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.

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.

 

 

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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.