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Energetically, The Hanged Man is a very watery card,
cascade-rippling forth his inner emanations.
I often see this character as indicating an afloat in clarity quality,
the full and effortless support like when supported floating in water.
So, is this Hanged Man in the same posture as his support, the tree?
What can that tell us?
(c) 2010, 2011 Jordan Hoggard. All Rights Reserved
(c) 2011 Jordan Hoggard
How much more can you close your eyes to experience VISION? What of when the night sky closes its eyes to the moon in a full central lunar eclipse?
How exciting! Well, I think. We are in for the 1st of 2 total lunar eclipses on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. The second will occur on December 10th. The moon will be in Sagittarius on June 15th, and the earth is projected to cast its shadow on the moon making the full lunar eclipse last for some 100 minutes. It is also an extremely rare central eclipse where the moon will pass through the centerline of the earth’s shadow. The next central lunar eclipse will be on July 27, 2018. (ref. Wikipedia link)
I say, “I think”, as I feel there is merit in Bonnie Cehovet’s statement that, “. . . but that has to be disruptive in some way.” From my perspective, and I have heard many conflicting ideas on eclipses as of late from my astrology buddies, lunar and solar, yet with this one being a rare central eclipse, I felt them reaching somehow in statements that sounded all too reasonable, and too. . .too, “that makes too much sense to believe.” The statement, “reasons are often unreasonable” came to mind, and I smiled feeling a lot more comfortable eclipsing all that chatter and feeling into it myself, divining it.
So, why not work that out right here in a blog in one take kinda thing? That’s how I do most things anyway, them not taking an hour or two, but more so taking my whole life up to that point with a “let ‘er rip n build something” where the meaning occurs in the act, with the meaning AS the act. Heck, I don’t really know if I layered that wisdom into the stories told in Tarot in the Land of Mystereum or if building it, Mystereum taught me. I can say that mastery, one way or the other, led to discovery. Maybe no matter if I AM Marco Polo’s hull after a voyage, or the starry-eyed-in-anticipation person standing on the dock as the hull reveals and unfolds it treasures at my feet. Maybe both. Maybe neither. Certainly not nether.
Let’s start with 4 features: the 4 big ole archetypal Tarot ideas for the eclipse of The Sun, The Moon, and Temperance — as the moon will be in Saggie, and Temperance is ruled by Sag. The Sun and the Moon are kinda necessary for this lunar eclipse gig to happen. They intermix in this central lunar eclipse as an alchemical rue due to a more mundane gig, though. . .Earth. Respecting that, it feels to be fitting to bring in another, The Empress as Momma Gaia to represent earth. Then another, The World, as the universe of an alchemist’s crucible wherein all 4 intermix. So, that’s 5. The Sun. The Moon. Temperance. The Empress. The World. Before this gets ad infinitum out of hand, before the roller coaster dynamic of a multi-layer chess tennis match between them all unfolds on Wednesday, and I ask you to smile and fasten your seat belts. . . it seems prudent, WOW I actually used that word for once. . .It seems prudent to pose a centerline or nucleus of some questions first. Pose them not for what we will see, but for more expansive focus toward further opening up vision. Vision, the kind where you don’t say, “the sky’s the limit,” as that is limiting. Simply look up. Point to it. It’s right there. The sky is then equivalent to sight, what we see or want to see. Thinking bigger than that, that seems to be what I am calling vision here. Seeing the powerful limit beyond the sky that is given by vision. Maybe the questions coming up are my own boxes of the blind-spots of expectation, of sight rather than vision. That’ll have to be up to you.
So. . . . . . .
How much more unconscious and depthfully intuitive can we be made as we simply gaze right out at the not-there-in-the-sky-hiding-in-plain-sight central lunar eclipse moon? Do we see further in when looking at, into, its darkness in the darkness of the night?
