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Here are a few preview cards (low res), in what would be possibly the definitve layout.
www.loscarabeo.com/files/cartemanga.pdf
And following here a brief abstract from the booklet.
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The deck’s structure
The deck has 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana, divided into 40 numbered cards and 16 Court cards. The Minor Arcana are divided into four suits: swords, pentacles, wands, and chalices.
Each card has two structural characteristics:
- a dominant color
- a glyph
The dominant color indicates a suit of the Minor Arcana and an aspect of human nature, of our surrounding world, or the how, “with what eyes” we view others, ourselves and things.
It therefore represents a card’s internal theme.
This brief summary can be of help:
Blue: swords, air, intellect.
Green: pentacles, earth, nature.
Red: wands, fire, personality.
Yellow: chalices, water, feelings.
Each glyph indicates a season: spring, summer, autumn, winter.
The four seasons refer to the temporal and cyclic element of the cards.
This brief summary can be of help:
Spring: birth, beginning, sunrise, adolescence.
Summer: growth, culmination, noon, maturity.
Autumn: decline, stagnation, sunset, old age.
Winter: death, minimum, night, silence.
Spring naturally follows winter.
Some cards are exceptions to this basic structure.
The Fool does not have a dominant color or a glyph (the Fool cannot be forced into a structure).
The Wheel contains all four glyphs, representing the cyclic passing of time.
The World does not have a dominant color because it represents completeness and therefore the sum of all four of the elements.
The Aces contain all four of the seasons (the Ace represents potential and the potential for the entire journey is therefore within each Ace).
The Tens contain three glyphs. Attention must be placed on the missing glyph before those that are present. In this sense the tens must be interpreted as the absence of the fourth glyph (for example: the absence of spring).
A final consideration regards the type of characters represented. The traditional iconography was inverted in this deck, representing as men those normally appearing as women and as women those who were depicted as men.
The names of the Court cards were therefore modified.
The Queen changes places with the King, whereas the Knight becomes the Princess and the Knave becomes the Prince.
This is also useful for making the internal relationships of the Court cards more obvious and intuitive: mother, father, daughter, son.
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Riccardo
www.loscarabeo.com/files/cartemanga.pdf
And following here a brief abstract from the booklet.
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The deck’s structure
The deck has 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana, divided into 40 numbered cards and 16 Court cards. The Minor Arcana are divided into four suits: swords, pentacles, wands, and chalices.
Each card has two structural characteristics:
- a dominant color
- a glyph
The dominant color indicates a suit of the Minor Arcana and an aspect of human nature, of our surrounding world, or the how, “with what eyes” we view others, ourselves and things.
It therefore represents a card’s internal theme.
This brief summary can be of help:
Blue: swords, air, intellect.
Green: pentacles, earth, nature.
Red: wands, fire, personality.
Yellow: chalices, water, feelings.
Each glyph indicates a season: spring, summer, autumn, winter.
The four seasons refer to the temporal and cyclic element of the cards.
This brief summary can be of help:
Spring: birth, beginning, sunrise, adolescence.
Summer: growth, culmination, noon, maturity.
Autumn: decline, stagnation, sunset, old age.
Winter: death, minimum, night, silence.
Spring naturally follows winter.
Some cards are exceptions to this basic structure.
The Fool does not have a dominant color or a glyph (the Fool cannot be forced into a structure).
The Wheel contains all four glyphs, representing the cyclic passing of time.
The World does not have a dominant color because it represents completeness and therefore the sum of all four of the elements.
The Aces contain all four of the seasons (the Ace represents potential and the potential for the entire journey is therefore within each Ace).
The Tens contain three glyphs. Attention must be placed on the missing glyph before those that are present. In this sense the tens must be interpreted as the absence of the fourth glyph (for example: the absence of spring).
A final consideration regards the type of characters represented. The traditional iconography was inverted in this deck, representing as men those normally appearing as women and as women those who were depicted as men.
The names of the Court cards were therefore modified.
The Queen changes places with the King, whereas the Knight becomes the Princess and the Knave becomes the Prince.
This is also useful for making the internal relationships of the Court cards more obvious and intuitive: mother, father, daughter, son.
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Riccardo
