Leave it to Grant to draw my attention back to the Temple again with a topic that I spend considerable time pondering on. I believe the approach here is to discard references to runes, the Greek letters etc and view the English letters from their cultural meanings. For we do apply meanings to them. It is just a matter of looking at them from a general enough perspective to see it. That is to say, "F=failure, X=mystery" is the approach to take, and one I've pondered on. Just haven't actually written enough notes on. But that's what the 'lith is good for, eh? Here's a start:
A 1, the best, the highest, Aleph. More esotericly, see Aleph references as they directly apply. I as repect to Divinity rather than the I of the self.
B 2, second best, imperfect, "B-movies", Good but not great. More esotericly, Being - To Be. If 1 has references to God, unity and the I, then "1 2" is God saying "I Am". AB = Alphabet, Alpha Beta. Thus, B is the second side of the prime duality, where A is the perespective from within and B "The Other". A is the source, B the manifestation.
C 3. Average grade. Unremarkable. See. The shape suggests openness, and thus perception. Classic associations with 3, though here the direct numerical references stop. Modern people don't associate numbers to letters beyond ABC, which I find interesting in of itself.
D Below average grade. Sense of negativity, Devil, Down, Dog. Home of the Horned God, master of the physical or baser world.
E Excess. Higher powers. Too much. Overwhelming energy.
F Failing grade. Where D is cthonic but still positive, F carries negative or even baser connocations. The F Word. Abuse, irresponsibility, mismanagement.
G Gebo rings strongly here still. Gift, Generosity, Gregariousness.
H Help. Ehwaz. H is seldom anything much on its own, more often paired with other letters. Th, gh, wh. Assistance, partnership.
I singuality, but of the self. The personal I, rather than the impersonal and numeric singulaity in A. The aspects of personal will in Isa of the runes, but without the references to ice, though ideas of stagnations can still be applied through excessive focus on the self.
J Hook. J-walk. A sudden turn, unexpectd. Crooked. Criminal.
K oK. King. Masculinity, and the stability of Chesed.
L Love, Life, sensuality. Laguz.
M Mmmmm.... Sensual pleasure, the physical world. Mother, Money, Malchuth.
N No. Negation, negativity, denial.
O Openness. The circle. The cry of ecstacy, being filled to transpersonal experience. Release of boundries and experience of the great Zero, the void. Meditation. OM - O is the opening and releasing into the void, M the return to physical and endings. The AU in the AUM formulae.
P Power, Peek, Put, Park, Police, Person. I have a sense of directed will, the hand which causes manifestation, the action, and control. Gebura.
Q The unknowable. Where X is the mystery veiled, Q is the mystery beyond understanding, beyond reach. The impersonal mystery. Question. It must always be paired with "U", save when used in literature to name something alien. the pairing with "U" tames alien, gives it a reference where otherwise it remains outside our understanding and thus indicates the danger of that which is beyond our control.
R Are. Past tense of Being, reference to the past, and thus continuation of motion into the present and future. For Are is not so much past but singifying of what we have been and still Are. From this I draw some reference to the motion in Raido, but more of a temporal sense.
S serpents, twisting, uncertainty, danger around the bend. The meaning is in the shape. Strongest reference to Serpents.
T Tau. The cross. Support. The word is the shape. T is one thing built upon another, the sacrifice that allows another to become more.
U You. As B is to A, U is to I. The personal other, where B is the impersonal and abstract Other.
V Victory, success, balance and influence of 5 and the pentacle brings about the tribal happiness indicated in Wunjo, as victory on a cultural level brings about peace, another use of V as a finger sign.
W Who, What, When, Where, Why, hoW? W is in every question. For its nature is in the Wind, and the air element of speech. W is in asking, but more esotericly is liked to Air for deeper references.
X The unknown. Variable. X marks the spot. Planet X. X rated. X is forbidden, taboo, as culturally we fear the cthonic and undefined.
Y Why? Visuallty, the joining of two forces, or the choice of two paths. Y is causality, the way that one thing leads to another. Yes. Allowing one to continue, as one event allows the occurrance of the next.
Z Endings. Omega. Sleep, as reference to death and thus end. Names beginning with Z have an alien ring to them containing myetery elements, drawing from the cultural fear of death.
For some I find the older greek and runic references still hold strongly, but that is to be expected. In others, modern cultural meanings have overridden the traditional, as it should be. Anyway, quick brain storm there on my impressions of each. Add data from your own impressions to round these out and we might just get somewhere with it. |
