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39. Creation: group - heart (3 green)
http://www.rainringcards.com/Cards/Creation/39.aspx
The image
A certain naivety pervades this image of the Creation, which looks for all the world like a lopsided goldfish bowl. Freshness and innocence, rather than sophistication, dominate this view of the new-made Earth. From the top down, a sky with while clouds gives way to a green Earth with mountains, fields and some deer-like animals. These again, in the foreground, give way to an ‘ocean’, in which swim two small fish, but which is entirely dominated by an enormous whale. At the left of the image, at the water’s edge, is a tree whose branches swirl out towards the fields and mountains.
The ArchetypeCreation: Conception + Desire = Creation; the latter is the product of fusion of the two former, also the balancer between them.
We live in a bi-polar cosmos. Creation is possible at the point where the two fundamental constituents of the psyche – Conception (male) and Desire (female) come together. This union produces a third element, which incorporates in itself part of the nature of each of its progenitors. The scenario is identical to that by which male and female (e.g. humans) mate and produce offspring: genetically, the latter are a mixture of the parents; in the same way, they are a psychic mix of male and female elements also. Creation is the prototype of the ‘offspring’. The bi-polarity of Spirit and Will is inherently unstable; it is Heart, of which Creation is the fundamental archetype, which provides the balance, out of which will come Form (card 39).
Divinatory meanings
Creation is a spirit-side activity with its roots in the (female) Unconscious. Merriam-Webster: creation – ‘the act of bringing the world into ordered existence; ….. an original work of art’. Just as the Creation has its origins, ultimately, in the Unconscious, so the artist brings into being an original work which similarly originates in the Unconscious. Interestingly, we have origin and original from the same root – the Latin oriri, to rise. Again, the theme of the artist’s muse is a very widespread one. This corresponds to the card 59, Vision. This is the link between the Unconscious and the creative process. The vision is a form of Input from the Unconscious (card 77), symbolised by the offer of a box (as in the case of Pandora) containing secrets from the other world.[3]
A feeling of inflation accompanies creative work. You feel as if you are a person of exceptional value; that you are above the common mass of humanity. This feeling is the effect of contact with the Unconscious, whose reach and resources are so much vaster than those of the conscious mind – how could one who has access to them fail to feel at least a little god-like? This is likely to be reinforced by the feelings of deference with which the creative act and person are typically met. As a creator you are a pioneer, after all, and this is reflected in the respect, even almost reverence accorded to your creative endeavour. Creation is an active, rather male-sided pursuit but it is powered by the outpourings of the Unconscious. This means you are in thrall to your muse – when you have access to ‘her’, you work and are ecstatic; when you lose contact with her, you are bereft and downcast.
Given the individualistic and charismatic nature of the creator, it is natural enough that opposition to your creative process should come from Need. No matter what the rewards reaped by dedication to the solitary discipline of Creation, you will not be able to avoid indefinitely the competing demands of the appetites, including primarily the need for society, company, relationship with your fellow-beings. Creative activity cannot go very far if it is not integrated into a matrix of human contact. All in all, as a creative individual you exhibit the characteristic of Radiance: the strong sense of yourself, your daemon (‘attendant power or spirit’[4]), a dedication to your task which makes you able to rise above the limitations of the dominant or submissive tendencies in interpersonal behaviour. To be creative is to have an effective and solid sense of self, since how else will you withstand the encounter with the Unconscious? The creator who loses this centre will end up soon enough on the scrap-heap of the psyche.
Divination summary
creative endeavour; breakthroughs in intuiting and understanding, solitary work, self-imposed discipline, dedication to a task, self-confidence, feelings of worth; being set apart from ordinary people; admiration from others, being in thrall to one’s muse, therefore alternance of exhilaration and depression; struggle against impulses to socialise.
http://www.rainringcards.com/Cards/Creation/39.aspx
The image
A certain naivety pervades this image of the Creation, which looks for all the world like a lopsided goldfish bowl. Freshness and innocence, rather than sophistication, dominate this view of the new-made Earth. From the top down, a sky with while clouds gives way to a green Earth with mountains, fields and some deer-like animals. These again, in the foreground, give way to an ‘ocean’, in which swim two small fish, but which is entirely dominated by an enormous whale. At the left of the image, at the water’s edge, is a tree whose branches swirl out towards the fields and mountains.
The ArchetypeCreation: Conception + Desire = Creation; the latter is the product of fusion of the two former, also the balancer between them.
We live in a bi-polar cosmos. Creation is possible at the point where the two fundamental constituents of the psyche – Conception (male) and Desire (female) come together. This union produces a third element, which incorporates in itself part of the nature of each of its progenitors. The scenario is identical to that by which male and female (e.g. humans) mate and produce offspring: genetically, the latter are a mixture of the parents; in the same way, they are a psychic mix of male and female elements also. Creation is the prototype of the ‘offspring’. The bi-polarity of Spirit and Will is inherently unstable; it is Heart, of which Creation is the fundamental archetype, which provides the balance, out of which will come Form (card 39).
Divinatory meanings
Creation is a spirit-side activity with its roots in the (female) Unconscious. Merriam-Webster: creation – ‘the act of bringing the world into ordered existence; ….. an original work of art’. Just as the Creation has its origins, ultimately, in the Unconscious, so the artist brings into being an original work which similarly originates in the Unconscious. Interestingly, we have origin and original from the same root – the Latin oriri, to rise. Again, the theme of the artist’s muse is a very widespread one. This corresponds to the card 59, Vision. This is the link between the Unconscious and the creative process. The vision is a form of Input from the Unconscious (card 77), symbolised by the offer of a box (as in the case of Pandora) containing secrets from the other world.[3]
A feeling of inflation accompanies creative work. You feel as if you are a person of exceptional value; that you are above the common mass of humanity. This feeling is the effect of contact with the Unconscious, whose reach and resources are so much vaster than those of the conscious mind – how could one who has access to them fail to feel at least a little god-like? This is likely to be reinforced by the feelings of deference with which the creative act and person are typically met. As a creator you are a pioneer, after all, and this is reflected in the respect, even almost reverence accorded to your creative endeavour. Creation is an active, rather male-sided pursuit but it is powered by the outpourings of the Unconscious. This means you are in thrall to your muse – when you have access to ‘her’, you work and are ecstatic; when you lose contact with her, you are bereft and downcast.
Given the individualistic and charismatic nature of the creator, it is natural enough that opposition to your creative process should come from Need. No matter what the rewards reaped by dedication to the solitary discipline of Creation, you will not be able to avoid indefinitely the competing demands of the appetites, including primarily the need for society, company, relationship with your fellow-beings. Creative activity cannot go very far if it is not integrated into a matrix of human contact. All in all, as a creative individual you exhibit the characteristic of Radiance: the strong sense of yourself, your daemon (‘attendant power or spirit’[4]), a dedication to your task which makes you able to rise above the limitations of the dominant or submissive tendencies in interpersonal behaviour. To be creative is to have an effective and solid sense of self, since how else will you withstand the encounter with the Unconscious? The creator who loses this centre will end up soon enough on the scrap-heap of the psyche.
Divination summary
creative endeavour; breakthroughs in intuiting and understanding, solitary work, self-imposed discipline, dedication to a task, self-confidence, feelings of worth; being set apart from ordinary people; admiration from others, being in thrall to one’s muse, therefore alternance of exhilaration and depression; struggle against impulses to socialise.
