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- there was no division between State and Church- religious a...

Ha! Catholic was not Catholic as we know it now. Catholic was pagan and superstitious and violent and astrological and social and beneficial.....political and expedient - where you lived determined where and to whom you belonged (politically, ecclesiastically and socially) I have no problem with Mrs...

This thread is split from this discussion on the Chariot: http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&p=288 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If you were a Catholic, the Chariot is the Church, the occupant is you. The Dove is the Spirit of God directing...

Nice bolanggu - wonder if it worked?
http://www.realdiehl.com/images/DSD_Ale ... rowley.jpg This one I like !

I have read RAH's post with the quote from René Guénon about 500 or 5000 times and have decided I am obtuse. I can see how the writer views the symbol of Cross; it is a symbol because of the death of Christ- historic and subjective when I look at it. Well not quite, I think it looked like a T- but t...

I thought this link might be of interest. It is an Essay by Ioannis Marathakis written in 2006 about Tarot symbolism. http://www.hermetics.org/tarocchi.html I agree with everything he has written except his final conclusions :D I have come to a different conclusion. I guess it is a case of ''who kno...

Oh how I love these cards! There have been other threads, but the most recent was this one on AT http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=92463&page=1&pp=10 (as an aside, you guys are wonderful allowing links to other forums!) I can remember when I first joined a forum- I was so persnicket...

Thanks RAH, Yep that has got it sorted! I just had to think about it for a minute; and change my inner view of Cold been slow. as that is air- hence Swords. It is just a matter of how your inner eye sees it. Cold =slow= Lazy Cold wind- goes straight through you, instead of around you - thats how I u...

Hi RAH (or HarHi) 'Tis your fault I ponder much on this ;) I have no trouble assigning elements to 14 cards of the Atouts. It is the other 8 mixed cards I have a problem with. I understand the use of the Sanguine/Melancholic/Phelgmatic/Choleric correspondences, but for my head I need the elements, s...

Hehe EE! I love the language of the Birds thoughts. That leap you made is perfectly logical- those cunning Priests! It reminds me of the Oracle of Delphi and the site of the oracle. The priestess of the oracle at Delphi was known as the Pythia. Apollo spoke through his oracle, who had to be an older...