Maybe the experience is like a natal astro chart of someone I know with Neptune and Mercury 4 degrees from one another in Scorpio? Basically, someone being born with a foot on both sides, where even taking a walk takes that person multiple places at once where those places are all mostly always integrated together in a single experience that seems normal to them? Hmmmm. . . Someone who sees psychic contents as easily as looking at art in a museum? A place where the autonomic, everyday devotion of breath is the prayer, the ongoing meditation? Seat belts, please. 😀 Here we go. . . .
Hmmm. . .dark in dark. Is this an anomaly of an antinomy, the totality of inner opposites. . .yet an antinomy of a totality of inner sameness, the moon and our intuition going into the dark of our own earthly shadow? Pictures! How? What’s there to see with vision? I have another question also coming to mind that I should preface before I blotto-transcend it. With the yin-yang symbol, the black spot being more than a beauty mark in the white field, is the spot really a psychic wormhole? A psychic wormhole where you go so far into the light as to become dark, and wormhole through the spot POOF to the dark field. . .and then the other way you go so far into the dark that POOF you come to the light dot bright-spot and POOF you wormhole again to. . . . I rather like that activation of the symbol. But, enough of the question-preface of that scenario as it seems small now. I sense a larger question:
What happens when the dark goes into the dark?
Does intuition get deeper, where the Moon, the bright eye of intuition in the night sky. . .goes dark? Deeper intuition? A huge sense of a loss of bearing? Vast expansiveness afloat in total clarity in total darkness, a Hanged Man moment you cannot see? Do you experience glimpses of eternity from your known depths of the realms of your creativity and imagination and experience? Total dissolution of self, or is it more not an annihilation of self but more fully a self-realization of the far reaches of one’s infinite inner divinity plunging further into the night so to speak?
The Penumbra Missing That Is A New Experience. Alternate title? No, I think I have said what I want to about the coming eclipse. . .there’s a title of a poem rattling around in that alternate title. . .the now-subject of this blog dedicated to the full lunar eclipse on Wednesday. I’ll run that, too, since I am warmed up. If you cannot see the eclipse in your area, maybe so much the better. Look at the moon and close your eyes with your own Momma-Gaia earth-shadow eyelids. Fully eclipse the moon yourself passing dark into dark, a void between stars, an odd, “hmmm, of a dark spot the size of the moon.” It may be a blank darkness in the night. It may be another imaginative wormhole to take you places and dissolve false connections. Again, that’s for you to decide and/or feel / experience. I will be curious what the core resonance of dark passing into dark is for everyone. Until then, I better write that poem while IT seems to still be warm. . .
The Missing Penumbral Light. A New Experience
Shadow shadow in the night,
I do not see you though I dance without fright.
Stop rhyming you say,
and I say,
ok.
Your Pallas-Athena gift that formed and set up in my mind
between Uranus the Shaker-Upper
and Pluto The Transformer
seems a gift that extends a gift,
extending the gift of the dark passing into the dark,
further into night,
night passing back a different glimpse of eternity from its own deeper night,
eternity’s own shadowed moon seen not-there.
Your gift.
Your Pallas-Athena gift saturates an old dusty idea in my mind.
The Sophia Principle if I remember correctly,
where may I be lucid enough to sense my shadow,
but smart enough to dance with it,
and now, smarter falls away to more. . .
Acceptant and receiving
I will dance
in the dark
with my shadow,
with and IN my earthly shadow
in Gaia-cast night-level shadow,
Gaia-cast
Gaia cast up to right not-there the moon,
now right not-there in the night sky,
where my symbols of intuition and depth disappear into experience,
where on this night
dark passes into dark.
Where on this night an infinite dark passes into my night.
What happens inside when the dark goes into the dark outside?
What happens when the dark goes into the dark?
(c) 2010, 2011 Jordan Hoggard
NOTE: The information below is a tip-of-the-iceberg sample to introduce you to one of my one-week “Actionable Imagination” courses. A one-week Actionable Imagination course will include:
~ 1-hour prestart orientation session — One on one or with the group you bring together. Group discounts available.
