Kiama
Hi all,
Well my question is fairly simple: When did the Discs/Coins suit become the suit of Pentacles? I am guessing it must be fairly recently, somewhere around the beginning of the occult revival, but I am not sure.
I ask this because I have just finished reading 'Tarot Trumps and the Holy Grail', and the author Margaret Starbird shocked me when she asserted that the early Tarot decks had pentacles on the Coins cards, and this pentacle being of five points is associated with the planet Venus, and therefore Mary Magdalene. I found the rest of the book very easy to believe and liked the way she linked the images in the early cards to the Templars and the heresy of the Holy Grail and Blodd Royal, but that bit just made me cringe a bit...
So, when did we move from Coins and Discs to Pentacles and other strange, Earth-related round objects? (A pet peeve of mine, sorry!)
Kiama
Well my question is fairly simple: When did the Discs/Coins suit become the suit of Pentacles? I am guessing it must be fairly recently, somewhere around the beginning of the occult revival, but I am not sure.
I ask this because I have just finished reading 'Tarot Trumps and the Holy Grail', and the author Margaret Starbird shocked me when she asserted that the early Tarot decks had pentacles on the Coins cards, and this pentacle being of five points is associated with the planet Venus, and therefore Mary Magdalene. I found the rest of the book very easy to believe and liked the way she linked the images in the early cards to the Templars and the heresy of the Holy Grail and Blodd Royal, but that bit just made me cringe a bit...
So, when did we move from Coins and Discs to Pentacles and other strange, Earth-related round objects? (A pet peeve of mine, sorry!)
Kiama