Sophie-David
In the image of the Botticelli Venus, the Connolly Temperance is the cover girl on the deck's box, representing the underlying theme of the deck itself. At the centre of her forehead, a star mandala in orange and gold represents the inner eye of the sixth chakra. In this archetype of Temperance, the inner and outer worlds are revealed with equal clarity, the intuitive and the intellectual both come into focus, spiritual wisdom balances disciplined intelligence.
Descending from the heavens and surrounding her head, a white light or halo, illustrative of the crown chakra, manifests the universal consciousness, drawing the being into connectedness and oneness. On page 9 the LWB suggests that this power has awakened her inner eye, "the force of this transformation... causes the red cloak of individuality to fall away". I also note that like her cloak, her red rose of passion is also falling away.
Without any apparent focus or intention, Temperance perfectly mixes the contents of the two chalices, as if her body is perfectly harmonized with her inner processes. She wears a white dress of purity, trimmed in blue and gold, with an equilateral triangle of balance above her heart. A blue sash flows around her body, mirroring the flow between the cups.
Temperance stands above a fertile valley of hedged pastures, and in the distance of her unconscious lie mountains of violet and indigo, the colours reflecting the energies of the crown and third eye chakras. Upon these mountains the sun is dawning, a golden crown of enlightenment and masculine vitality embracing the distance peaks, the rising of her Inner Beloved.
Descending from the heavens and surrounding her head, a white light or halo, illustrative of the crown chakra, manifests the universal consciousness, drawing the being into connectedness and oneness. On page 9 the LWB suggests that this power has awakened her inner eye, "the force of this transformation... causes the red cloak of individuality to fall away". I also note that like her cloak, her red rose of passion is also falling away.
Without any apparent focus or intention, Temperance perfectly mixes the contents of the two chalices, as if her body is perfectly harmonized with her inner processes. She wears a white dress of purity, trimmed in blue and gold, with an equilateral triangle of balance above her heart. A blue sash flows around her body, mirroring the flow between the cups.
Temperance stands above a fertile valley of hedged pastures, and in the distance of her unconscious lie mountains of violet and indigo, the colours reflecting the energies of the crown and third eye chakras. Upon these mountains the sun is dawning, a golden crown of enlightenment and masculine vitality embracing the distance peaks, the rising of her Inner Beloved.
