THE BRIDGE-WAY

Carol wrote:Excellent work Vidya. Thank you.

Currently the following members are logged in and most likely following this thread. I think what occurred just illustrates what happens when any member refuses to maintain an attitude of respect toward another member that they are irritated with. How many are now not posting because their feelings were wounded?

The eXchanger
eMonkey
Lionhawk
Ashera
ClearWater
Beren
Mudra
Oxy
Seashore
Sanicle
Vidya

I agree with you mudra. We don't have much time and when the net goes down that's it. So just in case... I'll say good-bye now. Thanks for all your treasured posts everyone.

The Missing Link

mudra wrote:This is a good video I came across today
As I listened to it I thought it was highlighting here and there the tarot path as it shows up in day to day life
A brilliant mind Jordan Peterson is and a courageous man too.

The video also reminded me of Joseph Campbell's famous Hero's journey where a protagonist embarks on an adventure into the unknown. They learn lessons, overcome adversity, defeat evil, and return home transformed.

We only have bits and pieces sewn together in that video , of a much wider and detailed work one can find in Jordan Peterson's Twelve rules for life and Maps of meaning.

Enjoy  

crowley wrote: He is Fire of Fire. He is active, generous, fierce, sudden and impetuous. Ill dignified he is evil minded, cruel, bigoted and brutal. In either case he is ill - fitted to carry out his actions, if he fails at his first attempt he has no more resource. He wins spectacularly or fails spectacularly. A warning to be careful of untimely action and the need to remain cool and resolute.

crowley wrote: Fire of Water, this is the power of solution, but few can harmonize such a mix. He is mostly passive and graceful and quick to respond to attraction. Although he is sensitive he has no material depth and the swiftness and violence of the Knights ill suit a naturally placid
character, so he tends to mismanage his affairs unless sheer good luck attends him. His career is often a broken record of failure, often becoming a drug addict. His natural innocence and purity make him likeable but he’s often not deep enough for those virtues to easily manifest as profound nobility of character.

crowley wrote: He  is Fire of Air, a violent wind suggesting - attack!
He represents activity, skill, subtlety and cleverness. He is fierce, delicate, courageous and skilful but he is much too much the prey of his own ideas which come to him as an inspiration and without reflection. Ill dignified he is incapable of making any decisions and he is tyrannical and crafty.  

crowley wrote: He is Fire of Earth, the activity of Earth as a producer of life, but he can also be volcanic. Unless very well dignified he is heavy, dull and materialistic.

Clever and patient in all material matters, his success is due to instinct. Lacking sophistication and subtlety, he can even make ignorance a virtue! He is entirely confined to the production of food and keeps his nose to the grindstone. He has little time for intellectual musings or the finer aspects of culture and civilization. These people tend to be dull and heavy and preoccupied with material things. They can be stupid, slavish and incapable of foresight. They can be instinctively jealous but not have the courage or the intellect to better themselves.

crowley wrote: She is Water of Fire – The fluidity and colour of Fire. An attractive power, liked, kind and generous when not opposed. Immense capacity for friendship and love, but on her initiative. An image of supreme feminine strength and nobility, but this is something of a façade. She has pride but it lacks the nobility of the Knights so it can be vanity and even snobbery. On a bad day she can be broody, obstinate, revengeful, domineering and tyrannical and may turn against people for no reason. She can also come to wrong decisions and react with great savagery. She can be easily deceived and is quick to take offence. .

crowley wrote: She is Water of Water – the power of reflection and reception.
Her image is of extreme purity and it is almost impossible to see the truth of her, when people look at her they only see themselves.

Dreaminess, illusion and tranquillity are represented. She is the perfect agent – able to transmit anything without herself being affected. When ill dignified anything that passes through her will be corrupted and distorted. It can be said that this person has no character of their own and reflects back the nature of the observer. She likes to lead and attract others.  She is imaginative, poetic and kind but she is unwilling to make much effort for others. She is good natured under a dreamy appearance.

crowley wrote: As Yetzirah is the realm of deception, we are to understand that keen observation and perception are the sword which protects us, slicing away all fantasy and unreality. The child alone is innocent and unfettered by sterile concepts and useless ideas. It is the very head of man, the thinking-centre, which is severed. The principles of the Queen of Swords bring us to an understanding of the ways in which we are deceived by thought, and teach us how to transcend it.

Representing the Watery part of Air she has elasticity and transmissive power.

