Man of Poetry (Wands)

The Man of Poetry...."To justify the ways of God to Man". Shedding of protections and pretenses.

He is the one who clears away darkness to boldly reveal the truth. Applies foresight and generosity of spirit to challenging circumstances. Overcomes his  ego to act as a master of spiritual expression. Takes on the authority to assert how things will be done. Possesses mature and well-tested vision, but a tendency to be rigid. In the creative process: When you see the whole picture of your project, you can take charge to boldly direct it toward achieving its divine potential.

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Amid the flames and swirling smoke of mortal and material confusion and error, he is the prototypical poet-artist heroically facing intellectual darkness, right foot forward in spiritual quest. With his raised right hand,Milton breaks his own name into pieces – a blow against selfhood.



In addition, Blake, who loved puns, suggests Milton’s hand is the instrument of a ‘thousand’ (mil) ‘tones’ (ton) of poetry and prophecy. His hair flowing free, Milton gazes penetrates into invisible realms of inner truth while the separation of his fingers (on both hands) is a chirological gesture signifying triumph. It is very hard to see but if you blow it up 400% and just zoom into the fingers you will notice that the fingers are like claws, each separate and distinct.




Unlike the King in traditional Tarot, who is garbed in robes, cape, and crown, the Man of Poetry is naked to signify that he has shed all garments and pretenses. Instead, he is clothed with imagination.




The card quotation, paraphrased from Paradise Lost, effectively states the prophetic mission of all poets – to promulgate divine understanding. The elemental fire (around the poet) combined with elemental earth (in the border ) symbolize the passionate imagination that characterizes this card.




Negatively, his heroic pose can become mere posturing if he becomes dogmatic and inflexible.




This card represents the part of you or another who is outspoken and clear-sighted. Inspirational to others, you are a fluent communicator and natural leader who makes decisions based on intuition. You need to be center-stage, and expect others to heed your revelations and warnings. The Man of Poetry clears away darkness so that others may see, and bring hidden issues to light.




In the creative process, this shows those moments of inspiration when you suddenly realize

where your project is going, or get the ‘big picture’ unseen by others.

KEYWORDS:

PROPHETIC ASSERTION •  ACTIvE IMAGINATION AT WORK •  MASTERY OF EXPRESSION

TRUTH CONSCIOUSNESS •  NAKED CREATIvE FORCE •  FOCUSED SPIRITUAL vISION •
ATTITUDE OF HEROISM •

May 29 2018

3 card spread.

5 of pentacles.     6 of cups.          fool.

• five senses. uncertainty.  adversity. -- traditional
• lovers.suitability.  -- Etteilla.
• coins/pentacles.  effort work.
• element earth.
• astrological sign.  TAURUS the bull.
• ruled by Venus.
• title.  the Lord of Worry.

6 of cups.

• sixth sense.  the orifice.  consolidating.  the hexad.
• cups. emotional.  passive. psychic.
• traditionally associated with marriage & multiplication.
• element.  water.
• astrological sign. Scorpio the Eagle.
• ruled by Pluto (transcendence).
• title.  the Lord of Pleasure.

the fool.  association with air.

• traditionally unnumbered.
• modern, numbered 0.
• astrological sign.  Aquarius via planet Uranus.
• wild card.disruptive.

Reading.  5 pentacle RX.  6 of cups.  Fool.

                    earth........water.........air  (rather balanced)

                     imagery:  water fountain.

                    11 Justice  (quintessence).

             Meaning:  disruption in work because of the weather.

temperature:  85 with showers late at night.

                 

Horoscope Spread

A nice horoscope spread from MacGregor and Vega.

The One

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 Plato and the NeoPlatonists

 The “Middle Platonic era" ends with Plotinus (204-70 A.D.), who is considered the founder of Neoplatonism. Philo of Alexandria & Larissa was Jew & Platonist appears in the theology of Clement as he unveils the Hermetic Corpus of the Chaldeans. As a Hellenized Jew also called Judaeus Philo, he is a figure that spans two cultures, the Greek and the Hebrew.

When Hebrew mythical thought met Greek philosophical thought in the first century B.C.. it was only natural that someone would try to develop speculative and philosophical justification for Judaism in terms of Greek philosophy. So Philo rose to the occasion & produced a synthesis of both traditions developing concepts for future Hellenistic interpretation of messianic Hebrew thought, especially by Clement of Alexandria and various Christian Apologists like Theophilus and Tertullian. Some think that he may have influenced Paul, his contemporary, and perhaps the authors of the Gospel of John (C. H. Dodd) as well as the Epistle to the Hebrews (R. Williamson and H. W. Attridge).

 Eusebius promotes the legend that Philo met Peter in Rome. Jerome (345-420 C.E.) even lists him as a church Father. All of this is definitely spurious. But what is important about Philo is his instance that Greek philosophy was a natural development of the revelatory teachings of Moses which many other Hebraic philosophers had already claimed and stated that Hesiod's Theogony as well as Homer's works were Mosaic in basis.

