La'al quiet fella
In using the appendices of the BoT, parts like the vital triads are beautiful arrangements offered by Al and quite straight forward in how to use them.
But I am really struggling with the triple trinity of the planets (page 285) and how they correspond to the deck, if they even do?
The deck does not have cards for Herschel or Neptune but Al says they rule 4 zodiac signs each (Kerubic, common and cardinal respectively).
777 gives 1 for primum mobile, but I could not find the other two.
As each sign has a ruling planet it is possible to assign cards by the planetary rulers within Herschel, Neptune or Primum Mobile.
As an example:
(page 285 BoT)
consciousness would have
Jupiter, Saturn and mercury as spiritual (all planetary rulers in the zodical signs of Neptune)
Sun as human
Moon as automatic
It seems a bit illogical to use a planet to assign zodiac signs to then assign planets, and only my pea brain has even suggested this.
Al says that Uranus and Neptune 'represent parts of man which are beyond time, or at least beyond the petty cycles which we usually mean by time' but doesn't give any card assignments for them.
Astrologically it makes sense as they are the further away, but it does not help in attributing cards to the triplicities he outlines.
Another option might be to use the cards representing the zodiac signs that the planet rules to identify the cards to represent Herschel, Neptune or Primum Mobile.
Keeping the same example, this gives:
The moon, the art card, the hermit as spiritual
Sun as human
Moon as automatic
Again, there is a logic to this but again, it seems convoluted as now we are using zodiac signs to identify planets. (again this is only thought up by my own pea brain).
Basically, what I was wandering was if anyone knows how the triplicates of the planets in the appendices of the BoT translate into the actual cards. (I am only assuming that they do because Al included this information in a book about the cards.)
But where the card attributions for the vital triads is self explanatory, I am struggling to assign cards for the triple trinity of the planets where Herschel and Neptune are listed.
I have very little knowledge of astrology outside of Al's writing on the subject, which he never completed, so I am sure I am just missing the obvious and was hoping someone more knowledgable here might be willing to unconfuse me?
thank you.
But I am really struggling with the triple trinity of the planets (page 285) and how they correspond to the deck, if they even do?
The deck does not have cards for Herschel or Neptune but Al says they rule 4 zodiac signs each (Kerubic, common and cardinal respectively).
777 gives 1 for primum mobile, but I could not find the other two.
As each sign has a ruling planet it is possible to assign cards by the planetary rulers within Herschel, Neptune or Primum Mobile.
As an example:
(page 285 BoT)
consciousness would have
Jupiter, Saturn and mercury as spiritual (all planetary rulers in the zodical signs of Neptune)
Sun as human
Moon as automatic
It seems a bit illogical to use a planet to assign zodiac signs to then assign planets, and only my pea brain has even suggested this.
Al says that Uranus and Neptune 'represent parts of man which are beyond time, or at least beyond the petty cycles which we usually mean by time' but doesn't give any card assignments for them.
Astrologically it makes sense as they are the further away, but it does not help in attributing cards to the triplicities he outlines.
Another option might be to use the cards representing the zodiac signs that the planet rules to identify the cards to represent Herschel, Neptune or Primum Mobile.
Keeping the same example, this gives:
The moon, the art card, the hermit as spiritual
Sun as human
Moon as automatic
Again, there is a logic to this but again, it seems convoluted as now we are using zodiac signs to identify planets. (again this is only thought up by my own pea brain).
Basically, what I was wandering was if anyone knows how the triplicates of the planets in the appendices of the BoT translate into the actual cards. (I am only assuming that they do because Al included this information in a book about the cards.)
But where the card attributions for the vital triads is self explanatory, I am struggling to assign cards for the triple trinity of the planets where Herschel and Neptune are listed.
I have very little knowledge of astrology outside of Al's writing on the subject, which he never completed, so I am sure I am just missing the obvious and was hoping someone more knowledgable here might be willing to unconfuse me?
thank you.