euripides
Anyankah said:Math is all about intuition, though maybe a simpler kind than what many people are thinking of when they think of intuition in tarot. What mathematicians do is (1) study the structure of things, (2) make leaps of intuition about new ways to put things together, and then (3) build a new structure (the proof) to make sure that their leap was correct and to explain it to other people.
Ooh nice, like it. I struggled with maths (we stick an 's' on it here in Oz) but did the double subject in final year (pure and applied)... didn't study. I started doing it by correspondence while at uni doing art, but realised that was really silly! I always see a beauty in maths - formulae for curves.... the patterns of numbers... yes, its wonderful stuff. My lids love patterns and numbers and we have the most exciting conversations about prime numbers and number lines and negatives - I just wish I HAD gone and done that correspondence maths - I hope I don't mess it up telling them the wrong thing.
Which has nothing to do with the relevance of math(s) to Tarot, which I thought was also interesting.
I sometimes think of Tarot images as being a bit like Icons: they are a sort of door to meaning, not really representing the thing itself but serving as a window, leading contemplation from the tangible to the intangible, from the physical to the spiritual plane.