Anna
I'm working my way through the minors.
I have studied the numbers and written about what they mean to me and I have studied the suits, particularly from an elemental perspective, and I am beginning to put the two things together to come up with my own meanings for each of the minors.
I'm getting on well with swords, coins and cups, but struggling with the batons.
The Ace de Bastons - a firey number in a firey element, do you just end up with a raging inferno?
The 2 of Batons, I see arguments and discontent. I am struggling to see how a peacful watery number that seeks to find balance can be even remotly confortable within a firey element that calls for action. Wouldn't the 2 just get consumed by flames, or the flames be put out altogether?
And so it goes on. I don't seem to be finding any baton minors that have positive meanings!
So I pause to wonder why, and I turn to my Marseille friends to ask for insight about the element of fire and the suit of bastons before I go any further!
I should mention that I have a terror of fire that is of phobic proportions! I won't go outside the door on bonfire night (an english holiday where we have fireworks and bonfires), if there is fire on the television I run screaming from the room! I won't even light candles. This didn't effect my understanding of the minors in other decks, because I relied heavily on the pictures. But as I work with elements and numbers as well as pictures, my fear is making things difficult!
Can you help me to see how fire might react positivly with the numbers?
I have studied the numbers and written about what they mean to me and I have studied the suits, particularly from an elemental perspective, and I am beginning to put the two things together to come up with my own meanings for each of the minors.
I'm getting on well with swords, coins and cups, but struggling with the batons.
The Ace de Bastons - a firey number in a firey element, do you just end up with a raging inferno?
The 2 of Batons, I see arguments and discontent. I am struggling to see how a peacful watery number that seeks to find balance can be even remotly confortable within a firey element that calls for action. Wouldn't the 2 just get consumed by flames, or the flames be put out altogether?
And so it goes on. I don't seem to be finding any baton minors that have positive meanings!
So I pause to wonder why, and I turn to my Marseille friends to ask for insight about the element of fire and the suit of bastons before I go any further!
I should mention that I have a terror of fire that is of phobic proportions! I won't go outside the door on bonfire night (an english holiday where we have fireworks and bonfires), if there is fire on the television I run screaming from the room! I won't even light candles. This didn't effect my understanding of the minors in other decks, because I relied heavily on the pictures. But as I work with elements and numbers as well as pictures, my fear is making things difficult!
Can you help me to see how fire might react positivly with the numbers?