of your life getting larger and larger as you realize your connectedness to everything", and if Mary Magdala is the tower in the centre, well that's OK too.
My own metaphor for growth is that of a leaf circling in eddies as it is carried along in a stream. As the leaf processes through it's cycles, perhaps each its own small Fool's Journey, it continues inexorably on the bigger Fool's Journey which is the soul's progress through incarnation. Actually, I see one Fool's Journey as encompassing another, and so forth, like the Russian Faberge Eggs.
BTW, it may be that my Judgement dream about "my ship coming in" may be referring to this new part of the Legend dreams, now that last night I started the minors with the Ace of Spears: The Grail Lance. There was not an image of the ship - which incidentally I feel may be the Titanic, a ship which concludes its voyage by completely submerging, another death/transformation? - but vaguely remembered dreams in which Sophie was in some way initiating a new process.
Cheers
David