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ОглавлениеTHE SPREAD SYSTEMS
Our symbol is the pentagram. It is also known as the witch’s foot, because it could either repel witches and Druids – or attract them (if reversed). It is still used today in rural areas to keep evil away from cattle stalls, thresholds, beds, and so forth. Whenever this is done, the purpose is to activate the collective spiritual structures, which symbolize protection against evil (the good banishes the repressed part of itself into evil to legitimize the struggle of the good against evil and remain unrecognized as it lives out the repressed part within evil). Consequently, a conscious confrontation with deliberately produced pentagram visions represents a possible form of therapy in the future. This suggests not only the defense of the shadow, but also the defense of defense, the questioning of the defense, and dealing with the inner fears that have only been produced by this defensive behavior in the first place.
We use two interwoven pentagrams to consult the oracle. The white pentagram, with the head and limbs of the white goddess, symbolizes white magic or the victory of the spirit over the material world. On the other hand, the black pentagram, which points upwards with its two tips and leads to the Devil’s goatee, represents black magic or the victory of the material world over the spirit. Here we have a tool in our hands or before our eyes that polarizes all of the values: There are no questions outside of the polarized values; depending on the type of question, we can decide which psychological explanatory model we want to transfer to the pentagram.
| Group 1 | Personality Questions |
| IBaphomet | Who am I? (The secret of the ego) |
| IIThe Green Angel | Who is he? (The secret of the shadow) |
| IIIThe Mirror of the Soul | What is the self? (The secret of the soul) |
| Group 2 | Interpretation or Development Questions |
| IVThe Big Bang | How is the matter developing?(What does it mean?) |
| VMephisto’s Hammer | What hinders the matter?(What does the crisis mean?) |
| VIThe Norns’ Wheel | What drives the matter?(What is the sense of the meaning?) |
| Group 3 | Decision-Making Questions or Questions Concerning Trends |
| VIIFive-Ray Spread | How should I decide?(Way of deciding) |
| VIIINine-Ray Spread | How do I relate to another person or how does he relate to me?(Relationship Game) |
| IXTen-Ray Spread | What is the trend?(The joker among the spreads: appropriate for all questions) |
In order to understand how the two first spread groups (spread systems I–VI) function, we must understand that they show us no external reflection of life. This means that they say less about external events than about who we are and why things happen as they must. They do not show us what we can do but allow us to see things in a more comprehensive way and within a broader context. However, if we begin with the assumption that everything we experience in the external world reflects our inner being, examining these series offers us the opportunity for knowing ourselves. As a result, unused energies can be set into motion and become available to us in our external lives. This brings us into the realm that esotericism calls inner inspiration or cosmic consciousness. However, this is not a voice from above but an inner concept that is more than we believe ourselves to be - but less than we believe that God is. It is the threshold over which everything that we have removed from ourselves with all our might can flow back into the soul. It doesn’t matter whether we have raised it up to heaven or sent it down to hell so that we can use this detour to play off God and the Devil against each other through our projections, true to the motto: Evil is always in others!
Warning
Before we begin the spread, which means drawing cards as we hold them in our hands like a fan or from cards spread out on a surface, we shuffle all of them so that some of the trumps are “reversed.”
If this is new to you, it is advisable to begin with the third spread group (spread systems VII–IX). These emphasize what the past or present state of a certain situation and what can or must be done in a specific situation.
