The Hanged Man said:
Abiding by his strange ideas about having no Kings but Princes and Knights did nothing to improve my Tarot reading, but did get my mind tied up in such mental knots that my intuition didn't get chance to come through.
It sounds like you never 'got' AC? He was describing a New Aeon, a new world, a new evolution where things will be different. An end to the past Aeon and patriarchal age of Osiris. Believe it or not, he was a women's libber!
From this perspective, isnt it time we got rid of the King and gave the Queen a go. The primal male force is still there as the Knight, the first onrush of the energy, but seen as a knight and a knight follows the directions of (and is made by) the Queen. I notice you dont even mention the Queen above?
Thoth has done a LOT for my reading and untied many of the knots I had mentally when trying to connect traditional tarot to what was actually happening in the world of today, and has given my intuition contempory relevence.
Hanged Man said:
Unfortunately, the Thoth Tarot is extremely beautiful, but for me, it's unworkable, due to the array of dictatorial correspondences, which don't make sense, the wrong elemental/suit association and the bizarre ordering of the court cards.
Bizarre ??? Try new and visionary!