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Post by ±Witchcraft± on Aug 23, 2007 12:24:09 GMT -5
Durriken shrugged again, learning to take everything in stride. After looking at other peoples paths of life, he learned that if you try and avoid every single bump or rut, you don’t get anywhere.
“It’s a trade off every time that the leader of the clan has to make. You can choose to embrace the new comings of the world around you, or shun it off, keeping the old world alive. Both have to exist or things begin to die off. If too many clans embrace the new, the old if forgotten, but if too many embrace the old, the population can drop because of people leaving or being ejected. It is all like the Temperance.”
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Post by Sabine Marcella Paganici on Aug 23, 2007 19:18:26 GMT -5
Sabine nodded, "We need to keep balance in the world. And you mean the card of temperance? Doesn't that mean like balance or something?" She wasn't so dandy at this card stuff, nor was she great at this gypsy stuff.
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Post by ±Witchcraft± on Aug 24, 2007 15:13:41 GMT -5
Durriken nodded as he made a small gesture and the Temperance card rose and went to Sabine to look at.
“Continuing on his spiritual path, the Fool begins to wonder how to reconcile the opposites that he's been facing: material and spiritual (which he hung between as the Hanged man), death and birth (the one leading into the other in the Death card). It is at this point that he comes upon a winged figure standing with one foot in a brook, the other on a rock. The radiant creature pours something from one flask into another. Drawing closer, the Fool sees that what is being poured from one flask is fire, while water flows from the other. The two are being blended together!” he said, reciting the first half of the story of The Fool with the Temperance
“"How can you mix fire and water?" the Fool finally whispers. Never pausing the Angel answers, "You must have the right vessels and the right proportions." The Fool watches with wonder. "Can this be done with all opposites?" he asks. "Indeed," the Angel replies, "Any oppositions, fire and water, man and woman, thesis and anti-thesis, can be made to harmonize. It is only a lack of will, a disbelief in the possibility of unity, that keeps opposites, opposite." And that is when the Fool begins to understand that he is the one who is keeping his universe in twain, holding life/death, material world and spiritual world separate. In him, the two could merge, as in the vessels that the Angel uses to pour the elements, one to the other. All it takes, the Fool realizes, is the right proportions....and the right vessel.”
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Post by Sabine Marcella Paganici on Aug 31, 2007 17:56:14 GMT -5
"Oh, so temperance means Balance and Harmony. And if there is balance and harmony, there is happiness and joy. And if there is happiness and joy, the balance and harmony will continue. Right?" Sabine said and felt terribly satisfied with herself.
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Post by ±Witchcraft± on Aug 31, 2007 20:43:59 GMT -5
Durriken nodded as he Sabine got the gist of the Temperance. With another gesture the card came back to him and went back into the deck.
“Each of the 22 Major Arcana cards tells a story, from the first card, The Fool, to the last card, The World. The picture on the card, and the stories past down with them, tell each of our stories, since we truly are fools.”
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