05 October 2010

today's reading




Position 1: The Universe: myself in synthesis with the world

Position 2: The most crucial aspect of the Current Environment:
Interference- a prison, too much attention to detail at the expense of principle and more important points; great ease in some things balanced by equal disorder in others. Wisdom applied to small and unworthy objects.

Position 3: The obstacle:
The 3 of Wands- Virtue, realization of hope, success of the struggle, pride, wealth, power, arrogance and conceit.

Position 4: The goal:
The Empress- beauty, happiness pleasure, success, luxury and sometimes dissipation.

Position 5: The foundation of the current environment:
Art- Union of opposites, moderation and self-restraint, realization, action for either good or evil.

Position 6: The past:
Futility- In character untrustworthy. Vacillation. Unstable effort. Journey, probably over land. Partial success, yielding when victory is within grasp, as if the last reserves of strength were used up. Inclination to lose when on the point of gaining through not continuing the effort. Love of abundance, fascinated by display, given to compliment, affronts and insolences, and to detect and spy on another. Inclined to betray confidences, not always intentional.

Position 7: The immediate future:
The Hermit- Divine inspiration; Wisdom sought for and attained from above.

Position 8: The future environment:
Completion- Settlement. Arrangement completed. Perfected work. A completion of a thing built up with trouble and labor. Rest after labor. Subtlety, cleverness, mirth, beauty, success in completion. Reasoning faculty, conclusions drawn from previous knowledge. Unreadiness, unreliable and unsteady, through over-anxiety and hurriedness of action. Graceful in manner. At times insecure.

Position 9: The influence of Society:
The Magus- skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, and sometimes occult wisdom.

Position 10: The nature of the challenge that confronts me:
Ruin- Ruin. Death. Failure. Disaster. Undisciplined warring force, complete disruption and failure. Ruin of all plans andprojects. Disdain, insolence and impertinence, yet mirth and jolly therewith, Loving to overthrow the happiness of others, a repeater of things, given to much unprofitable speech, and of many words, yet clever, acute and eloquent.

Position 11: The outcome:
Debauch- Lying, deceipt, illusion, deception. Error, slight success, but not enough energy to retain it. Possible victory, but neutralized by the supineness of the person. Illusionary success. Deception in the moment of apparent victory. Lying, error, promises unfulfilled. Drunkenness, wrath, vanity, lust, fornication, violence against women. Selfish dissipation. Deception in love and friendship. Often success gained, but not followed up.

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