Tzadkiel
Hello everybody,
I'm from Germany so please excuse my bad English...
Sometimes when I think of drawing my own deck or colouring Dawson's "Hermetic Tarot" I wonder how to do it according to the Golden Dawn tradition. In Liber T there are no explicit informations and using the different scales (tree of life, zodiac, planet), one ends up with a lot of possibilities.
One could use the colour of the Sephirah in the special element or qabbalistic world (for example: amber = Netzach in Fire/Atziluth = Seven of Wands) as backround. Or one could use the colour of the sign (example: Seven of Wands = Leo = Yellow). If using the sign's colour, would you use the "general" colour (rose cross) or the special colour of that sign in the element or qabbalistic world the card is assigned to? What about the planet of the Decan - general colour or elemental scale?
According to Lon Milo DuQuette in his book on the Thoth Tarot, Frieda Harris tried to mix them ALL. By doing so you get 9 colours for each of the pips (plus the complementary ones if you like).
I think I'm a bit confused whether to put the emphasis on the Decan of each card (sign and planet) or more on the Sephirah on the Tree of Life?
So, what's my point? I would like to know if there is any information I might have missed somewhere out there, where there is a clear(er) instruction from the Golden Dawn (or later sources) on this subject?
I appreciate all of your information, thoughts or inspirations!
Tzadkiel
I'm from Germany so please excuse my bad English...
Sometimes when I think of drawing my own deck or colouring Dawson's "Hermetic Tarot" I wonder how to do it according to the Golden Dawn tradition. In Liber T there are no explicit informations and using the different scales (tree of life, zodiac, planet), one ends up with a lot of possibilities.
One could use the colour of the Sephirah in the special element or qabbalistic world (for example: amber = Netzach in Fire/Atziluth = Seven of Wands) as backround. Or one could use the colour of the sign (example: Seven of Wands = Leo = Yellow). If using the sign's colour, would you use the "general" colour (rose cross) or the special colour of that sign in the element or qabbalistic world the card is assigned to? What about the planet of the Decan - general colour or elemental scale?
According to Lon Milo DuQuette in his book on the Thoth Tarot, Frieda Harris tried to mix them ALL. By doing so you get 9 colours for each of the pips (plus the complementary ones if you like).
I think I'm a bit confused whether to put the emphasis on the Decan of each card (sign and planet) or more on the Sephirah on the Tree of Life?
So, what's my point? I would like to know if there is any information I might have missed somewhere out there, where there is a clear(er) instruction from the Golden Dawn (or later sources) on this subject?
I appreciate all of your information, thoughts or inspirations!
Tzadkiel