2 of Swords

While listening to some relaxing ambient music the other day I was thinking of how we digest things that happen to us on our path to discover things and revelations of the life we live now and here.

We do need the outer world, the experiences - diverse qualities of that - whether they are hurting us or in a matter of fact - touch some soft places in our psyche and soul that cause different sorts of pain. We absorb the energy and the message that is others and different objects, people, places and events. We either incorporate the patterns of nourishing ourselves with awareness and being open to learn and develop or the methods of self-abusive behaviour that can have a face of love or something that superficially may take our fancy. But where does it lead us?

We can get out of touch with ourselves in the pace of mistakenly perceived systems: either behavioural ones or philosphical. The reason for that is often quite easy to spot - as the consciousness is separated from its source code and environment, we are not able to see beyond our own choices and follow the flow of life that finally drown in.

True conviction of what we do comes usually from putting  the perceptions on the level of our feelings. The ocean of what we are not aware of - the unconscious is portrayed in the card 2 of Swords as ocean with the moon. The limitations we put on ourselves - crossed swords are intellect and hinder admittance.

It's difficult to be clear how we perceive things especially when we are in some dire situation when different opinions and judgements surround us, the minute voice of our intuition is overwhelmed by so much interference. We might get petrified and paralyzed not being able to make any step forward - one that is closer to the "right" choice.

Being at peace with ourselves is always a step towards understanding our human particle as a derivative of a bigger wholeness. Partial perception has a very important feature which is the limiting to only one way of understanding things - be it rational mind or the flows and ebbs of romantic part of our self. It will ultimately lead to the limitation of the space we might use as an outlet of choice and its options. The space, the void which as buddhist teachings acertain is not empty - we can be at peace and see instantly the rising moon of possibilities. In tranquility...

Fool

“There is something in the nature of all play that is not serious, but at the same time can be sincere.” –Alan Watts

Welcome to the second  entry of Djed Taroth Blog. I hope all of you had a great start into 2015.As we step into a new year - the questions which were supressed and not answered before start to emerge out of nothingness.Our own way towards answering those questions can be varied depending on our personal conditions - psychological, material, family-related or any other stance that we take on. Quite often the pattern of thinking we use is somewhat a derivatitve of our "must's" and "should's" - a norm we acknowledged for granted not necessarily asking ourselves - "Is this the way I would do this?"Faith, it seems, can be quite myopic if it is without a shadow of doubt and leads to naïvete.Fool in tarot is the card of seemingly dubious expression. Only seemingly so as we look closer at the persona. Walking carelessly and often depicted with a dog biting up his ankle Fool bears the characteristics of sacred trickster - the one that makes a quite foreseeable unreasonable jump into something that most would take as rather an act of suicide yet there is more to it on symbolical level that can teach us a great deal to drink from.  Using your own sense to deal with matters where there is diversity of importance we might start trusting our own intuition and ideas which often stem from the cocky sense of humour and the will to go against the grain, try out different ways. On a lighter note we might be in a situation where quite extreme measures can be used to deal with a situation and yet our inner compass and humane feature of endeavouring things not as predictable as we usually approach leads to new doors.The scale of means we use to solve our problems can be measured with approximate answers, possible beliefs and different degrees of how certain are we but does it really makes us sure of how we should conduct anything? Embracing the uncertainity and treating it with a proper dose of self-inflicted joy and cheerfulness has never been a better trait to help yourself. We are after all fallible creatures and prone to making mistakes - bigger, smaller- it's all humane thing. We can all be Drunken Kung Fu Masters and reveal the Wider Scale plan of creation out of something Unknown, Uncertain, Shapeless and only seemingly Hopeless.Fool and its archetype has been always one of the major figures  in tarot but also a common figure in complexed and hierarchical  world of feudal society back in Middle Ages and many other social forms in Europe and worldwide. A peripheral nature of this persona is another trait that can be interpreted to benefit from. There is a certain point of balance that we may use to help ourselves.  Laughing of ourselves and how seriously we took what is given to us as a role to play or our own mistakes and the utter nonsense of them when we look from different perspective is a feature that can be introduction to actually stimulate others - coaxing them to be open minded and grasp a completely opposite viewpoints and benefit from them. The reason it is in service to imagination - it's the very power of enlarging and elongating the horizons to breed some new forms and shapes and functions they follow. It's the music of our psychological individuation to breed new forms of tonality out of something atonal.Fool has a very dense layer of social symbolic aspects. The voice we need to intiate to be heard is the rebellious one - the one against the rigidness of the system we profess to understand and obey. But how far it can last? It's the mask we take off the face and the mask of a jester that helps us, only for a time to express something important. But hey! Wasn't that the answer we needed?Thank you