rachelcat
I just signed on as a subscribing member, and I want to try attaching a file, so I thought I would share an information chart I put together of the Golden Dawn astrological attributions of all cards.
I pulled the information together from Paul Hughes-Barlow's Supertarot site and DuQuette's Understanding Crowley's Thoth Tarot and Tarot of Ceremonial Magick books. For you purists out there, I am aware that Crowley says the princesses and aces are attributed to sectors of the sky, not dates, but these are the dates/seasons DuQuette uses. I also used "new" planet attributions, making the Fool Uranus, the Hanged Man Neptune, and Judgment Pluto. This way, ALL the cards have some date/astrological attribution.
DuQuette also recommends (in T of CM) that you spread all 78 cards out in an astrological circle (there has to be a more elegant name for this--I'm astrologically impaired!). I did the spread and it really does help me to see and remember the relationships between cards.
I put the aces in the center with the princesses "crossing" them. Then the zodiacal majors with the planetary majors crossing the signs they rule. Then in the next circle out, the courts, and then in the outer circle, the minors. (This would work best with a mini deck. I did it with my Liber T. Good thing I have a LARGE table!)
So here's the chart. (If I attach it correctly . . .)
I pulled the information together from Paul Hughes-Barlow's Supertarot site and DuQuette's Understanding Crowley's Thoth Tarot and Tarot of Ceremonial Magick books. For you purists out there, I am aware that Crowley says the princesses and aces are attributed to sectors of the sky, not dates, but these are the dates/seasons DuQuette uses. I also used "new" planet attributions, making the Fool Uranus, the Hanged Man Neptune, and Judgment Pluto. This way, ALL the cards have some date/astrological attribution.
DuQuette also recommends (in T of CM) that you spread all 78 cards out in an astrological circle (there has to be a more elegant name for this--I'm astrologically impaired!). I did the spread and it really does help me to see and remember the relationships between cards.
I put the aces in the center with the princesses "crossing" them. Then the zodiacal majors with the planetary majors crossing the signs they rule. Then in the next circle out, the courts, and then in the outer circle, the minors. (This would work best with a mini deck. I did it with my Liber T. Good thing I have a LARGE table!)
So here's the chart. (If I attach it correctly . . .)