Astraea Aurora
Hi folks,
so I came about Teresa Michelsen's book "Designing Your Own Tarot Spreads" and she states an intersting way to determine when something will happen with the help of the suit cards. (She also has a system for the Major Arcana cards, but my interest is on the suit cards system.)
First, one should assign the four seasons to the four suits.
Second, the number of the drawn card determines the week within that season. The rule of thumb is Ace is the first week, Two the second week and so on. All suit cards are used, even the Court cards. Pages are thus the 11th week, Knights the 12th week and Queens the 13th week. Kings are not attached as they signify the change from one season to the next season.
EG 1: Four Wands means fourth week in summer (I use Cups as spring, Wands as summer, Pentacles as autumn and Swords as winter.)
EG 2: Knight of Pentacles means 12th week in autumn.
What I find odd is that logically a season consists of three months, and each months has only four weeks. So there are only 12 weeks per season - but 13 weeks x 4 seasons make up 52 weeks = a whole year. Guess I need to have a calendar at hand to find out the correct date of the week I'm refering to .
So, does any one of you also used this system? If so, how are your experiences? I admit I'm intrigued by it and want to find out if it works.
Astraea Aurora
so I came about Teresa Michelsen's book "Designing Your Own Tarot Spreads" and she states an intersting way to determine when something will happen with the help of the suit cards. (She also has a system for the Major Arcana cards, but my interest is on the suit cards system.)
First, one should assign the four seasons to the four suits.
Second, the number of the drawn card determines the week within that season. The rule of thumb is Ace is the first week, Two the second week and so on. All suit cards are used, even the Court cards. Pages are thus the 11th week, Knights the 12th week and Queens the 13th week. Kings are not attached as they signify the change from one season to the next season.
EG 1: Four Wands means fourth week in summer (I use Cups as spring, Wands as summer, Pentacles as autumn and Swords as winter.)
EG 2: Knight of Pentacles means 12th week in autumn.
What I find odd is that logically a season consists of three months, and each months has only four weeks. So there are only 12 weeks per season - but 13 weeks x 4 seasons make up 52 weeks = a whole year. Guess I need to have a calendar at hand to find out the correct date of the week I'm refering to .
So, does any one of you also used this system? If so, how are your experiences? I admit I'm intrigued by it and want to find out if it works.
Astraea Aurora