She is intensely perceptive, a keen observer and a subtle interpreter, intense, individualistic, swift, accurate, confident in action, gracious in spirit and just. She carries a sword of discretion and reason and she has separated the higher faculties of the intellect from the influences of the lower nature. She is the liberator of the mind. Such people can attract intense love and devotion from the most unexpected quarters. Ill dignified she is cruel, sly and unreliable, though with a good exterior.

crowley wrote: She is Water of Earth, life giving Water to a thirsty Earth, she is fertility. She represents the ambition of matter to take part in the great work of creation. She is not intellectual but her instinct and intuition are more than adequate for her needs. She can be very passive and possess immense funds of affection and kindness. She is ambitious, but only in useful directions, quiet, hard working, practical, sensible, domesticated, impetuous, kind, timid, charming, kind hearted, melancholy, truthful and moody. Ill dignified she can be undecided, capricious, changeable, foolish, purely mechanical, ruthless and manipulative.

crowley wrote: He is Air of Fire, which produces expansion and speed.. He is swift, strong, healthy, rather violent yet just and generous. Noble and scorning meanness. Ill dignified he is cruel, intolerant, prejudiced and ill-natured, an empty boaster and a coward. He is romantic, especially in matters of history and tradition, even to the point of folly. He has strong courage and indefatigable endurance. An extravagant boaster whilst laughing at his boast and himself for making it. He is inclined to impulse and easily led by external influences so he can be indecisive. He is always fighting and has lots of courage and endurance with an enormous work capacity.

crowley wrote: The Cup, held by the Prince, is Heh, and encloses the Yod-Serpent. As Vau, the Prince carries out the activities of the Yod and Heh combined; here is Water. The chariot itself is pulled across the water by an Eagle, water symbol among the four Kerubic emblems.

At another level, the suggestion is that the calm appearance of Water may hold violent and fiery energies, like sulphuric acid, which appears entirely benign until it has something upon which to act. Water symbolizes the personal, group, or universal Unconscious which bears dynamic energies.

crowley wrote: As Air of Air, he typifies the intellect. His ideas just tumble over each other with no real plan and are not related to practical effort. However he is immensely powerful due to his complete freedom from settled principles - any idea is as good as any other idea. He can be stormy and uncontrollable, a drug addict or alcoholic. It is easy to be deceived by such people. He is distrustful, suspicious, firm in friendship and enmity, careful, slow, observant and over-cautious. Ill dignified he is harsh, plotting, unreliable and malicious.

Astrological Correspondence
He rules 20° Capricorn to 20° Aquarius (Jan 10 – Feb = 4 Disks, 5 Swords, 6 Swords. (see Tarot Wheel,) He is mostly Fixed air, with some cardinal earth.
Last Decan of Capricorn - first two Decans of Aquarius

Qabalah / Golden Dawn
He resides in Tiphareth (6) on the Tree of Yetzirah.
Tiphareth – Beauty - Ruled by The Sun, strong and noble. Energy in complete balanced manifestation. solar beauty, healing and redemption. Tiphareth is a reflection of the Divine Light from Kether.
From Kether it appears is a child; from Malkuth, a king. It is the stabilizing centre point of the TOL. Tiphareth is the Sun Centre, the son or prince born from the marriage of the great father principle and the great mother principle (Chokmah and Binah).

It is the sphere of mysticism and mediates between the microcosm and the macrocosm; "As above, so Below’. Exoteric religions go no higher on the Tree of Life, Tiphareth is the focus of the Christian religion, as God is made manifest in form and dwells among us; i.e. comes within range of human consciousness. Tiphareth, the Son, "shows us" Kether, the Father.

Yetzirah formative world plane of astral forces, ideas projected still further, now with design. Also the realm of deception corresponds to the Astral plane, Swords in Tarot
Golden Dawn names:, Prince of the Chariots of the Winds, Prince and Emperor of Sylphs and Sylphides.
The Prince of Swords is Air of Air, Specific Air of Primal Air.

crowley wrote: He is Air of Earth, the 'fructification' of Earth.
He is energetic and competent, thoughtful, cautious, trustworthy, slow and steady. He can appear dull but he’s not, he just makes no effort to understand ideas beyond his scope. He is slow to anger but furious when roused. Peoples reaction to him depends on their own temperaments. He is the ultimate handy-man, always seeking new uses for common things and he adapts his circumstances to his purpose in a slow, steady, well-thought out plan. He can change the world with his great energy brought to bear upon the most solid of practical matters. He is almost entirely lacking in emotion and is insensitive. He is inclined to be resentful of more spiritual types.

crowley wrote: The dance of the virgin priestess of the Lords of Fire. She is extremely individualistic, brilliant and daring. She creates her own beauty by her essential vigour and energy. She never forgets and injury and her only patience is the patience to lie in ambush to avenge. Ill dignified she is superficial, theatrical, cruel, unstable and domineering; the ultimate drama Queen.

crowley wrote: She is Earth of Water - she can ground romantic ideas into manifestation and provide a fixed and fertile medium where the Water nourished life of ideas can flourish. She is sweetness, gentleness, poetry and kindness.

