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Key #1 : Decision
In this first exploration, we will be looking at the male magic of Key 1 from the Tarot, The Magician, which I describe as being the flavour of thought concerned with making a decision. Have a journal handy to make notes as you listen.
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Key #2 : Validation
In this next step we will explore the female magic of The High Priestess, or validation as a flavour of thought. This key acts as a check and balance on the previous key. Again, have your journal handy.
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Key #3 : Deduction
This next key gives perspective on our decision making process via the flavour of deduction and the third key of the Empress. Again it takes input from the previous keys.
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Key #4 : Composition
We next visit another key influenced by male magic. The fourth key is the Emperor in the Tarot and the flavour of thought of composition. It is where Key 1 starts to make magic really manifest.
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Key #5 : Adaptation
This next key calls for us to adapt the way our conscious mind connects with the collective consciousness. The flavour of adaptation is inspired by the Tarot Key, The Heirophant, who you can think as being a scribe or seer.
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Key #6 : Discrimination
The 6th Key of the Lovers is encapsulated by the flavour of discrimination. As we live in a duality, with both light and shadow, it is important to see everything from at least two perspectives.
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Key #7 : Cultivation
The seventh key of the Chariot is influenced by the six keys that precede it. It acts as a container for these keys and calls us to cultivate the vehicle for our soul which is our body.
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Key #8 : Moderation
This is the first of seven keys that influence our unconscious mind. In this meditation, we will become conscious of usually unconscious processes. With these next seven keys, we tap into our lower mind centres.
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Key #9 : Isolation
The ninth key is the Hermit in the Tarot. It is a reminder that we must pause and reflect from time to time before embarking on new ventures. It is a nudge from our soul to come in from the soul and to step up to what it is we came to do.
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Key #10 : Replication
Unconscious action requires us to replicate something that we have already learned and mastered. When we become conscious of the layers involved with unconscious processes, we break karmic bonds and evolve. This is encapsulated by the Tarot key of The Wheel of Fortune.
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Key #11 : Equilibrium
This meditation explores the notion of balance, in both space and time, and how we need a wobble now and again to stabilise our lives. It is the creation of ripples in space and time that drives us onwards and upwards. Justice in the Tarot is this stabilising force.
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Key #12 : Revolution
This meditation shows how keys interoperate with each other. When we combine keys together, we create what I call a “recipe for fresh thinking”. The upside down thinking of The Hanged Man is useful in this regard.
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Key #13 : Imagination
The 13th key explores why death is an integral part of life. Only by imagining a better life for us, and others, can it come into being. This involves the death of old ways so that the new can come along.
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Key #14 : Adaptation
As the seventh key of the middle row, it encapsulates and summarises the six other keys in this row of unconscious influences. It is the key of Temperance in the Tarot and the flavour of adaptation.
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Key #15 : Perception
They say that the devil is in the detail. In this meditation on the key of the Devil, we explore some detail around the notion of the devil and how he or she is man-made.
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Key #16 : Excitation
This meditation is somewhat longer than the others as it involves the construction of a tower of strength using all the preceding keys on which we will build upon further. Have your journal handy.
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Key #17 : Germination
This meditation gives guidance on how to connect the Above to Below in a way that may be new to you. Rather than being the connector, in this chakra balancing process you become the flow itself.
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Key #18 : Reception
Next we prepare ourselves to become a receiver for the cosmic consciousness. Note that this involves moving our awareness to our cerebellum at the rear of our brain.
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Key #19 : Collection
We are perhaps unique on planet earth as being collectors. We collect both objects and ideas in be. Once collections form, new connections can be brokered.
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Key #20 : Extension
The 20th key of the Tarot is Judgement which I call extension in the flavours of thought. It’s time to extend your capabilities and your scope and reach.
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Key #21 : Comprehension
In this last of 21 keys, we explore the patterns in the keys and the potential ways to combine multiple keys together. It is called The World in conventional Tarot and I like to think of it as being the thought flavour of comprehension.
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Key #22 & Key #0 : The Fool’s Journey
This last key from conventional decks is also often the first key. You will find it called the Zero or 22nd key of The Fool. I like to think of it as the thought flavour we hold when encounter the blindly obvious.
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Key #23 : Mastery
We wrap this series of meditations up with the overstanding key of Mastery. This is what happens when we become unconsciously competent and see the whole while also understanding the detail of the parts. This is true overstanding of course.
