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VII The Chariot
If I were to
reduce this card into the most simple of images I would make it
2 wheels. I would call these wheels Heaven (the number of
spirit, 3) and Earth (the number of earth, 4). They are the
manifest, physical world we live in as individuals and the
unmanifest world of the spirit, each circling and creating one
another for eternity. (Think of the Taoist yin/yang symbol).
Some emphasize
the physical world as one of illusion and not as important as
the world of spirit and vice versa. I happen to think they are
equally important and are made of the same thing, just in
different form. Maybe you have heard the phrase as above, so
below. This means to me that what is on the earth also
exists in the spirit and what is in the spirit is also in the
earth. There can be nothing that is in one place and not in the
other. To change something in one realm will affect the other.
If we have a healthy body we will have a healthy spirit and a
healthy spirit manifests a healthy body. You could call the
soul, spirit, angels, even Gods and the cosmic egg as degrees
between the extremes between these two wheels. We, in some
form, exist there from one extreme to the other.
Yes, this does
mean that I think every single rock, tree, speck of dust,
sidewalk, animal or anything that exists also exists in the
world of spirit, and by my definition has a soul, and at some
point shares my soul.
To know this and
to find balance between body and spirit is to sit in the throne
of the Chariot and I think it gives one great ability to move
about anyplace on either wheel.
I have used
images of wolves here as guides in these travels of awareness.
I have seen them many times in visions and dreams where they
take me, and sometimes I even become them, running through the
deep forest (a metaphor for the unknown, subconscious,
collective, whatever…) to a different place in the spectrum of
my being.
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