What I call the Machiavelli Quiz is your Sith quiz about the uses and abuses of power.
I am plodding along slowly with the answers. I think I am secretly a snail just pretending to be a serpent.
Tarot is a strange thing. My first deck was the Haindl which I saw in the window of a book shop in Germany. In those days you couldn't Google to see all the artwork. It was more like buying a pig in a bag. I also bought the Thoth tarot around the same time but while I loved the art work, I never really got into the whole fortune telling thing. It was funny that neither deck bear much resemblance to the ubiquitous Rider Waite deck and its countless clones. I was always put off by that fugly image of the magician on the cover. Other illustrations of other cards are actually much better. Especially the Hermit. It took a while for me to realize that was the same critter who appeared on that Led Zeppelin album. Tarot is a bit like Alice in Wonderland, once you start paying attention, it pops up everywhere
It was only when Catness invited me to join an online coven and sent me the amazing Fantastic Menagerie deck that I became addicted
I see the cards as a sort of Rorschach blob for the soul. Like you, I love science, logic and facts but after some very strange occurences in my own life directly connected to the Potter books (which I recognised as dripping in alchemical symbolism and lots of Classical mythology Easter eggs) I started looking for more metaphysical explanations
I must say Crowley's 2 of Pentacles with the serpents was just too damned uncanny and provided the source for my username along with Jacob Bernoulli and his spirals.
I see the symbolism of the cards as being a sneaky way of bypassing the logical rational mind and getting straight to the subconscious. The collective unconscious, archetypes and all that sort of stuff.
While I do have a set of runes - carved in green stones of course, I don't particularly resonate with them. Too sharp and pointy for my tastes. I like spirally and curly alphabets such as Thai, Burmese or Arabic.
Tea leaves reminds me far too much of Sybil Trelawney. One of the many reasons I love the 3rd Potter book so much is that I can so relate to Hermione Granger's reaction to so much divination hocus pocus. I still chuckle at the ghost in book 2 who insists on discussing nothing but cold hard facts.
I guess my inner Hermione loves the logic and structure of tarot cards compared to the vagueness of tea leaves. Runes comes somewhere between the two extremes I guess.
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Tarot and tea leaves
Date: 2021-04-22 01:09 pm (UTC)I am plodding along slowly with the answers. I think I am secretly a snail just pretending to be a serpent.
Tarot is a strange thing. My first deck was the Haindl which I saw in the window of a book shop in Germany. In those days you couldn't Google to see all the artwork. It was more like buying a pig in a bag. I also bought the Thoth tarot around the same time but while I loved the art work, I never really got into the whole fortune telling thing. It was funny that neither deck bear much resemblance to the ubiquitous Rider Waite deck and its countless clones. I was always put off by that fugly image of the magician on the cover. Other illustrations of other cards are actually much better. Especially the Hermit. It took a while for me to realize that was the same critter who appeared on that Led Zeppelin album.
Tarot is a bit like Alice in Wonderland, once you start paying attention, it pops up everywhere
It was only when Catness invited me to join an online coven and sent me the amazing Fantastic Menagerie deck that I became addicted
I see the cards as a sort of Rorschach blob for the soul.
Like you, I love science, logic and facts but after some very strange occurences in my own life directly connected to the Potter books (which I recognised as dripping in alchemical symbolism and lots of Classical mythology Easter eggs) I started looking for more metaphysical explanations
I must say Crowley's 2 of Pentacles with the serpents was just too damned uncanny and provided the source for my username along with Jacob Bernoulli and his spirals.
I see the symbolism of the cards as being a sneaky way of bypassing the logical rational mind and getting straight to the subconscious. The collective unconscious, archetypes and all that sort of stuff.
While I do have a set of runes - carved in green stones of course, I don't particularly resonate with them. Too sharp and pointy for my tastes. I like spirally and curly alphabets such as Thai, Burmese or Arabic.
Tea leaves reminds me far too much of Sybil Trelawney. One of the many reasons I love the 3rd Potter book so much is that I can so relate to Hermione Granger's reaction to so much divination hocus pocus. I still chuckle at the ghost in book 2 who insists on discussing nothing but cold hard facts.
I guess my inner Hermione loves the logic and structure of tarot cards compared to the vagueness of tea leaves. Runes comes somewhere between the two extremes I guess.