novenovembre
Years ago, a friend came to visit me from Israel, and she asked me what I wanted her to bring me froom there. I had just started getting into tarot, and asked her for an Israeli tarot deck. She didn't know anything about tarot, so she bought what they advised her in the shop, the Tarot of the Sephirot. I didn't like the deck, it was reminescent of the Crowley, which I had always found a bit sinister, but even more so....I never used it, but kept it because it was a present. The other day I was showing it to a friend who studies exoteric science, and I was shocked when he told me that in the cards there was a lot of black magic symbolism. In particular, here's some of the main things he noticed :
This was the biggest detail : the Wheel of Fortune turns clockwise, whereas it is supposed to turn anti-clockwise, as in the RW.
The emperor looks like the Devil, he wears a red cloak and has horns-a capricorn's head, or something more sinister ...?
In the Star, there's a naked woman looking into a pool of water, and you see her image reflected, so that you see her image upside down.
Temperance is pouring two vases both of which seem to contain water into a third....if it's supposed to be alchemy, it doesn't work like that anyway; it works as in the RW, you pour one element into the other, not in a third container, to avoid contamination. Also, underneath Temperance, there are what look very clearly like the flames of hell.
I became curious, and for the first time, I read the booklet that came with the deck....the explanation of the Devil, which shows, in its own words, " a jolly devil with two naked human supplicants ", the divinatory meaning goes : " informed commitment, choice, perceptiveness, ironic wisdom. Having a sense of humour, being able to see the spiritual truth behind the facade of appearences.
Well....has anybody got any knowledge to comment on this ?
Thank you....
This was the biggest detail : the Wheel of Fortune turns clockwise, whereas it is supposed to turn anti-clockwise, as in the RW.
The emperor looks like the Devil, he wears a red cloak and has horns-a capricorn's head, or something more sinister ...?
In the Star, there's a naked woman looking into a pool of water, and you see her image reflected, so that you see her image upside down.
Temperance is pouring two vases both of which seem to contain water into a third....if it's supposed to be alchemy, it doesn't work like that anyway; it works as in the RW, you pour one element into the other, not in a third container, to avoid contamination. Also, underneath Temperance, there are what look very clearly like the flames of hell.
I became curious, and for the first time, I read the booklet that came with the deck....the explanation of the Devil, which shows, in its own words, " a jolly devil with two naked human supplicants ", the divinatory meaning goes : " informed commitment, choice, perceptiveness, ironic wisdom. Having a sense of humour, being able to see the spiritual truth behind the facade of appearences.
Well....has anybody got any knowledge to comment on this ?
Thank you....