Hofkortene

23. juli, 2007

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Endnu en spændende blog om Tarot, 78 notes to Self.

Jeg har valgt at linke direkte til den del af den der omhandler hofkortene.

Hofkortene er ikke helt nemme at have med at gøre – repræsenterer de? et aspekt af spørgeren selv, eller en helt anden person? Og hvad så, hvis man slet ikke mener at kende til en sådan person?

For nylig lærte jeg et nyt oplæg med 3 kort, som er meget enkelt at have med at gøre, hvis der skulle komme nogle hoffolk frem. Faktisk er det et system til spådom ved almindelige spillekort, men kan naturligvis sagtens bruges med tarotkort.

Reglerne lyder som følger:

Man har tre kort: 1, 2 og 3.

Hvis kort 3 er et hofkort, deler vi ALTID budskaberne i kort 1 og 2 med denne person. Hvis kort 3 er et hofkort er det ALTID en anden person.

Hvis kort 2 er et hofkort, deler vi ALTID budskabet i kort 1 med denne person.? Hvis kort 2 er et hofkort er det ALTID en anden person. Kort 3 er hvad hofkortet i kort 2 bærer. Det er deres ting, deres intention etc.

Hvis kort 1 er et hofkort, er det ALTID os, som spørger. Vi læser fra venstre mod højre. Så når et hofkort er i position 1 er det, hvordan vi er repræsenteret, med vores fokus. De følgende kort, hvis der ikke er nogle hofkort iblandt dem er udelukkende om os.

Hvis et hofkort rammer enten position 2 eller 3 gælder ovenstående regler.

Queen of Wands er den sanselige af dronningerne, hun er sexet, kreativ, kraftfuld, karismatisk og energisk.

Chance

20. juli, 2007

“But what a dull deity Chance is in comparison to those it has vanquished. Dressed up as cool rationality – how rational it is, after all to assert that there is no reason for anything – it appeals only to the impoverished of spirit.” (The Dream of Scipio? by Iain Pears p. 58)

Solar/Lunar attributes

19. juli, 2007

This is one of my posts at the Aeclectic Tarot Forum.

About the Moon, it can be both female and male, as to the circumstances, the querent, the other cards surrounding it, and so on.

I think this question about the Moon being male or female is a tough one, since quite quickly one finds oneself in a rigid system where some chains of equivalence (as they put in discourse theory) are being established like: solar=male, positive, active and lunar=female, feminive, passive etc.

I don’t have a problem with solar=positive, active and lunar=negative (or reflective), passive etc. It is when when it is mixed up with the gender stuff it becomes slightly problematic, to put it mildly.

I really like the idea of solar lunar aspects for both males and females or as characterising both men and women.

Women can be solar, men can be lunar and vice versa. I surely know that from my self. Sometimes I withdraw to within myself, at other times I act “aggressively” to get things done.

As for the solar woman, Eowyn in LOTR could be an archetype. Arven being her lunar counterpart.

As for gods (for example): The trickster Loke in the norse mythology may be lunar, while Thor or Tyr may be solar deities. I guess.
Apollon both has lunar and solar attributes – being both a solar deity, and also connected with the delphic oracle, being the ruler of initiations of death and rebirth, and being connected to Persephone (This I have read on Rachel Pollacks blog). This sounds quite “lunar” to me.

Persephone for herself could be a lunar goddess, as her mother, Demeter, a corn goddess, being more solar.

Reading a book about Gawain (by John Matthews) I learn that the great Goddess apart from being a triple deity, also divides in two: The Flower Maiden and the darker Goddess – later known as Morgain la Fay, also solar and lunar aspects of the Goddess.

There’s plenty of examples. You may not agree with my interpretations all the way ;o)

My point merely being that for my part, that if I restrict my self to single sided, gendered, conceptions of both Tarot and other subjects, I’ll miss important learning.

Maybe it is so simple, that the Sun card is about the solar aspects of life, The Moon card about the lunar aspects of life, among al the other meanings ;o)