Bernadette Schmitt
Mixage of Laetitia Casta and Fontaine Medicis, Paris
I wanted to speak briefly today about the Lotus / Padma Wisdom Family one of the five Wisdom Families found in Tibetan Buddhism, corresponding to the five main emotions namely :
Diamant / Vajra family : Anger,
Lotus / Padma : Desire,
Activity / Karma : Jealousy,
Jewels / Ratna : Pride
Awakening / Buddha : Ignorance
We have stated in previous articles the different correlations existing between these 5 families and the typological systems of Jung, Le Senne and Reich, among and of course with the subytpes of the Enneagram. So I would like the reader to refer in particular to the article: “Subtypes, a new and integrative vision “, (not translated into French yet)
Desire and Passion
In tantric Buddhism, this energy is called Padma. “Padma, literally means “lotus flower.” The symbol of the enlightened Padma family is the lotus, which grows and blooms in the mud, yet still comes out pure and clean, virginal and clear. Padma neurosis is connected with passion, a grasping quality and a desire to possess. We are completely wrapped up in desire and want only to seduce the world, without concern for real communication. A person with Padma neurosis speaks gently, fantastically gently, and he or she is seemingly very sexy, kind, magnificent, and completely accommodating. When padma neurosis is transmuted, it become fantastically precise and aware; it turns into tremendous interest and inquisitiveness. Everything is seen in its own distinct way with its own particular qualities and characteristics. Thus the wisdom of padma is called discriminating-awareness wisdom” (Chögyam Trungpa, Journey without a goal).
Padma/Lotus based characters presents themselves as charming persons, be they men or women. They are seductive, soft, very sensitive, prone to emotion, highly sympathetic, sentimental, romantic, sometimes a little bit sugary or pedantic. Often they physical traits are very fine and delicate. There are much softness, grace and beauty in this type.
On the Jungian function it’s feeling. Feeling is how we like or dislike a sensation, based on its agreeable or unpleasant quality. If it’s agreeable, our feeling will like, and on the contrary, will dislike.
Positive aspects:
Compassion, love, affection, kindness, intuition, openness of heart, contact, harmony, empathy, kindness, affability, sweetness, charm, delicacy, refined taste, finesse, love of art and beauty, artistry, loving state, romance, seduction, magnetism, charisma, attractiveness, sensitivity, sensuality, pleasure, intimacy, purity, pristinity.
Negative aspects:
Desire and obsessive attachment. burning, all-consuming and destructive Passion. Desire to please. Great need for love. Need for intimacy, fusion, attention. Excessive dependence. He lives in the eyes of the other. Intense heartache. Feels lack cruelly. Feelings of abandonment, separation, isolation, loss, desolation. Depression. Melancholy. Emotional instability and credulity. Frivolity. Lust. Erotomania. Perversion. Manipulation. Hysteria.
Enneagram :
This family corresponds according to us to the fourth subtype of the Enneagram, that we called Sexual Venus, in opposition to the Sexual Mars, more masculine
Warning ! : This Padma / Lotus Family is, according to our observations, always confused with type 4, or possibly 2 or 6 of the Enneagram … Caution !
We can find in every type this beautiful energy, even in a type 8 or 1 or 9 etc….( Ex : Angelina Jolie, type 5, Emmanuelle Béart, type 1, Sharon Stone type 8, etc )
Excerpts , Book in progress …
Thank you for your angel’s patience …
Wild Rose
Type 4 Air/Social
I would like to talk to you today about the Bach Flower Wild Rose, flower that I know well since it corresponds to the Type 4 Air that is, this is no longer a secret for anyone, my type and my subtype in the Enneagram system (4 social)
I composed this mixage a few days ago without knowing that I was going to use it for this little article … An additional evodence may be that the essences of the Flowers participate in an absolutely vibrating way to the soul of our world by doing the delicate and subtle echoes of the field of our psyche, especially as we will see it, this Flower also corresponds to the Angels n ° 43 and 44 (from Oct 25 to Nov 2) which we cross the sphere of influence today where I am writing this post …
Type 4 Air/Social
Here is a short defintion, as we described it :
Air: defeat/Resignation
In this configuration the disabled complex is centered on the feeling of being the scapegoat of someone who wants to trouble and disarmed us. We are beating in retreat.
