DoctorArcanus
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At this link you can see the three draft images I have produced. Since I don't have a scanner, I just took pictures of them...they are not great reproductions but the original are also very rough, for the time beeing
I have recently read, with great pleasure, the Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley. I liked many things of the book and of the deck it describes.
The fact that the minors are labeled with simple keywords reminded me of Renaissance and Baroque Emblems, allegorical images that illustrate abstract concepts. The Liber T deck by Negrini and Serio, which is based on Thoth, also follows this idea: the minors feature emblematic images that represent both the astrological image of the relevant decan and the abstract concept associated with the card.
Reading Crowley, I also discovered Geomancy. That was an amazing discovery for me. I am intrigued by the 16 Geomantic figures, their meaning and the process by which they are created.
So I am thinking of a “neoclassical” Thoth-based Tarot in which:
* The majors are classical gods
* The minors are allegories
* Each court card contains the corresponding Geomantic figure
I have created these three cards using watercolors and a simple graphical format from an XVIII century deck I found on Kaplan I (p.146). The Magus is a Mercury from Cartari “Imagines Deorum”. The 6 of swords, Science, is the allegory of Mathematics from the Iconologia by Cesare Ripa. The Queen of Cups is from the Sola Busca deck. This Queen is too ancient to fit well with the other images. I think I could use Mitelli's court cards instead. The great Mitelli deck is very classical: for instance his Sun card is a beautiful Apollo.
The images I am using are ancient engravings. I would like to use a limited number of sources, but we will see.
It could be difficult to find appropriate gods for all the majors, and possibly also finding images for a few of the minors could be difficult. But that is going to be fun
I am curious to see if I will keep working on this idea...it could be a new way of studying the subjects I am interested in...
I would appreciate any feedback or ideas.
Marco
At this link you can see the three draft images I have produced. Since I don't have a scanner, I just took pictures of them...they are not great reproductions but the original are also very rough, for the time beeing
I have recently read, with great pleasure, the Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley. I liked many things of the book and of the deck it describes.
The fact that the minors are labeled with simple keywords reminded me of Renaissance and Baroque Emblems, allegorical images that illustrate abstract concepts. The Liber T deck by Negrini and Serio, which is based on Thoth, also follows this idea: the minors feature emblematic images that represent both the astrological image of the relevant decan and the abstract concept associated with the card.
Reading Crowley, I also discovered Geomancy. That was an amazing discovery for me. I am intrigued by the 16 Geomantic figures, their meaning and the process by which they are created.
So I am thinking of a “neoclassical” Thoth-based Tarot in which:
* The majors are classical gods
* The minors are allegories
* Each court card contains the corresponding Geomantic figure
I have created these three cards using watercolors and a simple graphical format from an XVIII century deck I found on Kaplan I (p.146). The Magus is a Mercury from Cartari “Imagines Deorum”. The 6 of swords, Science, is the allegory of Mathematics from the Iconologia by Cesare Ripa. The Queen of Cups is from the Sola Busca deck. This Queen is too ancient to fit well with the other images. I think I could use Mitelli's court cards instead. The great Mitelli deck is very classical: for instance his Sun card is a beautiful Apollo.
The images I am using are ancient engravings. I would like to use a limited number of sources, but we will see.
It could be difficult to find appropriate gods for all the majors, and possibly also finding images for a few of the minors could be difficult. But that is going to be fun
I am curious to see if I will keep working on this idea...it could be a new way of studying the subjects I am interested in...
I would appreciate any feedback or ideas.
Marco
