ManifestDestino
Hi, I've been doing lots of Tarot reading. I recently read a few things about the correspondences of Minor Arcana.
The Underground Stream By Christine Payne Towler and the Introduction to the Golden Dawn by Robert Wang state that the Minor Arcana have detailed sets of correspondences related to the Qaballah and Astrology, and should not be helped out with the adittion of pictures. Reading the Book of Thoth by Crowley and The golden Dawn by Regardie, these attributions are definitely made.
Wang points out in his book how very few people besides Crowley have written much about the deeper meanings of the Minor Arcana at all. He brings up how Waite added pictures to his deck and misrepresented the true esoteric attributions of the minor arcana in his deck. He explains this by saying how closely Waite was guarding the traditions and secrets of the Golden Dawn. Being a member of the Golden dawn himself, Waite obviously would have known these "true" esoteric attributions/correspondences.
In reading The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Waite, I can't help but laugh as Waite claims absolutely no real knowledge of the Minor Arcana having any other deeper meaning than that of plain old fortune telling. That's all it is.
I haven't read The Tarot by Paul Foster Case yet, but looking at the Table of Contents, all he discusses are the Major Arcana.
I am wondering if there is anything else on this someone can elaborate for me. Maybe some new information, that I'm not aware of.
Waite really went through the trouble of creating tarot deck without the esoteric correspondences he believed to be true because he took his oaths that seriously? Why create a deck at all if it isn't what he knew to be authentic?
I'm not by any means saying that these esoteric correspondences to the Minor Arcana made by the Golden Dawn are indeed the right ones. But it's rather frustrating that so many decks are considered classic, esoteric, and are all missing parts of their tradition, because they decided to keep it in code. (or are just based on Waite, and didn't know any better.)That's really the case?
So we can all do endless amounts of reading, and wonder if Waite was just protecting us from ourselves in the name of the Golden Dawn? Or did he not really know anything?
Anybody know anything more about this? Think anything about this? Have an opinion? I'd really like to discuss.
The Underground Stream By Christine Payne Towler and the Introduction to the Golden Dawn by Robert Wang state that the Minor Arcana have detailed sets of correspondences related to the Qaballah and Astrology, and should not be helped out with the adittion of pictures. Reading the Book of Thoth by Crowley and The golden Dawn by Regardie, these attributions are definitely made.
Wang points out in his book how very few people besides Crowley have written much about the deeper meanings of the Minor Arcana at all. He brings up how Waite added pictures to his deck and misrepresented the true esoteric attributions of the minor arcana in his deck. He explains this by saying how closely Waite was guarding the traditions and secrets of the Golden Dawn. Being a member of the Golden dawn himself, Waite obviously would have known these "true" esoteric attributions/correspondences.
In reading The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Waite, I can't help but laugh as Waite claims absolutely no real knowledge of the Minor Arcana having any other deeper meaning than that of plain old fortune telling. That's all it is.
I haven't read The Tarot by Paul Foster Case yet, but looking at the Table of Contents, all he discusses are the Major Arcana.
I am wondering if there is anything else on this someone can elaborate for me. Maybe some new information, that I'm not aware of.
Waite really went through the trouble of creating tarot deck without the esoteric correspondences he believed to be true because he took his oaths that seriously? Why create a deck at all if it isn't what he knew to be authentic?
I'm not by any means saying that these esoteric correspondences to the Minor Arcana made by the Golden Dawn are indeed the right ones. But it's rather frustrating that so many decks are considered classic, esoteric, and are all missing parts of their tradition, because they decided to keep it in code. (or are just based on Waite, and didn't know any better.)That's really the case?
So we can all do endless amounts of reading, and wonder if Waite was just protecting us from ourselves in the name of the Golden Dawn? Or did he not really know anything?
Anybody know anything more about this? Think anything about this? Have an opinion? I'd really like to discuss.