reflection

3.0 Kether Reflection

Reflection works well in the third week of the month but obviously can be done at any time.

Having travelled through to Chesed during the tea meditation, are there questions that now exist for you?  If yes, leave them in the comments and let us learn from each other.

If you are seeking ways to reflect into Chesed, here are a few suggestions:

  1. Chesed is the Mercy that comes from form comforting and containing the spur of force.  We often hear mercy called weakness.  Do you feel this way?  Do you consider mercy a weakness or a strength?  If a weakness, can you find the strength in it?  If a strength, can you see where the weakness can happen?  Have you felt mercy?  Received it?  Write this down in your journal.
  2. Where and when have you used Chesed energy in your life?  When have you felt the expansion of Jupiter settle and strengthen you?  When have you experienced love?  humility?  Have you ever been enveloped by majestic awe?
  3. Explore Chesed via the 4’s of the Tarot in the next lesson.

3.0 Chokmah Reflection

Reflection works well in the third week of the month but obviously can be done at any time.

Having travelled through to Chesed during the tea meditation, are there questions that now exist for you?  If yes, leave them in the comments and let us learn from each other.

If you are seeking ways to reflect into Chesed, here are a few suggestions:

  1. Chesed is the Mercy that comes from form comforting and containing the spur of force.  We often hear mercy called weakness.  Do you feel this way?  Do you consider mercy a weakness or a strength?  If a weakness, can you find the strength in it?  If a strength, can you see where the weakness can happen?  Have you felt mercy?  Received it?  Write this down in your journal.
  2. Where and when have you used Chesed energy in your life?  When have you felt the expansion of Jupiter settle and strengthen you?  When have you experienced love?  humility?  Have you ever been enveloped by majestic awe?
  3. Explore Chesed via the 4’s of the Tarot in the next lesson.

3.0 Binah Reflection

Reflection works well in the third week of the month but obviously can be done at any time.

Having travelled through to Chesed during the tea meditation, are there questions that now exist for you?  If yes, leave them in the comments and let us learn from each other.

If you are seeking ways to reflect into Chesed, here are a few suggestions:

  1. Chesed is the Mercy that comes from form comforting and containing the spur of force.  We often hear mercy called weakness.  Do you feel this way?  Do you consider mercy a weakness or a strength?  If a weakness, can you find the strength in it?  If a strength, can you see where the weakness can happen?  Have you felt mercy?  Received it?  Write this down in your journal.
  2. Where and when have you used Chesed energy in your life?  When have you felt the expansion of Jupiter settle and strengthen you?  When have you experienced love?  humility?  Have you ever been enveloped by majestic awe?
  3. Explore Chesed via the 4’s of the Tarot in the next lesson.

3.0 Chesed Reflection

Reflection works well in the third week of the month but obviously can be done at any time.

Having travelled through to Chesed during the tea meditation, are there questions that now exist for you?  If yes, leave them in the comments and let us learn from each other.

If you are seeking ways to reflect into Chesed, here are a few suggestions:

  1. Chesed is the Mercy that comes from form comforting and containing the spur of force.  We often hear mercy called weakness.  Do you feel this way?  Do you consider mercy a weakness or a strength?  If a weakness, can you find the strength in it?  If a strength, can you see where the weakness can happen?  Have you felt mercy?  Received it?  Write this down in your journal.
  2. Where and when have you used Chesed energy in your life?  When have you felt the expansion of Jupiter settle and strengthen you?  When have you experienced love?  humility?  Have you ever been enveloped by majestic awe?
  3. Explore Chesed via the 4’s of the Tarot in the next lesson.

3.1 Tarot: The 6’s

Downloadable:
Tarot: Tifareth 6’s

The chart is for reference, for those who like such materials.  Reminder, the “Thoth label” is the word chosen by Aleister Crowley to epitomize the energy and the meaning of the card.  The astrological association is another way to describe the energy of the card.

Tarot Meditations:

If you have a tarot deck, I recommend pulling out the four 6’s to have with you during the meditation.  NOTE:  In the Thoth deck (the tarot deck Aleister Crowley designed), as with many other tarot decks, the suit of wands is associated with fire and the swords with air.  If your deck has those associations flipped you will most likely want to use your 10 of swords with the wand meditation and the 10 of wands with the sword meditation.  Or in other words, follow the elemental association of the meditations over the representation.

These meditations can be done contemplatively, i.e. purely as meditation.  You an also do them as a pathworking, where you draw in the energies that are being worked with and explore the card from that direction.  The choice is yours.  If you are unfamiliar with energy working, I recommend staying meditative.

Tifareth is very positively aspected through the tarot; it is the moment when there is success, when the element finds its most positive expression in activity.

