What does the Tarot Star

Born on this legitimate question to which we must answer one key question - what is the fundamental difference between the second and the seventeenth Arkan? What is an archetype of both equally bound up with the idea of eternal femininity, however, is totally different its manifestations. If the High Priestess is primarily taking femininity, the moon is reflected sunlight - it is "completely feminine, completely virgin," the star on the contrary be thought an active aspect of the eternal feminine, which emanates all creation of the Holy Grail. The final peak of activity of women is achieved in the eleventh e Arkan, whose lord is our Lady Babalon, which represents the final materialization Niyuit then enantiodromicheski turning back to the phase of maximum static thirteenth Arcana. Seven-pointed Star of Babalon here presented in its vihreobrazom rotated twice - in the center of the stream, which pours itself Nuit, and in the upper left corner. Spiral vortex of the most active of the manifestations of energy, here is the full doeth whirlwind - no coincidence Aleister Crowley, draws a parallel with the newest at the time the discoveries of Einstein and non-Euclidean geometry. This map - map creation, which manifests as ecstasy.

For many, understanding of this card can represent a significant challenge for the western mind arhitepichno, matching the female principle of statics and the dynamics of the male. However, this primitive duality of no more than an illusion, for example in some Hindu concepts of static is just the male side, pure spirit, Shiva, who reluctantly wakes up from its static Shakti dance (in the most vivid imagery is presented as the Shakti dancing on the corpse of Shiva. That the same change in the order of static and dynamic can be observed for example in Hesse's work, particularly in the novel Narcissus and Golmund "where life, femininity and eroticism correlated with a continuous dynamic and masculine spirit, and religion - to the static and unchanging conformal. Close this idea can be traced in modern writer John Fowles in his novel "Aristos".

From the foregoing it is evident that male and female principle in its various aspects and inherent static and dynamic. Any linear and unambiguous judgments in this area will obviously wrong. Crowley is a chapter devoted to the seventeenth Arch at points to the illusory nature of straight lines. However, the star can not be named, and only the dynamic female figure - the eleventh Arkan is its ultimate dynamism. Star quickly combines contrast the second and eleventh Arkan, has the features of both of them. Between the second and the seventeenth Arkan, there is another difference. If the priestess taking a personality carries him away from the world beyond the abyss, the star being a force emanating from a being in a continuous ecstasy opposite - open adept outside world again. Testing the effect of this archetype What does a person experiences the beauty and perfection of the universe, and the magnificence of life.

In the Jungian tradition, it is most closely matches Anime in most of its aspects - it is - a guide to life (whereas, high priestess - a guide to the spirit of life), but the charmer, who plays the man of your choice. Symbols of the Stars on the one hand intersects with the priestess and the other with lust, so it is very difficult to separate when we are talking about the stars. Yet the eleventh Arkan, the most urgent in his youth, when the passion and ecstasy move the mountains, the comprehension of the world stars, there is not many. Only someone who was worthy of "midlife crisis", and not reconciled with the position of "hangman, in the end, feels the beneficial outpouring Nuit - all reality, appears in a new, transfigured form.

To understand what is feminine seventeenth Arkan is to begin to understand what it is not. This is not a purely spiritual love second Arkan, not motherhood the Empress, and not a violent passion of lust. This is - something different, but having in himself all three manifestations of love combined on a completely different level, it is eroticism, but the eroticism is subtle, refined, perhaps the best word would be soft. This mystery of a touch, a touch light as swan's down, but in this ease - the whole universe. From literary works in my opinion is very close to understanding seventeenth Arkan, walked Ivan Efremov in his novel "Thais" - this one of those books that you simply can not - you need to read that someone wants to touch the mystery of femininity.