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41. Flow-Singer: group - Unconscious (5 indigo)
http://www.rainringcards.com/Cards/FlowSinger/41.aspx
The image
A dark-skinned girl stands in a brown river whose bank, visible in the distance, is covered with lush foliage. Above the waist, she is wearing only a turtle pendant around her neck and two garlands of flowers across her chest. Round her waist, we can just see above the waterline the red material of whatever covers the lower half of her body. She wears a blue flower in her hair, and is smiling. She holds her arms down and slightly out from her body, turned so that the open palms of both hands face us. It is clear that she has been making ripples in the water. She has two familiars, both of whom are shown larger than natural perspective: to her left as we look at her, a blue swan representing co-incidence; to her right, a grey elephant representing time. The image is completed by two sprays of leaves, possibly olive.
The archetype.
Flow-Singer is the card at the centre of the grid and is the archetype of the Unconscious. As such, she is the card furthest from the light, her significance in the world of consciousness being the most difficult of all the grid cards to assess. The Unconscious is the origin, so the number 5 in no way implies that Flow-Singer comes ‘after’ the previous four. As the card of set 5 and group 5, the double Unconscious, Flow Singer represents the emergence of the Unconscious into consciousness. She is therefore at the crossroads between time, reason and causality – the building-blocks of consciousness; and coincidence, dream, symbol and acausality: the frame of reference of the Unconscious.
Divinatory meanings
Flow-Singer: the mediator between consciousness and the unconscious, causality (time) and acausality (synchronicity); the source of the stories of being.
To draw this card is to show proof of flexibility; to have the inner freedom to go in many possible directions. You are at ease in the ebb and flow of existence, because you are not committed to any particular viewpoint or course of action: you are available for whatever turns up. This means that your inner attitude is that of someone for whom issues or situations are ongoing – you do not regard yourself as being at the end of anything, as having reached completion. Because you have a free flow of access to the Unconscious, you are making an impression – not by deliberately drawing attention to yourself, but by being connected. In relationship, you have the capacity for affinity, because you can sense what lies behind the masks that people use; but this capacity is dormant, since your connectedness with the whole makes it hard for you to commit yourself to fully connecting to specific individuals. Again, because you are in touch with yourself, you are clear about how you feel – which of course is not always true of others.
As with all cards which involve close links with the Unconscious, your issues are with the world of Form – connectedness to people and emotions. Manifestation is the arena of the Will as much as of Spirit, and exposure to the Will may mean being buffeted by strong emotions, like a walker on a very windy day. This exposure to passion can eclipse the unconscious connection – something you have resistance to. Your problem is that given your ability to go back and forth across the interface between consciousness and the unconscious, you have an inner balance which has plenty of amplitude and which you are therefore reluctant to disturb. The biggest potential disturbance is other people, so that falling in love, to take the extreme case, is something that you have a lot of resistance to. In general, given the extent of your inner resources, you experience no great urge for any form of close contact with others. Paradoxically, therefore, the greatest threat to your well-being, and the force likely to undermine it, is change. This means change in the sense of upheaval, of a sharp break from the continuity of your existence. In fact, it is exactly this energy that you are attracting to yourself: challenging you to come out of your comfort zone in no-man’s land and plunge into the clamour and frenzy of combat in the world of Form.
Divination summary
flexibility, flux; non-doctrinaire attitudes; uncommitted in relationship; elusiveness, enterprise, insight, self-awareness, rounded personality, wide interests, no settled life-style, travel, career change, makes a strong impression on others; difficulty committing in relationship; reluctance to settle for one person, career or lifestyle; non-conformity.
http://www.rainringcards.com/Cards/FlowSinger/41.aspx
The image
A dark-skinned girl stands in a brown river whose bank, visible in the distance, is covered with lush foliage. Above the waist, she is wearing only a turtle pendant around her neck and two garlands of flowers across her chest. Round her waist, we can just see above the waterline the red material of whatever covers the lower half of her body. She wears a blue flower in her hair, and is smiling. She holds her arms down and slightly out from her body, turned so that the open palms of both hands face us. It is clear that she has been making ripples in the water. She has two familiars, both of whom are shown larger than natural perspective: to her left as we look at her, a blue swan representing co-incidence; to her right, a grey elephant representing time. The image is completed by two sprays of leaves, possibly olive.
The archetype.
Flow-Singer is the card at the centre of the grid and is the archetype of the Unconscious. As such, she is the card furthest from the light, her significance in the world of consciousness being the most difficult of all the grid cards to assess. The Unconscious is the origin, so the number 5 in no way implies that Flow-Singer comes ‘after’ the previous four. As the card of set 5 and group 5, the double Unconscious, Flow Singer represents the emergence of the Unconscious into consciousness. She is therefore at the crossroads between time, reason and causality – the building-blocks of consciousness; and coincidence, dream, symbol and acausality: the frame of reference of the Unconscious.
Divinatory meanings
Flow-Singer: the mediator between consciousness and the unconscious, causality (time) and acausality (synchronicity); the source of the stories of being.
To draw this card is to show proof of flexibility; to have the inner freedom to go in many possible directions. You are at ease in the ebb and flow of existence, because you are not committed to any particular viewpoint or course of action: you are available for whatever turns up. This means that your inner attitude is that of someone for whom issues or situations are ongoing – you do not regard yourself as being at the end of anything, as having reached completion. Because you have a free flow of access to the Unconscious, you are making an impression – not by deliberately drawing attention to yourself, but by being connected. In relationship, you have the capacity for affinity, because you can sense what lies behind the masks that people use; but this capacity is dormant, since your connectedness with the whole makes it hard for you to commit yourself to fully connecting to specific individuals. Again, because you are in touch with yourself, you are clear about how you feel – which of course is not always true of others.
As with all cards which involve close links with the Unconscious, your issues are with the world of Form – connectedness to people and emotions. Manifestation is the arena of the Will as much as of Spirit, and exposure to the Will may mean being buffeted by strong emotions, like a walker on a very windy day. This exposure to passion can eclipse the unconscious connection – something you have resistance to. Your problem is that given your ability to go back and forth across the interface between consciousness and the unconscious, you have an inner balance which has plenty of amplitude and which you are therefore reluctant to disturb. The biggest potential disturbance is other people, so that falling in love, to take the extreme case, is something that you have a lot of resistance to. In general, given the extent of your inner resources, you experience no great urge for any form of close contact with others. Paradoxically, therefore, the greatest threat to your well-being, and the force likely to undermine it, is change. This means change in the sense of upheaval, of a sharp break from the continuity of your existence. In fact, it is exactly this energy that you are attracting to yourself: challenging you to come out of your comfort zone in no-man’s land and plunge into the clamour and frenzy of combat in the world of Form.
Divination summary
flexibility, flux; non-doctrinaire attitudes; uncommitted in relationship; elusiveness, enterprise, insight, self-awareness, rounded personality, wide interests, no settled life-style, travel, career change, makes a strong impression on others; difficulty committing in relationship; reluctance to settle for one person, career or lifestyle; non-conformity.
