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[edit] ...can't edit the tilte: should be "Doing the math..." ...but "ding" is cool, too...
When I was in grade school and supposed to be doing my math problems, I would imagine the numbers as characters. That is maybe seven would be a sharp-headed bully picking on little round 3, defended by bigger round nine. I think it was mostly the shapes and amounts that I used to make stories when I should have been doing math!
That's my introduction. Hope you like it.
Now as I was recently struggling to understand how numerology factors into the generally accepted meanings of the 7s in tarot, I noticed that the pictures sometimes break down the set.
On the cards that kind of follow my understanding of 7, the items are broken up into 6 + 1:
six coins on a bush + one under the resting guy's feet and six staves fighting from below + 1 with the upper hand. This follows the grouping (maybe or maybe not the meaning) that I think of--six days + 1 Sabbath, six branches + 1 centerpiece.
On the cards that confuse me, the items are broken up differently: 5 stolen swords + 2 left and 4 cups on the bottom + 3 cups on top ( 4 on bottom might be dreamy with 3 on top as nightmares--not sure about that).
[edit]Actually, it looks like it might be 2+1 rather than 3 on the top row of items on 7 of Cups; same on the 8 of Cups.
In conclusion,
Probably the groupings just give a clue rather than dominate the meanings, but this is what I am percolating on...
Also 15 Devil is 1 + 5 = 6 (another side of the Lovers card 6) leads to 16 Tower as 1 + 6 = 7 (perhaps another side of the Chariot card 7?
When I was in grade school and supposed to be doing my math problems, I would imagine the numbers as characters. That is maybe seven would be a sharp-headed bully picking on little round 3, defended by bigger round nine. I think it was mostly the shapes and amounts that I used to make stories when I should have been doing math!
That's my introduction. Hope you like it.
Now as I was recently struggling to understand how numerology factors into the generally accepted meanings of the 7s in tarot, I noticed that the pictures sometimes break down the set.
On the cards that kind of follow my understanding of 7, the items are broken up into 6 + 1:
six coins on a bush + one under the resting guy's feet and six staves fighting from below + 1 with the upper hand. This follows the grouping (maybe or maybe not the meaning) that I think of--six days + 1 Sabbath, six branches + 1 centerpiece.
On the cards that confuse me, the items are broken up differently: 5 stolen swords + 2 left and 4 cups on the bottom + 3 cups on top ( 4 on bottom might be dreamy with 3 on top as nightmares--not sure about that).
[edit]Actually, it looks like it might be 2+1 rather than 3 on the top row of items on 7 of Cups; same on the 8 of Cups.
In conclusion,
Probably the groupings just give a clue rather than dominate the meanings, but this is what I am percolating on...
Also 15 Devil is 1 + 5 = 6 (another side of the Lovers card 6) leads to 16 Tower as 1 + 6 = 7 (perhaps another side of the Chariot card 7?