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I've returned to doing three-card daily draws using my recently created "Behavioral Architecture" spread, which is a ten-card layout that breaks down into three "daily cards" and a "wild card" random clarifier, with six "header" cards signifying the fixed personality qualities of my astrological Ascendant, Sun and Moon depicted in decan and court cards. I titled the three daily positions "My Focus Today," "My Power Today" and "My Mood Today."
Yesterday I got the Tower rx in the "Focus" position. This was the most puzzling card of the three, so I decided to use the "wild card" with it for interpretation. That card was the Hanged Man. The visual correlation between the two in the Gilded Tarot deck was quite striking.
I usually see the reversal of the Tower as showing its more "liberating" side rather than its destructive nature, since it looks like the falling figures will land on their feet and not their heads. When I placed the Hanged Man beneath the Tower rx, the now-upright figure in the Tower was almost a mirror image of the suspended figure in the Hanged Man. (See attachment.)
Lately I've been spending a lot of time thinking about ways to "open up" my reading in more creative ways (the idea of a "moving Significator" card is one example). This is in a formative stage right now that suggests the altered viewpoint of the Hanged Man waiting to be "brought to light." The Tower rx above it brings to mind the idea of "epiphany" or "enlightenment" related to the lightning bolt that we were discussing in another thread not long ago.
What emerged from this was a more fully-realized vision of a half-baked idea of mine to create a tarot spread for use with the Major Arcana that embodies the concept of "moving lines" as they exist in the I Ching, by which one hexagram (in this case, card combination) is changed into another by swapping yin and yang lines. In terms of cards, I've been reading the companion book for the DruidCraft Tarot that frequently talks about the relation of a trump card to its "numerological counterpart" (for example, Strength as 8 and the Star [1+7=8]). This is also expressed in the Voyager Tarot companion book. It's an old idea that I intend to use in a new way, not exactly as a "shadow" card but more as an "altered state" or "alternative reality" take on the original card. By changing a card into its "numerological counterpart," I could potentially create an oblique perspective on the original spread that could be revealing.
Anyway, I'm thinking that this scenario is rather neatly summarized by the visual coherence between the postures of the two figures in the Gilded Tarot Tower rx and the Hanged Man.
Yesterday I got the Tower rx in the "Focus" position. This was the most puzzling card of the three, so I decided to use the "wild card" with it for interpretation. That card was the Hanged Man. The visual correlation between the two in the Gilded Tarot deck was quite striking.
I usually see the reversal of the Tower as showing its more "liberating" side rather than its destructive nature, since it looks like the falling figures will land on their feet and not their heads. When I placed the Hanged Man beneath the Tower rx, the now-upright figure in the Tower was almost a mirror image of the suspended figure in the Hanged Man. (See attachment.)
Lately I've been spending a lot of time thinking about ways to "open up" my reading in more creative ways (the idea of a "moving Significator" card is one example). This is in a formative stage right now that suggests the altered viewpoint of the Hanged Man waiting to be "brought to light." The Tower rx above it brings to mind the idea of "epiphany" or "enlightenment" related to the lightning bolt that we were discussing in another thread not long ago.
What emerged from this was a more fully-realized vision of a half-baked idea of mine to create a tarot spread for use with the Major Arcana that embodies the concept of "moving lines" as they exist in the I Ching, by which one hexagram (in this case, card combination) is changed into another by swapping yin and yang lines. In terms of cards, I've been reading the companion book for the DruidCraft Tarot that frequently talks about the relation of a trump card to its "numerological counterpart" (for example, Strength as 8 and the Star [1+7=8]). This is also expressed in the Voyager Tarot companion book. It's an old idea that I intend to use in a new way, not exactly as a "shadow" card but more as an "altered state" or "alternative reality" take on the original card. By changing a card into its "numerological counterpart," I could potentially create an oblique perspective on the original spread that could be revealing.
Anyway, I'm thinking that this scenario is rather neatly summarized by the visual coherence between the postures of the two figures in the Gilded Tarot Tower rx and the Hanged Man.