Earth:  Pentacles

As we are travelling up the tree, we will also travel ‘up’ the elements.  As the most manifested of the four elements, earth is encountered first, followed by air, then water and finally fire for the beginning of all things.  In this particular reference point anyways.

You can also use 6 stones, laid out in a circle around you are in front of you as part of the meditation/journey.

The power of earth, the physical, the body; the power of Tifareth, the Harmony and the Beauty.  Moon in Taurus.  Success.

Ideally you have the tarot card in hand or in front of you during the meditation.

The meditation starts with the presumption that you are already settled, comfortable, mind settled and calmly focused, ready to begin.

 

Air:  Swords

The power of air, the mind, the intellect; the power of Tifareth, the Harmony and the Beauty.  Mercury in Aquarius.  Science.

You could choose to have 6 sticks of incense burning around you or in front of you or 6 feathers to represent air with you while you listen/do the meditation.

Ideally you have the tarot card in hand or in front of you during the meditation.

The meditation starts with the presumption that you are already settled, comfortable, mind settled and calmly focused, ready to begin.

 

Water:  Cups

The power of water, heart and emotions; the power of Tifareth, the Harmony and the Beauty.  Sun in Scorpio.  Pleasure.

You could choose to have 6 cups of water surrounding you as you do the meditation.

Ideally you have the tarot card in hand or in front of you during the meditation.

The meditation starts with the presumption that you are already settled, comfortable, mind settled and calmly focused, ready to begin.

Fire:  Wands

The power of fire, will and passion; the power of Tifareth, the Harmony and the Beauty.  Jupiter in Leo.  Victory.

You could choose to have 6 candles in front of or around you as you do the meditation.  Let yourself be inspired into the pattern you wish to lay them out in.

Ideally you have the tarot card in hand or in front of you during the meditation.

The meditation starts with the presumption that you are already settled, comfortable, mind settled and calmly focused, ready to begin.

 

This ends this week’s exercises.

3.0 Geburah Reflection

Reflection works well in the third week of the month but obviously can be done at any time.

Having travelled through to Geburah during the tea meditation, are there questions that now exist for you?  If yes, leave them in the comments and let us learn from each other.

If you are seeking ways to reflect into Geburah, here are a few suggestions:

  1. Geburah is the Might that results from force churning up the concept of form, invigorating it and inspiring it.  In Tifareth we experienced Harmony, but also the Harmony that results from the cycle of sacrifice, a cycle of death and rebirth.  Here we have broken that cycle down into its components and we explore the destructive side.  Can you feel the power in destruction?  We are trained to see this as a negative – that this negative power, that destruction is evil, and yet it is also the surgery that removes cancer, the breaking of a relationship that is destroying us so that we can find freedom, it is the breaking down of our preconceptions so that we can see a clearer truth.  How do these statements make you feel?  Have you felt the passion of creation?  The power of destruction?  Write this down in your journal.
  2. Where and when have you used Geburah energy in your life?  When have you felt the fire of Mars invigorate you into action and creation?  When have you experienced courage? loyalty?
  3. Explore Geburah via the 5’s of the Tarot in the next lesson.

3.0 Tifareth Reflection

Reflection works well in the third week of the month but obviously can be done at any time.

Having travelled through to Tifareth during the tea meditation, are there questions that now exist for you?  If yes, leave them in the comments and let us learn from each other.

If you are seeking ways to reflect into Tifareth, here are a few suggestions:

  1. Tifareth is the centre, all of the sephiroth around it connecting into it.  It is the Harmony at the heart, when all of the parts are in balance.  Have you ever felt balanced in your core that way?  Where your heart, your mind and your body are in unity?  In concert with each other?  Have you felt that way in your life?  Balanced between work and home?  Have you ever enjoyed that fleeting moment of perfect contentment?
  2. Where and when have you used Tifareth energy in your life?  If that is too esoteric still, where have you felt illuminated by the sun?  Devoted to your life’s work?
  3. Explore Tifareth via the 6’s of the Tarot in the next lesson.

3.0 Netzach Reflection

Reflection works well in the third week of the month but obviously can be done at any time.

Having travelled through to Netzach during the tea meditation, are there questions that now exist for you?  If yes, leave them in the comments and let us learn from each other.

If you are seeking ways to reflect into Netzach, here are a few suggestions:

  1. Netzach is the balancing emotion to the formula and thought of Hod.  More than that, it is the connective process that sees beyond the formula to the webbing that brings everything together.  How does it feel when I say that?  Do you ever feel that (in the heart and body, not the mind) connectedness with yourself?  With others?  With the world?  Or in other words, feel and connect with your feelings, experiences and relationship with Netzach.  Write this down in your journal.
  2. Where and when have you used Netzach energy in your life?
  3. Explore Netzach via the 7’s of the Tarot in the next lesson.