October 21-23, 2011: XI - Lust
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XI
LUST
(Leo)MEDITATION COLOR: Yellow (possibly golden).
HEBREW LETTER: Teth, serpent; more literally, that which is coiled and resembles a serpent (“serpent power”). The alchemical “lion.”
CARD NAME: “Lust,” especially meant here in the sense of “intense eagerness or enthusiasm; pleasure, relish,” comes from the Indo-European root las-, “to be eager, wanton, unruly.”
ESOTERIC MEANING: The Consciousness of the Secret of All Spiritual Activities. It is so called because of the influence disseminated by it from the Highest Blessing and the supernal Glory.
TREE of LIFE: Geburah to Chesed. (Links ‘Strength’ and ‘Mercy’; or Volition and Memory. Mercy weds Severity. The sanctification of one’s strength and volition in the RECOLLECTION that the HGA is the One Strength and One Will reflected in each manifest expression of strength and will. Kingship. NOTE: The intersection with (g)imel is one of the most important features in the card.)
ESOTERIC TITLE: The Daughter of the Flaming Sword
TANTRIC & ALCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE: The marriage as it occurs in Nature (that is, the real marriage, rather than the ceremonial formality of Zayin. The Serpent that unites the opposites in ecstasy. BABALON and THE BEAST (Moon and Sun) conjoined.
DIVINATION: Courage, strength, fortitude, energy, action, une grande passion, joy in desire. Employment of magick; use of magick power. Manifestation and control of the life-power.
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Sharing the pic of my meditation setting for Lust, albeit i wouldn't know how to share the impressions too... without this turning into an erotic short story lol!
I connected the most to the snake - i saw it coming out from the root of the woman's back , scrolling out of the picture and shapeshifting into the letter Teth...http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii15/magicturtoise/001.jpg
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Erotic short stories are permissible - for the sake of the Great Work.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"Erotic short stories are permissible - for the sake of the Great Work."
p.s. well, i am sort of worried about the impact those might have on the reader...
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My experience of the energy that this card represents could be explained in sexual lingo but for some reason I don't think the point I'd like to make would really be made.
During the course of the time I spent on this card, the theme of the events of my life was the "returning to nothing" and "giving it all up". And by "return to nothing" and "giving it all up" I mean I had to give up my opinions, reasons, beliefs, my point of view....and return to nothing, essentially becoming a blank slate so that I can fully experience life and being alive.
It took a certain level of courage and vulnerability to do that...and to continually do it over and over again...and an unyielding reliance on my intuition over my intellect, constant remaining entangled and coiled with LIFE...not my perception of it, not my interpretation of what's going on, but LIFE as it is...and it IS a BEAST. And I'm the Bride...naked and vulnerable.
What I learned in the three days assigned to this card would come in handy for the energy and instruction of the next card...