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Tarot
The Second Line:
The Inner Road
When finishing the previous line, we left our adventurous ego on the top of what's the "visible world", starting to develop his personality, and in what would be a relative "successfull position" to many. This inmense majority could spend their whole lives without leaving the parameters depited in the first line, which doesn't mean they are bad or lesser people, but that their times and needs are different from the ones who decide to step into the road of inner exploration.
In the second line we'll face the following:
The cycle begins with the Strenght. When finishing the previous line with the victorious ego, we face the risk of letting all the strenght and primal energies present in the card get out of control. The task in this fist card of this line is to learn to dominate these animal energies. And into dominating them, we step into the search for solitude necessary for reflexion and meditation that will help us get through the rest of the line, represented by the Hermit.
The next card's lesson, the Wheel of Fortune is just to learn to go with the flow, that ebbs and tides like guided by a supernatural being. After this lesson in balance, we have the next one, when faving Justice, a Divine justice that tells us about just retribution. But when it seemed we'd regained control, next step, symbolised as the Hanged Man points us to the need of inverse our points of view, previous to the Death of the old Self necessary to venture into the spiritual road, almost at hand.
The Angel of Temperance comes finally to ease a little the somewhat agitated passing through these last cards, teaching us again the advantages of balance, of "everything in it's just measure", but this from a different, higher perspective, leaving us ready to face our darker side in the following line.