 So now why does this matter? Well some of these ideas of the One and the Good find themselves in the Cabala...and so into the tarot

Queen of Cups, Connolly Tarot

The QUEEN can represent any of the following:

• The client
• A particular attitude or characteristic adopted by the client in a certain situation
• Another woman
• A vibratory power or influence (either positive or negative), depending upon the suit of the QUEEN.
•  This power can come directly from an individual or a representative or establishment acting on behalf of a woman in authority.

It is essential to be flexible when interpreting the QUEEN. Do not limit yourself or be afraid to recognize the female influence that surrounds all the QUEENS. For example, if you are reading for a man, you must realize that the QUEEN may not necessarily be referring to a woman here, but to the female energies of the man.


When you understand the Universal Law you realize that both men and women have elements of the opposite sex in their mental and emotional constitutions. Yin and Yang. This duality is quite separate from the physical sexuality of male and female.

Consider the power and energy that motivates a woman to attain a position in top management. Her skills may be outstanding and far superior to any male in her company. Therefore, the KING OF WANDS could easily play a prominent part in her reading.

Likewise, a creative man with exceptional talent in interior design and who tends to be moody, sensitive and melancholy could very well be represented in his reading by the QUEEN OF PENTACLES.

REVERSED....


Here we see the denial of the mother; a rejection of those qualities associated with mother. The need to slay extreme motherliness within the self. There is some sense of the mother’s betrayal or denial of the querent particularly when they were young and so they feel uncomfortable with womanliness.


But there is a necessity to deal the some negativity of that relationship whether in the present or out of some past circumstance.

Can express some selfish hoarding of knowledge out of fear that others will steal one’s insights and overtake one. The querent’s growth intellectual as well as psychological) is stymied by some unwillingness to share or to foster growth in another. (that's sad don't you think?)

Queen of Cups, Ma'at Tarot

This Queen stares directly at you, calmly. One hand holds a spray of white flowers, the other rests at her waist. Her gown is a dark blue, edged and lined with gold. A large vase sits at her right side, decorated with a wavy pattern. The curtain behind her has symbols on it- crabs and scorpions, representing as it does in Ms Cuccia Watts philosophy, Full moon in Scorpio.


This card symbolizes generosity and the need to give to others, the intuitive understanding of self and others. The woman herself represents the flowering earth from her opposite the May Dance in Taurus. Here we see her, already pregnant, though she may not "know" it, just sense it through her womb. . She is idealistic & full of love for her husband and unborn child.

In a reading, Julie says: This represents a woman newly pregnant, idealistic and dreamy about her new baby and who hasn't got a clue what she's got herself into. She can be a bit of an emotional drama queen due to hormonal changes.

Queen of Cups, Wheel of Change

This card features an Inuit woman dressed in tradition sealskin jacket and trousers, her feet in mukluks. She sits on a simple wooden bench outside amidst a snowy, icy landscape, her infant warmly wrapped in a sealskin papoose.

Behind her are snowy mountains and what looks like glaciers; flakes of snow seem to be falling. At the right a sun rests on the horizon sending orange rays over the mountains, reminding one that the sun barely appears in the far North as winter comes, soon to disappear altogether if the latitude is high enough.

In the lower left corner of the card, a seal pokes its head into the scene, looking at the viewer. The sky is dark shades of green and blue – but it seems to have three seals swimming in it.The two “Cups” are an amphora-shaped woven basket by her feet and a bowl (woven perhaps) she holds on her lap.

Book:
“The northern world of the Arctic represents the limits of our planet… Summer never really arrives when the sun is always low on the horizon and the plant life is forced to hurry along… before the long night returns to the poles… There is little wood and little vegetation in these tundra lands, but the vast sea is full of life…

“The suit of Cups is connected with the ties to our ancestors and to our family that provide the emotional, feeling connections to the human world around us. The Queen of Cups is a symbol of the family woman. She is the mother who loves and nurtures her children, giving them the emotional security that enables them to grow into respectful, contributing members of the larger society…

“The Inuit dependence on the watery world of the ocean was central to their existence…  Many careful rituals were enacted before a hunt to ensure that the spirit of the animal who was taken would return to the sea happy and alive. In the Queen of Cups the seals surround her and frame her head. Their watery ocean has been elevated so that it appears over the snowbound earth and starry sky… The three seals also represent the family, and their placement at the top of the card indicates the paramount importance of one’s human relationships and community.

“The sun may be seen as rising and represents the warmth that love brings to the family and community… Alternatively the sun may be seen as the setting sun that… represents the return to the indoor life and the hearth of the family and the inner life of feeling and intuition that develop in the tight closed spaces of the winter home. The snowy hills of the landscape illuminated by the sun remind us of the breasts of a nursing mother. The white snow, as pure and clean as the milk of the mother, is a symbol of her care blanketing the land…

“The warm clothes protect the woman from the cold temperatures and symbolize the ability of the Queen of Cups to remain warm and caring, even in the presence of difficulties… the power of the Queen of Cups lies in her ability to genuinely feel the deep connections to family, friends, and the world she lives in…

“[T]his card may represent yourself in your reading or may indicate someone else who is involved in your situation. The card may indicate deep feeling or the need for nurturance in a difficult situation. It can also indicate a need to honestly and confidently discuss your feelings in order to develop important relationships…”