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About this blog

Basically a blog about my thoughts on the technical aspects of my deck project as I am working on it. Comments very welcome, open to discussion. I actually have no alpha readers on it yet and not even remotely prepared for it to be outside of theory yet. Covering philosophies, concepts, art and even poetry going into the project. And hey, if it clarifies the traditional tarot too, it's doing what I want it to do. 

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Deck Creation Insights

The Cardinal Virtues and the Tarot

We see two different approaches to the Cardinal Virtues in the Tarot. There are a set of them displayed in the Major Arcana, but there are also cards in the minor arcana that also address them.  Most of us are familiar with the major arcana ones: Justice (VIII or XI) Wisdom/Prudence (the Hermit, IX) Strength/Courage/Fortitude (VIII or IX) Temperance (XIV)   The Cardinal virtues come from Classical Antiquity. They predate Christianity and were debated by Socrate
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Reintroducing Court Cards

Who are the Ladies

Continuing on the previous post, The Ladies are the second of the forgotten court cards. I am giving this another post so discuss if you want, the merits and problems. This is the way It's being presented in the Travail, but I think it could easily be slipped into a traditional oracular Tarot deck.   The Lady is the counterpart to the Knight, a riding court card. The Visconti-Sforza deck had her depicted directly ahorse, just like the knight. It can certainly be done that way, traditio
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Reintroducing Court Cards

Who are the Maidens?

At one point in time the court had six positions rather than four. The maiden card and the lady card, one female standing position and one riding female position. Tribulation restores these to the deck. it is to satisfy Hermetic principles. I don't know why, precisely, the oracular tarot has not restored these already, other than to continue the tradition of keeping the deck exactly as the French tarot deck 78 cards. Over the history of the playing deck it makes sense to condense the courts. But
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Que qualia, Qualium? Bijective counting

In my quest to simplify card meanings, I reached out to concepts coming from Theory of Consciousness studies and the philosopher Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964). He studied Linguistics, philosophy, ethics and logic, and he coined this term "Qualia." Basically, qualia are the building blocks of conscious existence. They are subjective, ineffable, and nonphysical. And that's perfect for the interpretations of cards, because that is what gives the cards a varying amount of interpretations. That i
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Poetry and the Tarot

Bonus Content: Poetry and the Major Arcana

Did you ever have one of those inspirations that kept you up all night? When I was starting into the Major arcana, this was the sort of kickoff to doing it that I came up with. I wanted to save it for a much later post, but after bogging people down with the first entry, maybe a little coolness is in order. Call it a thank you for sticking around.   Its a poem. But its also in a matrix. but it's also the whole major arcana for the five element deck. and it works out so that you can rea
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What was I thinking? From TTRPG to wait, this is legit

Mostly it began with storytelling. I am a geek, really. Table-top roleplaying has been a thing my husband and I have done together for a long time. It's pretty much how we met, but after D&D went to 4E back in '07 we diverged our interests and went to different systems. He likes the dice heavy structure of pathfinder and I wound up in the more story centric tables of the White Wolf games. I leapt in wallet first for VTM 5E when it came out in 2018.    So, what does that have to do
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