Yang: The type 4 in its extroverted aspect will compensate the feeling of defeat by taking the role of the one seeking quarrel and who will knowingly abuse each other and humiliate them so that he will beat in retreat. This attitude is fundamentally based on a paranoid vision of things and leads the individual to find himself isolated from the others.
Yin: The type 4 in his introverted aspect will be resigned to his fate of scapegoat. He found himself disarmed and the target of a perverse and sadistic individual who will ill-treat until he beat in retreat.
Wild Rose :
Apathy, lack of will and resignation :
According to Dr. Edward Bach this Flower is used as a basic treatment of apathy, resignation, lack of fit and enthusiasm.
“Harmoniously developed, the Wild Rose type is able to adapt to constantly changing situations without losing sight of the positive side. He has no problem with his destiny because he gives himself up fearlessly and without resistance to the greater powers that determine everything in this life. As a realist in the best sense, he never tries to make reality (that which has happened) into something different but instead has an innocent, positive attitude and takes everything as it comes. His lack of prejudice and refusal to take things for granted makes it difficult for him to encounter any situation that will make him unhappy. Like a sapling that sways with the wind, he allows himself to be taken here and there by the whims of fate, dreamily, playfully, and willingly. He never looks at reality with preconceptions or stubborn ideas; he can see things with an inner freedom and innocence that allow him to make the best of anything he encounters.”
“Unfavorably developed, his passive, accepting nature can get the better of him. He allows himself to go through life without will or drive, and he has no interest in his life; he develops a kind of resignation that has a hint of a departure from life. He is no longer able to clearly assess his situation, to take reasonable countermeasures when required, or to ask for help. The Wild Rose syndrome does not usually consist of extreme resignation but of a lessened enthusiasm and a tendency just to let things run as they are. One has the impression that the Wild Rose type uses only a fraction of his potential and does not develop himself fully. He is not able to accomplish as much as he should and needs to stop and rest often, which leads to a limited life. If he should start a project, he comes immediately to a halt, like a vehicle stuck in the sand. His potential remains unfulfilled, he just hangs around aimlessly, and, even when things are not going well for him, he can’t pick himself up to do anything about it. He’ll do nothing to change an unhealthy living situation, he’ll stay with a lousy marriage, and he’ll take any wretched situation as it comes. If his behavior were a conscious and aware answer to an unavoidable circumstance, it would make sense as a kind of survival tactic. In this case, however, it is a sign of a pathological lack of interest and vitality and an extensive loss of creativity.” Read more Dr Gotz Blome “Advanced Bach Flower Therapy ”
Wild Rose corresponds, according to our work, to type 4 Air Social
Other links :
Minor Tarot card : 5 Swords
Angels : Veuliah No. 43 (Air Yang), Yelaiah No. 44 (Air Yin)
Illustration Mahmoud Farshian
Rumi
This very deep Rumi poem speaks metaphorically of the interrelated causes of the phenomena ( the dependant origination called Nidanas in sanskrit ) that intrude upon each other in such a compact manner that we find it difficult to discern the parts that make up what we call our Ego.
To be able to dissect each of these constituent parts, to observe how we grasp each of them, always without being aware of it , and how we deceive ourselves of the reality of these phenomena by identifying the part at all, is what we try to do when we meditate.
