| Payewacker wrote: |
Hi Rook,
This is great. I have seen Pan's Labarinth, some time ago. But will get hold of the movie. We know the significance of Pan and the Underworld, alchemy and so on. |
If you treat Pan's Labyrint as a dream to be translated, switching from one symbolic tale to another then Pan's Labyrint is a total symbolic story of Franco. The sadistic captain is actually Franco, his wife (Ophelia's mom) is Spain (crippled and kept in bed, powerless to do anything against her abuser of her children) and Ophelia stands for the wish for a republic in those times... her baby brother is the king who eventually will turn his back from Franco's dictatorship and instead made Spain into a democracy. Ophelia dies because the republic never came to be... the wish for a republic had to be let go off, but that sacrifice enabled the victory over Franco through the king.
I started to realize this, when I started to look into Franco himself (the watch and war the captain is talking about regarding his father is actually a story told of Franco himself before his reign). A nickname for Franco was "sapo" = the frog... and what does Ophelia fight under the tree?
Back to the Tree of Life... I just recently started to try and understand it. I decided to keep it limited, and at least comprehend it as a type of brain-map from opportunity to action/outcome (the 10 Sephirot). I laid all the pips from the aces to 10 on the Sephirot points on the floor of my living room and then laid the Major Arcanas as pathways between them. And just by doing that I had a Eureka moment when watching the Fool as Aleph between the Aces and the Twos.
If the Fool is the state where you can see all possibilities ahead of you at a new beginning, before anything actually has evolved, then it makes total sense to have it as a path from the Aces to the Twos. It also helped so much more to understand where the different meanings of the Twos come from.
For a reading of the Fool it means you must assume the presence of Aces and Twos (and Kings/Crowley's Knights) even if they do not appear in the spread. But you cannot have a Fool without there having been an out of the blue meeting or event. And a Fool will automatically evoke the energy/emotional/mental and action processes of the Twos, even if they're hidden.
http://ssr-spirihumanism.blogspot.com/2010/02/thoth-tarot-fool.html
Because of the Tree of Life I now understand why some sure predictions can be made about certain processes.
I've tried to synthesise the info I found on the Tree of Life insofar it was useful for Tarot in this post
http://ssr-spirihumanism.blogspot.com/2010/02/tarot-and-kabbalah-tree-of-life.html