Hello JMD, thanks for your reply. I agree with you in that the language of the birds is more a language of shape than a pigeon-based message system :) . At the same time, I find peculiar how, asides being described as a certain way to activate language, one finds many references from people who spea...

Lorredan wrote:I personally find it hard to understand why people do not understand that at the time of Tarot's birth, the people who played games were Catholic. Not Neo platonic, Humanists or even Scholastics- just plain old salt of the earth Catholics-

Amén!

The Bible is Tarot’s Little White Book.

EE

That’s a great quote from Guénon.

I would find fascinating to know how would you apply it to Temperance, for example. I am looking forward for any thoughts.

Thanks,

EE

This is a great quote, Rah: "The symbolic nature of medieval thought and expression has been subjected to a number of thoughtful scrutinies with much consequent illumination of dark places. An important result of these studies has been to reveal in the medieval mind a weblike structure of abst...

Just by chance, today I found this paragraph on a text by Rosalind Krauss I am currently reading: “The frame-within-a-frame is a way of entering the figure into the pictorial field and simultaneously negating it, since it is inside the space only as an image of its outside, its limits, its frame. Th...

I find amazing how the artifice of having the figures surpassing the card’s frame suck us into the image, or perhaps, such artifice have both the card’s characters and us meeting at an intermediate plane that is neither the card’s two-dimensional format, nor our tridimensional reality anymore. Would...

Hello Lorredan, Thanks for your thoughts on this. About his specific portion of your message: . Can we ever truthfully know the future? I have read the famous ones- like Nostradamus etc and they are couched in such vague terms. Joseph of the bible seemed to predict things well- but you have to wonde...

We are all familiar with all the hypotheses about the origin of the term “Language of the Birds”. recently I found something interesting. It has to do with the possibility that Delphi priest used carrier pigeons to receive messages from distant lands, messages they would deliver as prophecies before...

Intuitively, I would agree with Lorredan regarding suits and elements: Coins laying the ground as earth Wands burning as fire The sound of a sword cutting the air Cups receiving water But I wonder if I can say that I see that in the cards. I had never considered ethnicity in the cards, so, I will lo...