AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted July 6, 2018 Posted July 6, 2018 The five of cups is my card of the day. I'm working with a 1928 printing of Tarocco Piemontese this week. I made my peace with mentally transposing pictorial cards onto the pips, but in my heart I feel guilty about doing so My 5 of cups, conflicted, this morning led me to wonder how You read pips. And why that method. I don't believe there were any books on TdM pips when I entered the tarot world.
Flaxen Posted July 6, 2018 Posted July 6, 2018 I love the colours in that card. [emoji4] When it came to reading TdM decks, I needed a system which made sense to me. I started by following Mel’s Pips on Aeclectic which was really interesting and a coherent system. I’ve kept some of the associations still so my elemental associations with the suits are different: •Batons - Earth - Melancholic •Cups - Air - Sanguine • Deniers - Water - Phlegmatic • Epees - Fire - Choleric The 5 (Pentad) is one of the ‘marriage’ numbers. I would interpret it as a desire to connect but due to its airy, sanguine nature it is not lasting. A sort of fleeting, emotional infatuation - drifting where the wind blows. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Penthasilia Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 I dissected all the systems I could find for reading the pips, and came across the one that really gels with me (scientist at heart, I still have that crazy word document). I think, in the end, if you find the system that really works for you and stick with it- it ends up being so much better than just the superimposed meanings of the illustrated pips.
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