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Aleph • Beit • Geemel • Dalet •
Hay • Vahv • Zaiyin • Chait • Tait
Yoad • Kaf • Lahmed • Mame • Nune •
Sahmek • Aiyin • Pay
Tzahday • Qoaf •
Raysh • S(h)een • Tahv
Chait
Spelling: chait yoad tahv
This letter is commonly interpreted as a gated enclosure, signifying
something being divided away. or collected together for the sake
of an owner or ruler. This implies discrimination between that
which is outside and that which is within. Chait also denotes the
gate itself, a passage to a new or vaster terrain, from within
a more constricted or protected place.
Some of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet are considered as though
they were formed from other letters. In the case of chait, a zaiyin
(on the left) is connected ‘above’ to a vahv (on the right). This
indicates a variety of concepts that are typified by the combination
of the qualities of these letters:
A family, created by the joining of the father and mother. This
becomes a container into which the blessings of each member are
reflectively magnified. The vahv represents the father or masculine
element, and the zaiyin ‘the valorous wife’. Together, they create
an inhabit a spiritual container — one formed entirely of agreement.
This agreement enlivens and supports the elemental unit of human
relation: the family.
‘Hovering over’ is a quality often ascribed to the relation of
parents with their children. In Genesis, we hear that the Spirit
of God ‘hovered over’ ‘the
face
of the
deep’. This is akin to a man hovering over a woman during procreation,
and also remiscent of an Eagle hovering over his or her children
in order to feed them without crushing or dividing them. The quality
here is again penetration from above, or bestowal from above. The
sense is of a gentle touch from above that is more a caress than
a laying upon.
‘Pulsation’ — a quality of expression that subsides
and returns to attraction. This interpretation implies a ‘back
and forth’ activation
of the letters vahv and zaiyin: vahv penetrates and withdraws,
zaiyin recieves and re-attracts. In this sense we can see a relationship
between chait and cycles, particularly those of the heart and lungs,
but also broader cycles such as birth and death. In each pulse
the universes of being are arise, are regenerated, and depart.
Each new cycle is the motion of growth.
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Family: Archetypal: A seed or primieval force from
which the existential and supernal are actualized. Existing outside
of space and time. The first 9 letters.
Archetypal: Chait
Existential: Pay
Supernal: (Pay-Sophit)
Position: The eight letter. The fourth of the ‘twelve
elementals’ or simples.
Common associations:
Primary Significations: A gated or fenced enclosure, indicative
of ownership. Sin, binding, error, or missing the target.
Secondary Significations: Demarcation or distinguishing.
Body: The right hand.
Power: Sight.
Sign: Cancer
Archetype / Tribe: Rueben
Element:
Path on the Tree of Life:
Traditional: Chesed / Tiphareth
Hermetic: Binah / Geburah.
Chait
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Hebrew:
Aleph • Beit • Geemel • Dalet • Hay • Vahv • Zaiyin • Chait • Tait
Yoad • Kaf • Lahmed • Mame • Nune • Sahmek • Aiyin • Pay
Tzahday • Qoaf • Raysh • S(h)een • Tahv
