Michael Sternbach
Hi Aeclectics,
This poll is an idea that I have been walking around with for a while and that was finally triggered by the new thread entitled "Justice and Strength".
http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=238321
If you have some spare time, please read my post #14 there for the background to this poll.
If you haven't, here is the short version:
As probably all moderately advanced Tarot lovers know, there is an endless debate whether the card Justice (or Adjustment for a "Thothie" like myself) is VIII and Strength (a.k.a. Lust) are supposed to be Trumps VIII and XI like i.e. in all the older decks - or vice versa, like in the Golden Dawn based decks, including the RWS and virtually all its derivatives.
There have been many speculations in support of either version, but some time ago, it occurred to me that a better approach to illuminating this issue might be to actually ask those people who have one of those cards as their Soul/Personality Card.
For those of you who don't know how to determine their Soul/Personality Cards, no worries - it's easy!
Simply add up the month, day and year of your birth, then calculate the summary until you arrive at a number no bigger than 22 (22 would be The Fool, imo, but this doesn't matter here).
For example, if your birth day happened to be the February 25 1970, the calculation would look like this: 2 + 25 + 1970 = 1997 = 1 + 9 + 9 + 7 = 26 = 2 + 6 = 8
So, those of you whose number is 8 (or 17, which further reduces to 8), please vote for the card which you think describes you better:
Justice (Adjustment) if you are rather the introspective, balanced and meditative type.
Strength (Lust) if you are more of an outgoing, powerful type who does know how to enjoy themselves.
Those of you whose number is 11, instead go to the other couple of options and do likewise.
You can actually also join this poll if your number is a different one, but there happens to be a number 8 and/or 11 amongst your close associates. But if you do vote for another person, please do so only if you know them really well!
Be free to tell us more about your experience of being a number 8 or 11 on this thread!
Thank you for joining this research project.
Michael
This poll is an idea that I have been walking around with for a while and that was finally triggered by the new thread entitled "Justice and Strength".
http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=238321
If you have some spare time, please read my post #14 there for the background to this poll.
If you haven't, here is the short version:
As probably all moderately advanced Tarot lovers know, there is an endless debate whether the card Justice (or Adjustment for a "Thothie" like myself) is VIII and Strength (a.k.a. Lust) are supposed to be Trumps VIII and XI like i.e. in all the older decks - or vice versa, like in the Golden Dawn based decks, including the RWS and virtually all its derivatives.
There have been many speculations in support of either version, but some time ago, it occurred to me that a better approach to illuminating this issue might be to actually ask those people who have one of those cards as their Soul/Personality Card.
For those of you who don't know how to determine their Soul/Personality Cards, no worries - it's easy!
Simply add up the month, day and year of your birth, then calculate the summary until you arrive at a number no bigger than 22 (22 would be The Fool, imo, but this doesn't matter here).
For example, if your birth day happened to be the February 25 1970, the calculation would look like this: 2 + 25 + 1970 = 1997 = 1 + 9 + 9 + 7 = 26 = 2 + 6 = 8
So, those of you whose number is 8 (or 17, which further reduces to 8), please vote for the card which you think describes you better:
Justice (Adjustment) if you are rather the introspective, balanced and meditative type.
Strength (Lust) if you are more of an outgoing, powerful type who does know how to enjoy themselves.
Those of you whose number is 11, instead go to the other couple of options and do likewise.
You can actually also join this poll if your number is a different one, but there happens to be a number 8 and/or 11 amongst your close associates. But if you do vote for another person, please do so only if you know them really well!
Be free to tell us more about your experience of being a number 8 or 11 on this thread!
Thank you for joining this research project.
Michael