Rainring Masterclass 5 set 7 card 58: Vision

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Rainring Masterclass 5 set 7 card 59: Vision

59. Vision: group – Unconscious (5 indigo)
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The Image

The scene is of a river with trees on the far bank and stepping stones in the water. On the nearest of these stands a woman wearing a blue top and deep blue skirt and looking towards us. She is barefoot, has her left hand behind her back and her right arm at her side. We see her over the shoulder of a man who stands on the near bank apparently staring at her. A faint white line around the contour of her body suggests that she may be an immaterial vision, rather than a creature of flesh and blood.

The meaning

Vision: what is perceived by the inner eye of the artist and expressed through his oeuvre; to conceive mental images, or have them revealed to one

A General

Vision is defined by Merriam-Webster as: ‘the act or power of imagination… unusual discernment or foresight… direct mystical awareness of the supernatural usually in visible form.’ It is the set 7 card that deals with the influence of the Unconscious on the communication process of art. Vision is seeing, but we often use it in the sense of ‘second sight’ – clairvoyant seeing - or of seeing from an exceptional perspective: both widely and far ahead. This language is a reminder that consciousness is only the tip of the psychific iceberg: overwhelmingly the larger portion of the contents of the psyche lies in the area not immedieately available to consciousness. Vision is part of the process of accessing that area.

B Specific

When you meet the numinous experience of Vision – in dreams, or quiet, meditative states - it is something profoundly joyful yet, paradoxically, will cause you pain. This is because it forces you to confront the fact that, on the scale of the cosmos, you are profoundly insignificant. In Vision, with its powerful emotional content, you experience moments of transcendance – a sense of something vaster and more inclusive than the shallow, petty preoccupations, the restricted horizons of your everyday existence. It is because great art comes from there that it has the power to transport us to other dimensions of ourselves. If the Vision involves relationship, this will take place in an atmosphere of serenity, in such contrast to ordinary life that you will find it upsetting and challenging – and come out of it into pain.

Vision is primarily an emotional experience, though your spirit will later be drawn in to evaluate what has occurred, analyse the insights gained. Where this evaluation does not occur satisfactorily, there is a danger of you ending up pedalling some crackpot, even dangerous message to the world. The rational element of yourself, your spirit side, may well not want to relinquish control to this passionate experience. Many scientists, similarly, have a very unobjective resistance to visionary experience. The role of your spirit must not be to try to block vision, dismissing it as simple imagination, but to be vigilant about where it wants to take you. The thrust of this powerful emotional experience of Vision should normally be towards your producing creative work. The Vision demands that you express, give it material form, communicate. This, too, is the antidote to the pain.

To sum up, Vision is part of your process of intuition: a direct knowing whose source is not reason. The Unconscious can certainly have this card refer also to foresight, to someone or something that looks charming, and to seeing in general, according to the possibilities in the dictionary. But the central thrust is about your being inspired, moved and uplifted by something beyond your normal frame of reference. And beware, the power that lies here can always be abused.

Divination summary

Inspiration, revelation, feelings of transcendence, clairvoyance, direct contact with the non-material world, dream, meditation or trance-induced images; foresight, prophecy, seeing the bigger picture, imagination; the use of sight; charming appearance.