The Thoth Wheel of Fortune and Aeon are remarkable works of art and storehouses of esoteric content which can correspond to Crowley's indications and to one's own meditations on dimensions of reality. Also, I appreciate Nema's parallel artistic images which move Thoth into wide historic and aestheti...

Thanks for bringing back soon Sofia Di Vincenzo's pioneering work; I read some insightful quotations of hers in Michael Hurst's overview of the Sola Busca pips (Tarot history forum), which affirmed my intuitive sense that these images are about transformation of the soul and not degeneration of the ...

Haiku Triad

Foolish,foolish Fool!--
Needs to use expressive tool,
And glean deep silence.

(O,I,II major arcana--chosen sequence of 3, a line for each;
not intended to be purely concrete imagery)

Stillness as Wheel turns
Shedding shell of surfaces
Child under the stars

(Thoth Wheel of Fortune, Lightning-Struck Tower, Aeon)

Yes, it's easier to manage meaning with the minor arcana-- it has more accessibility than the mysterious majors. But if the minors are all about self-transformation (Berti,Hurst) then I think the majors would be about that too. Maybe the majors demand our looking for the light in their darkness with...

I have the Lo Scarabeo Sola Busca. It's beautiful yet eerie and hard to read. I wonder if anyone has thought about the two opposite interpretations: Berti and Hurst see the deck as about alchemical/Neoplatonic self-transformation, while the "Game of Saturn"approach is that the deck is a &q...