E-Book, Englisch, 223 Seiten
Giger H. R. GIGER TAROT
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-905372-89-2
Verlag: Akron
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E-Book, Englisch, 223 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-905372-89-2
Verlag: Akron
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection
H. R. Giger Tarot, the Tarot of the Underworld, is a succession of paintings by the Swiss artist, designer and Oscar-award winner H. R. Giger. Baphomet introduces us to the oldest destiny of mankind, visions of birth and death, and love and hate in the drama of life.
Giger`s art is interpreted by philosopher-magician Akron. To him tarot is like an inexhaustible mine of symbols, suited to manifest Giger`s aesthetics of apocalypse in literary style. Akron resorts to the tradition of the Tarot in order to convey the messages of Baphomet - medieval secret symbol - which is of special significance in Giger`s work.
geb. 1940 in Chur, CH, seit 1968 freischaffender Künstler in Zürich lebend. 1980 OSCAR für Film ALIEN für BEST ACHIEVEMENT FOR VUSUAL EFFECTS, Gestaltung der beiden Giger-Bars in Chur CH und Tokyo. Eigenes Giger-Museum im Schloss Gruyère CH.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
Introduction
The Spread Systems
The 22 Major Arcana
About the Authors
0 THE FOOL
He who always longs for me will set out in search of me; he will find me and look me in the eye
– and there he will discover none other than himself! The Roaring in the Cosmos The Card
The end of one thing is always the beginning of another. While the last card of the Giger Arcana shows a spaceship escaping the terrors of Planet Earth, the first one shows the return: an old man clad in a diaper. So this cycle begins where it ended since we can feel that the decline also contains the unborn potential of the beginning, which leads to the birth of a new Fool. He still has the umbilical cord around his neck and his legless torso sits in a urinal. At the same time, he is looking straight at the seam of life: a woman is kneeling in front of him and presenting her vagina to him. In his helpless, embryo-like position, he reveals the innocence of new life. This is the original, healthy state of the psyche before the viruses of social conditioning infect it. The Fool’s soul is like a blank page, and his internal emptiness means inner strength. In this emptiness, opposites can still harmoniously complement each other rather than battling or canceling each other out. As a result, the Fool is not yet aware of the conflict between the rational mind and the instinctual nature. He also sees more than just the woman’s sex between her legs. In his mind’s eye, he is looking at the steps that lead to life, the reforming of the eternal into the physicality of the material world. The Fool longs both for life and for death, since at the end of that path he will re-encounter the roots of his beginnings. He suspects that he has always been what he is now, and always will be what he can ever become because he yearns for the aims that were already within him before the beginning. The Janus-like double-headed nature of the eternally young, agelessly old Fool is also expressed in the fact that the “flute” is revealed to be a shotgun on closer examination. The Fool shoots himself before he is born, exemplifying everything that strives for life, and therefore towards death. The Fool embodies both nothingness on the verge of becoming something and the endless emptiness of the universe that will absorb existence back into itself at the end of its development. He is the herald of pure, unfiltered truth from the limbo that lies between death and birth. On the one hand, he embodies nothingness on the threshold of being, which is expressed by his embryonic pose in the urinal. On the other hand, he is striving towards his own end by becoming something, as is dramatically shown by the barrel of the gun in his mouth. We are confronted by the double-faced head of Janus, who destroys on the one side what he creates on the other, or the Hindu god Shiva, whose dance brings about the end of the world, but who is also the god of the procreative force. As a result, this way we encounter the end that simply marks the beginning of a new end. Since the end must bring forth the beginning and the beginning must create the preconditions for the end, the Universe is the goal that exists in the Fool as a spiritual blueprint. In other words: both past and present are equally real at the same time because the end is the beginning. Likewise, the beginning can be described as the end because the end is always a new beginning of another end, which on another level requires another end for each new beginning. The woman seductively stretching her buttocks towards the Fool is a striking variation of the archetypal mother. The humanity that raises itself to God in the last Major Arcanum of the tarot returns to earth in an endless loop through her. This phase in the development of life is also part of the universal act of creation. The path of life’s development is a spiral: it may turn in circles, but it also leads upwards and therefore also – in the figurative sense – “forwards.” So the spaceship on the last card, rising from the ruins of Earth in search of a better future, is also the face of the Great Goddess, through whose mouth humanity once again returns to its origins. Back to Mother, monochrome stone