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79. Communication: group – communication (7 blue)
http://www.rainring.co.uk/Cards/Communication/79.aspx
[stage 7]
The image
The outdoor scene is in a pale blue and turquoise setting, with a falling leaf suggesting autumn. Shadows, and the sky colour, imply that it is a sunny day, and this is reflected in the smiling, relaxed face of the man talking in the centre of the image. He sits on the ground, supporting his weight on his left hand while waving his right in the air to emphasise what he is saying. His female companion has her back to us. She sits facing him, leaning back with her knees bent and her arms folded across them. Both people wear simple clothes with bare arms, and she is barefoot. In the bottom right foreground, a rabbit sits facing them, apparently unafraid.
The place of Communication in the Process Cycle
Communication is the card which gives its name to the blue group, to which therefore it belongs. The stage 6 card Achievement focussed mainly on the period leading up to that achievement, the conditions in which the project could be finished. The mood of Communication is different: the core of the work is over; it remains to take that work into the public domain, to obtain feedback and response to it. At this stage, people are going to use the building which has been constructed, read the book which has been published, sample the dish which has been brought to the table, and so on. As a result, there may be modifications to make, revisions and alterations which, in the light of the response evoked by the public, are see to be required before the work can be said to have reached its final and most complete form.[7]
The meaning
Communication: completed work attracts response – interaction with others ushers in the final phase of the cycle
There is now a major shift in emphasis: your project has to be made available to those who will use or otherwise benefit from it. You must get your painting out of the studio and into the exhibition hall, and so on. There may be some adverse reactions: your oeuvre is rubbished, or given no publicity. On the other hand, the opposite may happen: you may be applauded and esteemed. Whatever happens, you will have a sense of relief and of satisfaction at the thought that you are now in the penultimate stage: for better or for worse, you are in sight of the end. You can begin to anticipate that you will eventually be able to put this behind you and get stuck into something else. For example, once you have dealt with whatever is required at this stage, you might finally get a well-deserved holiday!
The constraints of a project mean that you can never fully be yourself. You are now increasingly free of the discipline required to work with others, cope with the relationship issues arising. You are reaching the point where you can do as you like. You are not obliged to exhibit at such and such a gallery, accept an interview with this particular journalist… Equally, you should get progressively freer of the obsessional element of the work which has accompanied you thus far. Of course you may have, for example, a major marketing problem, in which case you are not yet out of the wood of obsession. Nonetheless, this stage carries you through to the point at which you can either consider that you have accomplished your task, or that there are no further options available to you and that you have done whatever you were able to. You are ready to let matters rest. It is one thing to have dreams, ideas, imaginings of what you can achieve – these will drive you forward. Once you have achieved what you set out to do, offered your work to the public, you have fulfilled your original contract. You cannot control the verdict which the world delivers on the results of your efforts; but you can carry your own endeavours to a conclusion.
This process of responding to feedback is one which corresponds to uniting male and female energies to the fullest achievable extent. It is this harmonisation which is the hallmark of all great human achievement, in whatever domain. The Rainring cards also express this aim as Making Sound.[8]
Whilst the stage of Achievement corresponds to self, at Communication you are reaching out to the other – this involves both male-female energy union in the work of your project, but also, correspondingly, in your personal life. This latter can express either as an internal phenomenon – perhaps drawing on the inner resources needed to accomplish this publicising phase; or as an outer one - attracting a partner; or as both.
Once again, the inner threat to this stage in your process is from sensuality. Success is an aphrodisiac. The potential danger is that the public perception of your work may be seriously harmed by gossip and scandal arising from frivolous sexual liaisons. Sexual charisma may well have been one of the motives driving your project forward. If so, you owe it to yourself to put the result beyond doubt before, as it were, cashing in your chips!
Finally, what of Communication in a more limited contest? This card says that contact is taking place with others, but on the wavelength of the throat chakra: putting forward your views, persuading, discussing. Communication, whatever its precise context, refers to this type of contact, interaction or interchange with one or more others. It could, though far less often, refer to your two inner poles ‘talking to each other’.
Divination summary
switch of orientation from self to others; publicising or marketing your work; responding to feedback; making alterations or modifications; final bringing together of constituent energies of project; enjoying the plaudits of the public, / suffering their criticism; looking forward to rest, new beginnings; handling effects of success.
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[7] If this feedback process reveals sufficiently important inadequacies, or indeed very great new possibilities for improvement, the changes to be considered could be so extensive as to amount to a whole new project, in which case a further cycle is going to be set in motion.
