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28.
tzaddi
(the
star)
The path of Tzaddi
connects the collective inspiraton of Netzach
with the great
fundamental force for good and evil, Yesod. Tzaddi provides Yesod, the magical link between mind and matter,
with an inflow of Netzach's collective channels and archetypes.
It breaks up the automatisms of Yesod to enable a greater freedom of utopian, futuristic creation,
based on higher principles: It enables the image screen of Yesod to be penetrated
by the purifying archetypes of Netzach.
Tzaddi
means 'fish
hook',
which refers to the angling of the soul to raise the personality:
"through it is consummated
and perfected the Nature of every existent being under the orb
of the sun". Tzaddi is the process of identifying the ego with higher collective
forces, for instance
through meditation. In this process, the soul is able to overshadow
the ego and contribute to the perfection of the personality.
The tarot trump "The
Star(s)" below is loaded with symbols of interdependence
between heaven and earth. The woman in the card is a physical transmitter
of spiritual principles:
"As
above, so below".
"Every man and woman is a star", a potentially perfect
example, a possible role model. We identify with the heavens,
and they actively identify with us, through the fish hook. This
implies of course a great risk of ego-inflation. For the personality, nothing is easier to
worship than itself. Mental hospitals are filled with former
adepts who believe that thay are some ancient godform. Stardom is not always a modest path.
The message of Tzaddi
is that the process is always controlled by the soul, not by the personality dangling from the
fish hook. Potential stardom is a gift of
the Gods, an inherited process deeply embedded in our natural
spiritual evolution. Therefore Tzaddi is called "the Natural
intelligence". We are born with
a living hope and faith
in God.
| Meaning of Letter: Fish hook. |
Type of Letter: Simple Letter: Imagination. |
Value: 90. |
| Place |
Between Netzach and Yesod in the Astral Triangle, opposite to the path of Resh. Compare also with
Heh, the similar path
of the Ethical Triangle. |
| "32 Paths of
Wisdom" |
"The Twenty-eighth Path is called the
Natural Intelligence, and is so-called because through it is
consummated and perfected the Nature of every existent being
under the orb of the sun, in perfection." |
| Tarot Trump |
17. The Star. The Daugther of the Firmament. The Dweller
between the Waters. The Mother. |
| Virtue / Vice: Guiding / ungrounded. |
Astrology: Aquarius. |
| The four worlds |
Atziluth |
Briah |
Yetzirah |
Assiah |
| Meanings of Trump |
Realization |
Flowing |
Bright |
Sensual |
| Colours |
Violet |
Sky blue |
Bluish mauve |
White, tinged purple |
| Tarot affirmation
1: |
"I give and receive great love. I have
unlimited insight, inspiration and hope". |
| Tarot affirmation
2 |
"I am the Star, a shining light of beauty
and compassion". |
| Magical symbols |
Censer. Star-charts. |
| Body |
Left lower abdomen. Left inner sexual system.
Reproductive disorders. Power of consecration. |
| Mythology |
Adam-Eve+Nachash, the serpent tester (Naked
man of Yesod and naked woman of Netzach). Quest for the Holy
Grail (chalice cup). Pegasus. Lucifer, the light-bearer. Cinderella
(wish-fullfillment dreams). Non-human kingdoms, fairies, Tir
na n'Og (eternal youth, an Irish myth) . Succubus. |
| Other symbols |
A Sharp. Marigold. Lime blossom. Pinetree.
The human. |
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