Right now, I think there is no question that Mara is best represented by the Moon. The Moon is about female energy, but more about the negative side of that energy, and heavily about the Jungian Shadow and darker side of the human consciousness. The Moon represents a powerful, capable person who feels as if she has lost control of most of the aspects of her life - nearly like a female Magician who has gotten absorbed in the world of the occult and other-worldly, and who has let fears and anxieties turn shadows into monsters. Mara is obsessed with the troubles of her past to the point where they very strongly color her present perceptions of herself and other people, which unfortunately doesn't always represent reality, and could cause her to push away or misunderstand people's intentions. There is a major difficulty with accepting change that she must overcome. There is a deeply sensitive side to the Moon, but fear tends to overwhelm its expressive, and she feels like she has to protect her sensitive feelings from the harshness of the world and reality. The fact that she hides in an attic is not surprising with this card in play.
The Moon is actually one of my favorite cards, much for the same reason The Devil and Tower are two of my favorites - because it gets a lot of negative press, but the negativity and the struggles suggested by that card mean that a person who can take the card's weaknesses and turn them into strengths is an enlightened individual. When Mara learns how to really embrace the power, I think she could have a very powerful understanding of herself and her abilities, like the Magician emerging from the bog of darkness.
I have no doubt that this is Neve's card. As of late, the reversed meaning of the Hanged Man is more apt for her as she is now, but the positive meaning of the card seems appropriate for her in the best of times.
The Hanged Man is best described as a person who is making sacrifices in the pursuit of higher ideals. The card looks horrific in meaning at first, especially with the image of a man hanging upside-down on the cross, but it's the concept that wisdom and spiritual enlightenment can be won at the expense of worldly comforts.
Neve pretty obviously wasn't willing to sacrifice worldly comforts such as the lives of her friends and stability, but that was the lot given to her, and she has the ability to develop spiritually from it. She has a very strong well of spirituality and strength already in her - Neve just has absolutely no idea how to tap into it, besides the vapors. She has been forced into a lot of situations where she has to sacrifice parts of herself, but she hasn't encountered many situations where she freely decides to make a sacrifice, and that could be a major point of transformation for her.
Neve right now is extremely bogged down by the negative aspects of this card. Self-denial, self-absorption, escapism, evasiveness and love for drugs has become a replacement for spiritual nourishment, which is her true soul food.
Once she conquers the negative aspects of the Hanged Man, I really think she can embody everything positive with that card. In the future, I can't imagine Neve graduating up to a Knight or King card (Queen is so inappropriate for her), but I can imagine her going back to the Fool, and starting her life fresh there.
(fun fact - the Hanged Man was also Galen's representative card.)
To clarify, the Chariot is his true Representative Card, but that cart has kinda been stuck at the Devil's pit stop for a while now.
The Devil is a fair bit like the Moon. Both are teeming with negative forces, but the Devil is a bit more masculine and positive in expression, and a much more energetic card overall. Unfortunately, those energies can be squandered on pointless, indulgent and even self-destructive activities. The Devil chiefly represents bondage, but a bondage that could be escaped if the person chooses to.
He doesn't know how to handle frustrations and blocks in his path, and though he would like to charge right through them, that's largely impossible in this day and age. Because Deon absolutely hates to look as if he is working hard or struggling with something, he just flat out ignores anything he perceives as a frustration or a block. Of course, frustration doesn't disappear into thin air, and a lot of his inner self is a big churning mass of turmoil and frustration that he only knows how to let out when fighting and drinking and bringing down other people.
But again, he's only The Devil in the same way Mara is The Moon - it's not what he truly is, but it's a bit of the monster he's become. He's real nature is absolutely the Chariot, the eternal warrior and champion. The Chariot is about conquest, movement, will power, and the successful marriage of a person's positive and negative attributes. You can imagine a Charioteer wildly flying around the corner on his horses, ready to barrel over all of his competition, and Deon is really not far away from being such a clear-sighted, driven person. The Chariot also is a person who never gives up the good fight, ever, and as I told you before I imagine him continuing the Hunt in some capacity through his entire life (even just through relic-making, though I think he'll be sneaking out on actual hunts too).
