In Greek myth the same symbolism is used, also implying the kundalini. For instance satyrs often blow a double pipe: the ida and pingala nadi = duality.
The holes in the blowing strument (spine) refer to the chakra's, that are "played".

My take on this card is that the blowing instrument (bagpipe) represents the spine, comparable to the use of the trumpet of the Judgement card. Blowing on it is a metaphor for the flowing kundalini energy. A pointer for me is the pipe sticking out above the head (at the crown chakra) of the Sola Bus...

Also note, Appicato doesn't mean 'man set on fire', it means 'Hanged [man]'. I think that maybe someone has possibly confused Appiccato with Appiciare - to kindle, inflame (which is similar also to appiccare, also meaning to hang, to fasten). Impiccato, Appeso and Appiccato are all synonyms for 'ha...

Hello dear tarot friends. I have finished my blog on the Death card.
Lots of spines and kundalini on the Visconti, Sola Busca and TdM cards!

https://www.anne-marie.eu/en/tarot-13-death/

This dicussion is giving me new insights... I realize, looking at the card again, that the row of buttons on the blouse of the Hanged Man is refering to his spine...!

I am adding this to my blog, thanks again everybody! <3

Do you have proof that kundalini fire and chakra theory were known in Renaissance Europe? I never heard of it and I'm an art historian specialized on medieval and Renaissance art. Is the cosmic serpent of Athanasius Kircher really a kundalini snake, or not a Western concept (where serpents also pla...

I looked closely and thought it was blood prior to seeing that that was Nemia's hypothesis. If they were flames, they would be pointing upward regardless of his orientation, no? I might buy that as a 'mistake' coming from the semi-literate craftspeople of the woodblock Marseille decks but, for an a...

Where do you see fire? I'm sorry, I don't see it. I do see wounds and blood flowing from these wounds, but no flames. I just took a very careful look at the card, I believe this is from the U.S. Games, Pierpont-Morgan ed. I don't see any flames either, however, I also don't see wounds.......althoug...

That's what I saw, too. It's blood flowing from the wounds - it must have been a strong red colour which has fallen off from the embossed gold. On the white shirt, it's still visible (there are wounds in the hip area, too). There are no visible wounds though... I am sure it's (kundalini) fire. Also...

I can see some yellowish wisps on the figure’s shoulders, is that what you mean? Yes, on the shoulders and on his lower belly are vague flames. Time has almost completely erased them, but according to tarot specialist Andrea Vitali the Hanged Man was called Appicato (man set on fire) in some (a min...

I have just finished my blog on the symbolism in the Hanged Man card, starting in the 15th century with the Visconti and the Estensi Hanged Man, moving on to the Tarot of Marseille, and finishing with the occultists of the Golden Dawn: https://www.anne-marie.eu/en/tarot-12-the-hanged-man/ Did anyone...

I feel these times relate to the Hanged Man, the card that I am (coincidently?) working on at the moment. We are forced, by events in the outside world, into a state of passiveness and contemplation. Something humanity desperately needed! The Hanged Man invites us to a process of transformation. Vis...

Do you extend your kundalini research and the TdM even as concerns the minors??? Or is this more just a happy coincidence. I haven't researched the minors yet... my reply was an unresearched response to your question what other forum members were seeing in the card. It could be the result of (kunda...

What I see is a kundalini awakening.

The three cups representing the three energy channels involved in the kundalini process.
The cup in the middle (the kundalini) is the holy grail that is lifted to the head.

I just finished my blog on the Strength card. I have tried to solve the riddle of the bare leg on the Jacques Vieville card. https://www.anne-marie.eu/en/tarot-11-strength/ The woman is fully dressed, and even wears a hat, but she has forgotten her socks and shoes? :-) Tarot of Jacques Vieville, Str...

I am making an in depth study of La Papesse. The most in depth I've ever done. So I'm looking at every single detail in the card. Papesse grimaud.jpg And I was looking at that white piece of cloth that covers her hair under her tiara and I started researching head coverings and their importance at ...

To add to all the great comments already made in this thread on the RWS judgement card: symbolically this (Bible) scene is about spiritual awakening. Both the sea and the coffins are symbols for the unconscious. Christian resurrection is a metaphor for spiritual awakening while still on earth (and a...

Diana wrote: ↑02 Mar 2020, 21:11 Actually, the Pentecost is just a reversal, a mirror of the Tower of Babel story. Only this time, it's God who builds the temple, not man - and so instead of the confusion of languages, there is now a united language - a divine language. .

Yes!

In the Bible it doesn't say that the tower was destroyed by God, but the text twice (!) says that God "came down", which symbolizes the retreat/descend of the kundalini energy, back into the pelvis. Thus the inner "tower" was "destroyed". The tarot designers knew about ...

Thanks Diana, you have a radiant heart and very pleasant, stimulating way of communicating (also to others on the forum). <3 A-M

The concept of kundalini-awakening was well known in our culture in the 15th century. The knowledge is hidden, in art, in alchemy and in the tarot, amongst others. It is the main subject of the Bible. This is what I write books and articles about. The story van Jacob at Bethel is also a metaphor for...

Hi Belenus, disagreeing with me is fine. That's what a forum is for: discussion. Do not underestimate, however, my knowledge of the Bible. I have written four books on the symbolism in the Bible and in one of them is an thorough analysis of the story of Babel, delving in the old Hebrew language. You...

I think Maison Dieu refers to the tower of Babel. The tower that was build to conquer heaven/the divine, and that God destroyed... So it is a tower, but this tower is also a metaphor for de spine and the kundalini-energy. The Bible story is about the arrogance that the ego has to think he can take t...

Hi Diana, thank you for your heartwarming reply, I am blushing... (really)!

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Hi everybody, :-) I am a 'pilgrim' from The Netherlands. The past year I have been writing articles for a Dutch spiritual magazine on the symbolism used in the tarot. Now I am in the process of translating what I have written so far - up to card number 10 - to English. I am not completely done, but ...