This site is, for the most part, non-linear, meaning these essays are presented, and are meant to be read, in no particular order. Click on whatever title looks interesting. If there is important background information from one essay that another essay references, there will usually be a link.
For a linear experience, where one idea builds upon another to a grand conclusion, try reading the book All Things Are Numbers.
It is suggested that the book All Things Are Numbers be read first, and all of the ideas being presented here, read later. But, jumping in here first is certainly allowed. However, some of the ideas being presented here are in fact expaned versions of ideas found within the book All Things Are Numbers, which are presented there in a particuar context that may not be understood, if the book is not read first. I'll let you decide which way to go.
If you would like to discuss the ideas found on this site, go to:
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Important Patterns of Nature
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The Book: All Things Are Numbers (Read This First ! !)
--- There are dozens of important patterns presented here. Be sure and read this first... or at least eventually. Then...
Simplicity Equals Truth (Or... Start here)
--- Every idea presented on this site is derived from a simple model consisting of four circles and a point.
The Invisible Body (Then, maybe here)
--- An index that reviews some of the various layers of ideas that are built out from the skeleton of four circles and a point.
Why Abstract Patterns? (Then, maybe start jumping around)
--- Two simple examples of what I mean by patterns in nature that are based on abstract thought.
Why Only Nine?
--- An explanation of why there are no 10s in my Minor Suits, and why there are two rows of 9 in my Major Trumps.
A Significant Signature of Nature
--- An ambitious effort to connect the sequence of the Majors to a classic temporal pattern seen everywhere.
The Cosmic Engine
--- An expaned explanation of how the lines of force that create a theoretical model of existence work.
Fun with Fibonacci
--- Some of the patterns presented here are ineffable, but they birth a universe that isn't. How?
The Three Unities!
--- Where is this Unity that so many spiritual philosophies instruct us to seek?
A Tetradic Twist
--- Adapting the Pythagorean Tetractys of 10 dots, to further defend the idea of nine numbers and a zero.
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The Underlying Structure of the Deck
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The Spine of Tarot
--- An ambitious effort to impose some balance, symmetry, contrast and consistency to the design of tradition.
. . . . . The Egyptian Hallway
--- Using a historically unfounded myth of origin to illustrate further, the spinal nature of The Numerical Tarot Deck.
Balance or Bias
--- Balance is boring and bias is unfair, which is the lesser evil?
. . . . . A Few Minor Changes
--- What is the functional advantage of a deck that is not consistent in its design?
. . . . . . . . . . Back to Basics
--- How a Qabalah/Astrology fusion creates bumps in the royal road of tarot.
Evolution of A Deck Design: The Matrix
--- The logical evolution of a matrix, to be used in the balanced, symmetrical, contrasting and consistent relation of ideas.
. . . . . The Deck Operating System
--- No card stands alone. Every card has 7 friends to relate to on the matrix of interconnected and related ideas.
. . . . . . . . . . The Accordionistic Dovetail Joint
--- A model to explain the relationship between existence and non-existence.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Numbers In Space
--- The matrix is not just two dimensional. The matrix is a manifest entity that exists in space!
The Quaternary and The Court Card Matrix
--- Rationale to explain the benefits of grouping the Majors into two rows of 9 with four left over.
. . . . . The Quaternary and the Elements
--- An interesting rethink of the traditional association of the four elements to the suits of tarot.
. . . . . . . . . . The Four Left Over
--- An interesting rethink of the last three cards of traditional Majors.
A Spectrum of Possibilities
--- Using a matrix as a device to organize speech and vocabulary and thereby aid in the semantics of tarot interpretation.
. . . . . The Semantics of Tarot Interpretation
--- A couple of examples of the hair-splitting accuracy of tarot semantics on a matrix, using spectrums of possibilities.
. . . . . . . . . . . Why Use Words?
--- Invented terminology to aid in the semantics of tarot interpretation.
Enjoy the Pretty Colors
--- What colors does this system associate with what numbers?
. . . . . A Crazy Quilt !
--- Using colors to duplicate the underlying structure of any deck built from this system.
Seasons
--- What seasons does this system associate with what suit?
Wave Nodes
--- A critical re-think of the idea of Chakras.
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Deck at a Glance: Keywords and Layout
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Keyword Models
--- Key words designed to describe the fundamental, elemental, primordial, abstract stages of existence.
Keyword Charts
--- Key words designed to describe both the upright, and reversed parts of The Numerical Tarot Deck.
Deck Charts
--- Key words designed to describe only the upright, illustrated parts of The Numerical Tarot Deck.
