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I would like to make you all a proposal. Let’s play a game that, I believe, does not belong to the Tarot Games and Fun forum. I cannot imagine doing it with decks other then Marseilles, but that, I admit, is a personal limitation. So, feel free to tell me this thread doesn’t’ belong to this section.
It is about looking to Tarot in a “reversed” way…
I once called Le Bateleur something like “the great illusionist”, mostly because he stands for number one, and thus for unity, and I see this “unity” as being exactly what separates us from Wholeness. I will not explain it here again, but I tried to do it in this thread: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=28304
Lets look to those 22 Major Arcana as representing veils that obliterate reality from us, instead of considering them to be answers or solutions. Of course, once a veil is removed, you find an answer in the very spot, but the point of this “game” I suggest is to focus on the veil.
Now, try to see La Papesse presenting us Tarot as a book of veils. Who better than her? Having passed through Le Bateleur, we are already immersed in this world of delusion, and are ready to face and study veil after veil.
Our “quest” doesn’t have to follow any order. We can simply try to identify the veils (the illusions) every card presents us, and then discuss them or not.
I will point a veil, to begin with. Arcane VI, L’ Amoureux, presents us with several riddles, from the identification of the characters to the plural “hidden” in the French title, but I think that the true delusion is in that lovely Eros pointing his arrow to the lovers (or whatever they are). Human love is an illusion; the true romance is between each one of us, the lovers, and Love itself. The true romance in this card is between L’ Amoureux and Eros.
Could we discuss this?
Silvia
It is about looking to Tarot in a “reversed” way…
I once called Le Bateleur something like “the great illusionist”, mostly because he stands for number one, and thus for unity, and I see this “unity” as being exactly what separates us from Wholeness. I will not explain it here again, but I tried to do it in this thread: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=28304
Lets look to those 22 Major Arcana as representing veils that obliterate reality from us, instead of considering them to be answers or solutions. Of course, once a veil is removed, you find an answer in the very spot, but the point of this “game” I suggest is to focus on the veil.
Now, try to see La Papesse presenting us Tarot as a book of veils. Who better than her? Having passed through Le Bateleur, we are already immersed in this world of delusion, and are ready to face and study veil after veil.
Our “quest” doesn’t have to follow any order. We can simply try to identify the veils (the illusions) every card presents us, and then discuss them or not.
I will point a veil, to begin with. Arcane VI, L’ Amoureux, presents us with several riddles, from the identification of the characters to the plural “hidden” in the French title, but I think that the true delusion is in that lovely Eros pointing his arrow to the lovers (or whatever they are). Human love is an illusion; the true romance is between each one of us, the lovers, and Love itself. The true romance in this card is between L’ Amoureux and Eros.
Could we discuss this?
Silvia