Pondering

There needs to be an Alliance of Pagan Spiritual Directors.

I am all for interfaith learning and enrichment, but I'm tired of having most of my search for resources in spiritual direction resulting in 95% Christian, 4% Jewish, 1% Other spiritual paths. And I haven't been all that impressed with the "Other" resources when compared with the depth of the Christian resources.

Yes, it can be "translated" but not always, and not without effort.

That effort could be good for me. . . but it would still be nice to have a community of peers who speak the same language and who have similar reference points.

Starting Up the 32nd Path

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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