The Magician & The Wheel of Fortune
The High Priestess & Justice
The Empress & The Hanged Man
The Emperor & Death
The Hierophant & Temperance
The Lovers & The Devil
The Chariot & The Tower
Strength & The Star
The Hermit & The Moon

The Sun
Judgment
The Fool
The World

Ones & Nines
Twos & Eights
Threes & Sevens
Fours & Sixes
Fives

In The Numerical Tarot:

The World is

The Bright Light

 

THE WORLD

In concluding our examination of the Trump cards, we encounter the Quaternary of the new deck. Of course the Quaternary has already been described as an equidistant numberline folded in half. In other words, the four cards of the Quaternary represent the four concentric spheres of the theoretical model of abstract patterns in nature on which the number line is based, that is; one card for each sphere.

Unfortunately, there is no connection from my system to existing symbolism here. The four cards left over are Fool, Sun, Judgement, World. In my deck, I associate these cards with the numbers 4&6, 3&7, 2&8, and 1&9 respectively. I personally see correlations from these numerological associations to existing symbolism, but I am not suggesting that tarot's original creator divided the deck this same way. So I will not attempt to analyze these cards.

IN THE ISOMORPHIC TAROT DECK, I illustrate each Quaternary card with its corresponding symbol from the funnel, tunnel, maze diagram (see FTM diagram elsewhere on this site). I then title each one according to the stages of the near death model (seen elsewhere on this site).

The Quaternary card of the 1/9 sphere is titled Sanity, the Blinding Light. These cards are all good in their upright positions, representing one's passage to heaven. However, when reversed, or upside down, they represent a passage into hell. The 1/9 path to hell is labeled Insanity, the Dark Abyss.

There actually are a few things about my 1/9 Blinding Light card that could correlate to the card of The World, or Universe. In the near death model, this is the point at which one sees a blinding light that fills them with an all-knowing, God-like presence and a connection to the universe.

IN THE NUMERICAL TAROT DECK, (UNDER CONSTRUCTION, COME BACK LATER!)

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NOTE: Go to the DECK section of this site, to learn more about the NAMES and titles of this deck and how they are picked to describe a gridded pattern that utilizes extremes and in-betweens. Each card in this deck is but one possible expression on a spectrum of possibilities. There is a lot more to learn, than what is being shown here.