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Review of 7 of Pentacles from a new deck emerging on "The Scene"

Presently I am teaching an introductory class to understanding TAROT for what it TRULY is and not what it has become - an infinite symbol system of Divine Informing of WHO I AM and how to come HOME/return to be at+one once again with our BeLoved SOURCE/GOD (not the God religions speak of for they generally belie the TRUTH by the time all the dogma "comes in").  Thus, it is a sacred unbound text of the essentials of our SELFGnosis.

So, as I was researching for some deck connections for the students,  I stumbled upon a deck which has phenomenal potential in that is it adds to the 360ºs of full point of view dimension when peering into the wholism of a given tarot angle of perception. 

It is encoded with the potentially dark side of our beings. Unfortunately, this is what we need to see with CLARITY most of all our seeing!

Wow! At first, I thought, nope, don't want to go there.  Then, I stopped and thought, IF this is well done, it won't be gore and guts and repulsive, it will be duly informing and enlightening, casting a Light onto that which is usually avoided, projected onto others, or flatly denied. 

Well, I am so glad I honored being TRUE to the Voice Calling Within, and gave a look at this wonderful deck.  

It is focusing on What-IsNot or the shadow or the dark-side of each tarot card's information, and it does so elegantly without gore and dipping into the well of darkness that it is laying bare for us to see. 

This is a feat of grand accomplishment and I give a GRAND KUDOS to the author/artist of this deck, Patrick Valenza.

It is appropriately highly stylized in a mannequin way that is so befitting the representation of ego living.  It emphases the stilted and acting out of roles rather than the aliveness that being oriented to Inward Spirit creates into being rather than the actors on a stage we become when locked into the matrix of being a mortal human dominates our way of relating and being. 

It epitome that is the way and understandings of the ego mind/lower mind fobbing itself off as who we THINK we are...blah, blah, blah.

So, I thought I would share a spontaneous review that MAI Inward SELF flowed into when I saw the 7 of Pentacles card.  I suspect this deck may have many brilliant aspects.  for now, I would like to share these insights as I found them most informative when I gave a read over what I had "burst into writing," so goes the words:

The Seven of Pentacles in The Deviant Tarot:

I see a soul who has not been using their Spiritual energies/Wand appropriately, it has been drawing and draining this soul's lifeblood -as blood that has been "let out" and is now dripping from a rusty rod or nail ... a rusty nail is amusingly the name of a kick-your-ass drink of pure alcohol that creeps up on the drinker making them quite suddenly drunk and stupid!

The tree is black  and barren creating the shadows of life that are not imbued with the lush greenness of life abundantly lived and healing, rather the shiny patent leather "glean" of the reflections of creating into form That which IsNot (of GodGoodness).

Yes, the spells are just that... a stupor in which the shiny looks like a jewel, yet it is only a reflective shine of the kind only ego is capable of rising to in its emulations of Spiritual creating. 

Unlike the creations of Spirit which are truly Light-and-Life, fully giving, as blood would be inside a life-form circulating freely its nutrients and flow, this scenario is not.  It is of the coagulating and stagnating blood, almost frozen in the air like a drop that is so thickened with stagnation as to not have enough capacity/energy to flow and break away from the rusted rod...even gravity cannot give it movement!

The dank and lifeless face of this "sorcerer" reveals how the sight of this soul is "crazed" with a certain insanity of a mesmerized locked-on "stuck on stupid" stupor that is resourcing what is futile and draining...reminds me of the kind of stress this is off the charts and well depicted in cartoon presentation of Roger Rabbit boinging out at the cinema screen with both eyes bulging, and his mind screaming from freaking-out. 

And, of course, there is the contented peace within from the dark side, content in this lost effort of manipulating energy, agendas, ad naseum in an effort to be a creator of "good" that is clearly misplaced and misunderstood or the person would be alive with insight, and not a confused whirling insanity of ego machinations and confusions as the "eyes of the Soul" indicate so clearly in this picture. 

