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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TarotAlternative/ Important Patterns of Nature ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- An ambitious effort to connect the sequence of the Majors to a classic temporal pattern seen everywhere. --- A very brief and horribly incomplete explanation of the lines of force that create a theoretical model of existence. --- Some of the patterns presented here are ineffable, but they birth a universe that isn't. How? --- Where is this Unity that so many spiritual philosophies instruct us to seek? --- Adapting the Pythagorean Tetractys of 10 dots, to further defend the idea of nine numbers and a zero. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Underlying Structure of the Deck ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Spine of Tarot --- An ambitious effort to impose some balance, symmetry, contrast and consistency to the design of tradition. --- Using a historically unfounded myth of origin to illustrate further, the spinal nature of The Numerical Tarot Deck. --- What is the functional advantage of a deck that is not consistent in its design? --- The logical evolution of a matrix, to be used in the balanced, symmetrical, contrasting and consistent relation of ideas. --- No card stands alone. Every card has 7 friends to relate to on the matrix of interconnected and related ideas. --- A model to explain the relationship between existence and non-existence. --- The matrix is not just two dimensional. The matrix is a manifest entity that exists in space! --- Rationale to explain the benefits of grouping the Majors into two rows of 9 with four left over. --- An interesting rethink of the traditional association of the four elements to the suits of tarot. --- An interesting rethink of the last three cards of traditional Majors. --- Using a matrix as a device to organize speech and vocabulary and thereby aid in the semantics of tarot interpretation. --- A couple of examples of the hair-splitting accuracy of tarot semantics on a matrix, using spectrums of possibilities. --- Invented terminology to aid in the semantics of tarot interpretation. --- What colors does this system associate with what numbers. --- What seasons does this system associate with what suit? Deck at a Glance: Keywords and Layout ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keyword Models --- Key words designed to describe the fundamental, elemental, primordial, abstract stages of existence. --- Key words designed to describe both the upright, and reversed parts of The Numerical Tarot Deck. --- Key words designed to describe only the upright, illustrated parts of The Numerical Tarot Deck. --- A visual table showing the layout of The Numerical Tarot Deck, with links to larger images of each illustration. --- A library of links to the various mandalas seen around this site. --- I ain't no good poet who don't speak no good English... but I try. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philosophy and Opinions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mitigate-the-Bad vs. A Blind Oracle --- Is the tarot designed for healing and reassurance - or is it a blind oracle that tells it like it is? --- How dark is your dark night of the soul? --- An interesting attempt to organize sins and virtues upon The Spine of Tarot, described above! --- An ambitious attempt to define fundamental personality types with the use of The Quaternary, describe above. --- Another example of hair-splitting accuracy in the semantics of tarot interpretation. --- A theory about the nature of fate and will, as seen through the patterns that govern existence. --- A loosely developed idea about how tarot works. --- Who crafts the message of a reading? --- A tarot reading spread that uses important patterns in its design. --- A technique for traversing from relatively objective patterns to totally subjective interpretations with reduced ambiguity. --- Everything we put out there has archetypal roots, what are they? A unique approach for answering this question... --- Instructions & examples of how a series of overlapping opposites can reveal archetypal essence in five simple steps! |