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The Tarot of Eli 2, LLC: The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot-Key 19-The Sun & The Tarot of Sacred Kingdoms- Key 19-The Sun.

Western Hermetic Qabalah, Tantric, Astrological, Numerical, and Alchemical Traditional Tarot Card Comparisons. 

 

June 14, 2024

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The Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS) Tarot- Key 19-The Sun

The Tarot of Sacred Kingdoms -Key 19- The Sun

The return to the Childhood of the Sun/Son is indicated in the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Key 19 Card artwork. What is shown on the RWS tarot card is a child riding a white horse; the white horse being a symbol for Apollo, the Sun God and implies that on this Tarot card that we return to our Apollo-Sun God youth and collect our divine inheritance.

The Sun behind the Fool is our very first symbol in Tarot of Life Power and is a clue to all the rest of the Deck and despite the art, it is not indicating a gender but rather a state of Celestial energy. In Key 0, it is shown as white light to represent the Spiritual Life Center of the Universe. Here it is yellow to represent the Life Power of our Sun and the radiant power of the Solar-Self and/or the Soul. The Sun collects and distributes Celestial Impulses of Power which gives us our light and life., the Soul is a collective of "Life Forces" that carry information (Light carried data) and the power of breath, causing the body to "breathe" and thereby, live. Hence, it is also called the Collecting Intelligence.

On the RWS, Key 19, is shown the Sun's radiation (Straight lines) and Vibrations (Wavy lines). Because the Sun is not an inanimate object, but a Living Celestial Being and/or living, conscious Intelligence, it is shown with human features. The 5 sunflowers (4+ the wreath on the Child's head) represent the natural kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, animal, and human. The Solar Son/Sun, represents the future conscious state (enlightenment) of human growth beyond our present state, known as the state of Regeneration. Therefore, the Child on the Horse represents regenerated humanity known as Horus. This also recalls the statement attributed to Zeus Christos, that we must be "as the Children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven" (Supernal Triangle of Kether-Chokmah-Binah) and that "the Kingdom is in you and all around you".

The Stone Wall, on the Sun card represents the partial truth that is represented by the senses. Hence, the comprehension of Truth is limited if founded solely on sensatory evidence, as in materialistic science. Therefore, the wall in the background also represents human adaptation of natural conditions. It is, furthermore, the representation of the whole chain of ideas attributed to the Hebrew Letter, Cheth, (pronounced Kayluth) - meaning "enclosure or fence". This also includes human speech which uses words to "enclose" our identity. Hence, words are a "false and/or profaned" identity. We are not words; we are suns of the living Divine Creative. Suns of the One Energy, is a Solar Self and/or Soul.

In the head/brain, which is the Sun of the body are collected, all the human powers. In fact, the Latin word "countenance" means to "hold together or contain". Therefore, we find in Key 19 plain intimations of authority and leadership. Left brain is Animus, and right brain is Anima, as our brains are perfect copies of our androgynous Souls/Solar Selves.

Key 19 of the Thoth Tarot also uses twins to explain the 0=2 and/or the pairing of opposites in all creations. Infact, attributed to Resh, are Fruitfulness and Sterility, as the Sun is responsible for both lush growth and deserts.

The term Collective Intelligence implies to collect, assemble, or bring together, to combine or unify, to embody and to synthesize. The Soul (Solar Self) which refers to the Sun, collects and combines all modes of intelligence that went before the present and combines them in a new (Known) form. Thus, it is a regenerative mode of consciousness, incorporating all the elements of control into a new realization of personality. The I AM realizing the difference between I and Am (Identity and Mind) thereby, creating a renewed "Me". Identity is "I" but "Am", is assumed information and that assumption compared to Identity builds acknowledgement of existence" and the union of I and Am produces the child- "Me". Therefore, the bright and brilliant intelligence knows that "What I AM" is all assumption and therefore, easily, and constantly renewed by combining all assumptions, producing a new sum and/or collective of "I AM".

Even though the wall on the RWS Sun Card is stone or brick, it has 5 courses, symbolizing the 5 obvious human senses. Even in a language of the largest vocabulary, all concrete and abstract terms are derived from sensory experience. Therefore, language fails whenever one attempts to use it to explain that which is beyond sensory experience. Leaving, mystics, Gnostics, Magicians, and seers, the necessity of symbolic use of language. They are not trying to hide anything; on the contrary no one is more eager to express themselves more than a wise person who has firsthand knowledge of the "As above so below" (Inner and outer planes) of experience. The truth of the matter being, that ordinary language will not convey the truth of this kind of experience from one mind to another. Hence, the TAROT. and its Qabalistic Partnership both require experience. intuition, and a superior Self-Knowledge.

The Tarot of Sacred Kingdoms-Key 19-The Sun.

The Tarot of Sacred Kingdoms-Key 19-The Sun depicts a Fatherly Hero mentoring his male child. The fence on the RWS card is the enclosure of words that bind our identities while on the Sacred Kingdoms card the Sun is shown in a temple enclosure, with an Oriel above in the shape of a stylized Scarab. The Scarab, representing the ancient Egyptian god Khepri.

The Egyptian god Khepri is associated with the scarab beetle and is believed to push the sun across the sky. Khepri represents the rising sun and is often depicted as a scarab beetle or a man with a scarab beetle for a head. This imagery symbolizes rebirth, transformation, and the eternal cycle of the sun.

The Tarot of Sacred Kingdoms-Key 19-The Sun, represents joy, positivity, and success. We are all surrounded by positive vital energy so stay optimistic even when challenged by events. Notice your sense of purpose as a force of Life itself. You are an immortal celestial who operates a body in your name of "I AM", thereby turning solar energy into sensation. You are the Sun of your body.

The real meaning of Father-Mother-Child represented in mythologies and theologies, begins to become apparent when in conversation with this archetype of Self-Consciousness (Self-Awareness) -The archetypal eternal child-emerges from a perfect integration (communion) of the Will to Force-conscious (Father) and the Will to Form- unconsciousness (Mother). When all is said and done, the chief task of the Child/Hero is the overcoming of inner darkness using the inner sun light- Overcoming the subconscious fears of the survival thinking and the "false ego" mind virus and thereby elevating the subconsciousness into a bright and warm, consciousness of a collective self.

When the Sun, Key 19, is thrown in a divination, it implies:

  • The instinctual striving for the Light.
  • Reconciliation with the shadow side.
  • Realization of the Innermost (Highest) Self.
  • Vivacity.
  • Acceptance of Life.
  • Vitality.
  • Generosity.
  • Warmth.
  • Freshness.
  • Self-confidence.
  • The Ascent into light.
  • Satisfaction. 
  • Material and emotional happiness.

If Reversed:

  • Self-satisfaction.
  • Personality cult.
  • Delusions of grandeur.
  • Blinding, scorching, parching.
  • A project cancelled.
  • Success delayed.

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