(TAROT NUMBERING, AGES AND OCCUPATIONS)[9th April 1987]

[Redbook3:158][19870409:1345n](TAROT NUMBERING, AGES AND OCCUPATIONS)[9th April 1987]

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Taking the entire Tarot Pack – Greater and Lesser Trumps [sic*] – the implication of the numbering is that whereas the Greater Trumps follow the directions** of their numbering, 0/I to XXI/0 round, the Lesser Trumps follow the direction of their numbering I-X, within each Suit (Swords/Spades, Plates/Diamonds, Rods/Clubs, Cups/Hearts), inwards, towards the centre, in the I-X stage; but that when they reach the Court Cards they take on the dynamic as well as locational qualities of those Cards.***

****The implication may be that there are gradations away from the Centre, outside the Knave (Outer Outer?!), through which one does not travel round the Centre, merely straight inwards.

If one does travel round, one might expect to do so in an Outer Circle direction; except that the Tarot Cards II-V seem to suggest a different direction outside the Outer Circle#. Tarots II-V do not fit (in my view) the Suits; this may suggest two different approaches to the Outer and Inner Circles, or that TII-V may be applied to any number level of the Suits, or generally to the Suits.

This is all highly speculative; but interesting.#*

*[So-known. The Greater Trumps are the cards most commonly known for fortune-telling; the Lesser Trumps are essentially the modern playing cards, which also sometimes employ one or two Jokers. Within the Lesser Trumps, the Court Cards are the Kings, Queens, Knights and Knaves/Jacks; the Suited Number Cards are the rest.]

**(but see p137 [[Redbook3:136-137][19870407:0940](SEX AND GENDER [continued(4)])[7th April 1987], final para].)

***(but see p64[[Redbook3:64][19870329:1210n]{The Tarot Pack (and Quest Romances)}[29^th March 1987]].)

****?

#(ref. p137 [[Redbook3:136-137][19870407:0940](SEX AND GENDER [continued(4)])[7th April 1987], final para].)

#*I don't understand it! <930418>

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