Cheiromancer
Am I alone in being unhappy with the existing system of correspondences between the major arcana and the signs of the zodiac, planets and elements? I suppose I should say systems, since there is Crowley's system in addition to the Golden Dawn's.
I remember how excited I was when I learned that Hebrew had 3 mother letters, 7 double letters and 12 single letters, corresponding nicely to the tree of life's 3 horizontal paths, 7 vertical paths and 12 diagonal paths. If you let Malkuth be earth, then the 3 could be fire, air and water, while the 7 are the classical planets and the 12 are the signs of the zodiac. Yet this is not how they are arranged on the standard trees.
I have cooked up one such arrangement, which also has a number of other interesting features. For instance each path representing a sign of the zodiac connects with the vertical path of its ruling planet (Cancer - Moon, Leo - Sun, Virgo and Gemini - Mercury, etc.). There is also a path from Malkuth that covers every path of the diagram (some paths more than once), hitting every sephira in reverse order (e.g. 7 is not touched until 8 and 9 are), going through the planets in the classical order (moon, mercury, venus, sun, etc.), and going through the signs of the zodiac in order (starting from Cancer). The path finishes at Malkuth after only 28 steps.
I can't post a picture right now, but if there is interest I'll try to get something up. In the meantime I would love to hear about alternative systems of correspondences that people know of, or have discovered on their own.
I remember how excited I was when I learned that Hebrew had 3 mother letters, 7 double letters and 12 single letters, corresponding nicely to the tree of life's 3 horizontal paths, 7 vertical paths and 12 diagonal paths. If you let Malkuth be earth, then the 3 could be fire, air and water, while the 7 are the classical planets and the 12 are the signs of the zodiac. Yet this is not how they are arranged on the standard trees.
I have cooked up one such arrangement, which also has a number of other interesting features. For instance each path representing a sign of the zodiac connects with the vertical path of its ruling planet (Cancer - Moon, Leo - Sun, Virgo and Gemini - Mercury, etc.). There is also a path from Malkuth that covers every path of the diagram (some paths more than once), hitting every sephira in reverse order (e.g. 7 is not touched until 8 and 9 are), going through the planets in the classical order (moon, mercury, venus, sun, etc.), and going through the signs of the zodiac in order (starting from Cancer). The path finishes at Malkuth after only 28 steps.
I can't post a picture right now, but if there is interest I'll try to get something up. In the meantime I would love to hear about alternative systems of correspondences that people know of, or have discovered on their own.