Rainring Masterclass 5 set 5 card 44: Swayesse

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44. Swayesse: group - Conjugation (8 magenta)
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The Image

Two abstract figures, one in tones of blue on the left, the other in silver on the right, are depicted against a background of deep pink shades, with a white circle towards the periphery enclosing most of the image. The two figures, perhaps male and female, have the lower half ending in a kind of tail (but unified, unlike a mermaid), rather than legs and feet. The figures thus seem capable of swinging back and forth, perhaps referring to the ‘sway’ in Swayesse.

The Archetype

Swayesse, being magenta, belongs in its full expression to the future. Swayesse (Love) is a to and fro movement between souls, not a state which might be somehow worked towards and ‘achieved’. Swayesse, ultimately, represents a dynamic harmony between male and female individuals or energies – a kind of two-and-one state in which the barriers between male and female no longer exist, but in which the individual self is not surrendered to the union either. Swayesse, therefore, comes only at the end of a process of resolution, in which the mutual alienation of male and female, accumulated like a swelling river over the aeons, is resolved by tracking back upstream to the source, resolving en route all the pain, rage, grief, terror, hate, despair and so on which stands between the two.

Divination meanings

Swayesse: love as a moving sea; tides of feeling, sense and spirit between male and female in the psyche.

The card Swayesse shows your commitment to breaking down the barriers between male and female – in other words, to your engagement in emotional, sensual and soul relationship.[5] Because of the accumulated trauma in the history of the psyche, this means that in fact you are going to be in a self-defence mode of behaviour. You may already have gone partly beyond the initial period of being in love, which is somewhat like a state of intoxication. Once you come down from that high, and face the task of attempting to deal with the barriers to union which exist in both your and your partner’s psyche, then you will adopt the defensive reflex which the souls have learnt, because of the pain they have experienced.[6] So you swing from one pole to another: the self exerting its demand for withdrawal from the conflict; the emotional, sensual and spiritual fulfilment of the couple demanding the opposite: not withdrawal, but advance – towards ever greater closeness.



This is not a portrait of relationship in general, but of Swayesse, in which there is not simply mutual dependence, habit, fear of being alone, systematic repetition of childhood-experienced abuse and so on. All these and more might be present for you at one point or another, but in this relationship there is a ‘higher purpose’ – meaning simply that you are dedicated to exploring and developing this relationship not because it is the immediately pleasurable option, but despite the fact that it may not be. But of course, neither are you there simply to indulge in the repetition of the emotional and psychific[7] pain you experienced as a child. You are in this relationship to learn, having established that this person, your partner, is an appropriate individual with whom to undertake such learning.

According to the cards themselves (if I understand them correctly), a Swayesse relationship is one in which there is the sense of no way out – being trapped for the most fundamental of reasons: that it is this person with whom the process of reconciliation must take place, and no other. This individual is sometimes referred to as one’s soul-mate, though this term, like ‘love’ itself, seems often to be thrown around in the loosest possible fashion. This Swayesse relationship in its fullest sense is one which will retain a constant dynamic – due to the rapid personal changes taking place in both partners consequent upon the ongoing process of healing. Similarly, the sensual intensity will not diminish. This portrait of Swayesse in its advanced development probably goes beyond the lived experience of most people if not everyone at the present time. Certainly, portraying it is for me a matter of intuiting from the cards, not of describing what I have already lived as experience.

Another misconception: this is not a relationship which because it is ‘spiritual’ is not sensual. Such an attitude recreates the old hierarchy, with the male on top (literally and figuratively!). On the contrary, your Swayesse relationship will invariably have the capability of being intensely sensual, erotic. Herein lies the source of your opposition to it. When the emotional confrontation period kicks in, you and your partner will experience a great temptation to take a detour into a new situation where once again, for a time, you can have sensuality without pain. The quest for cost-free sensual gratification is capable of exerting huge pressure on your relationship. The best counter to it may be for you to have a shared spirit-side goal, an endeavour to which you are both deeply committed.



Finally, neither you nor anyone else should underestimate the power of this relationship. It has a capacity for self-renewal, for youthful exuberance, which gives it great staying power. With the right person, there is a true balance of male and female energies, giving a potentially very stable foundation. Caution: to draw the card Swayesse does not mean you have met your soul-mate! We may all have to work on other less critical pairings before we must face that one. But it does indicate an orientation in conformity with important aspects of the Swayesse relationship which we have outlined here.

Divination summary

An important love relationship; passion, sensual excitement, feeling vulnerable; anguish, distress, fear, emotional distress and turmoil, feelings of inadequacy, self-protective reflexes, respect for ones partner; shared values and goals, compatibility, commitment.