~ Actionable Imagination handouts for each day.
~ Touchstone conversation via phone or Skype ever other day.
~ 1-hour debriefing afterwards scheduled at your convenience.
~ 30-minute follow-up one week later scheduled at your convenience.
Actionable Imagination Courses cover a variety of topics, new ones being made as we speak. Custom Actionable Imagination Courses that are tailored in their entirety to you are available. Contact Jordan to discuss these further.
The investment for a One-Week Actionable Imagination Course is $400, Custom Course investments prices on a case by case basis.
BUT, Mention this blog when you schedule your Actionable Imagination course to further enhance your imagination, and with your prepaid course you will receive an Introductory Special of $295 and IN ADDITION a signed copy of Tarot in the Land of Mystereum!. . . the original Mystereum Tarot deck and 192-page Imagination Primer set where each card speaks to you directly in its own voice! Each card brings imagination gifts called . . .
FREE TP-OF-THE-ICEBERG TASTER SPOON!!
Materials you will need for one of Jordan Hoggard’s Actionable Imagination Sessions:
~ You, your imagination, and your sense of humor.
~ a Tarot deck of your choice
~ Your journal and a writing utensil, or your digital recording device to record your responses.
6 Topics. One for Each Day of the Week + One-Day Wiggle Room for Yourself EVERY Week!
Note that this sample is of a starter variety. In a full Actionable Imagination Session each day will be expanded and tailored specifically to you.
Mystereum Once a Day to Jump-start Your Whole Day All Week Long!
In an Actionable Imagination Session we will dialogue about the questions several days before we start “Day One” to tailor your course to you to get you the fullest benefit out of each day.
For the purposes of this taster spoon, please pull a card for each question. And, if you feel comfortable doing so, invite a friend to play the process together with you. I suggest a glass of water, too. Snacks optional.
FREE TIP OF THE ICEBERG ACTIONABLE IMAGINATION TASTER SPOON:
DAY ONE: 15 minutes. Set the timer.
1. Where is my treasure in the storm brighter than simply an ability to endure, to weather?
~ How will I trust in my treasure daily!
~ What happens when emotions simply wash through like weather?
DAY TWO: 30 minutes. Set the timer.
2. Where is my preparation complete?
~ How will I use my inner joineries to make a warming fabric?
~ What do I do to nurture this vitality daily?
(Gaining momentum in your week, so Day 3 covers a great deal of ground)
DAY THREE: 45 minutes. Set the timer.
3. Where is the direction of my celestial groove in my daily actions at work?
~ Where is the direction of my celestial groove in my daily actions at play?
~ Where is the direction of my celestial groove in my daily actions at home?
~ Where is the direction of my celestial groove in my daily actions in my dreams?
~ How will I use my celestial groove to think and better let things consciously flow?
~ What do I do to hoonor my celestial groove?
DAY FOUR: 15 minutes. The week is warmed up and vroomy. Let’s make it quick! Set the timer.
4. Where is the happiness that starts within myself that will fuel my success?
~ How will I use my natural actions to provide incredible worth to others daily?
~ What do I do to present the value of my work as a beneficial service to others?
~ Where is my most beneficial 2-way-street support system?
~ How will I best contribute to this 2-way-street support system?
~ What powerful limits of this 2-way-street support system will I simply recognize as its identity.
DAY FIVE: 30 minutes. Set the timer.
6. Where is the best place to celebrate my discoveries?
~ How will I celebrate my discoveries?
~ What does my celebration do?
~ Do it! 😀 Finish your work on a high note!
DAY SEVEN:
7. No Tarot. No journaling. No writing. Simply do your thang and let your ideas and creativity and intuition run to let your imagination roam free, FREELY. Don’t record them. And, no cheating. Seriously. DO. . .NOT. . . .WRITE. . .ANYTHING. . .DOWN. Exceptions: a grocery list or a letter. NO IDEAS TO BE RECORDED TODAY. Simply do YOUR thang.
