Starting Up the 32nd Path

[qos]

The Thirty-second path is the Administrative Intelligence, and it is so called because it directs and associates the seven planets in all their operations, all of them in their due courses.


I've felt like hell today, bad enough that I forgot just how *good* I've been feeling for a while. I don't know if I'm coming down with something, if its my cycle, or what. I'm not even sure if I'm going to be clear-headed enough to meditate this evening, but I'm heartened at the prospect of moving on to the next part of the Tree of Life after spending a couple of months meditating on Malkuth.

The "Mythological Principle" is The Descent to the Underworld.
I hope it's not hubris for me to expect to feel quite at home here. . . or at least find it familiar territory.

One element which is going to be interesting is that the Tarot trump associated with this path is The World, which seems quite the opposite of the Descent to the Underworld. I'm sure that's going to make for interesting meditations. . . Although I get the sense that it connects far more with the "Administrative Intelligence" aspect of influences coming down from Yesod, providing the patterns for the forms which arise in the material world of Malkuth.

And one more note about Malkuth: it was a paradigm shift to be reminded that Malkuth refers to the entire physical/material universe, not just our Earth.

My favorite version of "The World" -- from the Robin Wood Tarot.




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Comments

[wyldlingspirit.livejournal.com]

My eyes glazed right on over... until I got to the part where you said And one more note about Malkuth: it was a paradigm shift to be reminded that Malkuth refers to the entire physical/material universe, not just our Earth and I went, "Oh, really?"

Confound it. Now I'm going to have to figure out what this stuff means and how it applies to the peculiar circumstances of my life. And I just know, somehow, it does apply.

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

The lovely thing I'm discovering about Qabalah is that it applies to *everything* -- not in a dogmatic way, but as a symbolic representation of the entire scope of existence, from the Indescribable Source all the way down through the planes to the grittiest of material life, plus all the facets of mental, emotional, and psychic existence.

I'm barely poking my head up from Malkuth, but I know it applies to all the realms, not just this material plane.

[oakmouse]

Qabalistically speaking, Trump XXI represents movement and possibility within fixed limits (hence the dancer inside the circumscribed space of a wreath). That works very well with the descent into the underworld and the concept of limitation being real, necessary, and sometimes non-negotiable. Enjoy the meditations! ;)