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To gain a picture of the forces at play in a particular psychic situation – let’s
say a prospective business deal, we need to know not only these great omnipresent
unconscious elements, but also the particular givens of individual character and
temperament which may be involved. We would not claim to explain the battle of Trafalgar
without reference to the character of Nelson. In the Ring, the Matriarch, Hero etc
certainly are descriptions of psychological
types, but they are also idealised representations.
It is likely that if we assemble, from traditional anecdote, fairy story, myth,
legend, folk tale, art, literature and so on a compendious portrait of ‘The Matriarch’,
we will never, in any real-life individual, find all these constituent elements
fully developed. Our type represents, if you will, a Matriarch of mythical proportions.
Nevertheless, this mythic figure is the starting point for my recognition that,
with a particular individual, or in a certain relationship or situation, matriarchal
qualities (and sometimes limitations) are present, rather than those of artist,
seer or any other type.
When we come to the unique individual human, or indeed oak tree or rhinoceros, then
we are faced with a particular blend of elements. By some kind of mysterious alchemy,
just as each permutation in the ingredients of the gene pool is a one-off exemplar,
so too with the unique recipe which goes to make up each individual. Rainring, like
numerous other systems, divides human beings into a certain number of types – nine
in our case. In the four-mention version of the cards, in particular, we can then
subdivide each of these broad categories into thousands of sub-categories, and so
eventually portray the unique elements of any individual person, situation, event,
relationship and so on, by drawing on a huge number of possible combinations and
permutations of the available psychic ingredients.
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Achievement: early pack, second phase – graphics only, no illustrations |
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Early version of Umpire Oracle (4-mention pack) |
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