The reader shuffles the cards while putting herself in a light trance; She cuts the deck and randomly chooses a card.
She slowly turns the card over.
And the answer is...
But what does it mean? I will leave you to ponder the answer. If you think you have it, please share in the comments below!
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26 comments:
Complacency, reliance on outmoded beliefs and assumptions, a refusal to acknowledge and embrace necessary changes...
And do you feel The Tower accurately describes this? Although I agree with everything you have said, I see something else... Something you haven't mentioned yet... *whistles innocently and starts shuffling her cards again*
I see the Tower of Babel - a desire to try and embody an archetype fully, i.e. to be God - which has at its roots a necessary (self-) destruction.
Perhaps in Atlantis they were 'playing God'. God cannot be reached through man-made structures. When we do, we build our temples on foundations of misunderstanding, which have no choice but to fall, and we with them.
Either that, or a flip-side I hadn't considered: a flash of enlightenment, which released people from the structure in which they were housed. Lightning showing the path of ascension.
The assumption that a man made creation (Tower/Atlantis/society) can withstand nature (God) pretty much invites the shock and the correction. A message for our times I think.
Yes, also very good, Sarah, and I agree... Still, I'm thinking of something else that has not been mentioned :D *brushes some crumbs off the table and starts shuffling the cards again*
You are reasoning along the same lines as Sarah here and it is indeed a valid point of view. I'm waiting to see if anyone else will make the connection I made in my mind almost immediately as I turned the card over. Time to put the kettle on before we do another reading.... tea anyone?
Having seen your fb post, am I completely off-mark when I suggest that the tower is a giant phallus? Ouch!
Not at all! It's a big dick fer sure! :D It would have to be with Mars as the corresponding planet. Is it possible that male dominance triggered the fall of Atlantis? That was my gut response when I turned the card over.
Hubris. As soon as I saw that Tower card, I heard that word - hubris - in my head like someone shouted it in my ear.
I heard 'male pride' shouted.. Maybe they are linked? :)
I think a catastrophic volcano eruption is what led to the loss of Atlantis
It may well have been. Do you think it was related to what was happen spiritually or do you believe it was unrelated?
I think a catastrophic volcanic eruption took Atlantis away
I believe it was unrelated, just like Vesuvius, the people were unprepared and had missed the warnings. :)
No 'As within, so without?' Nothing to the commonly held beliefs that they were highly evolved but fell from grace into pride and decadence?
Do you base this on your interpretation of The Tower here or is it something you have researched?
Just done this exercise and I drew III Empress from the Radiant Rider-Waite. Interesting. Maybe feminine energy crumbled the masculine status quo?
Would like to do this exercise with a Major-Minor-Court split deck and draw three cards.
Oh OK. I thought the Tower was quite enough to give me an answer but you are welcome to please yourself :)
My interpretation: Atlanteans were full of themselves. This is related to the hubris idea.
I read the 9 of cups from the Thoth deck.
The Tower of course represents structures built out of pride, as in the Tower of Babel - an attempt to supplant divine wisdom with corrupt, human 'wisdom' (i,e., the wisdom that is folly before God, which makes the Tower one big folly, no?). And so the time comes when God (Zeus?) must strike down such arrogance.
That is the traditional interpretation, yes.
Sorry to have missed your comment earlier, corvus! How did you get hubris from the 9 of Cups?
What came to my mind was an earthquake! And earthquakes wake you up. They shake things up like the Tower. I just heard "Stagnant" in my head. Could the civilization of Atlantis become stuck in some way intellectually?
sure, that's possible.
hmm I was thinking the tower could be connected with the "terror" attacks on world trade center? weird though.. maybe the world trade center was connected interdimensionally to atlantis in some way and thus caused atlantis to fall?...
Or MAYBE atlantians were in "the tower of safety" (metaphorically) and fell down to the buttom to live and learn life again.. and maybe start a journey to go back up to the tower again with more wisdom and love..!?
I have NO idea actually but fun to think about XD
Glad you enjoyed this conundrum! :D
Lemme tell you about Atlantis...
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