Let Dhiravamsa speak about the practice of Insight Meditation :
VIPASSANA : THE UNIQUE WAY TO AWAKENING
The Meaning and Scope of Vipassana :
” The literal meaning of Vipassana is total, clear seeing, a profound and panoramic vision. This refers to seeing with the eye of wholeness, which means recognizing that nothing occurs in isolation or independently, that problems need to be seen within the context of whole systems. Seeing in this way, we are able to perceive the intrinsic web of interconnectedness underlying our experience and merge with it. For example, we acknowledge the ways in which we are extraordinary arid miraculous, and at the same time do not hose sight of the ways in which we are simultaneously nothing special, just part of a larger unfolding, as waves on the sea. We can call the rising up and falling back in such brief moment’s “ life spans.” Together with this way of seeing is total freedom from what Albert Einstein called “optical delusion of consciousness,” or “moha” according to the Buddha. Furthermore, seeing in the Vipassana way frees us from the incessant distortions characteristic of our everyday emotional and thought processes, distortions that, as we have seen, can continually undermine the experiencing of our intrinsic wholeness. ”
Insight Medition and Enneagram :
” With regard to the Buddha’s teaching on “How suffering arises and where it ends” or “Paticcasamyppada – Dependent Origination,” I find it very important for all of us to know and to put it into practice. The reason being that the most essential work on the enneagram lies in a complete and precise comprehension of all the ennea-types or characters, their interrelationships, their ruling passions, and how to put an end to their compulsive patterns of conditioning, or how to liberate ourselves from these passions and to break down the character structures of the ennea-types. To put it in the Buddha’s terminology, the enneagram itself is suffering or sankkhâra-dukkha in Pali, the ennea-types’ ruling passions are the root causes of suffering which need to be utterly eliminated or transformed, and total freedom from the ennea-types is equal to Nirvana in life (the utter ending of suffering and the blowing out once and for alt of all the fires that burn our lives,) and the means whereby such a goal can be achieved, is Insight Meditation. This basic meditation comprises the five indispensable factors of the Buddha’s middle path: They are right understanding, right thinking, right mindfulness, right perseverance, and right samadhi (inner stability and peace of mind.) By understanding and practicing the paticcasamuppada in daily life you will be able to speed up as well as to complete your work on the enneagram, which will bear great fruit in your life. ”
I would like to end this conclusion by referring to the Buddha’s wise words in the Dhammapada, which are jewels for everyone :
“Those who are aware and awake always rise.
To no abode are they attached; (not dwelling on any States of mind)
Like the swans that quit their ponds,
Water after water they abandon (and go on.)”
Vigilant and fully aware among the inattentive,
Totally awake among those failing asleep,
The wise person proceeds rapidly
As a fast horse leaving behind a weak nag.”
“Knowing that self-love is first and foremost
One should hold a high esteem for one’s self. During any of the three phases of life
The wise should keep lively vigil.”
Excerpt of the book of Dhiravamsa : Enneagram and Vipassana Meditation
Dhiravamsa, Vipassana master, living in Grand Canaria
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 )
Type 5, wing 6
“An old solitary tree without leaves, lying in a lush orchard”
Degree of Decay or Neglect
Serious nature, promised to a rich and happy life, which will ultimately compromise his work by errors of judgment, risking criticism, disavowal or rejection. Regrets, disappointments and final solitude. Gabriel in “The Golden Sphere”, the 18th degree of the Lion, which corresponds to the type 5 Yin Fire to which F Nietzsche belongs.
Hahahel, the Angel of Spiritual Wealth:
On the occasion of the birthday of Friedrich Nietzsche, born on October 15, 1844, I wanted to make this short note, without wanting to develop any more, for want of time and certainly also of knowledge necessary for drawing up a portrait of such a character
However, the enormous richness of his personality demands that several articles be devoted to it, covering each of its many facets in the image of its lush and prodigious thought, a source of inspiration for many, contempt or fear for others, others, but which can not leave anyone indifferent.
Here today his two Angels, first his Birth Angel, Hahahel and second his Ennea-Angel , Aladiah
Here a definition, according to Charles Raphael Payeur, of the Angel Hahahel , which brings, first light on what this extraordinary thinker :
(sorry approximative translation )
Hahahel (genius n ° 41):
Radiating with intuition
According to the teaching of the Kabbalah, Hahahel belongs to the choir of the Powers. Now this heavenly hierarchy is associated with the sixth sephirah of the tree of life, Tiphereth, which is incarnated in the visible world in the form of the Sun. Thus, in the same way as the other Powers, the plan of life that Hahahel proposes consists fundamentally in recognizing in himself his true values and then radiating them fully.
