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I was oddly intrigued by a post in this thread mentioning Platonic Solids in reference to the High Priestess card in the Thoth deck.
Afterwards, I began seeing them a lot in the deck, and after a little exploration (see this page: http://www.mathsisfun.com/platonic_solids.html for a basic dummies' intro, which I needed), I found some really beautiful patterns. So I thought I'd lay them out in case anyone cared
Things that resemble Platonic Solids appear in nine cards that I found:
The Fool
The High Priestess
The Tower
The Star (?)
Prince of Swords
Queen of Disks
Princess of Disks
5 of Cups
3 of Disks
This site explains that four of the five Platonic Solids were assigned to the ancient elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. So if we look at the above-mentioned cards, we see the following:
The Fool holds an octahedron in his right hand. This PS is attributed to Air, as is The Fool.
The High Priestess has four shapes that resemble PS's at the bottom of the card. Three of them are recognisably the tetrahedron (Fire), octahedron (Air) and dodecahedron. The fourth, at bottom left, vaguely resembles an icosahedron (Water). Of these, the dodecahedron is the one not attributed to an ancient element, and the cube (Earth) is missing. This suggests that she is not connected to the material but has access to Spirit, which we may infer is attributable to the dodecahedron.
The Tower has three humanoid figures flying from the blasted Tower. These figures are represented as being made up of tetrahedra, attributed to Fire. The card is, of course, referred to Mars, a fiery planet, and the image is itself fiery.
The Star demonstrates shapes at the bottom which resemble PS's, but I can't identify them. They most resemble the icosahedron, which is referred to Water; but the Star is attributed to Aquarius, an Air sign. The spirals in the whole card make me think of Fibonacci numbers - or am I insane? Can anyone shed light on this one?
The Prince of Swords' (Air of Air) chariot has a huge, perfect octohedron (Air) in glowing yellow and orange.
The Queen of Swords has my personal favourite of them all. Her staff is topped by an icosahedron within a cube - Water of Earth. Beautiful.
The Princess of Disks' wand has a base formed from an octohedron - attributed to Air. This one also confuses me as there should be cubes all over the place - anyone got any wisdom there?
The 5 of Cups (Mars in Scorpio) has tetrahedra forming the bases of the Cups, so representing the Fire within the card.
The 3 of Disks shows a large tetrahedron from above joining the three Disks; again representing Mars' fiery energy within this frozen Capricornian waste.
I would really welcome any corrections to this analysis; and clarifications on the points I'm vague on would be great!
\m/ Kat
Afterwards, I began seeing them a lot in the deck, and after a little exploration (see this page: http://www.mathsisfun.com/platonic_solids.html for a basic dummies' intro, which I needed), I found some really beautiful patterns. So I thought I'd lay them out in case anyone cared
Things that resemble Platonic Solids appear in nine cards that I found:
The Fool
The High Priestess
The Tower
The Star (?)
Prince of Swords
Queen of Disks
Princess of Disks
5 of Cups
3 of Disks
This site explains that four of the five Platonic Solids were assigned to the ancient elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. So if we look at the above-mentioned cards, we see the following:
The Fool holds an octahedron in his right hand. This PS is attributed to Air, as is The Fool.
The High Priestess has four shapes that resemble PS's at the bottom of the card. Three of them are recognisably the tetrahedron (Fire), octahedron (Air) and dodecahedron. The fourth, at bottom left, vaguely resembles an icosahedron (Water). Of these, the dodecahedron is the one not attributed to an ancient element, and the cube (Earth) is missing. This suggests that she is not connected to the material but has access to Spirit, which we may infer is attributable to the dodecahedron.
The Tower has three humanoid figures flying from the blasted Tower. These figures are represented as being made up of tetrahedra, attributed to Fire. The card is, of course, referred to Mars, a fiery planet, and the image is itself fiery.
The Star demonstrates shapes at the bottom which resemble PS's, but I can't identify them. They most resemble the icosahedron, which is referred to Water; but the Star is attributed to Aquarius, an Air sign. The spirals in the whole card make me think of Fibonacci numbers - or am I insane? Can anyone shed light on this one?
The Prince of Swords' (Air of Air) chariot has a huge, perfect octohedron (Air) in glowing yellow and orange.
The Queen of Swords has my personal favourite of them all. Her staff is topped by an icosahedron within a cube - Water of Earth. Beautiful.
The Princess of Disks' wand has a base formed from an octohedron - attributed to Air. This one also confuses me as there should be cubes all over the place - anyone got any wisdom there?
The 5 of Cups (Mars in Scorpio) has tetrahedra forming the bases of the Cups, so representing the Fire within the card.
The 3 of Disks shows a large tetrahedron from above joining the three Disks; again representing Mars' fiery energy within this frozen Capricornian waste.
I would really welcome any corrections to this analysis; and clarifications on the points I'm vague on would be great!
\m/ Kat