MikeTheAltarboy said:
On the contrary, Waite gives the exact Book T title as a definition for about half the pips (and all the wands), and for almost all the rest he gives a rewording of it as one.
Hi Mike, you are correct. For Fulgour's reading pleasure, I'll copy a few here so people can decide for themselves.
5 of Wands:
Book T: Lord of
Strife
PKT (Pictorial Key to the Tarot): A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or
strife.
7 of Wands:
Book T: Lord of
Valour
PKT: It is a card of
valour, for, on the surface, six are attacking one, who has, however, the vantage position.
8 of Cups:
Book T: Lord of
Abandoned Success
PKT: A man of dejected aspect is
deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, undertaking or previous concern.
2 of Cups:
Book T: Lord of
Love
PKT:
Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes, and--as a suggestion apart from all offices of divination--that desire which is not in Nature, but by which Nature is sanctified.
So, KK, you can see for yourself that there are what I would certainly call direct correlates to Book T.
-- Lee