As an individual, Hahahel also works with the forces of the second sephirah of the tree of life, Hochmah, which incarnates in the visible world in the form of Uranus. Thus, we can conclude that the plan of life proposed by Hahahel is more precisely to recognize in oneself its true values and to radiate them by relying on its intuition. In this sense, the individual is led to develop high and original (often avant-garde) views that lead him to explore new horizons (interest in new forms of spirituality in particular) or to put his own values at the service of humanity in a pure and disinterested drive (altruism).
The result is generally a spirit of independence and a sense of originality in relations with authority.
Trap: Radiate Inconsistently
The plan of life that Hahahel proposes can however be badly lived. He then leads the individual to become sensitive to spiritual values without his ego, still too much imbued with himself, able to integrate them harmoniously. This sometimes results in serious mystical delusions, and in particular a tendency to believe that he is elected to save humanity or at least to think of himself as an accomplished preacher of “universal love” (strong paranoiac tendencies). There is also a tendency to sink into a delirium of persecution.
Hahahel according to Kabaleb, author of many books on the Kabbalah and the 72 Angels:
The person born under this influence will be distinguished by his greatness of soul and his energy; she/he will devote herself/himself entirely to the service of God, and will not be afraid to suffer in martyrdom. (…) Greatness of soul leads to the last places of organized society backwards of what it should be. Let us not seek the great souls in the first lodges; do not look for them either in the press, in television, in the salons where awards are given, or in the Nobel Prize or other prizes, for they are not there …
The great Souls perform their functions in the invisible and they have enormous capital of energy to carry out their mission.
To dedicate oneself to the service of God, is to dedicate oneself to the eternal personality that each one carries within oneself (…)
The martyrdom for Christ consists in enduring mockery, contempt for society, its persecution, its hatred (…)
The contrary genius influences the apostates, the renegades and all those who dishonor the priesthood by their scandalous conduct, says the Program “
Thus Hahahel becomes the Angel, in his dark side, of the Apostasy, the wicked and the calumniators
Enneagram
We can to this Angel of birth affix that of his Angel in the Enneagram which is, according to us, the Angel Aladiah, which corresponds to the type 5 Sexuel mars Yin:
According to CR Payeur:
Aladiah (Genius No. 10):
Awake to mind with rigor
According to the teaching of the Kabbalah, Aladiah belongs to the choir of the Cherubim. This heavenly hierarchy is associated with the second sephirah of the tree of life, Hochmah, which is incarnated in the visible world in the form of Uranus.
Thus, in the same way as the other cherubim, the plan of life that Aladiah proposes consists basically in awakening to the values of the spirit and to manifest them fully around him.
As an individual, Aladiah also works with the forces of the third sephirah of the tree of life, Binah, which incarnates in the visible world in the form of Saturn. Thus we can conclude that the plan of life proposed by Aladiah consists more precisely in awakening to the values of the spirit and to manifest them fully by asceticism. The individual is thus invited to renounce the chimeras, artifices or illusions of the world in order to better transcend his state of ordinary consciousness and thus open himself to other dimensions of his being. It generally results in a taste of loneliness important though, that the native is not so asocial.
Trap: Stifle the mind by inhibiting rigor
The life plan that Aladiah proposes can however be badly lived. He then leads the individual to seek hard and austere asceticism in everything, the latter being in fact led to believe that mortification and suffering are the only possible paths of transcendence. This usually results in a morbid tendency to manic-depressive self-persecution.
According to Kabaleb, Aladiah is the Angel of Divine Grace.
