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75. Balance: group – heart (3 green) [stage 3]
http://www.rainring.co.uk/Cards/Balance/75.aspx
The Image
A young man is walking a tightrope above a landscape of mountains. To steady himself, he uses a pole, at each end of which hangs a pennant. Above one of these is a house motif, above the other, a cock. The youth wears a green waistcoat, breeches and shoes, a white shirt and red stockings. He has one foot on the rope and the other moves forward above the chasm to seek his next foothold. He gives - necessarily indeed - an impression of unwavering concentration.
The place of Balance in the Process Cycle
Balance:
the interaction of projection and resistance produces a third force: a dynamic balance able to catalyse further development – stage three
Balance is unique among the Rainring cards, and its importance powerfully emphasised, by the fact that there are two balance cards in the pack. One, balance umpire, refers to static balance and the other - this card – is about dynamic balance. Static balance involves Balance as a great principle or pillar of existence. Dynamic balance, as the image indicates, is an altogether more hands-on affair, where all Balance ensures is the minimum degree of equilibrium necessary to obtain and maintain forward progress. At Rainring, we regard Balance in general as constituting the third great force of the cosmos, after male and female (see below).
The meaning
You are at a point where you have been able to achieve a minimum of reconciliation between male and female energies. This is either an inner experience that you are having, or it refers to you taking a mediating role vis-à-vis other people in the external world. It has to be recognised that Balance energy, in an external context, constitutes giving up on your own needs, desires and aspirations. The position which you occupy is that of being intermediate between the two poles of Spirit and Will. Balance is a heart energy card, and we have referred already to the heart’s connection with children. Like the child, Balance energy is the product of the fusion of male and female polar elements, and like the human child, in this position you cannot but bear the burden of this bi-polar makeup.
So Balance is a position heavily affected by pain in the relationship area: you are walking a tightrope between the polarities of Spirit and Will, whose interaction oscillates between attraction and repulsion, coming together and pulling apart. You are, in fact, the embodiment of their success in coming together. This ‘triangulation’ obtained by the presence of a third force, brings a minimum of stability to the enterprise of being▼.(first attachment)
Your ability to achieve Balance can be maintained only by you moving onward, and this means that inherent in Balance is the constituent of Formation, the next stage in the process cycle. You are not in an immovable and stable situation, but in one which requires you to make a constant adjustment to the strains, tensions and pressures brought about by the push-pull of interaction between the two poles. It also requires that Spirit and Will remain sufficiently ‘on the same wavelength’ for the project to continue to move forward.
In Rainring, we have two forms of Spirit-Will balance, the male sided one, corresponding to green (heart) and the female-sided magenta (conjugation).[4] (see attachment 2)
The card Balance, as a heart group card, represents male-sided balance.[5] Your natural tendency, in achieving this balance, is to favour the spirit side. You have not attained Balance by being completely even-handed, but by managing a minimum of accommodation between the two poles.
In fact, the Will loses out, because this balance does not sufficiently reflect her desires and inclinations, needs and aspirations. It is this lack of a truly even-handed balance between Spirit and Will which is reflected in the present situation of repression of the female or feeling side.
You find yourself in a position of self-sacrifice, putting others’ needs before your own. Your reward is more in what you make possible for others than in what you obtain as direct personal benefit. Once you have succeeded in achieving Balance, you know that the project in hand will take form and develop.
How does this translate into the inner world? Here, balance involves finding your true position somewhere between, and distanced from the poles. It is the psychological equivalent of you being an adolescent / young adult striving to discover your own identity. Discovering your inner balance force is going to give you stability, resilience, flexibility and self-assurance.
Divination summary
balancing competing forces, particularly male and female-sided ones; seeing both sides of the argument, tolerance; mediation, arbitration, searching for compromise; ability to keep moving forward; sacrifice of personal goals and desires in order to promote the common good; success in brokering agreement; tendency to be more sympathetic to Spirit than to Will; inner stability, resilience, flexibility; growing self-assurance.
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[4] Which exists in Rainring, but not yet in the manifest universe.
