[HPforGrownups] Re: Trelawney Tarrot reading again

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 150059

 
In a message dated 3/26/2006 3:58:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
srbecca at hotmail.com writes:

As a  tarot dabbler I can tell you that many people use playing cards to read 
 
"tarot".  The decks are really not that different...depending on what  you 
read (what deck).


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Sherrie here - bit more than a dabbler:
 
The Lesser Arcana aren't that different from playing cards - one was the  
ancestor of the other, with the Page and Knight being combined to create the  
Jack.  The appearance of The Tower in the reading, though, implies that the  deck 
Trelawney was using included the Major Arcana, which means she was using a  
true Tarot deck of 78 - and an older one at that, since very few decks refer to 
 it as "The Lightning-Struck Tower" anymore.  The system for reading playing  
cards is quite a bit different than that for reading Tarot, and the meanings 
of  many of the corresponding cards differ.  (The Ace of Spades versus the Ace 
 of Swords leaps to mind!)  Perhaps JKR isn't that familiar with the  
terminology of the Tarot - or perhaps she thought her audience wouldn't  be?
 
Trelawney's reading of The Tower card points up her pessimism  once again - 
this card is seldom read as darkly as she reads it.  Usually,  it's read as a 
drastic, sudden and unexpected change, in which something old is  swept away so 
that something new can begin.  Although the tower is being  destroyed, an 
almost universal inclusion in the illustrations of this card  is a shower of 
Hebrew yods falling from the sky - indicating salvation.
 
Plucking a manual at random from my shelf (happens to be the one for  the 
Tarot of the Old Path), the meaning for The Tower  states:
 
         "A traumatic change  that will lead to new awareness.  The collapse 
of old  beliefs.   A change of opinion.  Outgrowing the present  environment.  
Ending a relationship.  A possible divorce.  Ending  a friendship.  
Adversity.  Catastrophe.  Unhappiness.   Chaos.  Deception.  Downfall.  Loss of 
security.  Financial  loss.  Ruin.  Destruction.  Transition.  Favourable new  
opportunities.  Freedom/liberation only gained at some cost."  
 
It links the card to the element Fire, and the planet Mars.  ("Mars is  very 
bright tonight."?)
 
Sherrie
(Tarot reader since 1970)
 
 
 
 


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