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FROM SELF-GOVERNANCE TO SELF-TRANSCENDENCE The powers formed in the first septenary—intention, intuition, embodiment, structure, culture, choice, and agency—meet their limits in the second. There they undergo crisis and are refined through reflection, discipline, and ethical discernment. A person moves from instinctive living to intentional, responsible personhood: Temperance rather than the Chariot. And yet, even in…
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FROM HISTORY TO THE DEVELOPMENTAL MAP In the previous chapter, we treated Tarot historically: a living artifact that moved through courts, printing presses, occult revivals, and modern psychological reinterpretations. That history matters—because Tarot is not a timeless oracle dropped from the sky. It is a human invention that accumulated layers of meaning as cultures changed.…