Samedi
Hello everyone,
this is my first "real" post in this forum. It's a little longer and hope it's in the right subforum. If not I'd be happy to see it moved.
Some weeks ago my copy of the "Tarot of the Ages" arrived. There are a few aspects I really like on this deck, like the artwork and swords/air and pents/eath switching the cardinal directions (east vs. north) which feels "right" for me.
However, I don't get the astrological attributes of the majors at all. Unfortunaltely the LWB gives no source or even an explanation other than "the artist has followed the inspiration given to him by his Muse"
The Trumps are attributed as follows:
Magician (1) - Elemental Air
High Priestess (2) - Moon
Empress (3) - Mars
Emperor (4) - Sun
Hierophant (5) - Aries
Lovers (6) - Taurus
Chariot (7) - Gemini
Justice (8) - Cancer
Hermit (9) - Leo
Wheel (10) - Virgo
Strength (11) - Venus
Hanged Man - (12) Libra
Death (13) - Elemental Water
Temperance (14) - Scorpio
Devil (15) - Sagittarius
Tower (16) - Capricorn
Star (17) - Mercury
Moon (18) - Aquarius
Sun (19) - Pisces
Judgement (20) - Saturn
Fool (21) - Elemental Fire
Universe (22) - Jupiter
I am somewhat familiar with the Golden Dawn / Thoth attributes, and this feels completely "strange" to me, e.g. the Empress/Mars or the Hermit/Leo combination.
I don't want to just ignore it, though, because I like to at least try to understand the basic philosophy in a new deck, before I use it. The creator of this deck obviously had something in mind when he assigned signs and planets to the majors. But what?
Is there a system that I'm missing completely? Any ideas where the "inspirations from the Muse" came from? An older/different system that I'm unaware of?
I hope you can help me out here. I'm really glad about any ideas (other than "just ignore it").
Thanks for reading this long post!
Samedi
this is my first "real" post in this forum. It's a little longer and hope it's in the right subforum. If not I'd be happy to see it moved.
Some weeks ago my copy of the "Tarot of the Ages" arrived. There are a few aspects I really like on this deck, like the artwork and swords/air and pents/eath switching the cardinal directions (east vs. north) which feels "right" for me.
However, I don't get the astrological attributes of the majors at all. Unfortunaltely the LWB gives no source or even an explanation other than "the artist has followed the inspiration given to him by his Muse"
The Trumps are attributed as follows:
Magician (1) - Elemental Air
High Priestess (2) - Moon
Empress (3) - Mars
Emperor (4) - Sun
Hierophant (5) - Aries
Lovers (6) - Taurus
Chariot (7) - Gemini
Justice (8) - Cancer
Hermit (9) - Leo
Wheel (10) - Virgo
Strength (11) - Venus
Hanged Man - (12) Libra
Death (13) - Elemental Water
Temperance (14) - Scorpio
Devil (15) - Sagittarius
Tower (16) - Capricorn
Star (17) - Mercury
Moon (18) - Aquarius
Sun (19) - Pisces
Judgement (20) - Saturn
Fool (21) - Elemental Fire
Universe (22) - Jupiter
I am somewhat familiar with the Golden Dawn / Thoth attributes, and this feels completely "strange" to me, e.g. the Empress/Mars or the Hermit/Leo combination.
I don't want to just ignore it, though, because I like to at least try to understand the basic philosophy in a new deck, before I use it. The creator of this deck obviously had something in mind when he assigned signs and planets to the majors. But what?
Is there a system that I'm missing completely? Any ideas where the "inspirations from the Muse" came from? An older/different system that I'm unaware of?
I hope you can help me out here. I'm really glad about any ideas (other than "just ignore it").
Thanks for reading this long post!
Samedi