Thank you for sharing about this card,
the Great Path of the Spirit. When you
shared this I felt awestruck because
I need to discuss this profound archetype.
I wanted to love more exquisitely so that
I could share with others how to do that,
and honestly I felt Ra’s love for the Sun
is likely an ultimate source of reference.
I consider the great path archetypes as
sharing a special quality, that is an unusual
ability to scale our perspective from say
something small as our mundane peon
individual existence to something grand
and magnificent as our galaxy of stars.
And loving exquisitely from Ra’s high
vantage is not gross hand-holding body
experience, nor is it something mental
but likely spiritual in nature. So the
Great Path of Spirit, The World seems
an obvious choice to say evolve so.
It took a lot of seeking to discover many
elements that factor into this interplay
which might reveal something important
to a modern rendition of the graphical
clues offered.
I discovered in ancient Persia they
regarded red wine as sacred because
it helped reveal your true self. So two
glasses of red wine help me transition
from mental to spiritual; (I’m a drug free
blood donor and live clean normally,
but this is a special experience, I need
to be as spiritual as possible for it.)
The graphic has an upper and lower
depiction that relate to each other,
a ba-bird within a Wreath of Blue Lotus
(Nefertum) as sharing similarity to a
maternal woman breastfeeding a baby
as sitting on Blue Lotus and creating
harp music. (I used Lavendar fragrance,
which helped me feel cared for, and a
weighted blanket as textile that helped
me feel gravity hugged.). A ba-bird is
a spirit bird, (Ra is often associated to
a falcon or hawk.)
A really basic starting and endpoint here
is Gaia Grounding Meditation - an ability
to anchor yourself in waking reality at the
entry and exit of the experience. To me,
this is why it was named The World, it
is like a lifeline on a transcendental
journey so we don’t lose ourselves in it.
The weighted blanket helps me feel
grounded in making the full circle.
One thing that I discovered is that music
played on these ancient harps commonly
sounds like minor key tunings, these are
slow bittersweet melodies that might tug
the heart strings. (To me, JS Bach was
obvious, i.e. Violin and Oboe in D minor.)
The music meditation links a creative
visualization of Ra’s Ba Bird flying along
the violin notes in a courtship with the
Sun on oboe or as Orchestra. So there’s
an experience of love shared between
say a violin and an orchestra, as there
is between Ra and the Sun. Once the
visualization links, the meditation seems
as if riding upon Ra along the Sun in
their love affair encounter.
Another element is a sense of the Divine
baby, an immense feeling of vulnerability
met with an immense feeling of care that
is met by immense intimacy. For many,
this is a barrier of entry - restricted access
because the experience involves scaling
perspective to embrace the love between
Ra and the Sun, as a divine baby. This
culmination, an embrace of huge scale,
seems the transcendental ka that then
delivers an immense profundity that
seems likely my reason to share about it.
Transitioning from such embrace held long,
I then imagined Carl Sagan’s pale blue dot,
going back to Gaia Grounding Meditation,
then a sort of lasting bliss stupor for
some time.
In response to the Q’uo idea of balancing
feminine and masculine dynamics I think
there was something similar represented
by Egyptian Heka as symbolized by the
twisted rope and embrace which later
became the Caduceus related to magic
and medicine.
Today I think of these two balanced
dynamics as the Stoic and the Epicurean
(or Hedonist). For example to play a violin
takes incredible self discipline
(Stoicism), to find pleasure in the notes of
the Violin takes degrees of Epicureanism,
and from some grateful appreciation of so
many elements contributing to such
experience, comes gratitude in bringing the
best humanity might offer, as exquisite.
I might offer to those enraptured with the Sun,
part of the immense mystery seems in the
Sun’s ability to be an orchestra of orchestras.
I might offer to those enraptured with Ra,
much of the Ra Materials reveals a Stoic
side, however my experience revealed both
a epicurean side, and an immense divine
kernel - that escapes most mental study.
My perspective has changed - I interpret the
Social Complex Ra as having Trichotomous
attributes, in more ways than one, and this
may be why Ra warns not to go it alone,
please include others in Great Path seeking!
