What does it mean in tarot divination

Crowley begins the description of the card read: "In this map had to withdraw completely from the tradition of the Tarot, in order to preserve this tradition." We have repeatedly clashed with the change of classical names Taro and their interpretation, but in the case of "aeon", this fact is of particular importance. New Aeon came in 1904, since the transfer of the Holy Book of the Law, Ayvassom. This is not a matter of faith - a fact which is easily seen by examining and analyzing the events that followed after 1904, and radically change human mentality. And as soon as we examine these changes we obtain a key to the twentieth of Arkan. First, note that this map corresponds to the tire - one of the parent, the root letters of Hebrew, which is the root element of fire. Match all point to the fiery nature of this card, even a cursory review of relevant enough to realize that.

Fire, arhitepicheskom sense, this is not such a simple way, as it may seem at first glance. First of all, it is associated with passion, energy and dynamism. We say "fiery hot nature, about people passionate and temperamental. It suffices to look at the history of the twentieth century, to realize that we have entered a truly "fire" era. Wars, revolutions, social upheavals were in the twentieth century, far more than in any other era or, except in the first century of the last eon (the time of Tiberius, Caligula, Nero). This is a special aggravation that occurs between the eons, Crowley called the "Equinox of the gods." Nevertheless, the fire has a lot of other values. In Jungian typology, the four basic psychological functions are matching elements of the elements - the feeling - the land, thinking - air, feeling - water, fire also corresponds to intuition. Christian eon, water, hanged, was superseded by the fiery Bishop Gore, and this event is reflected in the deepest levels of the collective psyche.

With the fire appears to be closely related to What is an archetypal gods rebels - the fiery Lucifer, Prometheus ognenosets, and master of fire, the eternal opposition Locke. Thus, the fire appears to be closely associated with the archetypal riot of individuality against the overwhelming dictate of "old gods", "tradition" and "the gods of order." Here twentieth Arkan few echoes the fifteenth, but the rebellion Saturnalia fifteenth Arkan, means beautiful death in the finals, while the finale of the twentieth Arkan, more to do with the transition into a different quality and the loss of conservative opponents. So one of the most striking examples of this is a fantasy novel by John Wyndham, "The deviation from the norm."

Interestingly, the new eon, the two great and almost never intersect genius - Crowley and Jung, were determined almost identical - eon conquering child, who symbolizes the triumph of the principle of individual, personality, unlike the maternal and paternal nature eons old. Key concept of analytical psychology - individuation, is virtually identical to the Great Work of magic of Thelema. Have a look at what changes take hold literature since 1904. Of impersonal, principles, types of literature, attention has shifted dramatically to the nature of individuality. Faded from the outside world, the view of the writer, artist, poet turned to internal experiences, countless facets of which have become the axis of most works of art. In the new art, story, external events, drama activities, exclusively secondary to the psychological understanding of these events, but above all of his inner world.

Crowley and Jung asserted the need to destroy the dictates of morality in religion and art, and if the literature before the twentieth century, was divided into black and white, heroes and villains, starting with the Mann and Hesse, this boundary was completely washed away - now we are faced with the characters containing in his soul all conceivable antinomy. Suffice it to recall the characters Camus, Sartre, Hesse, to understand what is meant by this statement. The destruction of a naive distinction between good and evil, is also one of the key properties of the literature of the new aeon.

Aside from the titanic Goethe's Faust, which was, in the words Merezhkovsky "Too early forerunner, too slow spring," the idea of the superman, standing beyond good and evil, first appeared in Nietzsche. This is undoubtedly the seed fell on good soil, and the idea of the superman, visibly or invisibly pervades the literature of the twentieth century. Robert Wilson called this process "birth pangs in which the earth gives birth to Prometheus's revolt." This idea is refracted from all sides, it seems the best minds are trying to break through the "human, all too human, but not knowing this means is similar to Jonah in the whale's belly - that the answer to why the latest literature is mostly a bit pessimistic. Striving to become the highest form of life, greater than man, is specific to the twentieth century, whether it is an occult novel Meyrink, Existentialism Camus and Sartre, or masterpieces of psychological introspection Hesse. Even in the dreams of science fiction to reflect this universal psihoidny momentum.

However, the phenomenon of science fiction, deserves special consideration as well, because originated in the nineteenth century, fantasy became a full-fledged literary genre in the twentieth. The very idea of looking to the future, fundamentally new - except for the eschatological myths in the past eon, poets and writers got their inspiration exclusively in the events of the past, which in the naive view is a paradise lost. The basic idea of fiction (especially fiction new wave, which turned away his eyes from naive fantasies about the war with aliens or human robots, followed by the era turned his gaze inward), is the idea of an inevitable and inexorable evolution, the transition of human beings in a fundamentally different form. The transition itself, this is accompanied by great difficulties in the first place is not going outside, but inside the human society, from the rigid conservative government that wants to prevent this change, but it is inevitable. In his understanding of the inevitability of this evolutionary transition, science fiction show exceptional intuitive vision. As an example, can result in tetralogy "Endymion," Dan Simmons, "The waves extinguish wind" Strugatsky, "Stranger in a strange country," Haylaynada, "Abnormal" Wyndham. However, it is only a small part in the vast sea of contemporary fiction.