Re: Incongruences in Oswald Wirth’s Tarots

11
Dwtw

The 10 pairs on the 10 spheres are the hexagrams that have 3 yang and 3 Yin lines.
The three horizontal paths have pairs that are palindromes.
The fourth palindrome pair connects to the Crown.
The two sides of he Tree are mirror images of each other, i.e.,
turn the pairs upside down on one side, and they become the pairs on the other side.
As the pairs descend from the Crown, they share 2 trigrams between the spheres they connect.
The meanings of the hexagrams were not taken into account, only the structure.

Litllwtw
RLG

Re: Incongruences in Oswald Wirth’s Tarots

12
Huck wrote,
As general roles in the Kabbala tree I regard ...

Mega Father = 1 Kether
Father = 2 Chokmah
Mother = 3 Binah
Son = 6 Tiphereth
Daughter = 9 Yesod
Mega Mother = 10 Malkuth

**********
The assignments in Kabbalah are very fluid. In the Zohar, Tiphereth is the son/bridegroom and Malkuth the daughter/bride.. Yesod corresponds to the reproductive organs of both genders, but is especially the circumcised phallus. Chokmah corresponds to the Greek Sophia, a feminine personification in several books of the Hebrew Bible, even if Cordovero makes it male and the father - for which there is also precedent. Kether, producing both sides, could be above gender.
At the picture Hex. 53/54 is given to the position of Kether (= Mega Father)
Hex. 54 is in the I-Ching the "marrying girl". The marrying girl in the role of the Mega Father? The marrying girl let me associate the hex. to 9 Yesod
I have the English translation of Wilhelm. He says "above we have Chen, the eldest son, and below, the youngest daughter. The man leads and the girl follows him in gladness. . . . THE MARRYING MAIDEN shows a young girl under the guidance of an older man who marries her. So despite the title, both genders are represented, with the male dominant, your "mega father", or at least "eldest son" (if the en sof is the highest principle).
At the picture Hex. 17/18 is given to the position of Malkuth (= Mega Mother)
Hex 17 has the name "Nachfolge" in Richard Wilhelms edition, which is connected to the expression "Nachfolger" and a Nachfolger is usually the son.
The Nachfolge I would associate to 6 Tiphereth.
Wilhelm says, "The trigram Tui,the Joyous, whose attribute is gladness is above: Chen, the Arousing, which has the attribute of movement, is below. Joy in movement induces following. The Joyous is the youngest daughter, while the Arousing is the eldest Son. An older man defers to a young girl and shows her consideration. By this he moves her to follow him."
Again, both genders. This seems particularly appropriate to Malkuth as bride, corresponding to the Shulamite of the Song of Solomon.
At the picture Hex. 31/41 is given to the position of Binah (= Mother)
Hex. 31 has the name "Einwirkung" and Richard Wilhelm adds "(Werbung)". Both is interpreted by Wilhelm as a male activity, the google translator makes "impact and advertising" out of it, but Wilhelm thinks of a strategy how to get a woman.
But Binah is definitely marked in Kabbala as the Mother-function. Chokmah has the father role.
31 is about Influence, to which Wilhelm adds "Wooing" : "In courtship, the masculine principle must seize the initiative and place itself below the feminine principle." Well, if you take Binah as the feminine and the masculine as below it, that would be Chesed, loving-kindness.
At the picture Hex. 32/42 is given to the position of Chokmah (father role).
Hex. 32 is given to "Dauer" and Wilhelm interprets marriage and the dominant role of women in it. That's Binah and not Chokmah.'
The theme of 32 is "duration", and it is the inverse of the preceding (31). "The hexagram represents the institution of marriage as the enduring union of the sexes. During courtship the young man subordinates himself to the girl, but in marriage which is represented by the coming together of the eldest son and the eldest daughter, the husband is the directing and moving force outside, while his wife, inside, is gentle and submissive." This does not seem to me to show the dominant role of women in marriage. In 31 (courtship), the female is dominant, in 32 (marriage), the male is dominant, so above Binah, in Chokmah. Well, that fits the Cordovero model fairly well.

So we have an interesting interpretive tool, or interpretation-generator.