Deck Layout
--- A visual table showing the layout of The Numerical Tarot Deck, with links to larger images of each illustration.
Mandalas
--- A library of links to the various mandalas seen around this site.
Verses
--- I ain't no good poet who don't speak no good English... but I try.
Art
--- I ain't no good artist neither... but I try.
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Philosophy and Opinions
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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?
Cross-cultural vs. TRANS-cultural
--- An important distinction between the heterogeneous approach of tradition vs. the homogenous approach offered here.
Good and Bad, Right and Wrong, Smile and Frown
--- Is there such a thing as good and bad? Does the tarot have good and bad cards?
. . . . . Stop Being So Human!
--- Should I be allowed to end your life without any consequences? Can you abandon love, for Divinity?
. . . . . . . . . . Be Gray Every Day
--- Enlightenment, endarkenment and engrayment!
The Reasoned Response
--- Can you differentiate between your initial reaction and a reasoned response?
. . . . . Content + Context = Meaning
--- You can't say anything definitive about anything without establishing a reference frame of context.
. . . . . . . . . . A Daisy Chain of Meaning
--- To acknowlege context... or to not acknowledge context, that is the question.
The Not-You Factor
--- Do you want others to believe what you believe? Or do you only want to belive what you want to believe?
Verse 82 of The Tao Te Ching!
--- The Tao Te Ching, and the philosophy behind the patterns presented here, have many similarities, but some differences too.
. . . . . Behold The Absentia!
--- We are here because it isn't. What is The Absentia?
The Totality of Reality
--- A significant pattern of realization... a choice of reality.
The Way
--- The totality of reality is a two way street.
Knowing vs. Psychic Knowing
--- When intuition becomes omniscience.
. . . . .Signs of Knowing
-- How do we psychically know what we know, ya know?
What is an Archetype?
--- Emotional affinity or inherited influence. Transcendental essence to anthropomorphised personification.
. . . . . Archetype or Stereotype?
--- Are the Halloween costumes being worn by your little children actually insulting stereotypes... or archetypes?
The KEYS of Understanding
--- Do not underestimate how many words have entered your brain in the service of understanding symbols.
Consider the Source
--- Are you a worthless entity in need of cleansing and purification?
Rules are for Suckers!
--- Are you a sucker who plays by the rules, or a free thinking person?
. . . . . Fact, Faith and Doubt
--- Is doubt and skepticism healthy, or a cancer that threatens belief?
. . . . . . . . . . The Warship of Worship
--- Are those who don't worship in a house of worship with a congragation going to Hell?
Stuck in the Mudaphor
--- Is a one handed orgasm really the best kind?
. . . . . The Vortex of Knowing
--- Who is the slave and who is the master?
. . . . . . . . . . The Tether
--- The pitfalls of a lopsided perspective.
The Pentacle Person
--- The benefits of a lopsided perspective.
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Application of ideas
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
--- An outline for a possible story, based on the classic patterns described above.
An Alchemistic Recipe
--- How dark is your dark night of the soul?
Sins and Virtues
--- An interesting attempt to organize sins and virtues upon The Spine of Tarot, described above!
. . . . . Prudence
. . . . . Justice
. . . . . Courage
. . . . . Love
. . . . . Wisdom
All of Human Behavior
--- An ambitious attempt to define fundamental personality types with the use of The Quaternary, describe above.
The Empress and Motherhood
--- Another example of hair-splitting accuracy in the semantics of tarot interpretation.
Fate vs. Will
--- A theory about the nature of fate and will, as seen through the patterns that govern existence.
Divine Mechanics
--- A loosely developed idea about how tarot works.
. . . . . A Binary Buddy
--- Who crafts the message of a reading?
. . . . . . . . . . The Binary Spread
--- A tarot reading spread that uses important patterns in its design.
Numerical Etymology
--- A technique for traversing from relatively objective patterns to totally subjective interpretations with reduced ambiguity.
. . . . . The Forest is the Trees
--- Everything we put out there has archetypal roots, what are they? A unique approach for answering this question...
. . . . . . . . . . Shake the Trees !
--- Instructions & examples of how a series of overlapping opposites can reveal archetypal essence in five simple steps!
Dreams and Dreaming
--- I think, therefore I dream.
. . . . .The Dream Analysis Calculator
--- If you are playing the Shake the Trees game, you might want to experiment with this gadget!
Mudras
--- Hand gestures to aid in the meditation upon each numerical concept put forth in every other model on this site.
Mantras
--- A mantra for creation, existence and consciousness.
Music
--- Is it possible to make beautiful music with eight notes instead of seven?
Maze
--- Actually... a labyrinth!
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