[5] In spectrum terms, Heart: green (yellow+blue) is more closely linked to Spirit: purple (red+blue), than to Will: red; whereas Conjugation: magenta (red+purple), has a great deal of red (Will) energy.
http://www.rainring.co.uk/Cards/Balance/75.aspx
The Image
A young man is walking a tightrope above a landscape of mountains. To steady himself, he uses a pole, at each end of which hangs a pennant. Above one of these is a house motif, above the other, a cock. The youth wears a green waistcoat, breeches and shoes, a white shirt and red stockings. He has one foot on the rope and the other moves forward above the chasm to seek his next foothold. He gives - necessarily indeed - an impression of unwavering concentration.
The place of Balance in the Process Cycle
Balance:
the interaction of projection and resistance produces a third force: a dynamic balance able to catalyse further development – stage three
Balance is unique among the Rainring cards, and its importance powerfully emphasised, by the fact that there are two balance cards in the pack. One, balance umpire, refers to static balance and the other - this card – is about dynamic balance. Static balance involves Balance as a great principle or pillar of existence. Dynamic balance, as the image indicates, is an altogether more hands-on affair, where all Balance ensures is the minimum degree of equilibrium necessary to obtain and maintain forward progress. At Rainring, we regard Balance in general as constituting the third great force of the cosmos, after male and female (see below).
The meaning
You are at a point where you have been able to achieve a minimum of reconciliation between male and female energies. This is either an inner experience that you are having, or it refers to you taking a mediating role vis-à-vis other people in the external world. It has to be recognised that Balance energy, in an external context, constitutes giving up on your own needs, desires and aspirations. The position which you occupy is that of being intermediate between the two poles of Spirit and Will. Balance is a heart energy card, and we have referred already to the heart’s connection with children. Like the child, Balance energy is the product of the fusion of male and female polar elements, and like the human child, in this position you cannot but bear the burden of this bi-polar makeup.
So Balance is a position heavily affected by pain in the relationship area: you are walking a tightrope between the polarities of Spirit and Will, whose interaction oscillates between attraction and repulsion, coming together and pulling apart. You are, in fact, the embodiment of their success in coming together. This ‘triangulation’ obtained by the presence of a third force, brings a minimum of stability to the enterprise of being▼.(first attachment)
Your ability to achieve Balance can be maintained only by you moving onward, and this means that inherent in Balance is the constituent of Formation, the next stage in the process cycle. You are not in an immovable and stable situation, but in one which requires you to make a constant adjustment to the strains, tensions and pressures brought about by the push-pull of interaction between the two poles. It also requires that Spirit and Will remain sufficiently ‘on the same wavelength’ for the project to continue to move forward.
In Rainring, we have two forms of Spirit-Will balance, the male sided one, corresponding to green (heart) and the female-sided magenta (conjugation).[4] (see attachment 2)
The card Balance, as a heart group card, represents male-sided balance.[5] Your natural tendency, in achieving this balance, is to favour the spirit side. You have not attained Balance by being completely even-handed, but by managing a minimum of accommodation between the two poles.
In fact, the Will loses out, because this balance does not sufficiently reflect her desires and inclinations, needs and aspirations. It is this lack of a truly even-handed balance between Spirit and Will which is reflected in the present situation of repression of the female or feeling side.
You find yourself in a position of self-sacrifice, putting others’ needs before your own. Your reward is more in what you make possible for others than in what you obtain as direct personal benefit. Once you have succeeded in achieving Balance, you know that the project in hand will take form and develop.
How does this translate into the inner world? Here, balance involves finding your true position somewhere between, and distanced from the poles. It is the psychological equivalent of you being an adolescent / young adult striving to discover your own identity. Discovering your inner balance force is going to give you stability, resilience, flexibility and self-assurance.
Divination summary
balancing competing forces, particularly male and female-sided ones; seeing both sides of the argument, tolerance; mediation, arbitration, searching for compromise; ability to keep moving forward; sacrifice of personal goals and desires in order to promote the common good; success in brokering agreement; tendency to be more sympathetic to Spirit than to Will; inner stability, resilience, flexibility; growing self-assurance.
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[4] Which exists in Rainring, but not yet in the manifest universe.
[5] In spectrum terms, Heart: green (yellow+blue) is more closely linked to Spirit: purple (red+blue), than to Will: red; whereas Conjugation: magenta (red+purple), has a great deal of red (Will) energy.