Here, the beloved soul is thinking they are listening within to a Higher Mind and feeling peaceful - and, from a certain perspective they are feeling calm, albeit it is not the Peace that surpasses all understanding as when one is listening to the Indwelling Spirit/Higher SELF. They think that it feels "right" so it is the Voice of Divine reasoning, but they it is not. Duped completely.

Rather, this poor soul, lost in his own machinations, is confusing their inner voices because they are not yet discerning the difference of Higher SELF and lower self. 

Alas, this is the trap the ego loves to have us creating our lives by since it ensures additional lives in the physical plane as represented by the pentacles amassing a bland "fruitfulness" in the guise of quantity over quality.  This misunderstanding is giving the ego continued survival and experience/expression of our being doing the ego's bidding while THINKING one is doing the bidding of their Soul's Purpose.

Note, too, the blood red lips frowning in discontent and unhappiness, this peaceful sense does not engender outer or inner happiness and joy. No, it pales the sense of true fulfillment as their face is stark in its mask and porcelain looking countenance.

Note, too, that the left hand is becoming more animalistic in its Structure and Function (S/F) with 2 claws and the hand wielding the rusty rod/nail is still a hand as a fist clenched onto the wand grasping to maintain its sense of magic, rooted in Spiritual heart of self being confused with externalized  authority. 

We have a cogent representation of a conscious ego directing, controlling and demanding of "things" bending to one's will rather than the submission into the unity of oneness that frees the soul to be all  it is naturally meaning to be, thus, releasing the creative wand energy into a trusted communion with the Higher Mind at+one with our TRUE natures and capabilities.

Note, too, the sense of leather-like encasement of the clothing...the feet of the person that would give the residing divine within ability to walk their true path of intended life is mired in a boat-like rocker signaling a rutted movement that is going nowhere in particular, simply rocking extremes, and consequently, digging an ever deepening rut as this soul keeps putting diligent efforts into "wrong actions, choices, behaviors." 

Why wrong? Simply because they are actions and changes guided by the ego which is solely focused on maintaining "a Separation as Real living" which is going to widen the gap from one's TRUE SOURCE of identity as being a Spirit in a body, and not a body seeking spiritual connections.  It's a maddening twist which has had HUmanity by the tail for aeons.

This card is brilliantly encoded with the dark side of our confusion and entrapment in the MEST (mass, energy, space & time) world. 

Being as this is a 7 card, it has a relationship to the Chariot of the Trumps/Soul component aspect of a tarot deck. 

The chariot is about the soul's movement and relationships (Hathor Square) as the soul plays out its choices and, thus, its creating.  These two cards make a great juxtaposition to help the soul recognize how it is creating whether aware or not of its Divine nature and capacities. 

We are children of The One Source, and consequently, Divine children with all the capacities of our TRUE lineage: WEi are Gods creating, albeit most of HUmanity is drunk and creating shadows, darkness, and sorrows, pain, loss, suffering, ad naseum.

Ah, upon closer inspection and magnification, I realize, the boat-like impression is really the person having lost their HUman legs and now degrading to a reptilian form of serpent lower extremities.

The garment is pointed with silver hints of Divine lineage as source of shifting from this dark side creating back into the light of manifesting freedom.  The doubt here is more akin to confusing elements because this soul is not zeroing in on what IS TRUE so as to redeem the "bat wings of the night" for angelic wings of the light! 

As I look at the face, both the pale drained white face showing itself to the world and the lulled complacent and groggy non-attentive to life inner shadow or dark side,

I want to shout, "Wake up!"  "Stop dreaming this apathetic complacent dryness of despondency, Be Who You TRULY Are!"  "Sober up, and make amends. Redeem YOURSLEF, so you can be free again!"

The resident within is Divine and infinite, not deviant and mortal.

All to Love, Sharon

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