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Grail Arts's avatar

Holy Holy! Every word!

Thank you so much for naming and describing discernment as the chariot for gaining coherence. I have been questing for this piece of the puzzle. An initial resonance or realization can land so easily and frequently, but without coherence the initial spark dies out. I have been stumbling at how to language what is needed to maintain coherence. You articulated so well to how hold and build onto a frequency or resonance and integrate it into the emergent self. Discernment is my new best friend! I think you wrote this article just for me, but I hope not as I would love to find some companions also vibrant with this revelation! I will read and reread many times.

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Rocco Jarman's avatar

It’s always encouraging and rewarding to learn when the winged messengers of our work find their roosts.

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Grail Arts's avatar

I am feathering the nest for this welcome winged message!

BTW- do you draw from Valentine Tomberg’s Meditations on the Tarot?

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Rocco Jarman's avatar

Wholly from my own.

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Grail Arts's avatar

That is impressive. I’m exploring your other posts.

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Rocco Jarman's avatar

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Rocco Jarman's avatar

Fire is Aspirational.

Air is Aspirating.

Spirit is Aspiring.

יהוה

The Light.

Inhale.

The Fire.

Exhale.

Ein-Soph Ohr—The Point of Emanation.

Tzimtzum—The Contraction.

The Hook. Lightning.

Emergence.

Life.

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Grail Arts's avatar

Can you say more about “the hook”?

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Rocco Jarman's avatar

Hebrew Vav. (6)

It is the extension of the Yud, the perfect Letter of God (10)

This is the context of Kabbalah.

The sephirot or Emantions on the Tree of Life are 10. They are the way the soul of the world is Manifested and connected with the Divine. That connection is condensed into the archetypal force of Vav.

THE LOVERS Tarot card will describe more. The infinite spiral hook within the The Hook is Tipheret: Beauty—that which activates desire and triggers the Root(Malkuth) to aim for the Crown(Kether).

The Hook connects the Upper to the Lower. It is represented archetypally by the Pillar, and as a Tool, by the Staff, Sceptre, Wand, Baton.

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