The Way of Tarot by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company

Continuing toward the top of the cup, we find ourselves in a red semicircle crossed by horizontal lines. This red mass could be total love, which, plowed and worked by its red furrows, has become conscious love. It consists of the self-love that we project into love of the Other, love of the universe, and divine love. This humble and vast sentiment of giving supports the body of the cathedral. All human wisdom is based on love. As Walt Whitman put it so well: “And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral dressed in his shroud.”

Beneath this edifice we find three light-blue palm leaves, whose dynamic lines suggest they are in full growth, with five, seven, and four tips respectively. Adding them together gives us 16: XVI, The Tower in the Major Arcana. We recall that this card depicts a divine tower giving birth to two individuals who are going to caress reality with their outstretched hands. Here the blue palm leaves evoke the pure intuition that communicates with the spiritual experience of the horizon, that painful blue band. The mind has crossed through suffering, and there it is vanishing in the white light that surrounds the cup like a purified atmosphere.

This cup, this temple that is so full, has value only if it pours itself into the world. At the base of love is the desire to give away everything that it has collected.

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