Page of Pentacles--Navigators Tarot

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 03 Jan 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Formicida	03 Jan 2005
I'm not exactly sure where to put this question, since the deck doesn't have its own study group. Moderators, if you have a better idea than I do, please move it! Anyway, I've been reading through the book to the Navigators Tarot of the Mystic SEA, which I just got. In the text about the Page of Pentacles, it says, "The combination of the trees and stones in this alpine meadow spell out the name of the hero Tristan..." I can't find the name anywhere, and I'm driving myself batty staring at the card trying to see it. Is there anyone here who's found it? Can you point me in the right direction?

Fulgour	03 Jan 2005
Possibly someone knows, other than Julia herself, just what exactly she meant by her 2 references to the name "Tristan" being found in some form on the Page of Pentacles. What did you think of the line in the poem, "The trees and stones mean Tristan..." ? I looked at this card under a 3-Diopter magnifying lamp, and what an incredible image! These lamps are affordably priced, around $10, usually on a swing-arm with a clamp. Any card in this deck is worth taking a look at in this way, I'd almost swear it was holographic, and the colours...

Formicida	03 Jan 2005
Ooh, the magnifying lamp sounds like fun with just about any deck! But no "Tristan," hmm? (I was spending more of my time having a friend hold it across the room from me, in hopes that distance would help me see the key, as with a Dalí painting.) Maybe the "spelling out" is more metaphorical--some sort of anagram game involving the names and types of trees and stones? That sounds like an impossible task, at least until I've intensely studied what she says about tree and stone identities on other cards. I can't say I get any insight from that line of the poem beyond what I see in the prose text, though.

Fulgour	03 Jan 2005
Tristan's Stone Cornwall (SX111522) Near Fowey stands a stone monolith with the inscription DRUSTANS HIC IACIT CVNOWORI FILVS "Here lies Drustanus, son of Cunomorus." Some have interpreted this as reference to Tristan and King Mark. http://smu.edu/arthuriana/gazetteer.htm

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