Here is what he says: “Divine Grace goes further, beyond Mercy, because it forgives and innocent without the need for repentance or change of attitude.” Aladiah is good for those who have hidden crimes and are afraid of being discovered. If we are rich in Graces, we will first forgive our own faults and we will be able to forgive the faults of others. Grace demands nothing in exchange, it modifies in some way the line of conduct of the pardoned, for a state of healing comes into force and the disorders disappear. “
Other articles will follow on F Nietzsche …
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See more about the Ennea- Angels : /http://blog.enneagramme-marie.fr/en/blog/2017/10/08/the-72-angels-and-the-enneagram/
Insight of the Day :
Suffering always leads us somewhere.
Slowly and undecided, we are walking blendly
Often wanting to accelerate the pace …
Then we understand that our Path is Unique
Because we have only one and it belongs to us.
Then the signals light up …
And tell us that we are this Path ,
We are liberation and suffering at the same time
Viy by Georgy Balenschenko
How a young seminarist falls in love of a dead beautiful Lady , contacted in the guise of an old woman with the appearence of a witch…
Every summer, there is usually a large procession of all the students moving around the area as they travel home, However, the group is reduced to three students, the theologian Khaliava, the philosopher Khoma Brut, and the rhetorician Tibery Gorobets.
As the night draws in, the students hope to find a village near the main road where they can find some rest and food. However, they become lost in the wilderness, eventually coming upon two small houses and a farm. An old woman there tells them she has a little room and cannot accommodate any more travelers, but she eventually agrees to let them stay.
At night, the old woman comes to Khoma. At first, he thinks she is trying to seduce him, but then she draws closer and he sees that her eyes are glowing strangely. She leaps on his back, and he reluctantly finds himself galloping with her all over the countryside with a strength he previously never knew. He eventually slows the witch by chanting exorcisms out loud, and then rides on her back and later picks up a piece of wood and beats her as punishment. The old woman later collapses, and he discovers she has turned into a beautiful girl.
Khoma runs away to Kiev and resumes his easy life, when a rumor reaches his dean that a rich cossack’s daughter was found crawling home near death, her last wish being for Khoma the philosopher to come and read psalms over her corpse for three nights after her death.
Nicolas Gogol (1809-1852 )
Type 5 wing 6, cofixation 4 and 1
On the first night, when the cossacks take her body to a ruined church, he is somewhat frightened but calms himself when he lights more candles in the church to eliminate most of the darkness. As he begins to say prayers, he imagines to himself that the corpse is getting up, but it never does. Suddenly, however, he looks up and finds that the witch is sitting up in her coffin. She begins to walk around, reaching out for someone, and begins to approach Khoma, but he draws a circle of protection around himself that she cannot cross.
Risks of confusions in the diagnosis of types :
The system of enneagram abounds in traps and confusions in all kinds.
The more we study this in-depth system, the more we discover that what we believe to know and which we identify as being such or such type is being a data of the system that we are unaware of and who comes to supplement and specify the knowledge which we have of ourself and others.
The discovery of these new data come to look further into and highly complex the system, and instead of diverting the student, it must enable him to be able to sail more easily on board of this sumptuous ship that is Enneagram.This one will enable him to arrive to good port, in spite of the storms and violent winds that are resistances of our ego and the movements of our ignorance.To hold firmly the helm and to avoid the wanderings, here is the hard challenge which this formidable tool of transformation and knowledge proposes to each one of us.
Here is for the navigators who we are a small list of the traps and useful errors in order not to lose the North.
Risks of confusion which we can particularly meet between a type and a subtype, such as for example between:
– Sexual Water Yin subtype (or sentimental) with a type 4 , ex : Emmanuelle Béart
– Sexual Water Yang subtype (or (Passionate ) with types 2, 3 and 4 (emotional types) : ex : Sharon Stone
– Sexual Fire Yang subtype (Coleric) with a type 8, or 1, ex : Tony Blair
– Selfpreservation/Earth Yang subtype ( Sanguin/epicurean) with a type 7 or 9, ex: Coluche
– Air Yin subtype ( Apathetic) with a type 5 or 4 , ex : Virginia Wolf
– Air Yang subtype (phlegmatic) with Mental types : 5,6,7, ex :Claire Chazal
– a Space subtype (Bouddha family) with a type 9 , ex : Einstein
– a type 1 Introvert (Fire Yin ) with a type 4 or an emotional type, ex : Lady Diana
– a type 7 Introvert (Wood Yin ) Yin with a type 5 or 6, ex : Woody Allen
This list concerns the most frequent risks of confusion, but there are many others, and that is to take a cofixation for a type, for example a type 1 cofixation 6 for a 6 especially if the person has a subtype Air / Social, which “mentalizes” the subject, etc …
It is easy to see that these confusions on the list relate essentially to the different aspects of subtypes.
