Honza Posted August 26, 2018 Posted August 26, 2018 Hello Everybody. This is my first post. I used to be a member of the Aeclectic Tarot Forum. This topic I just started has been at the back of my mind for a while. This is something I have noticed about the Trump cards which does not get much mention. They come in pairs. The pairs go as follows: The Fool and The World (the first and last cards) The Magician and The Priestess The Empress and The Emperor The Pope and The Lovers The Chariot and Strength The Hermit and Fortune Justice and The Hanged Man Death couples with Judgement. In between Death and Judgement we get the final six cards. Temperance and The Devil The Tower and The Star The Moon and The Sun What is interesting is that the meanings of the cards which are paired together complement each other. There are four cards which stand out from the others because they are not placed NEXT to their complementary pair. The Fool and The World - in between these two we get all the other cards. Death and Judgement - in between these two we get the pairs of cards which are the most polarised. They are like light and dark. Or opposites. __________________
Honney Posted August 26, 2018 Posted August 26, 2018 Hello Honza, I pulled out in the morning one of your combination - death and judgement. Why do you think they are oposites or most polarized? Because I do not have this opinion when it comes to this two cards.So I am curious why do you feel them in this way :) I would add one more combination The High Priestess and The Emperor - it pooped up quite often for me Honney :)
Honza Posted August 26, 2018 Author Posted August 26, 2018 Hi Honney, The way I see it is that Death and Judgement are like death and life. The Death card represents darkness and fear while the Judgement card represents light and love. Can one have light without darkness? Or love without fear?
Honza Posted August 26, 2018 Author Posted August 26, 2018 I am sure that people will have their own interpretations of the cards. However it has always struck me that the Trump cards are in the pairs that I mentioned above.
PageOfCups Posted August 26, 2018 Posted August 26, 2018 I’ve always shipped the Heirophant with the High Priestess myself (although I find she’s far too ethereal to date a worshiper mortal when she’s easily “worshipped” material herself). And paired the Lovers card (VI) with the Devil (1 + 5 = 6) since they mirror each other. The latter representing codependency and unhealthy obsession. But that’s just me...
Honza Posted August 27, 2018 Author Posted August 27, 2018 The thing about the pairs of cards that I mentioned is that the pairs are adjacent to each other and they run in succession. Except for The Fool and The World which are the first and the last cards. Plus Death and Judgement which stand on either side of the six polarised cards.
EmpyreanKnight Posted August 28, 2018 Posted August 28, 2018 Hello Everybody. This is my first post. I used to be a member of the Aeclectic Tarot Forum. This topic I just started has been at the back of my mind for a while. This is something I have noticed about the Trump cards which does not get much mention. They come in pairs. The pairs go as follows: The Fool and The World (the first and last cards) The Magician and The Priestess Hi Honza! Welcome to the Forum. :) I remember how the Fool-World and the Magician-High Priestess pairings were discussed by Rachel Pollack in her Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom book. It was really enlightening.
Ratty Posted August 28, 2018 Posted August 28, 2018 Hi, Honza. The major arcana has quite a few ways of grouping. I like your pairs organisation. I learned it mostly as 1 (Fool), 7, 7, 7; the octaves method. But another I came on fairly early was 1-10 (Magician-Wheel) 3,2,1,3,2,1(Fool). I quite like looking at it thematically. So quite a few cards have something to say about knowledge, and if you get two you can compare and contrast. Fool: explore and learn indiscriminately. Magician: demand and get what you want. High Priestess: ask and hope to get what you need Hierophant: Communal knowledge divided into overt and secret Chariot: The result of a revelation. Questions asked about/of you. Harnessing Magician and High Priestess. Hermit: Knowledge through reason. Hanged Man: Spiritual self-knowledge through submission Temperance: Knowledge through synthesis. There are other themes like power and change this works for too.
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