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Date: 2010-05-10 10:54 pm (UTC)Right now, I think there is no question that Mara is best represented by the Moon. The Moon is about female energy, but more about the negative side of that energy, and heavily about the Jungian Shadow and darker side of the human consciousness. The Moon represents a powerful, capable person who feels as if she has lost control of most of the aspects of her life - nearly like a female Magician who has gotten absorbed in the world of the occult and other-worldly, and who has let fears and anxieties turn shadows into monsters. Mara is obsessed with the troubles of her past to the point where they very strongly color her present perceptions of herself and other people, which unfortunately doesn't always represent reality, and could cause her to push away or misunderstand people's intentions. There is a major difficulty with accepting change that she must overcome. There is a deeply sensitive side to the Moon, but fear tends to overwhelm its expressive, and she feels like she has to protect her sensitive feelings from the harshness of the world and reality. The fact that she hides in an attic is not surprising with this card in play.
The Moon is actually one of my favorite cards, much for the same reason The Devil and Tower are two of my favorites - because it gets a lot of negative press, but the negativity and the struggles suggested by that card mean that a person who can take the card's weaknesses and turn them into strengths is an enlightened individual. When Mara learns how to really embrace the power, I think she could have a very powerful understanding of herself and her abilities, like the Magician emerging from the bog of darkness.
I believe that she is truly a Queen of Swords (with a strong dose of Queen of CupsNEVE - THE HANGED MAN
I have no doubt that this is Neve's card. As of late, the reversed meaning of the Hanged Man is more apt for her as she is now, but the positive meaning of the card seems appropriate for her in the best of times.
The Hanged Man is best described as a person who is making sacrifices in the pursuit of higher ideals. The card looks horrific in meaning at first, especially with the image of a man hanging upside-down on the cross, but it's the concept that wisdom and spiritual enlightenment can be won at the expense of worldly comforts.
Neve pretty obviously wasn't willing to sacrifice worldly comforts such as the lives of her friends and stability, but that was the lot given to her, and she has the ability to develop spiritually from it. She has a very strong well of spirituality and strength already in her - Neve just has absolutely no idea how to tap into it, besides the vapors. She has been forced into a lot of situations where she has to sacrifice parts of herself, but she hasn't encountered many situations where she freely decides to make a sacrifice, and that could be a major point of transformation for her.
Neve right now is extremely bogged down by the negative aspects of this card. Self-denial, self-absorption, escapism, evasiveness and love for drugs has become a replacement for spiritual nourishment, which is her true soul food.
Once she conquers the negative aspects of the Hanged Man, I really think she can embody everything positive with that card. In the future, I can't imagine Neve graduating up to a Knight or King card (Queen is so inappropriate for her), but I can imagine her going back to the Fool, and starting her life fresh there.
(fun fact - the Hanged Man was also Galen's representative card.)
DEON - THE CHARIOT/
To clarify, the Chariot is his true Representative Card, but that cart has kinda been stuck at the Devil's pit stop for a while now.
The Devil is a fair bit like the Moon. Both are teeming with negative forces, but the Devil is a bit more masculine and positive in expression, and a much more energetic card overall. Unfortunately, those energies can be squandered on pointless, indulgent and even self-destructive activities. The Devil chiefly represents bondage, but a bondage that could be escaped if the person chooses to.
He doesn't know how to handle frustrations and blocks in his path, and though he would like to charge right through them, that's largely impossible in this day and age. Because Deon absolutely hates to look as if he is working hard or struggling with something, he just flat out ignores anything he perceives as a frustration or a block. Of course, frustration doesn't disappear into thin air, and a lot of his inner self is a big churning mass of turmoil and frustration that he only knows how to let out when fighting and drinking and bringing down other people.
But again, he's only The Devil in the same way Mara is The Moon - it's not what he truly is, but it's a bit of the monster he's become. He's real nature is absolutely the Chariot, the eternal warrior and champion. The Chariot is about conquest, movement, will power, and the successful marriage of a person's positive and negative attributes. You can imagine a Charioteer wildly flying around the corner on his horses, ready to barrel over all of his competition, and Deon is really not far away from being such a clear-sighted, driven person. The Chariot also is a person who never gives up the good fight, ever, and as I told you before I imagine him continuing the Hunt in some capacity through his entire life (even just through relic-making, though I think he'll be sneaking out on actual hunts too).