odd thought -- numerological sum of the parts?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 11 Jul 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

firemaiden	11 Jul 2003
Hello oh great wise friends and alecs, I had this odd thought tonight, laying out a spread, and seeing all these numbers -- I suddenly wondered, have you ever added up all the card values in your spread, to find some kind of further elucidating number? Lets see, if I add X - the wheel ******= 10 Queen of Wands ***= 13 (13 for Queens?) 7 of wands ********= 7 7 of cups **********= 7 4 of wands ********= 4 _______________________ I get : 41 oh that's interesting, its my age. hmm What else can we do with this? Perhaps some of you have number systems for taking the suit into account?

jog1118	11 Jul 2003
reduce 41 to a single number: 4+1=5 (the hierophant) this may mean that although your old (oops! wrong word! ;) ...ahhh! mature is the better adjective) you still have plenty things to learn in life 5 in numerology also means: adventure, excitement you're in for a surprise!!! :smoker:

Moongold	11 Jul 2003
The quintessential number? Here is a thread that addresses this, firemaiden. As Jog says you reduce down to root number and get the quintessential number which can then be interpreted as an extra dimension to meaning, tarot-wise and numerologically. http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7715&highlight=quintessential

Hedera	11 Jul 2003
I've just finished a tarot course (very basic, but still fun, if only to work with tarot together with rl people) and the teacher told us she usually adds the numbers of all the pip cards in a reading, to see what the underlying influence of the whole reading is.

jog1118	11 Jul 2003
hi there hedera! just curious. why the pips only? why not include the majors? :smoker:

Hedera	11 Jul 2003
Hey Yaboot! I did ask her that, and her answer was something along the lines of: 'because it feels right'. ;) To be clear, she would reduce it to a single-digit number, too, so that you would get another Major. I can sort of see that the 'loudest' cards in the reading would be the Majors, and that you'd reduce the more 'quiet' pips into one Major.

samantha	11 Jul 2003
Hedera ......I love the idea of Loud and quiet pips !! * Go and stand in the corner and behave like a quiet pip * Great use of English !! I'm going to turn it into a collocation ...... Sorry , and now back to the thread........

firemaiden	11 Jul 2003
That is exactly it, Moongold, thanks for the link! quintessential numbers

allibee	12 Jul 2003
I have used numbers to add a very interesting and new clarifying dimension to my readings. I do a double horseshoe and have two cards on each position and simply add the card totals together ...it is quite shocking sometimes just what a big clarification this gives.

firemaiden	12 Jul 2003
Hi, Allibee, would you perhaps be willing to share a few examples?

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