In the Tarot, 3 is the Empress, 7 is The Chariot, 1 is the Magician.
With regard to the Empress, “...until we learn to experience the outer world completely we cannot hope to transcend it. Therefore the first step to enlightenment is sensuality. Only through passion, can we sense, from deep inside rather than through intellectual argument, the spirit that fills all existence.” (Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, A Book of Tarot by Rachel Pollack, p. 42)ot, 3 is the Empress, 7 is The Chariot, 1 is the Magician.
“A river flows from the trees behind her to disappear beneath her seat. This river is the force of life, running like a great current beneath all the separate forms of reality, and experienced most fully when we give ourselves to unrestrained passion. Deep in our selves we can sense the rhythm of a river, carrying us forward through experience until, with death, our individual lives
return to the sea of existence.” (Ibid. p. 43)
“Certain experiences, especially mystical union with spirit, cannot be described. Language can only hint at them with metaphors and fables. People who rely totally on speech have even gone so far as to insist that non-verbal experiences, or experiences which cannot be measured by psychological tests, do not exist. This is simply because they cannot be scientifically described. Such dogmatism receives its perfect symbol in the charioteer’s merging with his stone wagon.” (Ibid, p. 62)
“The Magician emerges very directly from the Fool in the image of the trickster wizard.. For many people the Magician can become a strong personal symbol for the creative force throughout their lives.” (Ibid, pp. 29, 32)
I am, yes I am, Buddha. Ha! Bet you thought I couldn’t come up with these ideas! Well, granted, they’re not all mine. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Ione. And Rachel Pollack. And John Blofield. Among others.
