delinfrey
I've been playing around with Greer's books a little bit - love them to bits - and took out the Tarot Constellations to lay out some things with my new Wildwood.
Now I am superconfused.
So for those of you who have never done it, they are not exactly "spreads" in the sense that you don't randomise cards, but rather you calculate the cards based on either your birth dates or your name. I had great fun with finding out all my numbers, most of them in one constellation (makes sense), and then WHAAM! Life Potential Card is from a completely different place (and constellation) which does not appear anywhere else in this context, and is the Devil.
A shortened version of what Greer writes: "
...sums up both your name and birthdate
...shows your greatest potential, highest you may achieve
...represents the ultimate goal that you may achieve
...fulfill your destiny according to your soul purpose" (I have left out some text)
Okay, so how to interpret this? In general, Devil is seen as Obsession or Choice; creating something that starts to control you (Steampunk has a wonderful depiction of that by feeding the machine that in the end turns the humans slaves). Will it be that you are constantly "between two worlds", unable to choose either? The Wildwood I am playing with right now lists XV as the Guardian, facing our own fears and demons.
SO, as a Life Potential Card?? Is the highest that I could aim for... being obsessed about choice? This is so confusing.
PS - Practically all my other cards, name and birthdate, were in the Empress constellation, so either Empresses, Hanged Men or Worlds.
Now I am superconfused.
So for those of you who have never done it, they are not exactly "spreads" in the sense that you don't randomise cards, but rather you calculate the cards based on either your birth dates or your name. I had great fun with finding out all my numbers, most of them in one constellation (makes sense), and then WHAAM! Life Potential Card is from a completely different place (and constellation) which does not appear anywhere else in this context, and is the Devil.
A shortened version of what Greer writes: "
...sums up both your name and birthdate
...shows your greatest potential, highest you may achieve
...represents the ultimate goal that you may achieve
...fulfill your destiny according to your soul purpose" (I have left out some text)
Okay, so how to interpret this? In general, Devil is seen as Obsession or Choice; creating something that starts to control you (Steampunk has a wonderful depiction of that by feeding the machine that in the end turns the humans slaves). Will it be that you are constantly "between two worlds", unable to choose either? The Wildwood I am playing with right now lists XV as the Guardian, facing our own fears and demons.
SO, as a Life Potential Card?? Is the highest that I could aim for... being obsessed about choice? This is so confusing.
PS - Practically all my other cards, name and birthdate, were in the Empress constellation, so either Empresses, Hanged Men or Worlds.