THE TAROT TRUMPS
The Tarot Trumps symbolize the inner journey that one must take to go back to the “Source”. In this case it represents the symbolic inner journey as we discover the male and female within our own inner natures and develop our spiritual or astral bodies. Each card represents a definite stage of progress on this return journey. They must all be taken in the correct sequence. Each card is therefore an initiation of sorts.
The Trump cards are superior to the Suit cards and represent more universal experiences that will occur in each of the suits. This means that each Trump is true for every type of energy, abstract/spiritual, mental, emotional, and sexual/physical. There are indeed four separate cycles that involve these individual energies as we gradually grow in our spiritual evolution.
For me this return process is really the joining together of true soulmates in a physical relationship. This at least is the ultimate goal. I choose to interpret the Trumps as the various stages in this process which I call the “Soulmate Cycle”.
The concept of soulmates is a difficult one. By it I mean someone whose foundation energy frequency is the same as your own. As people are always growing these foundation frequencies may slowly change. In fact, I believe that every new Eon requires that new “soulmate” pairs be created and the old ones be relinquished. Each person is responsible for their own entry into the New Eon and it will always follow the pattern symbolized by the Tarot Trumps. Thus at any given time different people are traveling the same path independently of each other. Also each of us must experience a physical marriage or sexual relationship to a “collective” soulmate before we can meet our individual soulmate. This collective soulmate represents the interests of humanity and we must through this person fulfill our obligations to humanity before we can achieve to more personal goals.
I have personally traveled through this “Soulmate” cycle three times now and am currently halfway through the fourth cycle so I feel that I understand it to a degree. I have gone through a cycle for the element FIRE and the suit of KEYS, the element WATER and the suit of CUPS, the element AIR and the suit of SWORDS, and now lastly the element EARTH and the suit of LOCKS.
Each new cycle was a replica of the one before it but on a lower and more restrictive level.
The first cycle involved the completion of my personal paradigm or view of reality. It was very abstract and involved visions of the far future and the far past. It also involved humanity’s future interaction with other life forms such as UFO’s. I was given to understand that humanity will not mix with these other life forms in this new Eon, but in the next Eon. In that Eon humanity will eventually merge with those races to become more than human.
The second cycle expressed these same things in less abstract form as a mental simplification of the basic concepts. This cycle also involved global events and political turmoil. It saw the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, and major earthquakes around the world.
The third cycle dealt with personal and private issues such as employment and sexual responsibility. It also dealt with very savage astral conflicts as my intentions conflicted with others on the astral planes and two years of struggles ensued. I learned the need to defend myself astrally and also learned how to fight for what I believe in. This was difficult because I was by nature a very passive person that would rather give in to others than create problems. It was during this cycle that I finally decided to try to achieve the future that I felt was waiting for me in the astral. I left my job and security to pursue that dream and landed in a big pile of trouble.
The fourth cycle began when I was struggling to achieve my personal dream physically against tremendous opposition. This opposition was an important part of the entire process. It seems that to physically achieve your spiritual goals, you must give society a means to crucify you. You must incur the wrath of the collective before you can break out of your current life conditions. After fighting the collective to a standstill, you then attempt to smooth things over but on a higher level with you in a more advantageous position. You must fill your obligations to society that were created in your marriage or sexual relationship with your collective soulmate. This happened in the cycle described by the suit cards. At least this happened for the male. The female soulmate for this cycle must still experience this marriage to the collective.
The end of each cycle did not bring me a physical relationship with my “soulmate” but instead brought a new cycle. I hope that there are only four cycles! Each cycle brought me a different “soulmate” to work with. I have had only a Platonic relationship with the women involved. The activity has been mainly astral activity and where possible verified as happening to the other person as well.
One thing seems certain about this cycle. It develops all of the astral bodies of both individuals and gives them great power within the astral. I think there is a difference between the experiences described in the suit cards and those of this cycle because the suit cards reflect normal and everyday interactions with the opposite sex and describes collective experiences shared by almost everyone. The experiences described in the Trump cards only begin after the mystic or magician has crossed the Great Abyss in full awareness and has attained the grade of Magister Templi. I believe it is possible to attain this grade through the method described in chapter five. This crossing of the Great Abyss connects one to opposite sex energy that is God/dess energy. I think that the suit cards reflect the stages of personal growth up to the stages of crossing the Great Abyss and the grade of Magister Templi. I believe that the experiences described in the Trump cards reflect the stages of the grades Magister Templi and Magus. I also believe that these events in the “soulmate” cycle are largely beyond personal control and fall under cosmic law instead, especially as it begins with a personal connection to God/dess.
