Comments on mixedepisodes: The Hierophant

it seems to me that reality is pretty much entirel...

2009-04-11T10:20:00.000-07:00

it seems to me that reality is pretty much entirely dependent on perception. or, as they say in marketing, perception is reality. ho-ly, how those marketers can exploit a seemingly innocuous concept. anyway, very interesting post about the meditative process. i need to do a better job of taking the time to meditate and reflect. but in a way i guess that's what my writing does for me.

In a way, the Hierophant seems more like, um, dogm...

2009-03-30T22:15:00.000-07:00

In a way, the Hierophant seems more like, um, dogma. Some people find comfort within it's consistency. Others find it repressive. I don't know jack about tarot, really, but I can understand why some might react to that particular card in that particular way. But what if that's the purpose of the card? Would changing the appearance mean changing its meaning on a deeper level?

Hello BBC and Ricardo. MoM-It's very hard when you...

2009-03-17T07:25:00.000-07:00

Hello BBC and Ricardo.

MoM-It's very hard when your viewpoint of reality is very much different than those around you. It takes great stregnth to believe in yourself.

Red Cairo-Thanks for stopping by. Any tarot card that you can be very deep if you are having those sorts of issues. But very much worth the effort in my opinion.

I'm not so far away from you ( at least compared to lots of other people.) I'm on the east side, directly across from downtown Saint Louis.

This is very interesting to me. I do archetype wor...

2009-03-16T12:34:00.000-07:00

This is very interesting to me. I do archetype work and not too long ago my 'inner guide' actually told me to meditate on a tarot card. I'd never done such a thing, even though the book that set the groundwork (now a bit variant) for my arch work was Steinbrecher's which actually used astrology and tarot as his examples. Anyway the card directed is the Knight of Wands which has turned out to be an insanely difficult multi session meditation I'm in chronic avoidance of (probably because I need it of course). I've just recently begun wondering if all tarot are this deep and difficult or if that one just had a special kick for me. So I was interested to find your blog post talking about meditation upon the Heirophant card, thanks for that.

As a minor note of humor I once had a very astral dream where I met an entity who said he was "Olliphant" which was both a title, a description and a name. I always wondered if it was some odd relation to the Heirophant just due to the spelling (which came through as information as well).

PJ

"One of the things one needs to be careful about w...

2009-03-12T01:09:00.000-07:00

"One of the things one needs to be careful about when exploring these thoughts and feelings is that one does not develop an 'us against them' mentality or that one does not become someone who is completely close-minded about anyone who ascribes to more traditional beliefs. We have something that we can learn from anyone. And the spirit can be found anywhere."

This is very true. I think there are bits of great wisdom everywhere. To close of a little is to miss a lot.

I just spotted a comment by you on another blog so...

2009-03-11T18:48:00.000-07:00

I just spotted a comment by you on another blog so thought I would drop in to say hi.

"How someone reacts to the Hierophant card is very revealing."

Why do you allow your mind to go to those places?

You think that you believe in god? Some omnipotent being out there with a plan?

If so, do you hate that motherfucker for fucking this place up so much?

sorry about the false starts- one of those days I’...

2009-03-11T09:12:00.000-07:00

sorry about the false starts- one of those days I’m afraid.
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I’d be right I guess;-)
I’ve always felt like a stranger in a strange land.
I thought it would get easier as I got older, but it hasn’t, in fact it has gotten worse. I feel like I’ve moved away completely from the campfires of human warmth.
I’m lookin’ at systemic collapse, and those that caused it trying to tell us now they can fix it.
We need collective benediction to take away denial, the anger - in our souls, get away from - bartering and - depression and accept - we can change all in the light of truth.

she deals the cards as a meditation
And those she plays never suspect
she doesn't play for the money she wins
she doesn't play for respect
she deals the crads to find the answer
the sacred geometry of chance
the hidden law of a probable outcome
the numbers/cards lead a dance

Janina-I like that. That's very cool! I've been ...

2009-03-11T07:14:00.000-07:00

Janina-I like that. That's very cool! I've been noticing lately how the tarot seems to often ask us to take 2 opposing views and combine them in some way.

Crushed-People use the cards for different reasons...

2009-03-11T07:13:00.000-07:00

Crushed-People use the cards for different reasons. Some people use them for fortune telling. some use them to work High Magic. Some people take a depth psychology approach to them and some a more spiritual approach. I read a book by Rachel Pollack in which she compared different types of tarot readers to musicians with the fortune tellers being the folk music, the ones who worki high magic, which is a very formal system, as being classisists and the ones who read them intuitively as being jazz musicians--if this helps.

A quick thought about the Hierophant and the Tarot...

2009-03-10T18:37:00.000-07:00

A quick thought about the Hierophant and the Tarot: Tarot engages both the right and left brains because it uses visual imagery (right brain), but it is structured so that there are certain common meanings,and it tells a story (left brain). The two initiates bowing before the Hierophant could be seen as right and left brained ways of experienciing reality, and the Hierophant as the wisdom that arises from being able to bridge those different ways of perceiving the world.

I guess I'd never have looked it at like that, but...

2009-03-10T13:34:00.000-07:00

I guess I'd never have looked it at like that, but I guess that's partly because I'm Catholic.

I do get where you're coming from though.

Would you say that the central value of tarot reading is in conceptualising, in using the cards to aid in synaesthetic pattern arranging in a sense?

As a an aid to getting to grips with cetral themes of the universe?