Pelops
I have been working on a Kircher tree that starts with the premise of the mother letters coming from Kether, and here's what I've come up with:
http://x5.freeshare.us/115fs190483.png
I'd like to confirm that there are no glaring holes here that need addressing. My goal is to come up with a correspondance to the tree that personally works, but which makes also sense and is fairly reasonable.
I took the Filipe correspondences as a starting point (as a side note, I was really surprised how convinced I had become about the Filipe attributions of the letters to the cards (after jmd suggested it simply making sense) after I had placed them. The letterform-design correlation is so convincing at times (lammed, for example), that I was shocked).
My general approach was to take the Gra tree, in which the planets and zodiac were in undisturbed opposition on both pillars and the outer two horizontals (with Mercury down the Middle at Aleph, and Earth down the middle at Tav, sun and moon at two upper diagonals at Shin and Mem), and then to work through the fall where the oppositions in the zodiac move from being direct diagonal oppositions (in the gra tree) to slightly askew oppositions above tipharet and parallel oppositions below Tipharet, with the additional displacement of Saturn and Gemini with The Devil's descent.
The parts of the tree that particularly stand out for me:
-The Moon-sign and Sun-sign opposition out of Kether with Mercury in the center (Energy of Existence contained within the Energies of Life and Death) mirrored at the bottom with The Sun (Leo) and Moon (Cancer) Cards with the Fool in the middle (Actual Existence between the Actual Sun and Moon)
-The journey of the Mage to Hermit to Fool Down the center pillar.
-The general opposition of concepts throughout the entire tree (Sun/Moon; Emperor/Empress; Hierophant/Lovers; Chariot/Justice etc.)
-The downward transition from single persons (priestess, emperor, empress) to groups (hierophant. lovers) to situations and attributes arising in the middle third (chariot, justice, wheel, star (displaced), devil, temperance, strength) to results (hanged man (displaced), tower, sun, moon, fool).
-I feel that the astrological energies adequately match the energies portrayed in the cards.
Does this make enough sense?
-pelops
http://x5.freeshare.us/115fs190483.png
I'd like to confirm that there are no glaring holes here that need addressing. My goal is to come up with a correspondance to the tree that personally works, but which makes also sense and is fairly reasonable.
I took the Filipe correspondences as a starting point (as a side note, I was really surprised how convinced I had become about the Filipe attributions of the letters to the cards (after jmd suggested it simply making sense) after I had placed them. The letterform-design correlation is so convincing at times (lammed, for example), that I was shocked).
My general approach was to take the Gra tree, in which the planets and zodiac were in undisturbed opposition on both pillars and the outer two horizontals (with Mercury down the Middle at Aleph, and Earth down the middle at Tav, sun and moon at two upper diagonals at Shin and Mem), and then to work through the fall where the oppositions in the zodiac move from being direct diagonal oppositions (in the gra tree) to slightly askew oppositions above tipharet and parallel oppositions below Tipharet, with the additional displacement of Saturn and Gemini with The Devil's descent.
The parts of the tree that particularly stand out for me:
-The Moon-sign and Sun-sign opposition out of Kether with Mercury in the center (Energy of Existence contained within the Energies of Life and Death) mirrored at the bottom with The Sun (Leo) and Moon (Cancer) Cards with the Fool in the middle (Actual Existence between the Actual Sun and Moon)
-The journey of the Mage to Hermit to Fool Down the center pillar.
-The general opposition of concepts throughout the entire tree (Sun/Moon; Emperor/Empress; Hierophant/Lovers; Chariot/Justice etc.)
-The downward transition from single persons (priestess, emperor, empress) to groups (hierophant. lovers) to situations and attributes arising in the middle third (chariot, justice, wheel, star (displaced), devil, temperance, strength) to results (hanged man (displaced), tower, sun, moon, fool).
-I feel that the astrological energies adequately match the energies portrayed in the cards.
Does this make enough sense?
-pelops