The Rider - Waite Tarot Deck - Starbridge Centre

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His walking stick, or staff, is a symbol of the transformative powers of the human spine, and is divided in 8 sections, which mark the 7 major chakras plus the idendity-point above the head. It means that the hermit is guided by his whole being. Together with the hermit, on his right side, walks a strange spiritual-red creature. It is a miniature, but nevertheless erect dragon, because THE HERMIT is going through a radical transformation process, more and more becoming like THE FOOL. The card carries the number IX and the letter TETH. Oswald Wirth' deck CARD 10: LA ROU DE FORTUNE, THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE Keyword: Contemplation: Awakening. ASCENDING OR DESCENDING, WHO TURNS THE WHEEL A strange boat is floating upon small light-green waves of "moonlight" which is Samsara, the illusion of individuality and seperateness in this world. The boat consists of two interconnected crescent moons, the one in front is red and the one behind is green. Two snakes are rooted in each of their respective crescent moons in the boat, because each of them holds its own set of illusions of being separate individuals. The snakes, constantly relating to and balancing each other, are raising themselves up from the "moonboat", and curling around the straight center pole. The center pole is symbolising the central channel, sushumna, inside the spine. The "snakes", the green cool feminine ida, and the red hot masculine pingala, are the energy currents in the channels (nadis) on the left and the right side respectively of the sushumna. The revolving wheel of fortune also reflects the movements in breathing, the inhalation (ascending), and exhalation (descending). © 2005 Starbridge Centre Ulla and Erik Sandersen All rights reserved 47
The center pole has the center point of the wheel of fortune - or the wheel of life as it sometimes is called - at its top end. It consists of two concentric circles, a thicker outer red wheel, symbolising the physical, and a thinner inner blue wheel, symbolising the mental. The wheel is divided by eight yellow spokes representing paths of dharma, as in Buddha`s Eightfold Path. Right in the centre of the wheel is a handle to turn the wheel, representing our free will. Two strange creatures are holding on to the wheel. To the right side of the wheel itself a devil is descending, leading into deepening illusion. The devils' brown and green colours reflect his lethargy; his scaly legs with fishlike fins instead of feet shows his connection with the water element. We humans consist of 70% water, and resonance fields act in water, vividly creating ripples. Ripples look like something in themselves, but they are not; their independent existence is an illusion. The devils attribute, the trident, represent the three gunas, principles of nature described in Hindu scriptures as forces embedded in physical manifestation. The blue trident is the devil`s attribute, because in accordance to esotheric thinking, the physical world would simply not be able to exist if there wasn`t some unbalance between the gunas. The blue colour of the trident illustrates with Goethe's words from "Faust", that the devil is "the spirit that always wants the evil but causes good". To the left side of the wheel itself is a blue and yellow coloured creature ascending. He is the Anubis-god, related to transformation, death and rebirth in ancient Egyptian mythology. Anubis has an appearance as a human with a dog face. He is holding on to the outer "physical" wheel but also touching the inner "mental" wheel because death and rebirth is primarily a physical, but also mental matter: What is it that dies It is said that if we were totally non-attached to our current physical bodies we would be able to remember previous lives (Patanjali`s Sutras), thus realising that we are "immortal", that we have eternal life The attribute of Anubis is the Hermes staff, symbolising the healing the full cycle of life, death and rebirth embodies. On top of the wheel, and on a platform supported by both the devil and the god of healing, is a sphinx enthroned. He (or she) is embodying "the riddle" of man. The sphinx encompasses three out of the four elements: the red human face represents the fire element, the light blue wings and the light green upper part of the body with the breasts belongs to the element of air and is emphasising his inscrutable nature. His lower body is brown and belongs to the element of earth. The sphinx represents the original human being, who the devil has sneaked up on through the water element. The devil is an necessary ingredient of being physical, but he is not a genuine part of the human nature. The emblem the sphinx wears on his headdress is a cross with a triangle on top, indicating that also a sphinx ultimately leads to self-development. He holds a sword ready in his right hand, but it denotes only empty threats, because the sphinx does not embody a higher principle. The sphinx is not as wise as he would like us to believe, but he is in charge as long as we are listening to our human nature rather than to our spiritual discrimination. The card carries number X and the Hebrew letter YOD. © 2005 Starbridge Centre Ulla and Erik Sandersen All rights reserved 48
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Page 3 and 4: Index Page 4 IMAGINATIVE MAGIC 5 WH
Page 5 and 6: IMAGINATIVE MAGIC "Do you know what
Page 7 and 8: contain the total sum of the collec
Page 9 and 10: 2) Elisabeth Haigh: "The Wisdom of
Page 11 and 12: cosmic archetypes, such as the plan
Page 13 and 14: Waites booklet. After shuffling the
Page 15 and 16: The Rider - Waite Tarot Deck CARD 1
Page 17 and 18: symbol of balance. In her left hand
Page 21 and 22: In the Garden of Eden the two trees
Page 25 and 26: vibrational part of the mind, the d
Page 27 and 28: a "T": there is a horizontal branch
Page 29 and 30: wings of the angel, is thinning. Th
Page 33 and 34: The crayfish`s journey is a difficu
Page 37 and 38: his life. The presence of the cat i
Page 39 and 40: fastened with a hook to each pillar
Page 41 and 42: Oswald Wirth' deck CARD 5: L`EMPERE
Page 43 and 44: circlet in the middle), and the cau
Page 45 and 46: Oswald Wirth' deck CARD 7: LE CHARI
Page 47: pineal. The pineal gland on the bro
Page 51 and 52: Oswald Wirth' deck CARD 12: LE PEND
Page 53 and 54: mudras, such as peace and victory.
Page 55 and 56: denotes the earth element. The devi
Page 57 and 58: Red, green and yellow balls are rai
Page 59 and 60: Oswald Wirth' deck CARD 18: LA LUNE
Page 61 and 62: androgynous nature of the higher Se
Page 63: A woman wrapped only in a spiritual

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