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Originally Posted by elvenstar
tried it with the Mythic, although I really need to get the book out because they have a slightly different order in it I think. One of the paths (the Magician one) was very impressive, gave me the shivers to see all these big guys ganging up, with Hermes, Zeus, Ares, Poseidon, Hades and Apollo all in one row with the three Fates in the middle... All powerful macho deities, but the fates outrank them all in the eye of the storm aka turning point... The others didn't immediately make as much sense, but I haven't had the time to look at it properly.
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I laid out my Mythic (for which I've lost the book). It came out a little differently than you described, and I think the cards were in their original order. SO annoying that they're not annotated with a number or a traditional Majors name or the god's name or anything. But that one dude HAD to be Prometheus, whom I didn't see on your list. This is the only example I've looked at with a "re-ordered," or to be PC, "differently-ordered" deck from the TdM or RWS decks that I've seen, and the Seven Stations / Three Paths perspective seems not to be holding up. Which tells us... that this array IS somehow correlated to the Golden Dawn system(s)? or that it's just a coincidence that breaks down when you put the Majors back in their "real" order?
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Originally Posted by elvenstar
There's a lot of stuff in this thread, feedback will come, but give us some time 
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I hope you keep bringing it, I'm really getting a lot out of people's feedback.
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Originally Posted by Scion
JEEZ but you do goodhandouts! What software are you using to design these? Lovely to look upon and insanely clear.
I have laid out the grid, although as you noted early on, when I did I realized I'd seen it referenced in a couple of older authors' books. Nevertheless I think the exploration you're doing is terrific. What's interesting is that in riffing on these ideas your system reminds me of what Wirth and Papus (et al.) did in their various alternate models. I especially like the use of this as a 7 card spread, (more than a rubric for studying the Trumps) because I'm not a fan of the post-70s Fool's Journey model; I never think of the Trumps as sequential in a narrative sense because it seems so literal and monoscopic. But by identifying a Hegelian dialectic, you've sidestepped that. Nice.
People are still here watching you dig around.
Scion
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Wow, to receive such wonderful compliments AND be compelled to look up a philosophical reference both in the same paragraph. Never read Hegel, but I guess I've encountered and assimilated the concept well enough that it somehow spilled out in my improvisational tinkerings.
The software I use is CorelDRAW, v9 (I think it';s up to v12 now). I started using Corel with v1 back in 1989 and it was my primary tool for various livelihoods (such as a graphic designer, multimedia interface designer, and medical illustrator) for years. It will no doubt play a role when I eventually get around to creating a tarot deck.
Thanks for the feedback on your primary interest in spread reading. I think that ultimately most of the other material here is improvisational, fluid, speculative, associative thinking... but the labels of the "Seven Stations feel really solid.
Maybe we could try a little exercise (
everyone can play along!):
Cut-and paste- between the lines below, and post back with YOUR definition of what the following positions would mean in a spread; For extra credit, how could they be arranged other than in a boring straight line?
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1. Your Origin -
(your definition here)
2. Your Inspiration -
(your definition here)
3. Your Power -
(your definition here)
4. The Turning Point -
(your definition here)
5. Your Transformation -
(your definition here)
6. Your Epiphany -
(your definition here)
7. Your Destiny -
(your definition here)
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I feel a rant coming, so I'll split the post here.