Elemental Dignities - Weight of Cards

[rwcarter]

Originally Posted by Nalini

Have a question though. Say for example there is a Major Arcana card on the either side, which is way stronger than one in the middle then should I assume that it overpowers the middle card even if all three cards are well dignified?

Thanks a bunch,
Nalini

The above was originally posted by Nalini in Your Readings. As it wasn't relevant to the reading she did, I thought I would answer here.

When using EDs I pay most attention to the elements and not to the ranks of the cards. So, for example, if I had WE where the first W is a Major and E is a non-Court Pentacle, the Major would strengthen the E card, not overpower it because Majors are of a higher rank than Minors.

Similarly if I had a FW combination when the F number was 8 and the W number is 4, I wouldn't say that the F overpowers the W because there are more of them.

But if that approach (rank of cards) makes sense to you, you should explore it and see if it actually works for you.

[Nalini]

Rodney,

Thanks much. Indeed I didn't realize that the question was not related to the other posting.

I'm just learning, hardly a day old so haven't really considered what works for me yet. Need some and practice to see what makes me comfortable.

Meantime, if the first is a major and second a court card, then how to go about it? Or say all three are majors, then should I consider the middle card and how it relates to the one on either side in terms of ED?

Thanks so much for your kind and generous guidance.

[rwcarter]

Nalini, have you checked out SuperTarot? That's where I learned EDs.

With the basic system of EDs, the relative weights of the cards don't matter. So a Fire Major, Fire Court and Fire Minor are all weighted equally.

[Nalini]

Thanks very much for the link. I'll take a look and hope can pick the basics fro there.