CallaEthropica
This is potentially a really stupid question, my apologies if that's the case (I hold my hands up as a novice), but I can't seem to find the answer no matter what search terms I use.
I've been chasing my tail on the Kabbalah/Tarot issue for a while now and I'm getting nothing but dizzy. I'm trying to "pin" the Tarot to my Tree of Life in a way that feels/looks right to me, having found no comfort with any of the well known methods. All of the history, the many debates on the subject - albeit very interesting in their own right - seem to take me further from any kind of resolution. Almost as soon as I started my research I discovered there would be no "correct" answer and, much further down the line now, I realise there will be no "perfect" answer either. In trying to find the most suitable compromise for my own purposes I've gotten thus far...
1) I have the three mother letters on the verticals of the middle pillar, such was my instinct before I knew any "better" and I just can't seem to shake it off. I had high hopes for Achad's restored tree because of it, but found I couldn't wholeheartedly embrace the rest of his design. Reading this forum also made me consider the mother letters on the three paths that join Keter, but I've filed that consideration away for the moment.
2) It seemed obvious to me that the seven double letters should go on the remaining verticals to make up the other two pillars and the horizontals between them.
3) The seven double letters were surprisingly easy to place when I looked at the planetary attributions (incidentally, I'm using the Sepher Yetzirah planetary order, which the Complete Magician's Tables finally sold me on)...but I'm finding the diagonals more troublesome.
My question is twofold, really: Can anyone point me in the direction of any similar trees/methods of attribution that it might help me to study and/or provide any inspiration/thoughts on how to proceed with the diagonals?
Um, or threefold: Am I missing something that makes all this totally "wrong" somehow, even just for my own purposes?
I've been chasing my tail on the Kabbalah/Tarot issue for a while now and I'm getting nothing but dizzy. I'm trying to "pin" the Tarot to my Tree of Life in a way that feels/looks right to me, having found no comfort with any of the well known methods. All of the history, the many debates on the subject - albeit very interesting in their own right - seem to take me further from any kind of resolution. Almost as soon as I started my research I discovered there would be no "correct" answer and, much further down the line now, I realise there will be no "perfect" answer either. In trying to find the most suitable compromise for my own purposes I've gotten thus far...
1) I have the three mother letters on the verticals of the middle pillar, such was my instinct before I knew any "better" and I just can't seem to shake it off. I had high hopes for Achad's restored tree because of it, but found I couldn't wholeheartedly embrace the rest of his design. Reading this forum also made me consider the mother letters on the three paths that join Keter, but I've filed that consideration away for the moment.
2) It seemed obvious to me that the seven double letters should go on the remaining verticals to make up the other two pillars and the horizontals between them.
3) The seven double letters were surprisingly easy to place when I looked at the planetary attributions (incidentally, I'm using the Sepher Yetzirah planetary order, which the Complete Magician's Tables finally sold me on)...but I'm finding the diagonals more troublesome.
My question is twofold, really: Can anyone point me in the direction of any similar trees/methods of attribution that it might help me to study and/or provide any inspiration/thoughts on how to proceed with the diagonals?
Um, or threefold: Am I missing something that makes all this totally "wrong" somehow, even just for my own purposes?