The sets are not directly involved in the design of the spreads available online,
though they do feature in the more comprehensive catalogue available with hard copy
of the cards. However, they are important in terms of classifying, establishing
connections between the individual cards; caution: this▼ is no more than an outline
– see hard copy booklet.
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1
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Spirit
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intorvert imbalance
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a compulsion towards inward-direction of psychic energy
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2
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Will
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extrovart imbalance
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the opposite compulsion - towards outward-direction of psychic energy
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3
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Heart
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balance
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balance of 1 and 2: freed from the compulsive element, the individual’s power flows in or out according to the objective needs of the circumstances
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4
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Form
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personal archetypes*
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uses a nine-fold division of human types, each based on an idealised or mythic prototype
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5
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Unconscious
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fundamental archetypes*
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the primary forces or energies under-pinning the ‘psychocosmos’: i.e. the universe as a manifestation of the psyche
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6
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Self
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functions
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Rainring identifies nine functions, of which seven correspond to the chakras; at west, and illustrated, is the cycle of the ‘feeling archetypes’ or fundamental emotions
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7
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Communication
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art & life
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the basic psychological drive behind art is seen as the desire to communicate; this set constitutes an analysis of the artistic impulse in those terms.
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8
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Conjugation
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love ways
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describes various aspects and elements of developing relations between the male and female polarities in the psyche
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9
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Quest-ion?
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process archetypes*
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the archetypal stages through which all psychic processes evolve; (they form the basis of a spread available with the hard copy of the 4-mention cards)
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*the word ‘archetypes’ is used in a rather particular way – it means something like
‘prototypical universal energies’: that is, the invariable constants that underpin
all the diversity, variation and multiplicity of particular instances in the psycho-cosmos
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