(TAROT NUMBERING, AGES AND OCCUPATIONS [continued(3)])[9th April 1987]

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This* is the first time I have directly compared the idea for T[arot Card]II -TV with that for the Suited Number Cards**. It is possible that TII-TV do overlay the Suited Number Cards, possibly as a spiral of TII-TV passing gradually inwards across the Suited Numbers until the level of Knave is reached.*** I don't know.****

One can suggest early- (or whole-) life associations for Tarots II-V (bearing in mind their positions on the whole Circles, and their Outer and Inner Circle qualities):

(Water)	[xS]	II	High Priestess	(Simplification)	Love	Childhood
(Fire)	[xP]	III	Empress	(Fragmentation	Creation	Youth
(Earth)	[xL]	IV	Emperor	(Complication)	Evolution	Adulthood
(Air)	[xA]	V	High Priest	(Ordination)	Harmony	Age

A problem with this# is that it suggests#* that the Suits#** of the Lesser Trumps fit (i.e. between) this pattern; but as they are traditionally linked with the Grail symbols (if not necessarily in the way I have done it) they do in any case provide a link of the [Suited] Number Cards with the Greater Trumps both directly and in co-ordination with the Constellations and other symbols.

*[See last two previous entries.]

**[See last previous entry, first footnote, for an explanation of the terms used.]

***(Entertaining, that when men reach the summit of their occupations, in the UK, they are often Knighted....)

****The concept of Contra-rotation makes these relationships easier to reconcile. <870816>

#(I tried something similar with the Cardinal and Diagonal Qualities and a mathematical series of years some years ago). {cf. II.242; IV.47.}

#*[?]

#**[The Suits: Swords/Spades, Plates/Diamonds, Rods/Clubs, Cups/Hearts.]

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