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XVII. The Star


What strikes me most about this work is the self-referential nature of these paths... sometimes it is more stark than others... also due to the magic involved, one begins to feel like s/he is grasping the elusive essence of the path at the very end... the hope is to try again in the next round which may or may not come... basically this is it.  This is the one and only time the first pass will be made on this path.

The letter of the path, צ, seemed more significant than the card or the astrological attribution of Aquarius... צ (Tzaddi) means fish hook or fish hook sink, as a method of descending into the depths of the waters to catch or retrieve something.  In my case its usually ideas related to work, or to this pathworking itself...

On the 2nd week of focusing on the card and the letter I began to feel that the sink of the fishhook is pulling me deeper and deeper into the present moment, whatever it may be.  By allowing this to happen I found that a sense of well-being would come over me and hope - those are the attributes of the card "The Star". 

This card/path was a bit more difficult to "get into" than the previous one, The Tower, which, by its stark and destructive nature made a transition from any state to itself very easy. 

The woman in the card is the same woman who is closing the mouth of the lion in Strength, she is also Justice, The Empress, and the High Priestess.  This path is the most feminine of all, as it defines the relationship between Netzach (venus) and Yesod (the moon).

According to B.O.T.A., she is pouring the essence of life onto the ground (the physical world) and the pool (the collective unconsciousness).  She is balancing on her knee on the ground and the foot is on the pool.  This is a similarity with Temperance where the figure, the archangel Raphael has one foot on the ground and the other in the stream, as if probing the water.   The Star, contrary to Raphael has her foot on the water.  As she exists beyond the physical and the mental planes she does not need to get inside the pool to measure or adjust anything.  She merely makes them alive.  The text in Yetzirah is very revealing:

The twenty-eight Path is called the Natural Intelligence.  By it is completed and perfected the nature of all that exists beneath the Sun.

Thus the perfection occurs by the way of connecting the physical world and the mental world with the "essence of life" that is represented by the Great Mother Binah and originates in Kether, Ain Soph Aur, Ain Soph, and Ain...

This is a perfection which occurs by the connection with the Infinite.

Hyatt suggests to think of the higher intelligence speaking directly to you:

Hope.  The Future.  The multiplicity of Union.  Many small pieces of light make up the illusion of light itself.  Learning step by step without losing the image of the whole.
THINK OF HIGHER INTELLIGENCE SPEAKING TO YOU.

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