21 HuiFengHunHe 迴风混合 – Harmonizing Wind Unites the Cosmos

V: The Hierophant

the table

Here again I feel some movement of the previous card bleeding over into this movement. The overhead receiving, pouring vessel is reminiscent of the Grail held overhead by Babalon in Lust.

(This pouring caldron feeling and pouring from the sky into the Lower DanTian also recalls Art's caldron.)

The Hierophant's function is as a bridge between the ineffable and the flat world of manifestation, a mediator of mystery. The four masks are set at the corners of the world, but they are empty, not yet inhabited by the light.

The Goddess appears here again with a great orange beast, bearing a sword and crescent Moon, reprising earlier roles as Adjustment and The High Priestess, both of which have strong qualities of balance, of descending intelligence, Adjustment's sword, the Priestess's bow.

There is a masking in manifestation. To draw the ineffable down into matter, to explain, requires this Dobbsian misdirection, this mask, this smile.

To spread it plain on the table, to render it in text requires a bit of misdirection, not deceit really, but also not saying everything plain.

To show, rather than to tell.

To initiate