Totem Animals |
"Some individuals ... have the ability to
short-cut their reasoning. Instead of the ordinary slow mental process
of the objective mind, the processes are carried out by the unconscious
mind which has more complete data at its disposal, and which acts almost
instantly in drawing conclusions ... These conclusions ... rise into the
objective consciousness as intuition.."
"As the Wheel's turning reveals, nothing
exists per se: everything is becoming and everything is dying - not sequentially
in time, but all at once. Even as we read these words, some of our body
cells are dying and new ones are being born. ... As we quiet our breathing
and synchronize our heartbeats to the motion of the Wheel, we can connect
with our own birthing and dying - not as two discrete happenings, but rather
as two ever present aspects of a wheel whose revolutions stretch into infinity."
"... nowhere in the universe
The key to the Wheel is equilibrium. We need balance
to ride a bicycle. We also need balance to ride the waves of consciousness
as it ebbs and flows into unconsciousness. We can do this through dreams,
which reveal our inner being very graphically sometimes. We can do this
by paying attention to intuitions that arise from inner spaces unbidden.
We can do this by consciously paying attention to all that is unusual in
our world. To settle into the ordinary is to lose momentum, and thus equilibrium.
Sources Zain, C. C., The Sacred Tarot. Los Angeles, The Church of Light, 1936. Nichols, Sallie, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey. York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, 1980. Case, Paul Foster, The Book of Tokens: 22 Meditations on the Ageless Wisdom. Los Angeles, Builder of the Adytum, 1968. Rider-Waite Tarot Deck, known also as the Rider Tarot and the Waite Tarot (Copyright 1971 by U.S. Games Systems, Inc.) |