Hi, Ross, Are these two paragraphs fragments from some other post, or addressed to someone else, or something? I have no idea what you're talking about in the second one. You wrote: "Earlier interpreters, both documentary and iconography, didn't give it that reading. The closest they come is He...

Hi, Ross, This is fun, by the way. Thanks for responding so much. It is just hard to keep up... holiday things still going on here. I hope you're enjoying it. For me it's more than fun. My project for 2014 is to write a new version of The Riddle of Tarot , and get it online in some form or other. (I...

Hi, Ross, My first response is, huh? You're misunderstanding me. The rest of the post explains that it was part of a process, not just a simpleminded rejection of something obvious. I'm not surprised that I've misunderstood much of what you've been writing. However, you never get around to offering ...

Hi, Ross, The Devil is an interesting figure in terms of the Dummett's 3 Segments, Shephard's Three Worlds, or my own 6/9/7 model. In that regard, the first noteworthy aspect of your posts is that you reject Dummett, Shephard, and my own analysis, and put the Devil with the allegorical section rathe...

Hi, Ross, Happy New Year! Thanks for the posts -- a nice present for the holidays. Like Marco, I really wanted to comment earlier but, you know... holidays. Plus, once I got started rambling... well, you know about that too. So apologies for the delay, the length, and the rambling. CELEBRATING 2014 ...

Hi, Mike, it's good to know that you have given up Decker's idea of the Bagat as the genius of “Tabula Cebitis”, “the helpful spirit, in Christianity known as a good or guardian angel” . Seeing the card as representative of the basest of earthbound conditions certainly makes much more sense! I haven...

Hi, Huck, Glad to see that you read my post. Let me explain one little detail, so that you might understand it a bit more. The detail is the use of quotations marks. Some people misuse them in place of bold or italics, just to emphasize a word or phrase. I don't do that, because it is often confusin...

Hi, Mike, Dummett's "three groups" in a "Dummett and Icongraphy" thread. For over a decade I have been talking about Dummett's iconographic contributions, emphasizing the three sections analysis, and for most of that time I was the only person talking about it, so I should probab...

Hi, Ross, For me the "hierarchy of light" is sufficiently explanatory for the ranking of the four cards Lightning, Star, Moon, and Sun. Cosmological considerations, how they might represent some particular text or cosmograph, miss the point, in my opinion. They are just a vivid and easy-to...

Hi, Kate, I assume—and, please, correct me where I’ve erred—that Shepherd essentially used a revised Sacrobosco geocentric model The basic cosmological scheme is not in any way proprietary or unique to Sacrobosco. In terms of the four elements, seven planets, and some (one or more levels) higher rea...