ravenest
Okay thanks ... (some of them may be better perceived after a purple haze )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFHPgoZlSWY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFHPgoZlSWY
It clicked for me when I stopped taking a divinatory approach to learning the cards. When Crowley talks about the Tarot cards as being living beings...well he wasn't joking around. For a while I just saw each card as a laundry list of attributions, for example, the Devil is attributed to the letter Ayin, the sign Capricorn, the path between Hod and Tiphareth...etc et. That got me no where. Liber 777 is really what helped me though, it helped me to sort of drag all of it together into one essential spirit or "personality" that defines the card. The Devil is the Devil and there are a range of meanings that it could have. It could refer to animal instincts or outright evil, or it could simply mean having a good time without care or having a good time at the expense of the concerns of others.
Each card is like a personality that will have different things to say at different times.