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Tarot Astrology Full Moon Shevat 5785 Jewish & Western Hermetic Correspondences according to the Tarot Netivot system
The Wheel of the Jewish Calendar makes a major shift finds us halfway through the month of Shevat with the Full Moon February 12. The month of Shevat is represented by Major Arcana card VI Ohevet ‘The Lovers/Choice’. The third decan of Aquarius begins on February 9.
The bottom row, representing the Jewish calendar according to the Tarot Netivot system now features Major Arcana card VI for the month of Shevat; and the Mother of Wands ‘Hospitality’ for the beginning of the week of the Full Moon February 9.
The top line features Tarot cards as they relate to today’s Western Hermetic Astrology using primarily the Tabula Mundi Tarot Silver Edition by M.M.Melleen. This works with the Solar Calendar. These are the correspondences that Benebell Wen uses when working with the SKT and astrology. As we move into the third decan of Aquarius, the King of Cups replaces the Knight of Swords.
The bottom line features Tarot cards as they relate to the Hebrew calendar according to Tarot Netivot. I am using the Lurianic Tarot by Basilikon — one of the few truly Jewish Tarot decks out there and certainly one of the most beautiful; and the hand painted Illuminated Tarot Starlight Rainbows edition. This works with the Lunar Calendar.
There are no overlaps of correspondences between the two systems for this period.
The middle cards are animal, crystal, and plant correspondences according to T. Susan Chang in the book Tarot Correspondences. These are tied to the Major Arcana cards as they appear in Tarot Netivot representing each Jewish month, Jewish holidays, and major lunar and solar events as well as to the Western Hermetic Major Arcana in the top rows. These are taken from various decks in my collection. Bald Eagle; Magpie; Otter; and Peacock; Chalcedony; Emerald; Garnet; Topaz; Turquoise; Jasper; Calcite; and Rose Quartz; and Apple; Cherry; Fir; Olive; and Orchid. Noteworthy is that one card, the Eight of Pentacles in the Telluric Tarot, has two correspondences for the month of Aquarius — Garnet and the fruit tree Cherry.
Existing cards will be exchanged with new incoming cards as the wheel of time turns. Lunar phases change every 3 - 4 days; decans change every 10 days. Months change every 28 - 31 days. Note: I am working with 2 different systems to mark the months, one solar and the other lunar. I shall try to post a new board every time there is significant movement.
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I will return to the tarot deck of Bologna later on, when I have assembled my mind and my health decently, but just a note to myself here:
Until 1725, Bolognese tarot had two female Popes (no Empress) and two male Popes (no Emperor), and a long succession of Popes had no reason to comment on this stylistic choice, until 1725. The Popesses and the Popes were replaced with four Moors, since exotification of foreigners was apparently all nice and dandy at the time. Bologna, boasting the world's oldest university, was located within the Papal States at the time (long before the unification of Italy), so the Papal administration had a say on what was allowed to be printed.
Another note to myself: Take a closer look at revolutionary French decks without Empress, Emperor, Kings, Queens and Jacks.
Another note to myself: Compare the Paris pattern and the Rouen pattern!!!
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Guided Visualization
Guided visualization is interesting tool. There are seminars people do this with Tarot and it can be very interesting at times. However, there is one more interesting thing that the old Orders used to do some time ago. That is, we "guide" the visualization 40-50% of the way and we let the other 60-50% develop by themselves.
So for example, we decide to walk the path of Severity to Mercy, Gevurah to Chesed that is sometimes shown as Justice(other ways to view it as well). We imagine we step through the card for example and we observe, allowing what we need to change to change. Lets say we end up in a very big courtroom corridor with lawyers and prosecutors rushing in to work on cases in the smaller rooms on the sides, with a marble black and white floors and giant statue in front of us similar to the artwork on the deck we use.
Or maybe in an old kingsroom where the King had to decide a case between his ministers, so a very different setting and one that is solely decided by one, although again based on purely human decision of what is appropriate and what isn't.
If we could allow these setting to show up by itself that is even nicer, but even if we decide to choose it or base it exactly on the cards, after we are there the important factor is to act like in the real world, there is some part of this that comes from us, what we think and see, how we feel etc. and that we can choose, but to be able to let go and not control what happens outside. Someone may come to talk with us, or some event may happen that shows us what we need to know. Some of the rooms may call to us and lead elsewhere etc.
That was called "working with the paths". We can see the Tree of Life as reflecting the processes around us and based on what we have problems with we can walk the paths there to understand it fully, deeply and balance it out. And again, while guided visualization is very interesting, its important to allow big part of what we see to come in spontaneous and not controlled way, as that is a more direct and powerful way of divination.
Similar to I Ching/Yi Jing where we have text for some active lines and the idea if we have more then one active we have to make the text ourselves, one can say we have some Images on the cards as a guide in what direction we may want to start, but the actual images we divine based on can come in a more free and unbiased way.
There are schools relate dto Kabbalah that work a lot with that, there are rules to it. For example if one sees a dark place they don't want to go in, they should go in imagining they are protected. And other stuff like that, more info in some topic somewhere around the forums. But even if one does it without rules in a more free form can still be very beneficial for understanding stuff, in my humble view. : )
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High Priestess
Cards mean things, though. Either a personal view is in line with the interpretation, or it isn't. If it isn't, it should be discarded. Otherwise we aren't reading cards, we're handling cards but doing something else. Sometimes the meanings we look up can be useless. Waite's pretentious blather about the "Second Marriage of the Prince who is no longer of this world; she is the spiritual Bride and Mother, the daughter of the stars and the Higher Garden of Eden" certainly is. It's got nothing to do with the questions people normally ask when they consult the cards. The trick is not to look for PAMs (Personally Assigned Meanings) but to find more grounded interpretations. PAMs tend to be idiosyncratic and one person's PAMs won't work for others. We know from the card itself that the High Priestess studies the Torah. She's erudite, scholarly. We can work with that. From Moderately QuickSilver: "A mature woman, A serious woman, precise, knowledgeable, reserved, A wife, A mother, An older sister, A female boss, A female doctor or professional, A woman with a degree, Conscience, Spirituality, Study, Knowledge, Deep understanding, Faith, Someone who knows what to say and what not to say, Silence, Reserve, Secret, with bad cards a superficial floozy, A gossip, Dogmatic, Strict, Ignorant, Inimical." All of that is just the High Priestess meanings and symbols put in the context of everyday life.0- katrinka replied to Adamgee75's topic in Individual Card Meanings -
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High Priestess
I've had a lot of fun with this one from a Qabalistic Tree of Life perspective (for which I caught a lot of flak from the esoteric members on Aeclectic). Paul Foster Case points out that it represents the higher nature of the Moon while the Moon card itself shows the lower nature. I think they both can deliver surprises, but those of the High Priestess are less likely to be unpleasant. I've written a couple of essays that compare the two, and have tinkered with their astrological correspondences.0- Barleywine replied to Adamgee75's topic in Individual Card Meanings -
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Yes I’ve looked up the meaning before, I was just interested in others personal views0- Adamgee75 replied to Adamgee75's topic in Individual Card Meanings
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