Imaginative, gracious and dreamy she is courageous if roused.  Ill dignified she can be selfish and luxurious, living in a world of romance in the perpetual dream of rapture. However her impression of selfishness and indolence are often false ones as she goes about her work silently and effortlessly.

crowley wrote: She is the Earthy part of Air, materialization of the idea or fixation of the volatile.
She can be slow and prey to constant anxiety but has wisdom, acuteness, strength and subtlety in material things. She is stern and revengeful but also graceful and dexterous.  Her logic is destructive and she is good at settling arguments. She is intelligent, but the mind is a great enemy and must be defeated in battle, it cannot grasp the higher consciousness. Ill dignified she is frivolous, cunning, incoherent and crushed by any kind of responsibility, but especially in family matters.

crowley wrote: She is Earth of Earth, the element on the brink of transfiguration
The lowest card of the lowest suit, but she is pregnant with the highest and lowest of all the suits, she carries within her body the potential of all possibilities, the key to perpetuating life in the universe . The next step ‘down’ is actually to Kether on the Tree of Atziluth (back to the very start). The diamond head on her staff is reference to Kether.

As ‘Womanhood in its ultimate projection’ she is generous, benevolent, kind, diligent, careful, strong and beautiful with an expression of intense brooding. Ill dignified she is wasteful and prodigal and may have a reputation for bewildering inconsistency.

crowley wrote: She is Earth of Earth, the element on the brink of transfiguration
The lowest card of the lowest suit, but she is pregnant with the highest and lowest of all the suits, she carries within her body the potential of all possibilities, the key to perpetuating life in the universe . The next step ‘down’ is actually to Kether on the Tree of Atziluth (back to the very start). The diamond head on her staff is reference to Kether.

As ‘Womanhood in its ultimate projection’ she is generous, benevolent, kind, diligent, careful, strong and beautiful with an expression of intense brooding. Ill dignified she is wasteful and prodigal and may have a reputation for bewildering inconsistency.

orthodoxymoron wrote:Thank-You, Carol. What if the Secret-Government Military consists of Three Major Factions (operating in and/or around This Solar-System) which might go back thousands, millions, or even billions of years?? Faction One: Earth-Human. Faction Two: This Solar-System Extraterrestrial. Faction Three: Universe Prison Solar Systems Incorporated (Macro-Level but NOT Micro-Level). These Three But The Greatest of These is the Universal Church WMD and Supercomputer Matrix!! Just a Hypothesis. A couple of nights ago, I might've seen a cigar-shaped spaceship quickly moving across the Full Moon as I looked through my telescope!! I Scare Myself Sometimes!! Someone and/or Something is Reining Me In with Hamstrung-Misery (Throughout My Life)!! Take Me to Your Therapist!! The Missing Link Especially Post 969.

Morpheus wrote:

For Mudra.

Morpheus wrote:


Click where it says, "Watch on Youtube"

orthodoxymoron wrote:Thank-you, Carol. Once again, I don't know what to think or not think. Those Andrew G. Hodges videos were fascinating, regarding figuring-out a suspected criminal by analyzing what they had written. My threads might reveal much more than a completely ignorant fool (especially regarding possible Star-Wars and Galactic-Conquest)!! Who knows what my past-lives might reveal?? I suspect that you already know (and have probably known for a long time). I have a religious thing regarding not getting involved in hocus-pocus or regression-hypnosis. It has something to do with a taboo against spiritualism (which some suspect involves dealing with demons). The Agencies and Jesuits probably already know, but they usually don't blurt things out. They tend to wait, watch, and pounce. 'RA' probably knew the whole-story, but he mostly said, "You Know I Can't Tell You That." But he told me, "The Jesuits Don't Like You" and "They Like You On Phobos" and "You Will Show Your Bad Side" and "You Can Leave Things the Way They Are, If You Choose." This enterprise might be a Most Dangerous Game. What Would Rainsford Say?? One problem might involve Situation-Ethics and Strange-Contexts regarding determining the Real-Story. For example, was Pope Pius XII good, bad, controlled, corrupted, misunderstood, and ultimately vindicated?? Who Knows?? Did Rudolph Hess enable evil and/or save the world?? Who Knows?? I'd do my own analysis and writing but I don't know which way is up. I've purposely kept myself out of the loop. Plausible-Deniability. I recently joked about the possibility of getting briefed by a couple of Top Russian Agents, but that might not be a good idea. Everyone and Everything has a Price-Tag. My threads might be highly incriminating when exhaustively analyzed by genuine insiders, but I probably wouldn't know about it until St. Peter sent me to the hot-place (and I'm not talking about Palm Springs). I'm open to possibilities, but I'm usually paranoid. Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me. I might be Galactic Enemy Number One but I Feel Like Number Two...