As you know, from three, the subtypes have moved to 4 with the extension of the sexual subtype in two (the masculine / Mars and the feminine / Venus), each of these four subtypes being declined in Yang mode (extrovert) and Yin (introverted) bringing these subtypes to the number of eight.
These eight subtypes have been linked to the 8 characters of Gaston Berger / Le Senne), the Wisdom Buddhist Families , and the characters of W Reich
There is two complete articles on the whole model of the eight sub-types in the Enneagram, unfortunately it exists only in English, published in the magazine américian: “Enneagram Monthly”, issue 211 and 224
The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
Avalokiteshvara
while practicing deeply with
the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore,
suddenly discovered that
all of the five Skandhas are equally empty,
and with this realisation
he overcame all Ill-being.
“Listen Sariputra,
this Body itself is Emptiness
and Emptiness itself is this Body.
This Body is not other than Emptiness
and Emptiness is not other than this Body.
The same is true of Feelings,
Perceptions, Mental Formations,
and Consciousness.
“Listen Sariputra,
all phenomena bear the mark of Emptiness;
their true nature is the nature of
no Birth no Death,
no Being no Non-being,
no Defilement no Purity,
no Increasing no Decreasing.
“That is why in Emptiness,
Body, Feelings, Perceptions,
Mental Formations and Consciousness
are not separate self entities.
The Eighteen Realms of Phenomena
which are the six Sense Organs,
the six Sense Objects,
and the six Consciousnesses
are also not separate self entities.
The Twelve Links of Interdependent Arising
and their Extinction
are also not separate self entities.
Ill-being, the Causes of Ill-being,
the End of Ill-being, the Path,
insight and attainment,
are also not separate self entities.
Whoever can see this
no longer needs anything to attain.
Bodhisattvas who practice
the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
see no more obstacles in their mind,
and because there
are no more obstacles in their mind,
they can overcome all fear,
destroy all wrong perceptions
and realize Perfect Nirvana.
“All Buddhas in the past, present and future
by practicing
the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
are all capable of attaining
Authentic and Perfect Enlightenment.
“Therefore Sariputra,
it should be known that
the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
is a Great Mantra,
the most illuminating mantra,
the highest mantra,
a mantra beyond compare,
the True Wisdom that has the power
to put an end to all kinds of suffering.
Therefore let us proclaim
a mantra to praise
the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore.
Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha!
Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha!
Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha!”
” A peaceful valley, a lake where two swans can fly together. In the background rises a high mountain “
Degree of Peace and Friendship
Sympathetic nature, love for peace and harmony, promised to a happy destiny by talent, relationships, and protections. Beneficial and rewarding associations, artistic gifts.
Sorry for very approximative translation
This article today, at the announcement of the death of the French actor Jean Rochefort, whom I had the pleasure of meeting sometimes on the island of Porquerolles, where he used to stay often. It was short moments but sufficiently striking that leave me the feeling of a being, of course, apparently agreeable, simple and jovial, but what marked me most was the elegance and unspeakable charm of his eyes that flirted with a form of profound sadness, made up of restraint and modesty, but above all, which seemed to invite the other to communicate directly, without any detour, in the arduous world of feelings, the one who never lies, and does not escape, for he is that of the true language of the heart.
So I can not pretend to a portrait of this actor because I did not really know him, just content myself with a few impressions, all subjective though I would like with you, to relate to what we know about our model of the Enneagram and what I believe to be his configuration.
Essay of comparaison between an enneagram and an astrological configuration.
