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Nine of Cups: Jupiter in Pisces, The Moon in The Foundation (AI Version)
LORD OF MATERIAL HAPPINESS
One day, Nathan stumbled into a room in an unfamiliar part of the castle, and he unexpectedly encountered a man sitting quietly on a bench. Nathan could smell fragrant incense and hear stunning music and see ravishing tapestries and paintings on the walls, and he could tell that the man was tuning his mind to subtle spiritual energy high above worldly concerns. Nathan wanted to apologize to the man for interrupting, but the man smiled, emanating a joyful vibration. Mixed with the joy was also a sense of magnificence and harmony and abundance. The man had a mysterious power: he seemed capable of shifting the mood of other people to a positive vibration. Nathan stared quizzically at the man for a moment, then nodded his head and quickly left the room.
The King of Cups
The next day, Nathan rode his horse along the ocean and came upon the King of Cups. Nathan dismounted from his horse and bowed. "Your Majesty, I have a question."
The King responded, "Yes, my friend, what is your query?"
"Your Majesty, I recently stumbled upon a man in the castle in a room filled with fragrant incense and music and works of art that ravish the soul. He seemed to be tuning his mind to something that made him joyful, and his happiness affected my mood. Do some people have the ability to affect others emotionally and spiritually, your Majesty?"
"You might be surprised at how connected we all are at the spiritual and mental and emotional levels. Some people are keenly aware of that connection and consciously create an inner temple of spiritual archetypes that represent the paths of the Tree of Life, in other words, the dimensions of Universal Consciousness, and they know that using the senses can help us connect with those positive spiritual energies. In other words, incense and music and art and archetypes can help you tune your mind to high spiritual energies, during meditation or ritual, and can help you experience the power of imagination and the magnificence, abundance, and harmony of the human spirit."
"I got the sense, your Highness, that the energy of the moon was involved in some way."
The Moon and Pisces on the Tree of Life
"The moon represents the powerful energy of the imagination. In the Tarot, the High Priestess, who, through imagination, is deeply connected to all the paths on the Tree of Life, represents the Moon. But the ancients loved to create blinds that confuse the uninitiated. In other words, another card in the Tarot is called 'The Moon' but represents Pisces. Both The Moon and Pisces are associated with the element of Water, which represents the emotions and the subconscious mind. Rituals and meditation and the arts help us to feel deep emotions and to go deep into the subconscious mind, which links us to extremely powerful spiritual energies. The imagination naturally creates archetypal images that help us to understand the subtle spiritual energies."
"You mentioned experiencing the magnificence, harmony, and abundance of the human spirit, your Highness. Is the subtle energy of Jupiter also involved in this experience?"
"If you experience love for the arts and for the flowers and birds and other creatures of the earth, you can more easily connect with the dimensions of Universal Consciousness. The more you love, the more you can connect with the paths of the Tree of Life, like the High Priestess. The more you love, the more you can experience the magnificence, harmony, and abundance of creation and the human spirit. The more you engage your senses lovingly with the world around you, the more you can expand your consciousness and feel your connection with the various dimensions of creation. An inner state of love and connection can create an external state of material happiness, and material happiness, through the use of the physical senses and the imagination, can help us access the different dimensions of Universal Consciousness."
"So Jupiter is very much involved in this process."
"Indeed. In the realm you came from, many people in power want to break down your ability to love, for the power of The Moon and Jupiter threatens them. The wealthy and powerful do everything they can to alienate you from other people and other creatures of the earth. They want to confuse you with incessant propaganda and lies, and they want you to focus primarily on making money for them and on consuming their goods so that they maintain their power. If you feel the subtle energies of The Moon and Jupiter, you would not allow yourself to harm other people or the world. If you decide to return to that realm, be careful, for Tarot rituals open up your imagination and help you feel your connection to all of creation. People in power in that realm prefer religious practices that cause divisiveness, for hatred and division help them maintain power."
"Thank you, your Highness, I will remember your wise advice. I serve thee always." Nathan bowed and mounted his horse and rode off to a secluded part of the forest.
