Death card: Amber Yellow

Fulgour

After doing a one-card reading where XIII Death was drawn
in answer to a question about a troubled relationship, I thought
since this card betokens transition and change, in many ways,
it might be likened to an Amber (yellow) traffic signal, with
Green and Red being the other two cards in this sequence.

Aleph = 1 The Magician
Mem = 13 Death
Shin = 21 The World

Aleph-Mem-Shin are the 1st, 13th, and 21st letters, and so
it is clearly evident that XIII Death is not Scorpio, but Water.
Here we see Air-Water-Fire as a unified triplicity, without
separation in the sense of overall significance. Traffic lights
work in a similar way, signalling GO "CAUTION" STOP.
Beginning, Middle, End. Action, Reaction, Completion.

XIII Death ~ Amber...?

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PS: Aleph=0 creates
this "unhappy" threesome...

0 The Fool
12 The Hanged Man
20 Judgement
 

Esme

Fulgour said:
Aleph-Mem-Shin are the 1st, 13th, and 21st letters, and so
it is clearly evident that XIII Death is not Scorpio, but Water.

Scorpio is a water sign, so it doesn't have to be mutually exlusive, does it?
 

Fulgour

"Where's Earth?" ANSWERED

XIII Death (Water) links to XIV Temperance (Scorpio).

I The Magician (Air) links to XVIII The Moon (Aquarius).

XXI The World (Fire) links to IX The Hermit (Leo).

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II The High Priestess (Moon) links to VI The Lovers (Taurus).
 

Esme

Thank you for clarfication. Not that understand that picture yet, but ... in a time.
:)
 

Draegyn

Fulgour said:
XIII Death (Water) links to XIV Temperance (Scorpio).

I The Magician (Air) links to XVIII The Moon (Aquarius).

XXI The World (Fire) links to IX The Hermit (Leo).

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II The High Priestess (Moon) links to VI The Lovers (Taurus).

I don't understand your reference.
I have always understood

Death is associated w/Scorpio - Temerance w/Sagittarius
The Magician is associated w/Gemini - The Moon w/Pisces
The World is associated w/Capricorn - The Hermit w/Virgo
The High Priestess w/Cancer - The Lovers w/Gemini

Please share your esoteric knowledge :)

D~
 

Fulgour

Draegyn said:
Please share your esoteric knowledge...
If you take all the most common attributions from the books,
which mostly only copy one another or are an author's repeats,
and then do this:

1=1 so begin Aleph=Magician (not The Fool)
2=2 so then Beth=The High Priestess (not The Magician)
3=3 so then Gimmel=The Empress (not The High Priestess)
4=4 so then Daleth=The Emperor (not The Empress)
ETC ETC ETC

Then you have a realistic view of the correspondences.

Did you expect the "books" to have all the answers...?
Isn't the study of TAROT about finding the TRUTH :)
Why follow copy cats who can't think for themselves?
The Golden Dawn was a bunch of silly old men in hats.
 

spiral

Then you have a realistic view of the correspondences.
That's one bold statement...

What you have is a *different* view of the correspondances.

If you take all the most common attributions from the books,
So you end up with what? An *averaged* set of correspondances? Doesn't sound terribly thorough to me.

Why follow copy cats who can't think for themselves?
The Golden Dawn was a bunch of silly old men in hats.
Uh-huh. Yeah, I kinda agree with the sentiment of finding one's own answers, but only a fool would dismiss the work of the GD out of hand. Besides which, one would be a much greater fool for taking your version of the correspondances over the whilst-not-totally-universal-but-largely-agreed-upon-and-very-heavily-researched-by-many-scholars correspondances used by the GD. I would never look to the GD for ultimate truth, but I'd put more stock in their word than yours. I think your statements are highly dismissive.
 

Fulgour

Books are NOT the best place to look= THINK

First, I went along with all the "scholarly" books
and learned... The Golden Dawn system. Yecch!
It was such a mess that I began thinking deeper.

Surprise! The Golden Dawn "system" is plain stupid,
because they equate 0 with 1, 1 with 2, 2 with 3...
how does that ever make sense? And why did they?

Simply because William Wescott thought 11 was evil,
and so he made Zero into One (not even Zero at all).
Does that solve anything, or just mess up the works!

It's Victorian Cabala by a bunch of half-wit Magicians.
 

PlatinumDove

Well, probably the reason why they equate 0 with 1 is because basic mathematics always puts 0 before 1. So, since The Fool is often given a 0, and the alphabet is not given a 0 letter, then it is logical to put the first progressive number with the first progressive letter.
 

Fulgour

A B C 1 2 3

ZERO arrived in Europe as a number in the 13th Century,
well before Le Tarot was being produced without a Zero.

"The Fool" is an unnumbered card: not the same as Zero.
Putting a Zero before the 1 to 21 plus The Fool sequence
is the kind of thing a meddling fusspot would find brilliant.

And it's not about "using" a Zero, it's replacing One with it!
Here's what your name would look like "spelled" that way:

QmbujovnEpwf = PlatinumDove