Keyboard Major Arcana

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 21 Jan 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Arnnaria	21 Jan 2005
So, what do all the little symbols on our keyboards correspond to in the Major arcana. For example: * The Star ! The Magician ? The High Priestess = Temperance $ The Devil etc. Let's see if we can figure them all out!

huredriel	21 Jan 2005
& Temperance

April	21 Jan 2005
@ The Wheel of Fortune or The Chariot - I'm torn. . Death (that made me laugh)

Sunburst	21 Jan 2005
^ Tower ) Moon * Sun

Sophie-David	21 Jan 2005
This is fun. I accepted Arnnaria's starting symbols and added these: / Fool (about to fall off the cliff) ! Magician (ta, da!) ? High Priestess (the mystery guest) + Empress (abundance, increase, and somewhat like female symbol) - Emperor (counterpart to Empress, also a horizontal ruler) ^ Hierophant (bishop's mitre) " Lovers (two intimate souls) % Chariot (see the wheels?) : Strength (as above, so below) ' Hermit (one lone soul) # Wheel of Fortune (see the spokes? also, playing the numbers) ~ Justice (weighing or balancing the truth) . Hanged Man (came to a full stop, or a period of rest) _ Death (firmly horizontal, on the ground) = Temperance (balance, combination) $ Devil (living in a material world) | Tower (tall and vertical) * Star (that's what is called, asterisk in Latin) ( Moon (crescent) @ Sun (a radiant encircling blur) \ Judgement (rising from the grave) & World (integration, "and" everything...)

Arnnaria	21 Jan 2005
Sophie you streamrolled all of them! Heh.

Sophie-David	21 Jan 2005
I like playing with symbols! But there's lots of room for other interpretations... Cheers David

Phaedra	21 Jan 2005
How delightful -- what a great shorthand to use when typing out readings!

cSpaceDiva	22 Jan 2005
)o( High Priestess [*] Hermit

Kit	22 Jan 2005
, the hanged man or maybe ... (leaves us hanging) This is fun! :D

Kit	22 Jan 2005
Temperance could be more of a ~ (flowing)

kryztyna	22 Jan 2005
% - the fool

lunalafey	22 Jan 2005
This is good! but some personal changes.... = is Justice; it's an equal sign and that, to me relates to balance. If you use scales to weigh an item, you need to counter weigh it to find what it's 'value' is. With that I would make - into Temprance. the hyphen is used for blending two individual words into one word. there are few others I'm thinking about...

AmyV	22 Jan 2005
cSpaceDiva wrote: )o( High Priestess [*] Hermit That's really cool! * Has anyone noticed that the star on the keyboard is on number eight - ie 17 -> 1+7 -> 8? Kinda funky..... * BTW just finished The Da Vinci Code (brilliant!!!) and apparently ^ is an old symbol for the male principle - so The Magician.....? And how about # for The Devil, it looks sort of like a trap or a prison (at least on the keyboard it does) & - The Lovers! ~ - The Hanged Man - just going with it, letting it flow....... / - the symbol for 'or', so I say Justice

Arnnaria	22 Jan 2005
For the life of me, I can't figure out the ";".

AmyV	25 Jan 2005
Sophie-David wrote: : Strength (as above, so below) Well, following this line of reason, ";" means 'as above, not below' (or something like that - you know what I mean!) So how about The Heirophant? As a symbol of established religion, The Hierophant takes universal truths (at least he thinks he does) and modifies them so that they're palatable to the layman, who then isn't required, as such, to think for himself, allowing The Hierophant to alter, ahem, I mean 'present', the truth any way that suits him - and so as the truth, the top part of our super-metaphorical semi-colon, reaches the dear Hierophant and is passed on by him, it becomes somewhat skewed in the process - the dot becomes a coma - the circle, which is universal and therefor infinite, becomes a line, a creation of people which can be coaxed in any direction, in this case to the left, curving in support of the words that precede it, just as The Hierophant intends......

Sophie-David	25 Jan 2005
Dear me, AmyV, you're being quite naughty. ;) Poor Hierophants, just don't get no respect. My very first reading - I asked, "Who am I?" - I had Hierophant Reversed in the Root of the Celtic Cross. This was the first reversed card I had seen. I asked the reader, "So this is bad right?" No, no: "Originality, a fresh approach, the overturning of convention, adventurous explorations with an open mind". Which of course was exactly me. Like tax auditors and parking meter attendants, nobody seems to mind if the Hierophant doesn't get the job done! :) But in our Legend study group, we're quite pleased to have met a positive Hierophant for a change... David

RedMaple	25 Jan 2005
AmyV wrote: Well, following this line of reason, ";" means 'as above, not below' (or something like that - you know what I mean!) So how about The Heirophant? As a symbol of established religion, The Hierophant takes universal truths (at least he thinks he does) and modifies them so that they're palatable to the layman, who then isn't required, as such, to think for himself, allowing The Hierophant to alter, ahem, I mean 'present', the truth any way that suits him - and so as the truth, the top part of our super-metaphorical semi-colon, reaches the dear Hierophant and is passed on by him, it becomes somewhat skewed in the process - the dot becomes a coma - the circle, which is universal and therefor infinite, becomes a line, a creation of people which can be coaxed in any direction, in this case to the left, curving in support of the words that precede it, just as The Hierophant intends...... That's brilliant! Interesting to thing of the Hierophant in terms of signal::noise -- that is, what of the original message gets through. I like the idea of the ";", especially when used with the ":".

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