Carol wrote:Oxy, I suspect the internet will go down before the end of October and taken over by the military world-wide. This is the time that they will also switch over to the QFS and new internet platforms. So who knows how long the net will be down while this change-over occurs.

I am reading that they plan to crack down on anti-vaxxers. and will target internet sites. Essentially, the same as you suspect, but for different reasons.
I still can not imagine how and when the cavalry will arrive. The zionist banksters have a firm grip on the entire global financial markets. I dont see how they move aside and allow anything like  the QFS. Good job trump will be re-elected in April, August.. soon..

The vaccines are killing a lot of people, with a compromised immune system there will be massive deaths this winter.. and of course they will ramp up the anti-vaxx rhetoric. It is the fault of the unvaccinated after all.

The censorship and disinformation are at staggering levels.

Australian puppet government are ramping up the violence in direct response to the protests. It is getting ugly.

I wonder if this forum will pass under the radar? Assuming the internet isnt taken down completely.

Who doesnt have internet banks these days?

It would be a good time to get to anywhere you need to be

Carol wrote:Oxy, it really boils down to spiritual integrity which I think is where you come from. You've always been a gentleman even when others attack you. You are willing to examine everything and work at exploring multiple possibilities and you have a good heart which comes out with how respectful you are toward other members on the forum. Just keep in mind that worry creates a future reality as well. Instead of worry focus on Bach and listening to his music in your heart/mind. I'm still totally blown away at your musical talent and actually quite envious. It takes a lot of commitment and self-discipline to learn how to play Bach on an organ in church. Awesome.

Vidya Moksha wrote:

Carol wrote:Oxy, I suspect the internet will go down before the end of October and taken over by the military world-wide. This is the time that they will also switch over to the QFS and new internet platforms. So who knows how long the net will be down while this change-over occurs.

I am reading that they plan to crack down on anti-vaxxers. and will target internet sites. Essentially, the same as you suspect, but for different reasons.
I still can not imagine how and when the cavalry will arrive. The zionist banksters have a firm grip on the entire global financial markets. I dont see how they move aside and allow anything like  the QFS. Good job trump will be re-elected in April, August.. soon..

The vaccines are killing a lot of people, with a compromised immune system there will be massive deaths this winter.. and of course they will ramp up the anti-vaxx rhetoric. It is the fault of the unvaccinated after all.

The censorship and disinformation are at staggering levels.

Australian puppet government are ramping up the violence in direct response to the protests. It is getting ugly.

I wonder if this forum will pass under the radar? Assuming the internet isnt taken down completely.

Who doesnt have internet banks these days?

It would be a good time to get to anywhere you need to be

Many many years ago I went to the Fairport Convention festival at Cropredy. The only thing I remember is a woman playing an incredible electric violin. She was in a former punk band called 'Tower Struck Down', who were now playing a punky /folky / crazy mix.. It was really good.

Any Towers here?


16 The Tower
General Divinatory Meanings
Ambition, fighting, war, courage. Compare with the Emperor. In certain combinations, destruction, danger, fall, ruin.
The destruction of life based on materialistic principles, violent upheaval, the destruction of long established situations, break up of relationships, freedom and new beginnings, a flash of enlightenment. Ill dignified is a milder version of the destruction or hanging onto what we know, despite it falling apart around us.

Quarrel, combat, danger, ruin, destruction of plans, sudden death, escape from prison.
Sudden changes without choice, ‘finger of God’, restoration and renovation, destruction of old forms, expression of a new self, awakening to a greater self and changes for good or bad.

