the Moon is a card of ACTION. It speaks to retrograde and reflection, yes, to stagnation and self-forgetting. The crayfish in the swamp on the card wants to retreat back to the waters of forgetfulness, just as the 9 wants to remain numb, ‘checked-out’.
Read moreBecoming a Vessel: 8s & Holy Truth
the Star is where we learn the fundamental truth that life is a spiral, and that we are not imprisoned in closed circles. It is liberation from the “captivity of spirit”.
Read moreMasonry to Gardening: the Tower & Enneagram 7
The Towers that we have built give way to gardens, where we work in concert with the Universe. “It is the way of humbling oneself to the role of the seed, in opposition to that of exalting oneself by building towers.”
Read moreDeflating Demons: the Devil and Type 6
How do we get to Faith from here? In the ‘Wisdom of the Enneagram’, Riso and Hudson remind us that “Faith is not belief, but a real immediate knowing that comes from experience.” So the Devil here, as an *experience* is offering type 6 (and all of us) the way from mere belief to true Faith.
Read moreThinking with the Flood: the Holy Omniscience of 5
In the search for truth, we “demand that [it] must entail clarity. Guided by this principle we endeavor to be precise, but in doing so we effect an intellectual enclosure. That which is enclosed is *clear*, yes, but it is separated by the enclosure from the great flood of truth (of which we have taken possession of only a drop). The drop is clear, but it is only a drop taken from the flood, i.e. from the great context of truth.”
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So thus, the practical exercise and the spiritual lesson of Temperance is learning to ‘think with the flood’.....to “no longer think alone, but rather together with the anonymous ‘choir’ of thinkers above, below, yesterday, and tomorrow.”
Read moreDeath, Dust & Type 4
The card in the Majors to represent this idea, Death, immediately brings to mind the biblical verse, “For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” Returning to our origins of dust seems a little too basic for the Tarot though (ummm, and for type 4s: I see y’all! Like, dust? BASIC)
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Well, I have good news for you 4, because now we can talk about Death as a cosmic surgeon and a guardian of the threshold between worlds!
The Holy Hope of Enneagram 3s & the Hanged Man
Enneagram 3s Holy Idea is is something called ‘Holy Hope’.Dr. David Daniels describes Holy Hope as “the original state of hope in which things work according to universal law (and are not dependent on anyone’s effort).”
Read moreJustice & the Holy Idea of Enneagram 2s
What is Holy Will/Freedom anyway? Type 2s live in a sort of ‘give to get’ universe, where they try to fulfill everyone else’s (never-ending) needs in order to assure that their own (totally repressed) needs will be met. Not only are they acting as ‘agents of other’s fulfillment’ (David Daniels term), but almost as if they’re agents of the Universe itself.
Read moreThe Wheel of Fortune and 1’s Emerging Essence
The Wheel of Fortune as representative of type 1s Holy Idea of Perfection, and their virtue of serenity might not be obvious at first. Doesn’t the Wheel just imply change?
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