Day Seven Suggestions: Friends. The park. Music. A book. Needlepoint. Gardening. Beading. Anything other than just sitting there. 😀
Hmmm. . . just a bunch of questions? In Actionable Imagination courses I have special ways to really get your responses to work more effectively in your life. . . .
Turbo Tarot Reading (c) 2010. What’s THAT?
Excerpt from The Ace of Swords in Tarot in the Land of Mystereum (c) 2010 Jordan Hoggard
Welcome to Swords! This is the place within Mystereum for you to see and feel how your day to day and night to night communications cut right through. Cut right through from your imagination like a living sprout bursting up into the sun. And, you’ve met The Sun. My does he shine brightly like YOU inside! I’m like a single sunbeam. He’s like all of your brightness. So, let’s focus shall we?!!
I love sticking to the point and keeping things clear. I feel ideas will just about stand up for themselves like sprouts bursting up. And, remember, maybe when a sprout bursts up into the sun, it may not know where it is. May not have met my brother The Ace of Wands. No matter. The sprout naturally placed itself. That’s what I’d like to show you here. I’d like to show you how naturally well-placed ideas cut right through when you are aware to notice detail. Sometimes this occurs ESPECIALLY even when there is no certainty of placement.
I love meditating options objectively before taking my next logical step. The Emperor came and gifted me that. I love identifying and understanding causes through feeling. The Queen of Wands gifted me that. I love trusting my inner, personal convictions. Temperance taught me that. I love cutting through the bull all the while protecting my privacy. We can thank Mr. Chariot for roaring through my imagination with that one! I learned my speed and agility in my cutting through from him.
Then something happened. I had already been heated and cooled and rolled and hammered diligently and patiently for a long time. I was annealed and then came the tempering. I was a sword after all, tempering was something I wanted. What happened is that I hesitated. After all this work on me, I was held at my hottest point over brisk and cool water. Fortunately my Sis the Ace of Cups had provided it all. I was to be quenched, thrust at my hottest temperature into the cold water. What if I cracked? What if I. . .Let’s stop right there.
See how easy it is to build bad drama with worry? I like thicker dramas than that. Heck, I had been through all the other parts. What was I worried about? Here’s what it was. After all the hard work and all the studious efforts I was to be thrust into an unknown which made me who I am today! So, like stepping onto the stage for the first time, IN I WENT HOT into the coldest of water pssssshhhhhhhzzzzssssssss! Gota ll steamed up and NOT a crack anywhere. In fact that may still be the most favorite speaking engagement I’ve had where I just went right in and was quenched.
So, after all this, what I’d like to tell you is that even when your steps are unsure, if you have been working hard and going step by step, AND have a positive feeling, even a positive unknown of a feeling, keep it up. Sometimes, like with my quenching. . .that last 5% of the time felt like the OTHER 95% of the time. The 2 of Wands taught me not to perceive many little things as one big thing. I took that to heart in my quenching. I decided to not let one new thing get missed. And, here’s the catch. I KNEW where that water came from. It was good water from a good cup. I took a risk, just like those sprouts bursting into the sun. Keeps me sharp now, though.
Imagination Tools From The Ace of Swords:
(end of excerpt)
As a parting gift in celebration of World Tarot Day I would like to extend an Ace of Swords thought that may cut through some bull in regards to creativity and comms. I feel there is a 4-charactered voice of Imagination. It consists of idea, creativity, and intuition. What? You say that is only 3? Enliven the 3 with the idea that most groups are oftentimes n + 1 phenomena. For those 3, introduce and INDUCE the space between ideas, creativity, and intuition to continually PRODUCE a cascade of actionable relationships between them as the 4th character of Imagination! It is like neurological cascades through synapses for the effectiveness of your creativity in all your actions.
Till next time!
Jupiter’s Blessings,
Jordan and The Land of Mystereum
All images and text (c) 2010, 2011 Jordan Hoggard
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