Ace of Cups – Demiurge – Knight of Disks
Hopes – Ambition – Gratification
Card of the day: Demiurge
Time:
December 22 to January 20.
10 AM to 12 AM.
“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
Criss Jami
– What should you focus on today?
– What is the purpose you serve?
It’s a nice combination of cards to have on a Sunday for starting a new week and a new calendar month.
The combination of hope and ambition will bring gratification.
It’s essential to know what your hopes and ambitions are.
The Ace of Cups is an emotionally charged card, and it’s only the seed of the things to come.
The Demiurge is the ambition fulfilled.
Most often, it refers to professional and social aspirations. However, depending on the question and the other cards, it can represent success in any other field or aspect of our lives.
The Demiurge is the fully developed Magician. The learning process is over, and he is in control of all the elements. He is the ruler of the material world.
However, from a mystical perspective, the Demiurge represents the limitations of the material world.
In Gnostic mysticism, the Demiurge is a lesser divine being or false G_d who fashioned the material world.
Often portrayed as ignorant, arrogant, or even malevolent, the Demiurge traps souls in the material realm through ignorance or illusion. Thus, he represents illusion, material entrapment, and ignorance.
In Neoplatonic mysticism, the Demiurge is not evil but rather the divine craftsman. It moulds the cosmos in accordance with the Forms, serving as a benevolent intermediary between the One, the ultimate source, and the material world. Therefore, he is the symbol of divine order and cosmic intelligence, guiding the soul from the material to the spiritual realm through intellectual ascent.
Hermeticism blends Gnostic and Platonic views.
The Demiurge may be seen as part of the hierarchy of emanations, representing a necessary step in the unfolding of the divine into matter. Not necessarily evil, but still the manifestation of a lower, imperfect stage of sacred expression.
Thus, the Demiurge symbolises the boundary between spirit and matter and the challenge of awakening to higher realities.
Mystics interpret the Demiurge not merely as a being but also as a symbol of existential limitation, the ego, material attachment, or cosmic ignorance.
The addition of the Knight of Disks, signifying gratification, underlines the earthly and material aspects of the Demiurge and today’s reading.
Social and professional recognition and material well-being are critical to your happiness.
Mystics tend to disconsider the material world as being corrupt and opposed to the spiritual world.
However, the miracle of life is exactly the transformation of the inorganic into organic and the transmutation of the spirit into the material.
It is a miracle because, so far, we haven’t managed to figure out how that happened.
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