lithograph (1986) H.R. Giger ARh+, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 1996, p. 67 The top left-hand corner of the drawing shows a newborn baby slipping from its mother’s womb. The umbilical cord is cut, and the baby is placed amid the tensions of human society, symbolized by the table soccer game. Here it learns to compensate for its loss of security through struggle and toughness. The separation from the entire abundance and wholeness of being that takes place at birth marks the beginning of life as an individual. We are forced to combine with other parts of the whole in order to once again ecstatically experience our own lost wholeness in the brief moment of merging. This is reflected in the picture where each shot at the goal also makes the woman pregnant. Sexuality is not just a means for procreation and desire; it also conceals the metaphysical intention of passing on the tension of unfulfilled longing, which keeps the world in eternal motion. The Interpretation
Woman On the negative side, the Fool represents self-deception and is the manifestation either of what you really want to achieve or your efforts to avoid confronting it. However, the positive aspect of this card may be an expression of the power to strive for things that lie beyond the boundaries of the perceivable. On an inner level, this means that you can come closer to yourself by experiencing deep, hidden feelings and gradually rid yourself of restricting compulsions. You have the ability to probe more deeply inside yourself to perceive your own wishes more intensely and the desire to adopt a more spiritual approach to your inner needs. This often means that you drift into the realms of self-deception, particularly when you try to escape the world through irrational behavior. It is therefore important for you to integrate your personal impulses into reality, to bring contents out of the unconscious mind into the light of day, and to sympathize with the needs of those around you so that you do not need to constantly run away from yourself into your illusions. This is a constructive approach in which the creative potency of absolute nothingness seeks to manifest itself within you. The world shows itself as if through the window of a dream; in this dream, you can experience yourself as part of a larger whole, which is the dream of life itself. This means that you do not find it difficult to feel the eternal within you since you do not simply let your ego express itself carelessly, but subjugate it to the unseen vibrations of your inner voice. While you merge with the longing that you project onto your surrounding world, it mirrors back to you everything that reflects your feelings. If you accept that these pictures do not reflect reality but only the illusions of all your dream-like images, then you are in harmony with them. Under their influence, you will be highly successful in creatively encountering your unconscious objectives in your fellow humans. Reversed Here you are in constant search of the unreachable, but you do not really wish to find it because you prefer to dabble and the tangible always manages to escape you. As a result, you let yourself be possessed by your inner yearnings to live out your emotional needs only at a higher level since you give up any orientation towards worldly goals by transcending your material objectives. If you recognize that you will never attain the image that you seek so desperately, you will be left empty-handed. And because you have not learned to formulate your wishes but only to project your objectives around whatever leads you further and further away from reality, the end of the story is the unreachable image of your inner longing, which is basically unwilling to fulfill your wishes so that they can remain the objective of your dreams. Your relationship with those around you is a very dreamy one that usually leads to friction. Under its influence, you frequently seem incapable of clear thoughts because it always lures out your vague, irrational desires and vague objectives. On the other hand, this behavior may also contribute to the development of your higher intuition if you succeed in encountering the nebulous longings of your repressed mystic and occult-utopian fictions in your “mental soup.” In this process, the details are less important than highlighting an understanding of the entire situation. Man The Fool does not stand for a fixed objective towards which you are moving. Instead, he creates a spiritual space through specific fields of associations, within which your consciousness moves. This is the condition that remains unrevealed, the original wholeness or the state before the beginning. It shows that you are entering a new area of your life, astonished, with no fixed expectations, and often even without prior knowledge. The Fool symbolizes the turning wheel in God’s plan of creation because the card embodies nothingness on the verge of becoming. On the other hand, particularly because of this process of becoming, he longs for the paradise he has lost and this implies the question about the ultimate meaning. Since the Fool represents not only the beginning that must come, but also the end that must pass in order for something new to develop so that it can die away again, the answer lies outside the rational duality. Only the act of exceeding the boundaries imposed on him by human nature, which means delving into the abyss of...
