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Tonight I do my final reflections from my week's work on this card (here, it's Sunday evening as I write this).
Apart from having really enjoyed the beginning of these 78 weeks, and also two evenings of being unable to dedicate my own specified time due to being in a cinema on one occasion, and at someone else's place for dinner on another, I have developed a confidence that the ongoing study will be made.
...but for key words or reflections on this card. I cannot condense my six & a half pages of scribbly notes - which would need to be expanded to make sense - into one post, but will try and capture, rather, some of my experiences.
During one of my meditative reflections, what emerged far more lucidly than in the past was the nature of the bag-like item depicted on the right-hand side of the card in especially Marseilles type decks. As Magician - ie, seeing through his eyes, myself becoming the Bateleur - what emerged was that here was depicted a volume of sacred lore. I have mentioned previously, in a thread on the Basteleur in the Iconography section, that a book seems to be indicated on at least the Noblet version of the card. What emerged for me was that even in other versions, the item may be seen as an open book with rounded edges.
Standing, behind his right leg seems to flow a path - a path fluid and as yet partially undefined.
His glance - my glance as I became him - towards the right, seemingly at rest, but also permitting a slightly raised left ear to listen, whilst the activity of the Divine Will, through the Rod, directed towards the wafer in the right hand, permeated the act of transformation.
A relaxed state, yet one of utter concentration. An ease and flow, yet one of giving in for the Will to take effect.
An utter silence, for the Act became of more import.
Interestingly, I also noted with quite some prominance what appears to be a hand at his throat - in most versions of the Marseille. Here, the twofold note of maintaining Silence for the operation to begin, but also that the Magician's Speech is full of power, and that his Word becomes Will in creative act... ABRA KADaBRA - hence one guards one's words!
The beginning of the Journey...
Apart from having really enjoyed the beginning of these 78 weeks, and also two evenings of being unable to dedicate my own specified time due to being in a cinema on one occasion, and at someone else's place for dinner on another, I have developed a confidence that the ongoing study will be made.
...but for key words or reflections on this card. I cannot condense my six & a half pages of scribbly notes - which would need to be expanded to make sense - into one post, but will try and capture, rather, some of my experiences.
During one of my meditative reflections, what emerged far more lucidly than in the past was the nature of the bag-like item depicted on the right-hand side of the card in especially Marseilles type decks. As Magician - ie, seeing through his eyes, myself becoming the Bateleur - what emerged was that here was depicted a volume of sacred lore. I have mentioned previously, in a thread on the Basteleur in the Iconography section, that a book seems to be indicated on at least the Noblet version of the card. What emerged for me was that even in other versions, the item may be seen as an open book with rounded edges.
Standing, behind his right leg seems to flow a path - a path fluid and as yet partially undefined.
His glance - my glance as I became him - towards the right, seemingly at rest, but also permitting a slightly raised left ear to listen, whilst the activity of the Divine Will, through the Rod, directed towards the wafer in the right hand, permeated the act of transformation.
A relaxed state, yet one of utter concentration. An ease and flow, yet one of giving in for the Will to take effect.
An utter silence, for the Act became of more import.
Interestingly, I also noted with quite some prominance what appears to be a hand at his throat - in most versions of the Marseille. Here, the twofold note of maintaining Silence for the operation to begin, but also that the Magician's Speech is full of power, and that his Word becomes Will in creative act... ABRA KADaBRA - hence one guards one's words!
The beginning of the Journey...