Who is Niko (http://www.myspace.com/irelandvision)? No idea except he sent a link of his website to my mailbox at MySpace where you can download some of his...
Gee, dt. I rather viewed this list as a future events discussion group. We tend to know just what is going to happen if we keep going on in this fashion. It's...
An explosion of clouds. Zeus and Odin duking it out? Odin and Shango? A bit flummoxed myself, i opend the Parrott Tarot (great name, especially if you...
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Lit lovers will recognize that title as part of Madame Sosostris's Tarot reading in The Wasteland. It's April, "the cruelest month, breeding/lilacs out of the...
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Apr 2, 2007 2:14 pm
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From: Rachel Pollack <Rachel@...> ... As you (and I hope most of us) know, the extra two cards come from standard printing technique; it's just...
p.s. Before encountering the Tarot in 1970 I knew of it only through Eliot and Jesse Weston. tlc [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Apr 2, 2007 5:07 pm
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Eliot says in his notes that he knew nothing of the Tarot, but included it because he was inspired by Jesse Weston's book about the Grail as a Pagan remnant,...
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Apr 2, 2007 5:08 pm
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The drowned Phoenician Sailor is the High Priestess. Ruled by water, both above and below (sailing and drowning). Mysterious foreign origin, ancient power, and...
My personal Thoth deck has nothing but Magicians, 78 of them, not 80, and I find the results quite refreshing, to say nothing of totally consistent! I also...
Phil, maybe you'd like the deck Wald Amberstone created a year or two ago. Every card has a name and number. For instance, the 7 of Swords has on it "Seven of...
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Apr 2, 2007 10:31 pm
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I thought Mme. Sosostris was the High Priestess. Actually, the Phoenician's name is Phlebas. IV. Death by Water Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, ...
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Apr 2, 2007 10:37 pm
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Do you think that Wald would take a blank piece of paper with $40.00 written on it, or is there sales tax & shipping as well? Phil In a message...
... standard printing technique; it's just much easier to print 80 cards than 72. The question is what to use them for. Mr. Kaplan decided to keep them blank,...
Went to the Circque De Soleil Love show.. WOW I highly recommend it (high, get it?! har har) Nicky And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love you...
The Lady of the Rocks is the Queen of Disks. I'm envisioning a card like Thoth's Queen of Disks, but dropping more rocks into the landscape. From the Book of...
Just lovely, Ellen. You are one of Tarot's -- and the Goddesses' chosen ones. I'm very grateful to you for your poetic and artistic and spiritual energies. You...
Terrific, Ellen. Maybe we could do a Wasteland Tarot. tlc ... From: ellen95503 To: exoteric_l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:46 AM Subject:...
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Apr 3, 2007 3:00 pm
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Yay, Ellen. I got to see the prototype for these in Greece. As Wonder Woman would say, Sweet Selene (not to mention Suffering Sappho), what lovely pictures. ...
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Apr 3, 2007 3:02 pm
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Beautiful. I think you did a great job of assigning them to trumps. And now I've got another place I can send folks to when I want to show off how talented...
... The best poet the world's ever seen, Sappho's pomes are all very keen. She wrote a good verse to bring in a purse but she much preferred flippin' the bean....
... Thanks! Some of them were tougher to find than others, and some intuitive fits had to be reassigned when my research couldn't turn up both a quote and an...