Complete Guide to Tarot Illuminati by Huggens Kim

Author:Huggens, Kim [Huggens, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Illuminati
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2013-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

Eight of Swords, the Prison of the Mind

“Have you come to rescue me? Did you hear me crying out for help? In the darkest recesses of your mind, there is always a glimmer of something that is begging to be set free; there is always an idea that is restricted and oppressed. How it got there you might not know, but then again you might … How did I get here? Did I walk in my sleep from a nightmare and surround myself with a barrier against the cruel world? Or was I brought here, put in chains, and left by another? Either way, the result remains the same: you must break open the prison of your mind and release all that is within. You cannot hoard ideas. The mind must always be free and at liberty. When you cage it and embed it so firmly in one way of being, you silence its true voice, like a bird of paradise kept in a cage, its song dying with its longing to be free. But I hear already the threat of the tide coming in: there is no time. Don’t let yourself be mired in the situation of my fate: go, and leave me. And from this day forward you shall not be blinded like I am, nor allow yourself to take on such bonds and restrictions, nor cage your mind and ideas and limit yourself with the very tool that should be used for liberty and truth … Go on, run!”

Jupiter in Gemini / Hod in air

Illumination

Since the suit of swords is about the various ways our mind acts and works, we see a number of cards that appear to be very negative. This is simply because our own mind can often be our greatest enemy. It is not only the source of our fears that keep us prisoner, but the prison guard as well. When we think and make a decision, we automatically limit ourselves, as the Two of Swords demonstrates: thinking one way means that we are unable at that moment to think a different way. This is natural and necessary for any progress to be made. But there is a vast difference between deciding to choose one thought over another, and choosing to think in ways that limit us. The former is discipline, the latter is a prison.

The suit of swords does not sit well with the extra-strong, extra-grounded qualities of the eights, which are “double fours.” The eights can be about strict discipline and strength in manifesting, but when applied to the airy suit of the mind, which began with freedom and liberty in the Ace of Swords, the energy doesn’t mesh. The eight becomes a prison for the free mind, restricting and constricting it in a prison of its own making. Our minds have the power to give us great freedom from ignorance, but they can also bind us to dogma, negative thoughts, and habitual thought patterns and perceptions that not only entrap us, but also make it impossible for us even to see we are trapped, or to see a way out.

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