Ukkonen
Hi guys,
a friend of mine (whom I've lead successfully into the tarot world asked me this question: "Why are the minors in the RWS and Thoth decks so different?"
So I said something like: "Well, you know, Waite was more towards the mystical; hermetism, rosicrusianism, freemasonry..and Crowley, well, he had his Thelema. Crowley follows the tradional Golden Dawn titles, whereas Waite used ideas from the Grail myths and freemasonry (thank you Mary for giving us this information!) which Pixie then transferred into images...and the Thoth minors are bound to the Tree of Life/Cabbala, so that the numbers correspond to the sephiras and colours as well, and even the astrological attributes are a significant factor, which is not at least so obvious in the RWS.."
Later I began to think about this - was I even close to the point?? I had actually never before thought about it - to me it was just like, "Well, there's the RWS and then there's the Thoth and you don't mix those two.."
So, please, comments would be much appreciated - Jmd, Fulgour, Tehuti, anyone!
-tero (my eye is beginning seriously to twitch..)
a friend of mine (whom I've lead successfully into the tarot world asked me this question: "Why are the minors in the RWS and Thoth decks so different?"
So I said something like: "Well, you know, Waite was more towards the mystical; hermetism, rosicrusianism, freemasonry..and Crowley, well, he had his Thelema. Crowley follows the tradional Golden Dawn titles, whereas Waite used ideas from the Grail myths and freemasonry (thank you Mary for giving us this information!) which Pixie then transferred into images...and the Thoth minors are bound to the Tree of Life/Cabbala, so that the numbers correspond to the sephiras and colours as well, and even the astrological attributes are a significant factor, which is not at least so obvious in the RWS.."
Later I began to think about this - was I even close to the point?? I had actually never before thought about it - to me it was just like, "Well, there's the RWS and then there's the Thoth and you don't mix those two.."
So, please, comments would be much appreciated - Jmd, Fulgour, Tehuti, anyone!
-tero (my eye is beginning seriously to twitch..)