crowley wrote:This card is attributed to the letter Pe', which means a mouth; it refers to the planet Mars. In its simplest interpretation it refers to the manifestation of cosmic energy in its grossest form. The picture shows the destruction of existing material by fire. It may be taken as the preface to Atu XX, the Last Judgment, i.e., the Coming of a New Aeon. This being so, it seems to indicate the quintessential quality of the Lord of the Aeon.
At the bottom part of the card, therefore, is shown the destruction of the old-established Aeon by lightning, flames, engines of war. In the right-hand corner are the jaws of Dis, belching flame at the roof of the structure. Falling from the tower are broken figures of the garrison. It will be noticed that they have lost their human shape. They have become mere geometrical expressions.
The dominating feature of this card is the Eye of Horus. This is also the Eye of Shiva, on the opening of which, according to the legend of this cult, the Universe is destroyed.
Bathed in the effulgence of this Eye (which now assumes even a third sense, that indicated in Atu XV) are the Dove bearing an olive branch and the Serpent: as in the above quotation. The Serpent is portrayed as the Lion-Serpent Xnoubis or Abraxas. These represent the two forms of desire; what Schopenhauer would have called the Will to Live and the Will to Die. They represent the feminine and masculine impulses; the nobility of the latter is possibly based upon recognition of the futility of the former.

Carol wrote:Oxy, it really boils down to spiritual integrity, Just keep in mind that worry creates a future reality as well.

The shamans tell us we dream the future into existence.

We introduced the idea of manifesting in this thread... and it certainly does work.

while we manifest our future we have to live in the fabric of the world that is provided to us. Being aware of such utter ridiculousness and evil doesnt imply worry... (actually, the anger is harder to contain..)

I like my future ...  

Whatever horrors may afflict the soul, whatever abominations may excite the loathing of the heart, whatever terrors may assail the mind, the answer is the same at every stage: "How splendid is the Adventure!"

the night is always darkest just before dawn..

18 The Moon
General Divinatory Meanings
Dissatisfaction, voluntary change (as opposed to Death). Error, lying, falsity, deception. Imagination, but perhaps distorted, the power and mystery of woman’s fertility, an excitement of the unconscious, psychic awakening, a warning of deception, hidden enemies and a difficult emotional journey. Ill dignified it shows disturbance, resisting our power, suppressing intuition or an unexpected gain.

The light that darkness creates – illuminated dreams and nightmares, illusion, deception, bewilderment, hysteria, madness, dreaminess, falsehood, error, crisis, the darkest hour before dawn, the brink of an important change.
Emotional and intuitive, an emotional person, not hearing, self-deception, lies, balancing of emotions.

Crowley wrote:The Eighteenth Trump is attributed to the letter Qoph, which represents Pisces in the Zodiac. It is called the Moon.
Pisces is the last of the Signs; it represents the last stage of winter. It might be called the Gateway of Resurrection (the letter Qoph means the back of the head, and is connected with the potencies of the cerebellum). In the system of the old Aeon, the resurrection of
the Sun was not only from winter, but from night; and this card represents midnight.
For this reason there appears at the bottom of the card, underneath the water which is tinged with graphs of abomination, the sacred Beetle, the Egyptian Khephra, bearing in his mandibles the Solar Disk. It is this Beetle that bears the Sun in his Silence through the darkness of Night and the bitterness of Winter.
Above the surface of the water is a sinister and forbidding landscape. We see a path or stream, serum tinged with blood, which flows from a gap between two barren mountains; nine drops of impure blood, drop-shaped like Yods, fall upon it from the Moon.
The Moon, partaking as she does of the highest and the lowest, and filling all the space between, is the most universal of the Planets. In her higher aspect, she occupies the place of the Link between the human and divine, as shown in Atu II. In this Trump, her lowest avatar, she joins the earthy sphere of Netzach with Malkuth, the culmination in matter of all superior forms. This is the waning moon, the moon of witchcraft and abominable deeds. She is the poisoned darkness which is the condition of the rebirth of light. This path is guarded by Tabu. She is uncleanliness and sorcery. Upon the hills are the black towers of nameless mystery, of horror and of fear. All prejudice, all superstition, dead tradition - and ancestral loathing, all combine to darken her face before the eyes of men. It needs unconquerable courage to begin to tread this path. Here is a weird, deceptive life. The fiery sense is baulked. The moon has no air. The knight upon this quest has to rely on the three lower senses: touch, taste and smell. Such light as there may be is deadlier than darkness, and the silence is wounded by the howling of wild beasts.
To what god shall we appeal for aid? It is Anubis, the watcher in the twilight, the god that stands upon the threshold, the jackal god of Khem, who stands in double form between the Ways. At his feet, on watch, wait the jackals themselves, to devour the carcasses of those who have not seen Him, or who have not known His Name.
This is the threshold of life; this is the threshold of death. All is doubtful, all is mysterious, all is intoxicating. Not the benign, solar intoxication of Dionysus, but the dreadful madness of pernicious drugs
Whatever horrors may afflict the soul, whatever abominations may excite the loathing of the heart, whatever terrors may assail the mind, the answer is the same at every stage: "How splendid is the Adventure!"