The Wheel of Fortune: Jupiter
Nathan found a Tarot card very similar to what he had witnessed: the Nine of Cups. The decan association in the card, he remembered, is Jupiter in Pisces, and the Tree of Life correspondence is The Moon in The Foundation, the ninth Emanation. Nathan pondered for a moment. Strangely, he thought to himself, the High Priestess is associated with the astrological symbol of The Moon while the Tarot card entitled The Moon represents Pisces. The holy man in the castle once told Nathan that the ancients purposely created blinds in the Tarot so that the uninitiated would give up trying to understand the cards and therefore would not be able to use the subtle forces represented by the Tree of Life for unbalanced reasons.
The Moon: Pisces
Nathan examined The Moon, the card representing Pisces. A dog and a jackal are howling at the moon, and a large crawdad is emerging from the water, a scene that reveals the primal instincts stimulated by the forces of the moon. Nathan remembered that the mythological principle associated with the card is "The Emergence from Water," which suggests that creatures with their basic instincts are emerging from the primordial waters--or suggests the emergence from water after cleansing and purification. Nathan realized that the purification of the mind and the emotions must be of paramount importance in spiritual development, for a soul filled with negativity cannot connect with other people or other creatures of the earth.
The High Priestess: The Moon
Because Nathan was creating a living image based on the Nine of Cups with the Tarot Pentagram Spread, he placed all the foundation cards down on his makeshift altar with the tops facing west on his altar. Since Water is a passive element, Nathan used the Passive Invoking Spirit Pentagram while laying down the cards, starting in the lower left corner of the pentagram, moving to the upper right corner and continuing from there.
Passive and Active Invoking Pentagrams
After he placed all of the foundation cards, he tapped each card in the direction of the Passive Invoking Spirit Pentagram, making sure to tap the one in the lower left corner to complete the pentagram.
Then he placed the Nine of Cups in the middle of the pentagram, saying, "The Nine of Cups, Jupiter in Pisces, The Moon in The Foundation." Then he tapped the card.
Modifiers for the Nine of Cups: The Moon, The Wheel of Fortune, and The High Priestess
Then he placed The Moon on the Ace of Cups in the upper right hand corner of the pentagram as a modifier. As he placed The Moon on the Ace of Cups, he stated while tapping the card, "The Moon, Pisces, the Emergence from Water." Then he placed The Wheel of Fortune on The Moon and stated, "The Wheel of Fortune, Jupiter, 'Aspiration.'" Then he placed The High Priestess on The Wheel of Fortune and stated, "The High Priestess, The Moon, 'The Descent of the Divine."
Then Nathan drew the Passive Invoking Pentagram and the spirit wheel in the air in brilliant white above The World on the altar, charging the pentagram and the symbol in the usual way with the Sign of the Enterer. After that, he drew an Invoking Pentagram for Water directly over the Passive Invoking Spirit Pentagram, charging the pentagram and the symbol of the eagle, associated with Scorpio, in the usual way. At that point, he imagined the symbol of the eagle's head becoming the living image of the main figure in the Nine of Cups. As he visualized the living image of the Tarot card, he imagined undines flowing from the Archangel Gabriel and filling the living image while at the same time the bright points of Water flowed from his aura and filled the living image as well.
Then he stated, "I name thee Lord of Material Happiness, Jupiter in Pisces, The Moon in The Foundation."
Then he said, "From the holy Emanation of The Foundation, Shaddai El Chai, help me to purify my heart and mind so that through my physical senses I may come to love all of the dimensions of Universal Consciousness and the world."
Then he humbly stated, "Perform this task, then return to the divine Emanation of The Foundation, doing no harm. So mote it be!"
Before he finished the ritual, Nathan imagined for a few minutes the living image of the figure in The World purifying him with water so that he could connect with all of the dimensions of Universal Consciousness. Then he ended the Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram with the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
Afterwards, Nathan began to feel more love for all of the creatures of the earth, and he knew that his new ally was guiding him.
(All AI generated images are based on paintings, 3D Blender renderings, or photographs by James T. Robbins.)
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