Bernice
Using Mels' Old Fashioned method, have you tried his Tirage en Croix spread?
It's great!
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=95259
Bee
It's great!
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=95259
Bee
Bernice said:Using Mels' Old Fashioned method, have you tried his Tirage en Croix spread?
It's great!
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=95259
Bee
When using Mels' system I always use his. It's such a well-founded 'classical' approach, and the way his spreads are evaluated are really good.Do you use Mel's elemental associations or do you use your own?
alec said:Hi Flaxen,
Have you seen Mel's thread, Mapping the Tarot's structure: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=103765
It's a brilliant way of understanding the trumps. There seems to be some overlap with the elemental attributions Mel gave at one point. He later wrote that each trump could be associated with more than one element.
I've gone away from using elemental attributions for the trumps, and instead base the interpretations on active/receptive, dignity and speed. This has worked very well with Mel's Pips & Courts, and gets away from the difficulty of trying to pigeonhole the trumps into one element each.
Alec
Thank you for that Laura You're right about it being a great classical system - I've never come across another to compare with it!laura_borealis said:...........<snip>........
Would anyone find a printable document helpful? I copypaste'd the text from the pips and courts posts into a Google document. The link is here.
I put in page breaks so each card will print on its own page; my intent (once I print it) is to punch holes and put the pages into a binder, so I can write and draw on them, insert extra pages if/when needed, and so forth.
Right now the document settings will allow anyone to edit it (I have a backup in case of accidents). So if anyone wants to add in the diagrams, they're welcome to. Or you can just download it and rearrange it to suit your needs.
laura_borealis said:I downloaded it as a pdf for myself and all appears right for printing.