This connection to God/dess energy replaces the opposite sex energy that you are currently using and results in the breakup of that relationship. It also establishes a connection to the lunar and solar cycles that acts to further develop the body of light that has been formed in the crossing of the Great Abyss. The process seems fairly mechanical from that point onward. It establishes a cosmic circuit that goes around the entire universe and encircles it.
Also these soulmate cycles have two parts that basically repeat each other with some minor differences. First the entire cycle is gone through with “spiritual” energy and creates astral bodies and astral futures. At the completion of the spiritual cycle it seems to start all over using etheric energies instead and creates etheric bodies and etheric futures. I am currently in the etheric portion of the EARTH cycle which means that I’ve experienced versions of this cycle some seven times now, four with spiritual energies and three with etheric energies.
In conclusion I wish to say that these cycles are phenomenon that are perfectly natural and mechanical in nature based entirely upon the intensity and the amount of effort an individual puts into his or her life. Very small effort will show very small progress in these cycles. Very large effort will at some point impinge upon the collective future of humanity and encounter resistance. Surplus energies will at that point flow into the collective and be distributed among others. The completion of the cycle being established as a specific moment in time and not one minute sooner.
It seems the cycle involves three people and the collective of humanity as soulmates. In the suit cards we learned to experience any one of the opposite sex as our soulmate. In this cycle we experience very specific individuals that we do not choose. They are chosen for us as contact is made within our dreams long before we meet them. As a mystic of the grade Magister Templi I tap into that part of myself that is both male and female, that part that is HUMANITY. From that part of myself I seek opposite sex energy or female energy. In my dreams contact is made with a real physical female person and I get energy from her. She is for the duration of the cycle my “soulmate” in the truest sense of the term. The third person in the cycle is another male. He also is a soulmate of mine and of the female. But he is the exact opposite of what she is, the two of them combined create a complete unit.
Forming a triad he represents the male force and she the female force while I represent the combination of male/female through the act of going within for my female energy. He is of the old egregore and represents the collective of humanity and I am of a new egregore. This is the time of changing to more appropriate soulmates. He must give up his connection to her so that I may create a new connection to her. The collective is the fourth soulmate in this cycle because at the deepest level we are all a part of everyone else and it only appears that we are separate. As a Magister Templi we have already been married to the collective. The female’s relationship to the third person is her marriage to the collective which is just beginning to happen.
My experiences have always been of the two males and one female variety but it stands to reason that there must be similar cycles involving triads of two females and one male. I share these things because I believe them to be general principles that have always existed in the process of spiritual development. I have followed the mystic path before following the magical path and suspect this may be a factor in the type of experience a person has. The magician turned mystic may have a different type of experience. Because of this it seems that any experience may be either a male or a female experience depending on whether one follows a mystical or magical path. I can only try to share from my personal experiences and let others sort it out as it applies in their own circumstances.
A final clarification must be made about astral energy, its creation and uses as well as the development of astral bodies. As mentioned in previous chapters I believe that all astral energy must be created and generated through the physical body and injected into the astral perhaps as dreams or with practice directly injected.
A male body can only generate male energy and a female body can only generate female energy. Male astral energy is uncontrollable, expansive and destructive in nature. It can destroy astral objects. Female astral energy is restrictive and containing in nature. It can create barriers and encircle harmful things to make them ineffective.
Only a perfect mix of 50% male astral energy and 50% female astral energy is malleable and capable of forming astral bodies or various astral creations. The collective is one form of this type of energy that is very powerful. The most powerful type is that created during the “Soulmate” cycle when the new “soulmate” pair is established and their energy Phase-locks together in an unbreakable unit capable of creating a new life for each of them.
This concludes the introduction to the “Soulmate” cycle symbolized by the Tarot trumps. A cycle that is as old as time itself. The stages are as I have personally experienced them, meaning from the perspective of a two male and one female triad.
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