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firemaiden
08-12-2003, 16:43
Translation:Go back, far back,
through the mirror - don't get hung up on unsolvable knots.
Far back, behind contradictions,
where the black and the white cats
melt into one point of
phosphorescent glimmering in the microcosmos,
the nerves, an accutely sensitive system
register unknown movements.
A gliding and flowing
without personal bagage.

Link to image: Wagenlenkerin (http://www.lapalma-galerie.de/arte/show.php3?lang=&basis=tarot&bild=12)

At the center of this card is what I've affectionately dubbed the Cosmic Bike Reflector (http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18209)

Crowley writes about his own Chariot (http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/Crowley/thoth/chariot.html) card, that this blazing light disk is in fact the Holy Grail, and is the "central and most important feature of the card " - further,It is of pure amethyst, of the colour of Jupiter, but its shape suggests the full moon and the Great Sea of Binah. In the centre is radiant blood; the spiritual life is inferred; light in the darkness. These rays, moreover, revolve, emphasizing the Jupiterian element in the symbol.



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greycats
02-08-2006, 15:13
So when the Lovers get up and move, do they become The Chariot? The text seems to suggest as much with the allusion to the mirror. And the figure does look sort of androgynic.

Feet: those cats are picking 'em up and putting 'em down. I would have said that the best way to be sure that you don't go anywhere a cat doesn't want to go is to hitch your cart to one. Will power indeed! Who was it that used to be pulled around the countryside in a cart powered by cats? Freya? Frigg? A northern love/fertility goddess, at any rate.

That cosmic bike reflector reappears in XX. Fills the whole card. Too late to get out of the way by then, I suppose. :grin:

firemaiden
04-08-2006, 00:09
Wow, greycats, it's been a couple years but finally someone responded to this post! I'm so flattered. Very interesting comments about the relationship to cards VI and XX. Thank you!

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