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Help! I'm making Tarot for the Didactic

 
 
Aertho
20:24 / 20.03.03
I'm redesigning a Kabbalic Tarot to encapsulate meaning that can be understood plainly(Which may seem strange by the end of this thread -this whole project being my own attempt at a mapmaking modernist approach to tarot divination...).

Anway, I'm working on the Court cards, and deciding exactly what to describe them as is giving me difficulty. I've decided to just put a single word on the Court Cards -one word that exemplifies it in relationship to its weapon/suit. I'm trying to stay away from linguistic/semantic overlaps, so certain verbage is instantly thrown out -you'll see when we get to the Knights.

So here's the system, and I hope you guys can help me fill in the blanks:
Name of Suit -mystical weaponry
King of Suit -gunpowder: energy and generative energy behind the weapon
Queen of Suit -bullet: conceptual fractal-like pattern that "solidifies" the weapon
Knight of Suit -gun being aimed and fired: how the super-self manifests the weapon
Page -weapon's impact on the environment/relationship/individual/etc

You dig?

Wands -Volition
Kings -Ambition
Queen -Confidence
Knight -Courage
Page -Vigor

Cups -Copassion
Kings -Empathy
Queen -Benevolence
Knight -Devotion
Page -Kindness

Swords -Analysis
Kings -? ...Theory, I need a word that describes the will or energy that contributes to generating "thinking"
Queen -Intelligence
Knight -? ...Execution, I need a word that descibes wild and controlled individual use of "thinking" BUT NOT Judgment or War or anything that SOUNDS like Sphere 5
Page -Logic

Pentacles -Manifestation
Kings -Evolution
Queen -Experience
Knight -Patience
Page -Growth

ALL of these are open to debate and suggestion. But... I like how all the Queens end in -ence, or -ance, or whatever. I like how all the knights have a very old-school feel of "what-a-virtue-is". Try to consider those things.
Please help!
 
 
Snarling Spirit
20:35 / 20.03.03
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How about 'errantry'?
If this isn't what you're looking for feel free to beat me over the head with a wet cyber-fish.
 
 
Aertho
20:39 / 20.03.03
*whack*
 
 
Nietzsch E. Coyote
02:32 / 21.03.03
swords
King - Curiosity? Questioning?
Knight - rigour?
 
 
Aertho
03:29 / 21.03.03
King of Analysis: Interest (?) taken from curiosity... does it make sense partnered with Intelligence?

Knight of Analysis: I like Rigor ... sounds a bit emotional though(know what I mean?) and rhymes with Vigor, page of volition(wands) who I could change to Enthusiasm. I'm gonna keep working on it. I like Precision, too. or Veracity.
 
 
Aertho
23:18 / 21.03.03
Okay: New Swords

Analysis
Inquiry
Intelligence
Clarity
Logic

Thanks for the help Coyote!
 
 
Nietzsch E. Coyote
19:43 / 22.03.03
Inquiry... perfect.

Sounds about right, keep us up on your progress.
 
 
Aertho
02:35 / 23.03.03
Thanks, I like Inquiry too, but it doesn't have the noun of possession that Empathy or Ambition do. Kinda like Evolution, you can't say "I have Evolution," or "I have Inquiry" the way you can say "I have Empathy". Maybe I'm trying too hard.

Pentacles are a bitch, man. Do they make sense to you in respect to how YOU understand that suit? Too often the interpretation deals solely with acquisition or occupational situations, which is bull in what I'm trying to do... it's just hard encapsulation even the ideas of earthly awareness as a mystical weapon...

Do they even make sense? Manifestation? is there a better word?

I like that Evolution pushes Manifestation out while Experience holds it together, but is Pateince the way one "aims and fires" the two? Growth as the outcome makes sense, but Patience seems like too many jumps.

I'm done with most of the pips, and I'm expanding my deck to include major arcana routes to and from Daath. The Virgin, The Beggar, The Conqueror, The Altar, and The Fountain. I've got chaotic wildcards for each suit attributed to the number "pi", and I'm including Adepts as Court cards too -representing Daath and Bishop chesspieces.
 
  
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