The Emperor's skirt

Strictly Law of One
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In Sessions 94-95 there was this interchange about the Emperor’s skirt:

Questioner: The entity on Card Four wears a strangely shaped skirt. Is there a significance to the shape of this skirt?

Ra: I am Ra. Yes.

Ra: I am Ra. In the context of your penultimate query we would suggest that you ponder again the shape of the garment which the image wears. Such habiliment is not natural. The shape is significant and is so along the lines of your query.

Questioner: In Card Four in the last session we spoke of the shape of the skirt and it has occurred to us that the skirt of the entity representing the archetype of the Experience of the Mind is extended to the left to indicate that other-selves would not be able to get close to this entity if it had chosen the left-hand path. There would be a greater separation between it and other-selves, whereas if it had chosen the right-hand path there would be much less of a separation. Would Ra comment on that observation?

Ra: I am Ra. The student is perceptive.

I also wonder if the skirt’s shape is meant to evoke the pyramid shape in the Moon card (Experience of the Spirit). I note that the skirt on the Hermit also has the extension into the left side, but it is not similarly designed with a pyramid shape. If that’s the case, it suggests that the mental activity represented by the Emperor card is essential for entering/exploring the pyramids of the Moon card. The bird positioned at mid-chest is pointing down at the skirt, which might also be a clue to the Significant Self to “use the Emperor archetype to explore and enter those spiritual pyramids.”

Just musing.

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The way I interpret it, is that at the point of the experience of the mind. There is a sense of not wanting to ‘grip’ too hard the things around one because the catalyst of the mind has already gone through that.

So, in the catalyst of the mind, the circle, with the smaller circle and bird, and the moon blocking the Empress feet. The guidance in the eye on the box below, making sure things aren’t too out of hand. All state that in the catalyst of the mind. The mind itself is able to run absolute riot in order to solve the issue at hand.

Once you get to the emperor however, the experience. The person is more grounded. The foot on the ground. The left hand does not grip the reality below it. Because the mind, at least at this point but possibly throughout, is not capable of really processing the deeper animalistic realities we are subjected to. (The dog, the crossed legs).

It brings in an interesting question I think as to what these ‘transcient’ materials might do to a person in this place? A key to the negative in this place might be that the person becomes paranoid and weird here. Trying to grip and understand, under the guise of being ‘super tough’. The dark elements that the mind is not designed to process.

So we see a direct opposition to this in the wheel and the experience of the body. The body is able to handle the “nitty gritty” of lifes too’s and fro’s.