earthair
Here's my latest attempt...
I took a big deck and a mini deck, laid out the decans and zodiac as a blank chart.
Took mini deck, divided into 2 piles... 1) of 36 pips excluding Aces, and 2) of majors, aces and courts and Unicursal Hexagram. Shuffle well.
Started dealing out pile 2, when ever I got to a planet, node or Asc, I stopped and drew a corresponding card from pile 1 to tell me where to put it. Uprights= first 5 degs, reversals 2nd 5degs. That's why the minideck is off centre to the decan cards.
On the first deal through of pile 2, don't stop and find a place for any zodiac sign card. But keep them in order.
I used Fool as the Asc. When that appeared and was placed (outermost ring) I merely counted around to the opposite side and the next Ace to show up was placed as the Des. The next Ace to show up, I turned over a pile 1 card, got a 9, so placed the MC ace over the 9 Pents (as the only other 9 anywhere near a suitable placement was the 9 swords which was too low). Then the next (IC) Ace which showed up was placed opposite.
Whichever Court appeared first from each suit, were used for Ceres (pents/discs), Pallas (swords), Vesta (wands) Juno (cups), and a pile 1 card was used to place them, the rest were discarded. Yes the suit associations aren't great
Poor old Uranus, Neptune and Pluto aren't on Thoth, so when I try this with different decks, I would probably dump Ceres/Pallas/Juno/Vesta in favour of 'proper' planets+ Chiron and/or rework this bit totally and make more sense of the courts somehow...and it would be fun seeing Pluto in far off signs
Once the Asc was found, I took the maverick step of creating my own house system, by placing the remaining zodiac cards around the edge, starting at the Asc, in the order in which they appeared. [Hierophant card went walkabouts for a while so isn't in the photo where it should be
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Aeon= North node, purely because it shares the same shape
Hanged Man=South node because it's the opposite side if you place majors in a circle [tenuous I know!]
Chiron= Uni Hex [because of the wierd orbit shape]
I took a big deck and a mini deck, laid out the decans and zodiac as a blank chart.
Took mini deck, divided into 2 piles... 1) of 36 pips excluding Aces, and 2) of majors, aces and courts and Unicursal Hexagram. Shuffle well.
Started dealing out pile 2, when ever I got to a planet, node or Asc, I stopped and drew a corresponding card from pile 1 to tell me where to put it. Uprights= first 5 degs, reversals 2nd 5degs. That's why the minideck is off centre to the decan cards.
On the first deal through of pile 2, don't stop and find a place for any zodiac sign card. But keep them in order.
I used Fool as the Asc. When that appeared and was placed (outermost ring) I merely counted around to the opposite side and the next Ace to show up was placed as the Des. The next Ace to show up, I turned over a pile 1 card, got a 9, so placed the MC ace over the 9 Pents (as the only other 9 anywhere near a suitable placement was the 9 swords which was too low). Then the next (IC) Ace which showed up was placed opposite.
Whichever Court appeared first from each suit, were used for Ceres (pents/discs), Pallas (swords), Vesta (wands) Juno (cups), and a pile 1 card was used to place them, the rest were discarded. Yes the suit associations aren't great
Poor old Uranus, Neptune and Pluto aren't on Thoth, so when I try this with different decks, I would probably dump Ceres/Pallas/Juno/Vesta in favour of 'proper' planets+ Chiron and/or rework this bit totally and make more sense of the courts somehow...and it would be fun seeing Pluto in far off signs
Once the Asc was found, I took the maverick step of creating my own house system, by placing the remaining zodiac cards around the edge, starting at the Asc, in the order in which they appeared. [Hierophant card went walkabouts for a while so isn't in the photo where it should be
]Aeon= North node, purely because it shares the same shape
Hanged Man=South node because it's the opposite side if you place majors in a circle [tenuous I know!]
Chiron= Uni Hex [because of the wierd orbit shape]
No angst, just coming at it from a different angle.
