swimming in tarot
To help myself better grasp the meanings of tarot, I--like many others have done--began making my own deck, for fun. As I've tried to chart a mental table of meanings when number intersects with suit, I've become annoyed by inconsistencies in the logic in the sources that I'm checking, and am now branching off to make my deck follow my own rules. Mission drift, sigh.
If I ever decided to publish my deck (hah):
-How great a crime would it be, if I made the suit of swords with generally positive meanings in the upright, denoting positive and constructive things related to the mind, and saved most of the nastiness for the reverse meanings? I think the swords have traditionally gotten the shaft, which is unfair to their potential.
-How badly would people be bothered if I applied a different numeric logic to the pips, so long as I was consistent and explained where I was coming from?
-How terrible would it be if, for example, I considered seven as an inspired, magical number if you will, and made the sevens pips as dimension doors into the "magical" qualities of the suits?
-RWS is what I'm most familiar with, and in many cards I haven't made a clean break from that imagery, incorporating as I do familiar elements from that system--but they are often greatly tweaked. Personally, I love it when artists make a left turn with the old familiar stuff. How repugnant would it be, if this deck contained thoughts of the RWS without truly being one?
If I ever decided to publish my deck (hah):
-How great a crime would it be, if I made the suit of swords with generally positive meanings in the upright, denoting positive and constructive things related to the mind, and saved most of the nastiness for the reverse meanings? I think the swords have traditionally gotten the shaft, which is unfair to their potential.
-How badly would people be bothered if I applied a different numeric logic to the pips, so long as I was consistent and explained where I was coming from?
-How terrible would it be if, for example, I considered seven as an inspired, magical number if you will, and made the sevens pips as dimension doors into the "magical" qualities of the suits?
-RWS is what I'm most familiar with, and in many cards I haven't made a clean break from that imagery, incorporating as I do familiar elements from that system--but they are often greatly tweaked. Personally, I love it when artists make a left turn with the old familiar stuff. How repugnant would it be, if this deck contained thoughts of the RWS without truly being one?