I decided to draw a Tarot card to exercise the art of analogy (from the Greek ἀναλογία, analogia, “proportion”, “correspondence of relations”) before leaving the house to drink a glass of wine in a bar nearby.
The King of Wands appeared. Here we have the Fire of Fire in one of the sixteen archetypes symbolised by the court cards, the element associated with the spiritual plane, but also with concrete impulse in the material realm, with what is active, positive, and initiating. It is also the element associated with summer, with the apex of life, with the choleric temperament, which is hot and dry.
Upon entering the bar I stumbled upon a group of six or seven men already quite drunk, that is to say, with heated blood, amidst loud laughter and conversations at high volume. Not only that, but the very subject of conversation was the intense fires of last summer, the brave intervention of the regional fire brigades, the danger involved to their lives, and how each man must defend his own land, an action typical of a king. Analogically it could hardly be clearer when the theme is quite literally fire.
On the television was Crime Story, a 1993 film starring Jackie Chan. Martial arts, which is to say the arts of Mars, exactly the planet which, alongside the Sun, is also choleric, hot, and dry. The world resonates and corresponds when we tune our ears to it. 🙂
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