Velkommen til afsnit 31 af serien Årsrejse i Tarottens talkort. De foregående tekster kan findes under hovedsiden Tarot.
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20. januar – 29. januar
Dette er det faste lufttegns urolige anslag – Vandbærerens ubehagelige optakt. Kortets navn er Defeat // Nederlag. Dets formel lyder: Luft + Venus i Vandbæreren + 5. sfære.
Vi befinder os i trængslernes hjem:
Geburah, den martialske sfære; stedet erindres fra besøgene i Bekymring, Strid og Skuffelse:
In the “Naples arrangement”, the introduction of the number Five shows the idea of motion coming to the aid of that of matter. This is quite a revolutionary conception; the result is a complete upset of the statically stabilized system. Now appear storm and stress.
This must not be regarded as something “evil”. The natural feeling about it is really a little more than the reluctance of people to get up from lunch and go back to the job. In the Buddhist doctrine of Sorrow this idea is implicit, that inertia and insensitiveness must characterize peace. The climate of India is perhaps partly responsible for this notion. The Adepts of the White School, of which the Tarot is the sacred book, cannot agree to such a simplification of existence. Every phenomenon is a sacrament.
Også denne erfaring er hellig. Dét er doktrinen: At vågne op og tage vel imod det hele.
Utilstrækkelig kraft
Om Sværdenes 5 læser vi:
The Five of Swords is similarly troublesome; the card is called Defeat. There has been insufficient power to maintain the armed peace of the Four. The quarrel has actually broken out. This must mean defeat, for the original idea of the Sword was a manifestation of the result of the love between the Wand and the Cup. It is because the birth had to express itself in the duality of the Sword and the Disk that the nature of each appears so imperfect.
Utilstrækkelig kraft – det er jo vilkåret; i sindets evigt omskiftelige luftlag varer en våbenhvile aldrig evigt. Blæsten råder. Omslaget kommer. Alting forandres. Nu, nu og nu. Hvem stoler på en storm?
Svaghed
Og videre:
Geburah, as always, produces disruption; but as Venus here rules Aquarius, weakness rather than excess of strength seems the cause of disaster. The intellect has been enfeebled by sentiment. The defeat is due to pacifism. Treachery also may be implied.
The hilts of the swords form the inverted pentagram, always a symbol of somewhat sinister tendency. Here matters are even worse; none of the hilts resembles any of the others, and their blades are crooked or broken. They give the impression of drooping; only the lowest of the swords points upwards, and this is the least effective of the weapons. The rose of the previous card has been altogether disintegrated.
The historian is happy to observe two perfect illustrations of the mode of this card and the last in the birth of the Aeon of (I) Osiris, (2) Horus. He will note the decay of such Virtue as characterized Sparta and Rome, ending in the establishment of the Pax Romana. As Virtue declined, corruption disintegrated the Empire from within. Epicene cults, such as those of Dionysus (in its degraded form), of Attis, of Adonis, of Cybele, the false Demeter and the prostituted Isis, replaced the sterner rites of the true Solar- Phallic gods; until finally (the masters having lost the respect, and so the control, of the plebs, native and alien) the lowest of all the slave-cults, dressed up in the fables of the vilest of the parasitic races, swept over the known world, and drenched it in foul darkness for five hundred years. He will delight to draw close parallels with the cognate phenomena displayed before the present generation.
Svaghed – udtalt mangel på myndig magt; en sødlig lammelse af viljen til at samle sindet. Rosen er ødelagt. Tilbage er kun nogle blade. Her egner viljeløst venusiske længsler sig ikke. Læs selv, hvad manden skriver. Tænk, hvad du vil; og hvad du kan. Glem ikke dette: I nederlaget dvæler muligheden for at vide:
Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking.
Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so is consciousness a disorder of life.
Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness.
Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking, the Truth is – The Unknown
Kærlighed er Loven, kærlighed under vilje