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Velkommen til afsnit 34 af serien Årsrejse i Tarottens talkort. De foregående tekster kan findes under hovedsiden Tarot.
Gør hvad du vil skal være Lovens helhed
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Dette er selve den merkurialt formidlede forening af saturnisk ynde & venusisk strenghed – stilstandens mærkeligt milde mirakel midt i alt dette døende, som sandelig, sandelig vælder aldeles frivilligt op. I Fiskens kobberdød bor alt det indestængte. Er dette mon en ende?
Kortets navn er Sløvhed / Indolence. Dets formel lyder: Vand + Saturn i Fiskenes tegn + 8. sfære.
Her går det godt:
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Hod, hod, hod – Indblanding, Omtanke og Hurtighed, nu sammenføjede i noget fjerde :
The four Eights are attributed to Hod. Being in the same plane as the Sevens on the Tree of Life, but on the other side, the same inherent defects as are found in the Sevens will apply.
Yet one may perhaps urge this alleviation, that the Eights come as (in a sense) a remedy for the error of the Sevens. The mischief has been done; and there is now a reaction against it. One may, therefore, expect to find that, while there is no possibility of perfection in the cards of this number, they are free from such essential and original errors as in the Lower case.
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(Let there be a short digression with regard to the signs of the Zodiac. In the case of each element, the Cardinal sign represents the swift, impulsive onrush of the idea. In the Kerubic sign, the element has come to its full balance of power; and in the other signs the force is fading away. Thus, Aries represents the rush of fire, Lightning; Leo, its power, the Sun; and Sagittarius, the rainbow,its sublimation. Similar considerations apply to the other elements. See the Attributions section: The Triplicities of the Zodiac.)
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Og videre – for nu at komme dagens emne nær:
The Eight of Cups is called Indolence. This card is the very apex of unpleasantness. It is ruled by the planet Saturn; time, sorrow, have descended upon pleasure, and there is no strength in the element of water which can react against it. This card is not exactly “the morning after the night before”; but it is very nearly that. The difference is that the “night before” has not happened! This card represents a party for which all preparations have been made; but the host has forgotten to invite the guests; or, the caterers have not delivered the good cheer. There is this difference, though, that it is in some way or other the host’s own fault. The party that he planned was just a little bit above his capacity; perhaps he lost heart at the last moment.
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Vi holder os til drejebogen:
The Eight, Hod, in the suit of Water, governs this card. It shows the influence of Mercury, but this is overpowered by the reference of the card to Saturn in Pisces. Pisces is calm but stagnant water; and Saturn deadens it completely. Water appears no longer as the Sea but as pools; and there is no florescence in this card as there was in the last. The Lotuses droop for lack of sun and rain, and the soil is poison to them; only two of the stems sliow blossoms at all. The cups are shallow, old and broken. They are arranged in three rows; of these the upper row of three is quite empty. Water trickles from the two flowers into the two central cups, and they drip into the two lowest without filling them. The background of the card shows pools, or lagoons, in very extensive country, incap able of cultivation; only disease and miasmatic poison can flourish in those vast Bad Lands.
The water is dark and muddy. On the horizon is a pallid, yellowish light, weighed down by leaden clouds of indigo.
Compare with the last card; it represents the opposite and complementary error. The one is the Garden of Kundry, the other the Palace of Klingsor.
In the psychopathology of The Path, this card is the German Measles of Christian Mysticism.
Wagner, Wagner, Wagner – hvorfor har du forladt os?
Klingsors Palads og Kundrys Have – Troldmandens overdrevne tørhed i ganske u(r)erfaren sammenføjning med Skovhekses udøsning i dunst.
Hvad får man, når der blandes den slags?
Alle, bælle
– tælle, tælle –
Iz a Game
of
Numbers
Glem ikke din
Vaccine
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