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A tutorial series by guest poster, Mick Frankel
At the end of lesson two, the Double Letters, I said:
“But, the way that the planets are assigned to the Tarot Trumps is a source of such confusion that I intend to leave a detailed description of the Double Letters for the moment.”
Basically, in the Golden Dawn system, there are 7 planets and they correspond to 7 Trumps:
Read moreHebrew for Tarot Readers: Assigning the Seven Planets
Tell the story of your life through tarot
Tarot card counting is a wonderfully rich and exciting technique for reading tarot cards. Brought to light by the Golden Dawn, but used much earlier by European cartomancers, it allows a sequential story to unfold before your very eyes. It removes any cases of doubt as to what happens next or what tarot card meaning to apply within the circumstances because it is a very clear cut way of reading the cards. This tutorial will focus on tarot card counting as refined by the Golden Dawn, their system is interwoven with the Qabbalah and the Tree of Life, and you will see influences from these systems in card counting, though you don’t need knowledge in either to count cards.
A tutorial series by guest poster, Mick Frankel Part Three: the Simple Letters So far then we’ve seen that Sefer Yetziroh defines three of the Hebrew Letters as: אִמוֹת which means mothers. The three Mother Letters are: Sefer Yetziroh then goes on to define seven of the letters as: כְּפוּלוֹת which means doubles. The seven …
A tutorial series by guest poster, Mick Frankel
We’ve looked at the three Hebrew letters that Sefer Yetziroh calls “Mother Letters” or “Primary Letters”. These are א מ and שׁ.
Next, Sefer Yetziroh mentions a group of seven letters that are called “Double Letters”.
There are four letters that change their sound according to whether they have a dot in the middle or not. The version with the dot has a harder sound.
A tutorial series by guest poster, Mick Frankel
There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet:
“Ch” is pronounced like a full-on Scots version of “Loch”. Along with “tz” it’s the characteristic sound of Hebrew as in the word, “chutzpah”.
We’ve already gleaned a lot of information from the original nine Tarot cards in my reading, but wouldn’t it be great if we could actually pinpoint the trouble zones in more detail?
We can do just that with Secondary Triads. These are essentially the triads that are not in any linear formation – hence their shapes are triangular. They tell a more detailed story not so easily found through regular Tarot reading.
Today I want to play with my Signature Spread a little more, give it a new name, and introduce elemental dignities to it to show you how much fun you can have when you work in triads. The card pairing in the first post still applies, but with a slightly new layout to accommodate the elemental dignities, we will be adding a couple more pairings to the list.
Read moreMagic Square & The Tarot Elements Signature Spread©