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jennatar said, (223 days ago)
I like variations on the Star card (major arcana), because the whole one foot on ground, one foot in water, balance, pouring stuff out. Erm.
blahblah said, (223 days ago)
card number 12 The Hanging Man. The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure -- from the position of the legs -- forms a fylfot cross. There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It should be noted (1) that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; (2) that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; (3) that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension, but life and not death. [...] It has been called falsely a card of martyrdom, a card a of prudence, a card of the Great Work, a card of duty [...] I will say very simply on my own part that it expresses the relation, in one of its aspects, between the Divine and the UniverseHe who can understand that the story of his higher nature is imbedded [sic] in this symbolism will receive intimations concerning a great awakening that is possible, and will know that after the sacred Mystery of Death there is a glorious Mystery of Resurrection.
blahblah said, (223 days ago)
that from wiki.....Waite ideas....
I just have always been fond of this card and can tell you why other than that I just know.........when I have had readings done it comes up a lot...
jennatar said, (223 days ago)
I also like the four beasts of the apocalypse in the Wheel of Fortune card (http://www.crystalinks.com/wheelfortune.gif). But if you replace the sacrificial bull of the Wheel of Fortune card with instead a sacrificial lamb or goat, you're actually left with the four creatures from the Book of Kells (http://www.emmedici.com/journeys/eire/storia/kellslarge.jpg). Each of these four creatures represents, not only each of the four Gospels, but also the four aspects of Christ's life (Christ as Man, Christ as Sacrifice, Christ as King, a fourth thing?). So, uh, that's weird.
The HIGHrophant said, (223 days ago)
I think that it represents all cycles of four at that point. The four elements, Wilhelm Reich's four stages of energy (tension, charge, discharge, relaxation), the four noble truths ; and those cycles all represent each other.
The HIGHrophant said, (223 days ago)
also the tetragrammaton YHWH -- That tells me that God is more a movement than any anthropormophic being. But that is just one representation, and one person's interpretation.
Britt said, (223 days ago)
Whoa... I used that set of tarot cards to make ones featuring my friends. That one up there is my friend Sonia, haha.
strangerbox said, (222 days ago)
i like the Tower card in the Book of Thoth deck, and the Star card in the Robin Wood deck.
jennatar said, (222 days ago)
I gave my Thoth deck to someone else, but I remember my deck came with *three* Magician cards. And you could use the deck with whichever card that spoke to you most. Is that the norm with Thoth? Which Magician card did you use with it?
The HIGHrophant said, (221 days ago)
I oddly enough prefer the Waite deck, for all my Aleister Crowley love -- I'm not much on divination and the waite deck seems to have the more clear symbols.
jennatar said, (221 days ago)
I've heard, in the time since, that my reaction wasn't uncommon: the Thoth deck was blisteringly accurate, in a way that seemed clear and cruel. I actually couldn't take it. I like my decks flakier and hippier and open to interpretation.
The HIGHrophant said, (221 days ago)
I like the psychodrama aspect of the tarot. Like I can take those pictures and talk to the characters in them, and maybe pull out a bit of myself.
Superion said, (221 days ago)
The Fool is god.
/or so I read once.
//and that's what the interwebs told me I was.
The HIGHrophant said, (221 days ago)
Of the greater arcana -- and in fact even the lesser arcana -- it's all different faces of the same thing in the end. It might not be easy for us to think about, but think of it this way... how many points of view do you get on a single sentence every day in the news?
strangerbox said, (219 days ago)
@jennatar: wow, i love the Thoth deck. but yeah, actually i really don't know how to use it either.
The HIGHrophant said, (219 days ago)
I think it does include the main qabalistic correspondences for each card. I used to have one called "Hermetic Tarot" and it was all in black and white. The pictures on that one were totally fucked up and wierd. At least as much as Thoth.
The HIGHrophant said, (218 days ago)
Holy shit dude -- I just saw the Devil's Advocate -- I saw in succession three cards in that movie. The Devil, The Tower, and The Star. The Devil in his rise and subsequent marriage to wealth (and imprisonment by it), The Tower in the systematic destruction of everything familiar in his life, and The Star in the end, when he ends his "life" and goes back and loses his first case.
card number 5, the Heirophant. I think he represents someone who's power is unquestionable -- no longer having to go to the lengths of the emperor to prove it, or the lengths of the magician to gain it.