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Upon advice to look at the colors in the RWS deck, I eventually concluded that the majority of the cards exist in pairs, which led to other issues.
The most obvious and significant pairs I have identified (going beyond simply colours to look for clues) and trying not to move cards too far from their normal sequence are:-
Fool and Magician - The flower - a weak connection.
Empress and High Priestess - Female
Emperor and Hierophant - Male - red garmets
Strength and Chariot - beasts - Sphinx = intelligent beast = dragon. Lion is alchemical purified form of dragon.
Justice and Wheel of Fortune - symmetrical artifacts - balance of two, balance of four
Temperance and Star - pouring of water using two vessels
Devil and Tower - black backgrounds (the most obvious pair in the RWS)
Sun and Moon - both astrological bodies - both in same position in the card - upper central, about the same size.
Leaving Death, Judgement, Lovers and The world
some other pairs - but far apart, are
World and Wheel - four beasts in the corners
Pillars - some have grey pillars either side - High Priestess and Hierophant
Justice, Moon
Only one (I think) has black and white pillars - High Priestess
Some have two very small pillars in t he background, with either rising sun or a mountain between - Temperance? can't remember - will have to go look.
Naked woman - Star and World
Woman in white with flowers headdress - Empress and Strength
The most obvious and significant pairs I have identified (going beyond simply colours to look for clues) and trying not to move cards too far from their normal sequence are:-
Fool and Magician - The flower - a weak connection.
Empress and High Priestess - Female
Emperor and Hierophant - Male - red garmets
Strength and Chariot - beasts - Sphinx = intelligent beast = dragon. Lion is alchemical purified form of dragon.
Justice and Wheel of Fortune - symmetrical artifacts - balance of two, balance of four
Temperance and Star - pouring of water using two vessels
Devil and Tower - black backgrounds (the most obvious pair in the RWS)
Sun and Moon - both astrological bodies - both in same position in the card - upper central, about the same size.
Leaving Death, Judgement, Lovers and The world
some other pairs - but far apart, are
World and Wheel - four beasts in the corners
Pillars - some have grey pillars either side - High Priestess and Hierophant
Justice, Moon
Only one (I think) has black and white pillars - High Priestess
Some have two very small pillars in t he background, with either rising sun or a mountain between - Temperance? can't remember - will have to go look.
Naked woman - Star and World
Woman in white with flowers headdress - Empress and Strength