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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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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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