It’s important here to remember that the Tower wasn’t always just some lightning-struck disaster. But then the Tower comes in to wreck it all, naturally. I think it’s pretty easy to see the High Priestess and Hermit sharing overlapping themes of teaching and inner wisdom. It’s the column of High Priestess, Hermit, and Tower. Beyond that, it’s sort of a giant shrug.īecause I’m self-reflective, I want to explore the second column first: that’s where the Hermit lies. Lindsay Mack of Tarot for the Wild Soul has several podcast episodes about these “lines of the tarot” ( you can listen or read the transcript to the first one here). I actually tend to gloss over the system in my lesson on the major arcana after explaining how you can see the application of individual force in the first column (Magician, Strength, and Devil) and the maturation of controlled, unified power in the final column (Chariot, Temperance, and World). The cosmic external forces of the final seven (Devil–World).īut more specific that, it can be tough to see. The development of abstract inner qualities of the second seven cards (Strength–Temperance) and The external person/embodied persona nature of the first seven cards (Magician–Chariot) In general terms, it helps identify patterns in the three sets of seven: The septenary system creates three rows of seven columns, where the Fool journeys through the first seven, then the next, and finally the last seven-a structure I offer as an advanced option in my Tarot Tableau system. The host Nick explained how he likes to use the 1–9 system in tarot more than the septenary (1–7) system that is baked into some esoteric philosophy used when interpreting the cards. I haven’t received my pre-order of the book yet as of this writing, but I was listening to an interview with Scolnick about the book on the In Search of Tarot podcast when I got curious to explore something I’ve been putting off. It’s quick because it’s based on the aforementioned ad-hoc study of numbers! That’s especially helpful for the minor arcana! And I think that’s what Scolnick’s book will help me/us do, so I’m definitely going to be exploring her concepts in greater depth than my own haphazard ad-hoc study has provided.įor a quick, free lesson on how to apply number and suit to read the minor arcana better, download my Life Line Tarot Card Interpretation Guide. ) List of Numerological Mirrors in Tarotīut as useful as it is to see the pattern of the numerological mirrors in tarot (hello, control and catastrophe in the 7s!), it’s good to get outside of tarot to explore the numerology first and then bring it back to your cards and see what gets revealed. It’s a long story, which you can read on the blog. Fun fact: I thought about changing my name to Leo Moon Rising but didn’t know why, and it turned out my rising sign was Leo, not Capricorn as I thought. (That I am a Virgo Moon is only a more recent revelation and beautiful confirmation for me of the choice I made when I thought I was a Leo Moon. Because I’m a life path number 9 and destiny number 9, that’s actually why I chose Hermit’s Mirror (Moon as the Sun’s Mirror) for my mystical moniker. Both shine light in the dark places (physically and mentally) and they are both at the end of some inner culmination. You can see the reflective nature of, say, the Hermit (9) and the Moon (18 -> 1+8 = 9). (The perfect example is the Lovers and Devil as forms of 6.) Such a major-focused method can be really powerful. Major arcana that share a reduced single digit have complementary and/or overlapping lessons to teach us. If you’ve read Mary K Greer’s Tarot for Your Self or Archetypal Tarot, you know how some of this works.
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