Symbolon Deck

39 MASTER AND STUDENT

Brief Description

This card represents the eternal cycle of learning and teaching, embodying spiritual growth through the exchange of knowledge. It depicts the sacred relationship between master and student, where true wisdom comes through humble practice and observation. The card emphasizes that everyone in our lives serves as both teacher and student, offering lessons for spiritual development. It calls for embracing the beginner's mind while also sharing our knowledge with others, recognizing that stagnation occurs when we remain fixed in only one role.

Keywords

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Keywords

Study and teaching, spiritual distinction, eternal student, charlatan, spiritual irresponsibility.

Card Description

Astrological Correspondence

Gemini\Sagittarius

Planets

Mercury\Jupiter.

Archetypes

Messenger + Hierophant (Preacher).

Image

Receiving and giving knowledge. Instructiveness. Teachability. A student performs some task. Behind him - the figure of a teacher. He does not interfere in the process. He observes.

The Work

The work is very simple, but very important for the learning process. In the process of its completion, the student receives new knowledge. Humbling of pride. Something similar to Zen Buddhism. It is not the student's place to ask questions, but to complete assignments.

The Teacher's Attention

At a certain moment the teacher will somehow turn his attention to him. The teacher's figure is surrounded by a light white halo, as if it is not quite real. This is a hint that perhaps behind the student's back is only an image, a memory of an observing and evaluating mentor or simply an elder person.

Symbols and Colors

Student - receiving knowledge. Teacher - strict control.

Card Meanings in a Reading

Positive Meanings

Receiving or transmitting knowledge and skills, diligence.

Negative Meanings

Stagnation, no equality, lack of independence.

Card for the Day

Today either you will teach others, or someone will teach you something. A day of gaining practical experience.

Meeting with a Mentor

Meeting with a mentor.

Necessary Actions

Do everything as you were taught, changing nothing. No one is a friend, no one is an enemy - only a teacher.

Conclusions to Draw Today

No one is your friend, no one is your enemy, but every person is your teacher (K. Antarova).

What I Can Learn Today

To develop by receiving knowledge and passing it on to others.

How to Behave Among My Surroundings

Your surroundings may ask for advice today or give advice to the person themselves. You need to remember the needed advice and help others yourself.

Motive

Receiving, transmitting knowledge, skills. Applying them in life. Doing as taught. Striving to expand horizons, consciousness. Search for sacred knowledge. Learning from a spiritual mentor.

State

While doing something, a person feels the invisible figure of a teacher behind them. He is afraid to do poorly, so as not to disgrace the teacher. Sometimes the card speaks of a state of confusion, intermediate between mastery and inability, when a person has not yet achieved professional strength, although he can already do much.

Process

Educational. Acquiring new skills.

Relationships

In relationships there is no equality, but at the same time they are stable - without conflicts.

Partnership Dynamics

Partners may have an age difference, and one of them is a life teacher for the other (maybe both). Not intentionally. Each acquires important lessons for themselves.

Warning

Do not linger too long in either of these roles. Otherwise the flow of knowledge will cease. You cannot get stuck in one role, to move forward knowledge must be passed on to others.

Advice

Turn every moment of life into a lesson. Do according to established tradition (as taught) - changing nothing. It's time to realize what level you are at now: are you a student or already a teacher.

Result

Gaining knowledge. Growth, expansion of knowledge, acquisition of skills and abilities. Events of ordinary life - into learning.

Additions

Study, instruction, gaining knowledge, transmitting knowledge.

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Symbolon Deck

✍️ Deck author(s): Peter Orban, Ingrid Zinnel, Thea Weller

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