Division
(Emerging)

Keywords: Union and separation

Division shows a naked man and woman standing face to face, with clasped hands, his right to her left raised above head height and his left to her right lowered to around the genital region. The arms are not straight, but in a relaxed curve. The couple also touch feet, her left foot over his right, his left over her right, though we may not be able to see this fully. They have eyes closed and seem in a deep sleep, smiling peacefully.

They are within growing plants: he has a cultivated, old variety red rose bush around him, whiles she has a white wild briar. The plants ramble over their shoulders and arms with occasional buds and opening (but not fully opened) flowers, and then coil around a tall menhir immediately behind them, where they form a vivid crown of open red and white flowers around the top of the stone, which reaches to the uppermost part of the image. the background is sky blue and the man and woman stand upon grass, within some rocks out of which little plants grow.

Upon the menhir, above them, is a small ancestral carving of a two-headed rebus figure with outstretched arms in a cross shape. Around the double head, which we see in profile looking right and left, is carved a semi-circle of seven dots or stars. Traditionally, these seven stars represent the group of the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, which is important in esoteric tradition around the world, with legends and associated rituals reaching from prehistory of the present day. The foundation of these traditions, found in both the northern and southern hemispheres is that one branch or aspect of humanity came from this star group to the planet Earth. The major pivots or turning points and festivals of the year are marked by the setting and rising of the Pleiades in May and November (reversed in the southern hemisphere). Another tradition asserts that the Seven Sisters are a matrix for the sevenfold energies of the solar system, and the powers of the seven planets and the Seven Directions which are mirrored within humanity.

Division is the partner Trump to Arousal, with both Trumps bridging between the Stone and Pearl Realms. While Arousal is a power of individual awakening and finding inner power, Division embodies ideas of union, separation and multiplication. There is a tendency for Arousal to reach downwards or deeper within, while Division tends to reach towards the surface of our consciousness or move outwards and proliferate.

In a personal reading Division shows sources of separation and union, and potential reflection, mirroring and multiplication through interaction with others. In terms of human relationships, it can also show ways towards retrospective harmony and wisdom - being wise after an event rather than before it. The male and female figures are asleep in the inner world, though they may be very active upon the surface. They are increasingly manifest and separate potentials of male and female within us that are shown conjoined in the Trump of Conjunction, which is a deeper harmonic between the Pearl and Whirlpool Realms.

The menhir is a focus and vehicle for earth-power, a needle between the land and the sky, reaching from the Underworld towards the stars above. It is also associated with sexuality, fertility and ancestral magic. The red and white roses are the entwined powers of male and female within each of us, with red and white standing for blood and seed. Upon the tall standing stone is a tiny figure with arms outstretched, crowned with the seven stars or seven traditional planets. It reminds us of two deeper Trumps that flow through into Division: The Knower at the crossroads and Conjunction. Such small figures are the primal or Underworld sources of the later images of guardian deities at sacred sites and of the sacrificed and blessing powers that assist humanity.

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