Card #200 – Blind Ego

Acting from blind ego. The mind and ego often form an unholy alliance and dominate the decision-making process leading to incompetent action and blind-sided consequences. Deepest intuition needs to be in the ruling position while mind and ego are like its ministers, its skillful assistants. The positive aspect is that this may be a propitious time to work on that.

See A Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional Traveler on the hierarchy of psychic functions. Here are a couple of excerpts:

In most I Ching hexagrams the fifth line is the ruler and the fourth line is the minister. This structure contains the secret of how to work with the ego and mind so that they become powerful allies instead of adversaries. In the place of the ruler in our psyche should be our higher self and global intuition…

With your True Will and global intuition in the ruling place in your psyche, you can then appoint your mind and ego as ministers that follow the ruler and work as helpful subordinates. In this place ego and mind can, among other functions, act as skillful intermediaries between the aims of your true will and the outside world. It is only when the mind and ego are foolishly promoted above their capabilities into the ruling position that they work at cross-purposes and undermine everything we do. And yes, they can be foolishly ambitious in the way of the Peter Principle to rise to their level of incompetence. The unenlightened ego thinks it should be in charge. The goal is to develop a more conscious, evolved ego that knows its place.

See the Zap Oracle card “Blindspots”

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