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Re: Trumps VI- XIII

Michael Hurst, Is there a reason you have to persist with your long-winded diatribes regarding New Age beliefs? I don’t think anyone on this thread subscribes to those beliefs – least of all me. The Calvino reference was to extempore literary practices (he simply made up stories based on the random ...

Re: Trumps VI- XIII

Marco wrote: to me it seems meaningful that the three cards appear in this obvious chronological order. If they appeared in a different order, we would find in tarot a different, less understandable, story. But we are dealing with an object whose very reason for being is to be constantly shuffled i...

Re: Trumps VI- XIII

Marco, I partially agree with Dummet on whether “the sequence as a sequence has any special symbolic meaning. I am inclined to think that it did not”; but I do not believe the subjects chosen were “random” - there had to be a source that accounts for at least 21 subjects, specifically a 3X7 structur...

Re: The Popess

Ross, Thanks for the clarificaiton of my misinterpetation of the slipper/"rosette". Any ideas in regard to the "Papelardie (Pope-Holiness or Hypocrisy)"? An early (1500) indication of why the papess would get replaced? I also found it oddd that the figure had the black veil of a ...

Re: The Popess

This is interesting: Harley 4425 f. 11 Papelardie Description: Detail of a miniature of an allegorical figure of Papelardie ( Pope-Holiness or Hypocrisy ). Author Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun Title Roman de la Rose Origin Netherlands, S. (Bruges) Date c. 1490-c. 1500 Language French Script G...

Re: The Popess

The PMB "Papess" as Faith-as-Franciscan nun; my rationale being that the new Sforzan regime found it expedient to hold up Franciscan Poverty as a virtue to be embraced at the point in time. Consider these images of St. Francis marrying "Lady Poverty" - while not exactly a nun cer...

Re: Temperance

[this probably needs to be moved to the Sun card] Mike H wrote: That's excellent, about the bead necklace. I never noticed it on the PBM. It was fresh on my mind – I had recently painted that card onto to a wood board for that bag toss game (aka “cornhole”; the other board was of course a lunar imag...

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