Freddie
Hi All,
I wonder if anyone else here views Thoth in a different light due to their age. I turned 50 on July 14th and I pulled out my Thoth (which I put away for about two years or so) and the deck just seemed to almost morph into a picture book of my life. Now I have always struggled with the Thoth and A.C., but it seems to me through 50 years of life that A.C. and L.F.H. brought a lot of elder experience/wisdom to their evocative Tarot deck.
I don’t think we look at their ages enough when evaluating Thoth. I am not surprised when I think of how I thought I knew it all and how I thought they were somehow flawed and negative/mean personalities…it is more like how a young strong willed person chooses to overlook the cliff they are about to go over…see Waite/Smith Fool..lol… that Qabalistic abyss gets us all at some point. A.C. and L.F.H. actually made it through the abyss many times and the methods to see it through I feel are encoded in the Thoth. If you read some of A.C.’s letters you will find that he had great compassion for people who were following their true will, but struggling with it e.g. Jack Parsons. Mr Crowley is seen as mean-spirited person who dealt out all of this irresponsible rock star bullshit, but in reality he was always trying to be a better person/leader himself as well, thus following own his divine will.
Certain cards have just resonated with me such as Knight of Disks. A.C. understood that there are times and whole lifetimes spent being a handmaiden or just being another cog in the wheel. Does he bitch about this fellow or another fellow I relate to the Knight of Cups, of course he does, because he is telling this personality to WAKE UP, even if he/she doesn’t at least A.C. via the Thoth may prompt her/him to not continue sleepwalking through life. A card like ‘The Lovers’ is kind of a cradle to grave for me, not everyone can hear or cares to hear the voice, they don’t care about anything like divine will or their HGA. If it isn’t Humanism or an orthodox sleepwalker religion, you need to go get serious psychiatric help lol….
At 50, I love The Hierophant. As reflected in A.C. writings and letters… you have to tell the petty whiners/wankers below you to f**k off when they try to mess with your own divine path…and they will… They might have won before, but not anymore with me.
This deck is really packed with wisdom that can only be learned through living life. I would like to thank A.C. and L.F.H. as their beloved deck has been really helpful to me since I first got it in about 1982. Thoth just gets better with the age of it's owner increases.
No more wrestling with A.C. or L.F.H., they were always right anyway.
Freddie
I wonder if anyone else here views Thoth in a different light due to their age. I turned 50 on July 14th and I pulled out my Thoth (which I put away for about two years or so) and the deck just seemed to almost morph into a picture book of my life. Now I have always struggled with the Thoth and A.C., but it seems to me through 50 years of life that A.C. and L.F.H. brought a lot of elder experience/wisdom to their evocative Tarot deck.
I don’t think we look at their ages enough when evaluating Thoth. I am not surprised when I think of how I thought I knew it all and how I thought they were somehow flawed and negative/mean personalities…it is more like how a young strong willed person chooses to overlook the cliff they are about to go over…see Waite/Smith Fool..lol… that Qabalistic abyss gets us all at some point. A.C. and L.F.H. actually made it through the abyss many times and the methods to see it through I feel are encoded in the Thoth. If you read some of A.C.’s letters you will find that he had great compassion for people who were following their true will, but struggling with it e.g. Jack Parsons. Mr Crowley is seen as mean-spirited person who dealt out all of this irresponsible rock star bullshit, but in reality he was always trying to be a better person/leader himself as well, thus following own his divine will.
Certain cards have just resonated with me such as Knight of Disks. A.C. understood that there are times and whole lifetimes spent being a handmaiden or just being another cog in the wheel. Does he bitch about this fellow or another fellow I relate to the Knight of Cups, of course he does, because he is telling this personality to WAKE UP, even if he/she doesn’t at least A.C. via the Thoth may prompt her/him to not continue sleepwalking through life. A card like ‘The Lovers’ is kind of a cradle to grave for me, not everyone can hear or cares to hear the voice, they don’t care about anything like divine will or their HGA. If it isn’t Humanism or an orthodox sleepwalker religion, you need to go get serious psychiatric help lol….
At 50, I love The Hierophant. As reflected in A.C. writings and letters… you have to tell the petty whiners/wankers below you to f**k off when they try to mess with your own divine path…and they will… They might have won before, but not anymore with me.
This deck is really packed with wisdom that can only be learned through living life. I would like to thank A.C. and L.F.H. as their beloved deck has been really helpful to me since I first got it in about 1982. Thoth just gets better with the age of it's owner increases.
No more wrestling with A.C. or L.F.H., they were always right anyway.
Freddie