The Tangler

Keywords: Confusion and liberation

The Tangler is a male figure, wrapped in many strands of white, red and black. His eyes are closed and his face is calm, stern, as if in deep strict meditation. The strands swirl and proliferate around him with great movement and energy as they come away from his body, perhaps set into motion as he raises arms above his head. His hair is a glossy olive green and massive, in snaky locks. The strands of red, white and black are tangled then braided into his locks, set with many tiny pearls. This braiding and tangling may be something coming into order (the braidings) or breaking out into wildness (the locks and the cloud of strands). The coloured threads almost fill the image, while the background is pearly white.

The Tangler embodies forces of confusion and liberation. He is the partner Trump to The Opener. These are the first Trumps that we experience within the Pearl Realm after or within The Seed Pearl itself. There are implications of self-delusion when this card appears in a personal reading, and often our inner liberation is clouded over, entangled, by conditions and habits that accumulate in our surface life. Curiously, we only know of inner potential through our sense of being entangled, so The Tangler liberates through confusion, rather than suppresses or dominates.

In another sense The Tangler is the confusion that occurs when an inner change, a spiritual realization, breaks through into our consciousness. The new reality of the Pearl Realm, of deeper awareness and energy, renders a previous world-view or life pattern insufficient. yet we are entangled within our world-view, and often reluctant to lose it. The Trumps of the Stone Realm, such as The Sleeper, often imply that ignorance is bliss, and after Arousal, we find that knowledge brings its own difficulties.

The Tangler may be addressed in meditation for the answers to particularly convoluted and difficult questions, as only he knows where the strand may lead. If The Tangler cannot resolve a knotted problem, then we refer to The Opener. Confusion arising out of liberation will finally be ended by the axe stroke of The Opener.

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