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I'm looking for a little clarification certain aspects of calculating and interpreting Tarot profiles. I think I'm pretty close to mastering the most essential aspects of it, but my mind is still in a whirl and a couple of areas still elude me.
So far I've read:
I think I have a sound understanding of how to calculate personality symbol, soul symbol, growth symbols, cycles and charts and even shadow/teacher/hidden factor symbols (although I'm still digesting the latter).
I even get the name correspondences. I had to shelve the musical correspondences because I probably have enough to chew on for now.
I'm less clear about the following:
Duquette talked about how to calculate court cards and small cards, but didn't really explain the significance. This is also shown on the Astrological Attributions of All Cards thread). For instance a person born on July 1 would have a court card of Queen of Cups and a small card of Two of Cups (Love). I don't quite get what function these particular symbols are playing, when considered along side the personality and soul symbols.
Mary Greer's book mentioned that each person's soul symbol will correspond to four other Lessons & Opportunities cards, which are small cards of that same number in the deck. Here, I sort of understand the significance, but I don't understand how/when they actually come up. Is it simply the understanding of where our lessons and opportunities generally lie in life, or are there other uses for these L&O cards?
Mary Greer mentions that there is one exception to the rule involving the 19/10/1 combination, whereby both the 10s and the 1s count in this way; so is that referring to a person whose personality card is 19 Sun, or a person whose personality card is a 10 Fortune, or both?
And again for a 19/10/1 or 10/1 person, would the L&O cards be Aces or 11s or 10s? I would cautiously think Ace, however I'm not sure since the Ace is quite a bit different from the rest of its suit; it's not the essence of each suit element but is actually the seed of that essence. On the other hand, since Fortune (in Thoth anyway) signifies doing things originally and creatively, this kind of rings true with the Ace idea.
Sorry for the huge laundry list of questions! My brain is overflowing with symbols. Hopefully this will also be of use to someone else who's into this.
Edit:
(Removed a couple of questions as my confusion evaporated at last; edited for general clarity).
Sheesh, would you believe I have one more question?!
For the small cards which each represent one decan of an astrological sign, the idea occured to me last night that perhaps, the periods of time can also be used as a sort of a universal daily calendar. E.g. today being September 6 would make this a Nine of Disks cycle, and then on Sept. 12 we all go into an 11-day Ten of Disks (whoohoo!) cycle. I'm positive this has to be something that has come up many times for many people before but I had to ask.
So far I've read:
- The Tarot Handbook (Angeles Arrien)
- Constellations: Patterns of Personal Destiny (Mary K. Greer) (out of print but available at places like www.abe-books.com)
- Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot (Lon Milo Duquette)
- The Shadow Card thread
- Personal Card thread
- Personality, Soul and Year Cards thread
- Your essential card thread
- Astrological Attributions of All Cards thread
I think I have a sound understanding of how to calculate personality symbol, soul symbol, growth symbols, cycles and charts and even shadow/teacher/hidden factor symbols (although I'm still digesting the latter).
I even get the name correspondences. I had to shelve the musical correspondences because I probably have enough to chew on for now.
I'm less clear about the following:
Duquette talked about how to calculate court cards and small cards, but didn't really explain the significance. This is also shown on the Astrological Attributions of All Cards thread). For instance a person born on July 1 would have a court card of Queen of Cups and a small card of Two of Cups (Love). I don't quite get what function these particular symbols are playing, when considered along side the personality and soul symbols.
Mary Greer's book mentioned that each person's soul symbol will correspond to four other Lessons & Opportunities cards, which are small cards of that same number in the deck. Here, I sort of understand the significance, but I don't understand how/when they actually come up. Is it simply the understanding of where our lessons and opportunities generally lie in life, or are there other uses for these L&O cards?
Mary Greer mentions that there is one exception to the rule involving the 19/10/1 combination, whereby both the 10s and the 1s count in this way; so is that referring to a person whose personality card is 19 Sun, or a person whose personality card is a 10 Fortune, or both?
And again for a 19/10/1 or 10/1 person, would the L&O cards be Aces or 11s or 10s? I would cautiously think Ace, however I'm not sure since the Ace is quite a bit different from the rest of its suit; it's not the essence of each suit element but is actually the seed of that essence. On the other hand, since Fortune (in Thoth anyway) signifies doing things originally and creatively, this kind of rings true with the Ace idea.
Sorry for the huge laundry list of questions! My brain is overflowing with symbols. Hopefully this will also be of use to someone else who's into this.
Edit:
(Removed a couple of questions as my confusion evaporated at last; edited for general clarity).
Sheesh, would you believe I have one more question?!
For the small cards which each represent one decan of an astrological sign, the idea occured to me last night that perhaps, the periods of time can also be used as a sort of a universal daily calendar. E.g. today being September 6 would make this a Nine of Disks cycle, and then on Sept. 12 we all go into an 11-day Ten of Disks (whoohoo!) cycle. I'm positive this has to be something that has come up many times for many people before but I had to ask.