Controlled Descent

For a few weeks now the idea of card pairs have been a fixation in the Tarot de Marseilles community. This pair is one that comes up when people need to let go of trying to fix everything, and instead should focus on letting it crash and burn in a controlled way.

One of the dangers of sorcery that people don’t think about is the ability to perpetuate a bad status quo with the power of magic. Its just as dangerous as a demon or psychic attack. The job you hate, the relationship that is dead at the core, the place that you live in but cannot afford anymore. There are some situations that magic cannot fix outright, but instead perpetuate for years on end – putting off the hard fall that eventually lets you regroup and do something even better.

A much better option is to use magic to control the fall, so that we wind up minimizing damage, recover quicker, and open new opportunities.

In La Maison Dieu we have the blasted tower and the two figures falling head on into the ground from the blasted tower.

So what can we do?

Look at the comparison image for image. The two falling people have become the water in the jars. They are still going to wind up on the ground, but instead of falling, they are being poured out. Its a controlled event. They get to flow rather than splat when they hit.

The tower itself becomes the woman in Le Toille. Is she a goddess that you invoked to help deal with the situation? Is she simply the fact that when you acknowledge and plan for something you at least have some influence as to how it happens?

The blasted top of the tower becomes the stars themselves. From this perspective it ceases to be this heinous happening and instead becomes just another event in the perpetual clockwork of reality, like the movement of the stars themselves. It is not that it is not a tragedy and a loss – it is a reminder that in this world good things and bad things happen but that like always moves along, and that the best we can do in some situations is let things go, pick ourselves up, and then rise to even greater heights.