WalesWoman
Red Maple said:I think flexibility is good, but so is tradition. It grounds me to have this geography of correspondences and directions. ( Although, lately I've been switching the water to East and air to the West, since where I live the ocean is to the East. This doesn't seem to mess things up as radically as changing the elements with the suits, though.)
Geography too? I'm on the West coast, straits, a few more islands and Canada to the east and Pacific to the west. I'm glad I don't have to deal with directions for the elements, or is there something else I'm missing?
Don't tell me, next will be the seasonal correspondences...those can be a real riot. I think I've heard of every element/seasonal combinations there is and still haven't figured out which one to go with.
I think what I am going to do, whenever possible is ignore elemental correspondences with this deck...just read the cards. My mind is just not wanting to think about anything more complicated than what I will cook for dinner and that is a real stretch for the imagination... I must be having a *"man" moment. LOL I'm blaming the moon for brain drain.
* this is in reference to some discussion of the lack of water/emotion in the Emperor. (Basically when a woman asks a man what he's thinking and he says nothing...it is true. Honest, I read that in the book, "What you see is what you get" written by a man for women, so we would finally understand them) And David said so, his very own self. http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?p=425140#post425140