Tarot Reading for the Field - Anonymous

Tonight I picked three cards for the group. The approach I take to reading tarot is triangular, treating each card with equal significance, rather than imposing a linear "past-present-future" map upon the cards. This eliminates the problem of divination and brings us purely into the scholarly consideration of how our three Keys communicate with each other, on their own terms.

The sun is positioned as a focal point in all three images, emphasized by the appearance of the Sun card. I'm going to zero-in on the relationship between the fool and death cards, in terms of the position and function of the sun in their contrasting imagery. I also want to make note of how these processes potentially take expression during dream group.

Paul has been identifying what he calls edge phenomena, to describe an empathic, collective response taking place when individuals in the dream-container enter a phase of alchemical transmutation.

Held within the container, our shared morphogenetic field begins to "cook", expressing pressure release in physical events. These events take many forms, including but not limited to nervous shiftyness of people's bodies, side-chatter, thoughtless commentary, joking around, and even loud noises or lighting changes occurring suddenly, with apparent synchronistic intensity.

Whether these edge phenomena are counter-productive distractors or necessary elements of the process, they are clearly identifiable to anyone who has witnessed it happen.

The idea of reaching an edge clearly corresponds to the Fool archetype, who is standing at the edge of his cliff. However, there is a second hidden symbolism in the Sun card itself. Note that the children each have one foot inside the inner circle's edge and one foot on the outside. Their youth conveys a state of spiritual innocence in our personal masculine and feminine aspects of Self.

Each one of us in the group has a different relationship with our inner child(ren) and therefore respond in a variety of ways to the Uranian Electricity of the Fool, as we pass from the outer to inner spheres of the Solar Force. Edge phenomena resembles turbulence of passing through the Earth's atmosphere.

To enter Detached Awareness, we must leap into it like a fool, from the "familiar territory" of the cliff into the unknown ways of being on the inside of the circle. We do this in dream group whenever we become vulnerable and allow ourselves to enter certain blind spots that we would not normally feel comfortable entering. The goal of this leap of faith is to land on the central dot of the Innermost, where we are no longer identified with the patterns of our many personas. This Center is both detached from all of these patterns and simultaneously connected to them through an awareness of their existence.

Detached Awareness feeds on observation of old patterns. These old patterns (ways of being) are like plants, being harvested in the Death card, to nourish the Center of Awareness (Inner Circle of the Sun Card). Each of us is a fool, made humble by the power of the Hidden Sun.