Post by water on Feb 13, 2008 7:38:05 GMT -5
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Stewart Farrar, a witch, indicates:
"The Tarot consists of seventy-eight cards, and is clearly the ancestor of the bridge-player's pack. Fifty-six of them are divided into four suits-Cups (corresponding to Heart), Swords (Spades), Wands (Clubs), and Pentacles (Diamonds). Each suit has the Ace to Ten and the Knave- in between the Page and the Queen. (The Knight is sometimes called the Prince, and the Page the Princess.) The four suits represent the four occult elements-their usual allocation being Cups for Water, Swords for Air, Wands for Fire, and Pentacles for Earth...
In The Occult: A History we are told:
"Apart from the Greater Arcana [in the Tarot deck], there are also the fifty-six cards of the Lesser Arcana, the four suits that have become the ordinary playing cards of today, with its rods, (or wands), cups, swords and shekels (or pentacles) changing into clubs, hearts, spades and diamonds. It is worth observing in passing, that we have here two rod-shaped objects-wands and swords-and two circular objects-cups and money-and since one of the commentators mentions that wands and money were used in mediaeval methods of divination, it would not be inaccurate to see them as related to the yarrow stalks and coins of the I Ching. Each suit has a king, queen, knight and knave, as well as cards numbered from one to ten."
I PLAYED MY SHARE OF SPADES AND BID WHIZ BUT WHEN I BECAME A NEW CREATURE ONE DAY I DECIDED TO LOOK INTO ONE OF MY SO CALLED CLEAN HOBBIES AND IT WAS JUST AS FOUL AS MY OTHER HOBBIE ASTROLOGY.
GOD BLESS AND Z I AM PRETTY SURE UNO IS COOL
Stewart Farrar, a witch, indicates:
"The Tarot consists of seventy-eight cards, and is clearly the ancestor of the bridge-player's pack. Fifty-six of them are divided into four suits-Cups (corresponding to Heart), Swords (Spades), Wands (Clubs), and Pentacles (Diamonds). Each suit has the Ace to Ten and the Knave- in between the Page and the Queen. (The Knight is sometimes called the Prince, and the Page the Princess.) The four suits represent the four occult elements-their usual allocation being Cups for Water, Swords for Air, Wands for Fire, and Pentacles for Earth...
In The Occult: A History we are told:
"Apart from the Greater Arcana [in the Tarot deck], there are also the fifty-six cards of the Lesser Arcana, the four suits that have become the ordinary playing cards of today, with its rods, (or wands), cups, swords and shekels (or pentacles) changing into clubs, hearts, spades and diamonds. It is worth observing in passing, that we have here two rod-shaped objects-wands and swords-and two circular objects-cups and money-and since one of the commentators mentions that wands and money were used in mediaeval methods of divination, it would not be inaccurate to see them as related to the yarrow stalks and coins of the I Ching. Each suit has a king, queen, knight and knave, as well as cards numbered from one to ten."
I PLAYED MY SHARE OF SPADES AND BID WHIZ BUT WHEN I BECAME A NEW CREATURE ONE DAY I DECIDED TO LOOK INTO ONE OF MY SO CALLED CLEAN HOBBIES AND IT WAS JUST AS FOUL AS MY OTHER HOBBIE ASTROLOGY.
GOD BLESS AND Z I AM PRETTY SURE UNO IS COOL
...can we make up a fun little game with it? ...yes....but most christians will not even bring that tool of divination in their House. why ? somethin deep down is saying dont go there........
