Lee
One day a few months ago, as an exercise while waiting for a bus, I began going through all 36 cards in my mind to see if I could reduce each one to a basic energy pattern.
I got the idea of basic energy patterns from Stephen Arroyo, who in his Chart Interpretation Handbook presents basic energy patterns for planets and signs.
I'm not suggesting that these patterns could serve by themselves as meanings to be used in readings. But I was fascinated by how many cards could easily be reduced to such patterns.
For example:
Child: obviously a small, new pattern, perhaps visualized as a young solar system, with exuberant but uncontrolled energy and lots of potential.
Tower: a pattern that's established and set in its ways, and which influences other energies around it to follow its example, establishing a conforming and self-perpetuating behavior.
Fish: a liquid-like energy of no set pattern which shifts and exchanges itself easily. I imagine a bunch of balloons whose necks are attached, so that when you squeeze one balloon, the others grow correspondingly.
Again, I don't think this would work as one's sole basis for meanings, but it might be interesting to keep them in mind as sort of a hook to hang more particular meanings on.
One card that I couldn't come up with an energy pattern for was Letter, whose mundane meaning (text) seems inescapable.
I'd be curious to see what energy patterns we might come up with for the cards.
I got the idea of basic energy patterns from Stephen Arroyo, who in his Chart Interpretation Handbook presents basic energy patterns for planets and signs.
I'm not suggesting that these patterns could serve by themselves as meanings to be used in readings. But I was fascinated by how many cards could easily be reduced to such patterns.
For example:
Child: obviously a small, new pattern, perhaps visualized as a young solar system, with exuberant but uncontrolled energy and lots of potential.
Tower: a pattern that's established and set in its ways, and which influences other energies around it to follow its example, establishing a conforming and self-perpetuating behavior.
Fish: a liquid-like energy of no set pattern which shifts and exchanges itself easily. I imagine a bunch of balloons whose necks are attached, so that when you squeeze one balloon, the others grow correspondingly.
Again, I don't think this would work as one's sole basis for meanings, but it might be interesting to keep them in mind as sort of a hook to hang more particular meanings on.
One card that I couldn't come up with an energy pattern for was Letter, whose mundane meaning (text) seems inescapable.
I'd be curious to see what energy patterns we might come up with for the cards.