Breakbeat_Mystic
BTW,
With respect to the Margaret Peeke book, I'm not sure what to make of it. It really didn't do a lot for me and the explanations of the explanations of how certain cards worked being bumped one letter down was diffuse even by occult standards.
One thing is she mentioned Papus enough to make me wonder if her beliefs really fit the Traditional Martinist Order's outlook - ie. I'd heard that there was a tendency for certain Martinist groups to distance themselves from some of his innovations. Margaret definitely treated the Fool in a literal manner and really explained it the way most in the GD would explain the Devil - ie. in the case of the Fool it's the slavery to matter with an astral dog of unseen consequence biting his leg. The whole spread of the cards is shown in an involutionary manner, this is also the first time that I've seen anyone address the Hangman as similarly hanging by a rope and being dangled in sin (I'm used to it being just the opposite).
She seemed to really meditate more heavily on the shapes of Arabic numerals and the letters of the paths more than anyone I've seen to date. She had Gemini in two places - zayin and qoph, Mars was placed in kaph and Saturn on resh, I'm at least glad she didn't start putting constellations on doubles or planets on singles however she mostly ignored word attribution (ie. ox for aleph, etc.) and focused a lot more on body part attributions, even forgoing the planetary and zodiacal data more often than not.
On one hand I just have to consider myself lucky that I'm trying to figure things like this out in 2013 and not 1913, not even just for the lack of internet when this stuff was really gaining speed in the late 19th and early 20th century but also for how much pre-packaged and bow-tied products with the most of the chaff sorted out are available online for $9.99 plus shipping and handling. Makes me realize just how fortunate we are but also makes me realize that getting spoiled can be a certain danger as well.
With respect to the Margaret Peeke book, I'm not sure what to make of it. It really didn't do a lot for me and the explanations of the explanations of how certain cards worked being bumped one letter down was diffuse even by occult standards.
One thing is she mentioned Papus enough to make me wonder if her beliefs really fit the Traditional Martinist Order's outlook - ie. I'd heard that there was a tendency for certain Martinist groups to distance themselves from some of his innovations. Margaret definitely treated the Fool in a literal manner and really explained it the way most in the GD would explain the Devil - ie. in the case of the Fool it's the slavery to matter with an astral dog of unseen consequence biting his leg. The whole spread of the cards is shown in an involutionary manner, this is also the first time that I've seen anyone address the Hangman as similarly hanging by a rope and being dangled in sin (I'm used to it being just the opposite).
She seemed to really meditate more heavily on the shapes of Arabic numerals and the letters of the paths more than anyone I've seen to date. She had Gemini in two places - zayin and qoph, Mars was placed in kaph and Saturn on resh, I'm at least glad she didn't start putting constellations on doubles or planets on singles however she mostly ignored word attribution (ie. ox for aleph, etc.) and focused a lot more on body part attributions, even forgoing the planetary and zodiacal data more often than not.
On one hand I just have to consider myself lucky that I'm trying to figure things like this out in 2013 and not 1913, not even just for the lack of internet when this stuff was really gaining speed in the late 19th and early 20th century but also for how much pre-packaged and bow-tied products with the most of the chaff sorted out are available online for $9.99 plus shipping and handling. Makes me realize just how fortunate we are but also makes me realize that getting spoiled can be a certain danger as well.