RAPTURE

Yantra explanation:

"As above, so below." 

Above, in the center is the Upper World. There is a keyed celestial door opposite the apostle St. Peter's Keys to Heaven. To Catholic's the two keys represent the Papal authority from God and opening the door to forgiving sins on Earth. This symbolizes the Solar Wheel and Male Powers. Three psychopomps of nature are also represented: the central queen bee, a dragonfly and a butterfly. The latter two insects are transformative in different ways, while the bee symbolizes the connection between earthly and spiritual realms as divine messengers representing community, teamwork, prosperity and fertility. This is a natural place of cyclic Light and growth, but is transitory. Home to physicality, clouds, the Sun and infinite other stars in a vast Universe.    

Below, in the center is the Lower World. This is an occult place of supernatural darkness, shadow and mystery. Home to metaphysicality and the unknown. This symbolizes the Lunar cycle and Female Powers. The background image here shows how the Left Hand Path crosses a bridge and goes right to an opening in the Dark Woods that leads to the Upper World. It also illustrates how the delicious intoxication of the Prairie Passion Mead of Inspiration (Awen) compliments orgasmic rapture (Deborah Harry with Blondie singing their 1980 #1 hit Rapture that introduced rap to mainstream audiences on MTV). Fertile honey mead drips into a womblike abyss. One of the female rulers of the Chthonic realm is the trimorph Greek Witch Goddess Hecate who monitors liminal spaces like crossroads and bridges. Her Sacred Circle holds crossed Keys and commands the Lunar Wheel. Her Keys open the Otherworld door to Death, as well as the Right Hand Path to the Upper World. Like Lucifer the Light Bringer, her Torch of Knowledge illuminates the Darkness.  

KEYWORD DIVINATION, two cards drawn.                              

Left is the Waite Smith 1909 deck Ace of Wands. Pamela Colman Smith has taken the original Tarot de Marseille squiggles of fire that originally surrounded a giant hand held wand and added green leaves instead. This is now the Fire of Life. Both cards are about birth, virility and creation. This card represents the energy and enthusiasm of creative or sexual beginnings.  

Right is the Waite Smith 1909 deck The Lovers. This card trumps the four temporal rulers: The High Priestess/Papesse, The Empress, The Emperor, and The Heirophant/Pope. In the Tarot de Marseille, there are three figures in a love triangle that represent choice and marriage. A. E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith go very Biblical with their version. We see Adam and Eve, The Tree of Life behind Adam with 12 fruits (not the Kabbalistic ten sephiroth), The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil behind Eve with the serpent and the axis mundi Holy Mountain. Above them is the angel Raphael with flaming hair. Here, love and sexual desire are the driving force that lead to divine love and heavenly rapture. The Sun (and all it means), shines above everything.