Thank you! Yes I am very fond of the Tarot and JMG has contributed much to my own path too. I’m glad you get the sensation of clarity, a very good sign. Very often I can’t say exactly what it is but getting the feeling of clarity is a flag I always take as a sign that I am going the right way. Many times I doubt myself but when I have the spread in front of me it is like reading words from a page, it is just right there. Listening in ones head is a very hard skill, much harder than divination, at least it is for me. Whenever I pray I sometimes can get the message straight but most of the time I end up using divination to make sense of it. After all divination means reading the gods, so it is a suitable medium for that. JMG has an appendix on one of his books about how to pray. It is basically the same exercise we did at the beginning but instead of visualizing after the rhythmic breathing you pray, and then you listen for at least as much. It tool me some skill but after a while I can get the sense of something else listening, it is rather trippy . Listening back is much harder, I can’t do it, all I get is a general feeling of something.
As for Magic studies, well yes JMG is a huge catalyzer on that aspect and has influenced my own studies very much, he is a powerful force on this front. However, remember that this divination is just for the decision you had to take right now, the Astral Light is always moving, and deciding whether ceremonial magic would be something for you on this life would take much more than a single divination! So don’t despair and definitely don’t stop reading his blog if you enjoy it! After all, the outcome of Magic for you seems positive, to me it is just perhaps a matter of how to fit it in with your healing work which seems to be very important to you. After all the caduceus is also a symbol of magical powers, and something that stood out to me from the beginning too, somehow it felt not so much of a choice but as how to approach the seemingly opposite binary. Perhaps choice A, healing being your priority will take you into some sort of esotericism or magic linked with healing, the winged lion is after all a symbol of alchemy. Magic can always take a second seat to such a noble pursuit as healing is and still be a powerful force, remember the spread was for your main focus, not exclusive stances, as well as the many parallels between the two. And if you want it and it is your will to do it, then you’ll get it. Are you aware of the Dolmen Arch volumes by JMG? As far as I know it works with the SoP and there is a healing method in it. Perhaps it could be worth considering. When you’ve meditated on all this I’ll be happy to further explore the possibilities ;-)
Yes, water traditionally mean the emotions but in this case to me it means healing energy concerning the situation as water is healing by nature; wands are fire and mean action in this case the eight of wands for example is swift action or something that moves from its own accord (since there is no people). The fact that there is a clear tendency in both sides is important in showing the characteristic of each choice. A is ,well, very clearly determined by healing energies and B by a fiery nature. I’ll look a little bit more into it and see if I can get more out of that dichotomy.
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Date: 2021-03-01 07:23 am (UTC)As for Magic studies, well yes JMG is a huge catalyzer on that aspect and has influenced my own studies very much, he is a powerful force on this front. However, remember that this divination is just for the decision you had to take right now, the Astral Light is always moving, and deciding whether ceremonial magic would be something for you on this life would take much more than a single divination! So don’t despair and definitely don’t stop reading his blog if you enjoy it! After all, the outcome of Magic for you seems positive, to me it is just perhaps a matter of how to fit it in with your healing work which seems to be very important to you. After all the caduceus is also a symbol of magical powers, and something that stood out to me from the beginning too, somehow it felt not so much of a choice but as how to approach the seemingly opposite binary. Perhaps choice A, healing being your priority will take you into some sort of esotericism or magic linked with healing, the winged lion is after all a symbol of alchemy. Magic can always take a second seat to such a noble pursuit as healing is and still be a powerful force, remember the spread was for your main focus, not exclusive stances, as well as the many parallels between the two. And if you want it and it is your will to do it, then you’ll get it. Are you aware of the Dolmen Arch volumes by JMG? As far as I know it works with the SoP and there is a healing method in it. Perhaps it could be worth considering. When you’ve meditated on all this I’ll be happy to further explore the possibilities ;-)
Yes, water traditionally mean the emotions but in this case to me it means healing energy concerning the situation as water is healing by nature; wands are fire and mean action in this case the eight of wands for example is swift action or something that moves from its own accord (since there is no people). The fact that there is a clear tendency in both sides is important in showing the characteristic of each choice. A is ,well, very clearly determined by healing energies and B by a fiery nature. I’ll look a little bit more into it and see if I can get more out of that dichotomy.
All the best!