The Descent to Not
Not
We have removed everything. There is nothing left. We have reached the bottom. This is the end of the Descent to Not. This is the basis - the floor of Actuality. One cannot go any further in this direction. Having achieved Not in this way, all obstacles (and anything and everything else, for that matter), have now been completely removed and we can now rest in this pure and perfect state of [no thing]. Now that who we are has been completely forgotten (removed, etc.), we can exist in a state of non-being before deciding to intentionally Ascend from Not again to reevaluate the question of Who.
Descent 0
Not
Key 0 describes Not, which is the complete and absolute absence of everything. In the top-left corner is the AON symbol for Not: an inverted full solar eclipse. The presence of the symbol indicates that Not is part of the Self Well Arcana. This card depicts pure and perfect Darkness, but it is important to understand that inherent in this perfect Darkness which is achieved through the removal of all Light, is also pure and perfect Coldness which is achieved through the removal of all Warmth, the pure and perfect Stasis which is achieved through the removal of all Activity and the pure, perfect and absolute Emptiness which is achieved through the removal of all Presence. Not is the bottom. There is nothing deeper.
As such, despite not being extant, Not is nonetheless the basis for everything. Not is the deepest and most fundamental truth of Actuality. Beneath the most basic fundamental aspects of Reality itself is the Actuality of pure nothingness. This pure and perfect lack of everything cannot exist. Thus, in addition to Not being absolute, it also represents a perfect paradox. We see that Not exists when we remove everything, but this state of Actuality cannot exist. But that mind-bending paradox aside, if Not could exist, because we are Warm, Light, Active Presence, we could never know that Not existed. We can never experience Not.
Guided Meditation
Not
Not
Purity. Perfection. Truth.
Meditating on absolute nothingness gives us a chance to experience (period). That's it. Just actual experience. With the Not card we can ponder the actuality of a "floor" to existence. We can ponder this “canvas” on which everything in Reality (the paint which is All (Key 1)) “rests.” We can run to ground all the problems we see in the World or the Self and realize that there truly are some certainties in existence and that of these certainties, Not itself is the most fundamental.
Not cannot be argued or denied.
Not is pure.
Not is perfection.
Not is absolute.
Not is the deepest truth.
Not will always be.