This is a short essay because we are only at the beginning of our research on the links between Enneagram and astrology and certainly not the only one to do it .
Alain Delon in the movie “The Leopard ” by Luchino Visconti
The air aspect of Fire (under sexual-Mars / Social)
Sorry for the approximative translation
The Subtypes of the Enneagram and the Minor Tarot cards :
I have long wanted to tell you about the link we have made between the types of the Enneagram, their subtypes, and the Tarot cards.
I know that for many it all seems mysterious, having not yet published anything on the subject, and in particular on our methodology of research which explains each one of our classifications.
In appearance these new classifications seem to complicate the model, but in reality it sheds unexpected light on the types of the Enneagram, but also and especially, on the famous subtypes, the badly named ones of the rest. ..
Thus we see that each subtype, independently of its associated type, has a definition of its own.
I will not enter here in more details, just maybe remember that a subtype is never, “pure”, but always associated with a second one that is minor
For example we can be a Social and Sexual Mars at the same time, or Autopreservation and Social, etc …
As you know, for those who already follow our work, each subtype corresponds to an element of Tradition and, as we see it today, to one of the four figures of the Tarot:
Sexual Mars = Fire (Wands)
Sexual Venus = Water (Cups)
Social = Air (Swords)
Autopreservation = Earth (Pentacles)
Each figure is married to each other, so we can have the Cavalier de Coupes (the fire aspect of Water, or the Sexual/Venus subtype combined with sexual Mars ), the Queen of Swords (the water aspect of the Air, or the Social / Sexual venus sub-type), the Queen of Disks (the water aspect of the Earth, or Self-preservation / sexual venus subtype), etc, etc …
Working on illustrating one of these combinations, namely the air aspect of the Fire, or in other words the Sexual Mars associated with the social sub-type in which I put Alain Delon amongst others, I come across the definition of the Prince of Aleister Crowley’s book “The Book of Toth,” which is to be mistaken only that of Trancède, the beautiful nephew of the Prince of Salina, in Luchino Visconti’s movie “The Leopard ” beauty is matched only by his intrepid and impetuous youth and rebellion. If we look at interviews on Alain Delon, this definition suits him like a glove, which seems to stick to his skin … and to his character of Trancède, many years later ! …
The Prince of Wands :
The prince of Wands tends sometimes to act on an impulse. To undergo external influences, sometimes indecisive, and particularly for things without importance,. He is often violent, especially when he expresses an opinion, but this one to which he seems so formal does not necessarily entail him. He affirms with force only for the pleasure of asserting. In fact he will be very slow to make a decision, but he will always consider a question in its two aspects. Fundamentally just, he instinctively leaps that justice can not be achieved in the intellectual sphere. Excessively noble and generous of character, he can be an extravagant boastful and laughing discreetly about his boasting and his author. Fiercely romantic in particular to all that relates to history and tradition, he will make a sensational blow or make savvy jokes. He can choose a harmless person and cover him with all the jokes possible for years as Swift tormented the unfortunate Partrigde; all this without the least animosity and being ready to give him his shirt if his victim needed it. His sense of humor spares nothing and can make him a mysterious figure. fear for no reason by people who ignore everything except his name – a symbol of Terror. Pride is one of his greatest defects. He exasperates me with all mediocrity and insignificance. His courage is inexhaustible and his resistance indefatigable Always in struggle against superior forces, he always ends by winning. The main cause of all this is the immense ability to work for the job. “Without covetousness” of the result. The haughty contempt with which he considers the world-a contempt coexisting nevertheless with a profound respect marveled for every man and every woman as “star” is perhaps responsible for his attitude …
In its more negative aspect the character degenerates and we can find a great cruelty, partly imprinted with sadism and partly provoked by the insensibility that results from indifference, it can be also intolerant, partial, indolent. Finally he can also be a braggart with a hollow mind or a great coward.
Ennea -configuration of Alain Delon, in our opinion:
Mental center
Type 5
Wing 4
Cofixations: 1 and 3
Sub-types: Sexual Fire and Social