[8] I remind the reader that all these card portraits are based on the reading of spreads designed to elucidate their meanings.
http://www.rainring.co.uk/Cards/Communication/79.aspx
[stage 7]
The image
The outdoor scene is in a pale blue and turquoise setting, with a falling leaf suggesting autumn. Shadows, and the sky colour, imply that it is a sunny day, and this is reflected in the smiling, relaxed face of the man talking in the centre of the image. He sits on the ground, supporting his weight on his left hand while waving his right in the air to emphasise what he is saying. His female companion has her back to us. She sits facing him, leaning back with her knees bent and her arms folded across them. Both people wear simple clothes with bare arms, and she is barefoot. In the bottom right foreground, a rabbit sits facing them, apparently unafraid.
The place of Communication in the Process Cycle
Communication is the card which gives its name to the blue group, to which therefore it belongs. The stage 6 card Achievement focussed mainly on the period leading up to that achievement, the conditions in which the project could be finished. The mood of Communication is different: the core of the work is over; it remains to take that work into the public domain, to obtain feedback and response to it. At this stage, people are going to use the building which has been constructed, read the book which has been published, sample the dish which has been brought to the table, and so on. As a result, there may be modifications to make, revisions and alterations which, in the light of the response evoked by the public, are see to be required before the work can be said to have reached its final and most complete form.[7]
The meaning
Communication: completed work attracts response – interaction with others ushers in the final phase of the cycle
There is now a major shift in emphasis: your project has to be made available to those who will use or otherwise benefit from it. You must get your painting out of the studio and into the exhibition hall, and so on. There may be some adverse reactions: your oeuvre is rubbished, or given no publicity. On the other hand, the opposite may happen: you may be applauded and esteemed. Whatever happens, you will have a sense of relief and of satisfaction at the thought that you are now in the penultimate stage: for better or for worse, you are in sight of the end. You can begin to anticipate that you will eventually be able to put this behind you and get stuck into something else. For example, once you have dealt with whatever is required at this stage, you might finally get a well-deserved holiday!
The constraints of a project mean that you can never fully be yourself. You are now increasingly free of the discipline required to work with others, cope with the relationship issues arising. You are reaching the point where you can do as you like. You are not obliged to exhibit at such and such a gallery, accept an interview with this particular journalist… Equally, you should get progressively freer of the obsessional element of the work which has accompanied you thus far. Of course you may have, for example, a major marketing problem, in which case you are not yet out of the wood of obsession. Nonetheless, this stage carries you through to the point at which you can either consider that you have accomplished your task, or that there are no further options available to you and that you have done whatever you were able to. You are ready to let matters rest. It is one thing to have dreams, ideas, imaginings of what you can achieve – these will drive you forward. Once you have achieved what you set out to do, offered your work to the public, you have fulfilled your original contract. You cannot control the verdict which the world delivers on the results of your efforts; but you can carry your own endeavours to a conclusion.
This process of responding to feedback is one which corresponds to uniting male and female energies to the fullest achievable extent. It is this harmonisation which is the hallmark of all great human achievement, in whatever domain. The Rainring cards also express this aim as Making Sound.[8]
Whilst the stage of Achievement corresponds to self, at Communication you are reaching out to the other – this involves both male-female energy union in the work of your project, but also, correspondingly, in your personal life. This latter can express either as an internal phenomenon – perhaps drawing on the inner resources needed to accomplish this publicising phase; or as an outer one - attracting a partner; or as both.
Once again, the inner threat to this stage in your process is from sensuality. Success is an aphrodisiac. The potential danger is that the public perception of your work may be seriously harmed by gossip and scandal arising from frivolous sexual liaisons. Sexual charisma may well have been one of the motives driving your project forward. If so, you owe it to yourself to put the result beyond doubt before, as it were, cashing in your chips!
Finally, what of Communication in a more limited contest? This card says that contact is taking place with others, but on the wavelength of the throat chakra: putting forward your views, persuading, discussing. Communication, whatever its precise context, refers to this type of contact, interaction or interchange with one or more others. It could, though far less often, refer to your two inner poles ‘talking to each other’.
Divination summary
switch of orientation from self to others; publicising or marketing your work; responding to feedback; making alterations or modifications; final bringing together of constituent energies of project; enjoying the plaudits of the public, / suffering their criticism; looking forward to rest, new beginnings; handling effects of success.
________________________________________________________
[7] If this feedback process reveals sufficiently important inadequacies, or indeed very great new possibilities for improvement, the changes to be considered could be so extensive as to amount to a whole new project, in which case a further cycle is going to be set in motion.
[8] I remind the reader that all these card portraits are based on the reading of spreads designed to elucidate their meanings.
