Kaydia Briggs @ Pal's Clubhouse
The background of this photo is kinda blah, but Kaydia's smile lights it up! This gal is down; she understands what it means to "ride the snake". The central card she holds is traditionally called The Wheel of Fortune, but I affectionately call it "The Ride the Snake Card". In the Grand Etteilla series, the wheel is a bizarre rendition of an ouroboros, the archetypal symbol of a serpent devouring it's own tail. This specific wheel/ouroboros connects the cyclical movement of time with the cyclical movement of the mind; our experience of the world as it relates to the ebb and flow of conscious and unconscious processes. In Jungian theory, the mind is like the crank on an old movie projector: As the crank of the unconscious turns, it's interior becomes known through the projection on the screen. Through the projections of the ego and the attitudes which you ascribe on the world, the unconscious becomes conscious. Similarly, synchronicity occurs when an underlying pattern makes itself known through chance, through co-incidents, revealing organizing principles that transcend simple cause/effect... chaos as the unconsciousness of temporal reality.
But that's pure abstraction. The snake we ride is beyond words and concepts; it's a cosmic thing. Kaydia knew right away what I meant; she knew it in her heart. She lives it, she digs it, she rolls with it. Attitude is the serpent's saddle and an open-mind is it's reins. Drugs help too if you're heir to The Lizard King. With or without "better living through chemistry", we're all first class passengers on the slithering wave. The question is: Do we resist? Or do we ride?
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