The World is the final card in the Major Arcana and it offers us both physical and psychological freedom from our past. The World gives us a type of peace that is equivalent to grace though we are likely to resist the gift because it does not conform to our desire to be unwounded or to acquire that which we once sought.
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As lifeforce drains from us by way of time and also by way of stress and illnesses of the body, mind, and heart, we age and eventually die. Hebe could restore that force by offering the contents of her cup.
The magical value of The Emperor will be most powerful to invoke for narrative practices in Chaos Magick and basic psychological self-treatment, too. In both, the technique of tending to the progress of an intentional story builds that story into reality.
Fortuna’s wheel is animated by the fates. Her wheel requires the desire of the fates themselves to turn the wheel and life itself requires the wheel to turn in order for existence to go on. Fate is not personal, it is not punishment or reward, the fates one receives have nothing to do with Fortuna’s judgements.
Making success with the energy this page offers means centering desire in goal setting and in the process of reaching the goal. It is a powerful awareness for the Page of Wands to stay tuned to what he wants. The practice of keeping conscious of wants and desires is the practice by which this type of personality remains grounded and finds fulfillment through an active series of choices rather than coming up empty-handed.
Though death is a necessary experience on the way to an afterlife or the lack thereof, the two are not interchangeable. Artful representations on the nature of death often choose to personify the phenomenon as a means of exploration.
…when Ra created the world by speaking it into existence, Ma’at was born and her spirit fused both harmony and balance into creation itself thus making the operating system of our world based on rationality and purpose.
“The basis of compassion is not selflessness but rather desire.”
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