The Week of the Hierophant

It's Friday, and the time of the Hierophant is here. The Hierophant is an initiator - which means that the Hierophant is empowered to stage a drama which leads to learning. Learning - education, is theatre. It is far more than simply absorbing information. The whole theatre of learning is constructed to lead to moments of epiphany - singular moments, which through the struucture of the process catylize into something more than mere knowledge - they evoke wisdom.

For this to occur there has to be an emotional element involved in learning - there has to be investments, fears, desires, drama. The ancients knew that we learn more in such state of arousal and intensity than in any other context.

Look at a great teacher in your life - you will probably use the term "passionate" to describe them. Passion is what makes a teacher great, and passion is all drama.

The hierophant - for better or for worse is a dramatist of wisdom. A keeper of the traditions - a pope - a priest - an initiation. And sometimes they lie - and sometimes they play games.

Knowledge, of course, is largely a question of facts - is this true, is that true... but wisdom goes beyond knowledge. Wisdom deals with something that is beyond true and false - something to do with creativity itself - the great arcanum which lies behind the world order. Myth is deeper than knowledge.

The hierophant is here to show you how to access this - and they will trick you into it, if they have to.

You mission this week is to visit a temple. You don't have to worship, or pray - but visit a temple and appreciate it - appreciate the theatre and try to see how behind it all, there lies a path into wisdom.

This week, go looking for wisdom.