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As always, the Rider-Waite-Smith card stresses the more prosaic meanings of despair, illness, suffering and cruelty as if awakening from a bad dream. The sub-conscious, is the place of the Akashic fluid, where dreams are made into form and can, with enough emotional concentration, become reality. Sleep, induces the subconscious state as we "turn off" the conscious state of sensual awareness. This unconscious state of dreaming, can show the errors in thought processes (soft-ware), allowing the consciousness to solve the errors but it can also produce errors.. That is why many people keep a dream journal, where they write down their dreams upon awakening. Allowing the consciousness to examine the dream symbols when they are fresh in the awake mind. This seems to be a rewarding practice and one recommended by many therapists.

For myself I run a correctional mental loop of , "get over yourself and get on with you! Impeccability is what we do'' whenever I worry or feel despondent. It just overrides the "pity pot" of self-defeating cruel thought every time it comes on line. But installing that software loop, took determination, and plain old fashion "jack Ass " stubbornness and constant repetition, a meditation of seconds, done most minutes, until it becomes automatic. Don't you think its time, we programed our own hard Ware/wet-ware! In fact, that is our best usage of time! That is the real message of the Nine of Swords and the axiom of ; ABOVE ALL THINGS, KNOW THYSELF!

Again the minimalistic art of the B.O.T.A. small cards, rarely gives a clue to its meanings. Traditionally the 9 of Swords represents, worry, despair, loss, and cruelty. That is not seen in the art of the Builders of The Adytum small cards. Here the swords are displayed in trinities as they are assembled on the Tree of Life. On the Tree of Life, 9 is the number of the Sephiroth-Yesod and its planet assignation is the Moon; reflection, and illusion.

The realm of Yesod, is the Astral world of "Odic Force" , as described by Von Reichenbach; a mid- nineteenth century investigator of psychic phenomena. This force is now known as the Astral light or the Akashic Fluid and it is the foundational energy state of all physical material. Magic  is just the manipulation of this Akashic fluid into various states of energy forms by the mental process of willed meditation. This is were Thought forms are produced before they become manifested as a crystalized - "me". Here, each of us has the capacity to produce within ourselves our living self image and to profoundly experience that production as "our life". This may sound silly to those who think that we somehow pursue life, rather than being the Life that makes the living. But stop a minute and think; the word Spirit is from the Greek root word Spiro which means breath. The body lives because of this Breath within it. Therefore, Spirit is the Life of the Body, thus the body is the living that Spirit produces. I am the life of me, is a true statement of understanding the "I AM" which is the spiritual state of pure conscious energy that produces the artificial "me" of physical self-conscious manifestation. Thus, the mental Akashic fluid thought form, once animated by breath and self-conscious, the producer of emotion, becomes the crystallization of thought that we call the "living being". The perceiver is not the object perceived. Hence, you are not even thought. You are the Invisible Space that your objective self of Time, occupies! I AM declares existence, but of what? That is the question that created "measurement" and/or object within the subjective. In other-words, our perspective of self, operates our objective self. As Qabalists know, All is Mind. Therefore, the Mind that is infinite, has no measurement and therefore, invents measurement as a way to "view" itself. Another way to state this is to say that the I AM invented Me, so that it could examine and experiment with self-awareness.

So stop questioning yourself, and become answers instead! This doesn't mean you don't examine your thoughts; after all they are yours to examine intimately. That however, is not reaction to your environment, just common sense as you know thoughts are not you because you create them. Action, however, is the Fiery Spirit motion that moves you as evolutionary identity. Hence, reaction is usually run by the uncertain animal mind of survival thinking, who thinks the whole universe is out to eat it, while the Spirit, takes action in the environment it observes!

Therefore, the Nine of Swords, is about you being your own worst enemy, divided against yourself, mentally and emotionally. Always nay-saying before you can ever start a motion. This is " a moment of doubt" drawn out as a Life-time. Sure we doubt our selves, after all every new motion is a risk to the old one! But if the Child of Wonder, that innocent curiosity, still has "I's" in you, you're are going to "do it" anyway. Besides, form has a beginning and therefore an end; Spirit is of the One Energy and cannot be created nor destroyed. The aware know that bodies are not going to survive the Spirit. However, as Spirit, we are always striving forward, we are being Pushed along by the Divine Creative's need to know itself, just like Dark Energy pushes the Universe of Matter forever outwards. Life is a Driving Force...and the Body is the vehicle driven into experimental ideas of Self!

So what this Cruel Nine/9 of Swords implies, is that "a house divide must fall". Get together with yourself and over throw the Slaver program that is in your brain. Software can be erased even when its Garbage. (G.I.G.O). All software programmers know of G.I.G.O., for when software is garbage and programed in, the hardware or wet-ware is operational garbage as well. Garbage in, Garbage out!

The 9/Nine of Swords implies that you must get off your ass of miserable perspective and re-think the programing! It's easy to fail, all you have to do is stop doing. Success, is a product of the stubborn optimist. This undaunted optimist is Your Immortal Soul who even if it kills "itself" (destroys the hardware) trying to accomplish a goal, it just reincarnates and keeps at it! Since we are Mind, we all will pound out the bugs of our software (definitions), some sooner than others, but we all will do it eventually. That is the purpose of sensuality after all; learning to discriminate by experiencing the success and failure of our software!

Your soul, will just "reabsorb" the software garbage, and try another revision of it in "hardware/wet-ware" performance; a performance that we know as "alive" and some call Karma.

When the NINE/9 OF SWORDS is thrown during a Divination, it implies that the querent:

• Is practicing mental self-cruelty. Negative thoughts mentally degrading the individual identity both dynamically and receptively, bringing the individual into depression.
• Is feeling sorry for themselves.
• Is being hurt and having hurt others.
• Is experiencing a ghastly nightmare of arising fears and projected thoughts brought about by self doubt.
• Is facing grief, facing the demons within, or to weather the nightmares through time and patience.
• Is experiencing a need to analyze, think clearly and get in touch with your night dreams for direction and understanding.
• Is experiencing oppression, depression, and suspicion rather than tragedy. 
• Is experiencing the power of separation that brings beginnings.

If reversed , it implies:

• Shame.
• Guilt.
• Terror.
• Infamy. 
• Misery.
• Hate.

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