(TAROT NUMBERING, AGES AND OCCUPATIONS [continued(4)])[9th April 1987]

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There have been attempts (Plato, Pythagoras?) to divide populations into three or four basic categories*; I cannot remember how exactly these worked but they may be suitable** to the Suit symbols or to all eight Archetype points – which may have implications for Outer and Inner Circle developments. So, possibly:

[0]

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

Symbols (& Suits)

Arche- types

Tarots?-->

Diagon-als

Outer Circle

Inner Circle

Zodiac

Statist- ical Survey Results#*

Life Prog- ress- ion?

Occup- ations?

< Diag- onal Hemi- spheres>

<Card- inal> Hemi- spheres?

Eagle. Pale Death. Sword. (Spades)

+C (+)

0 Fool

(VI Lover) (Attract-ion)

(VI Lover) (Attract-ion/ Unity)

D

Birth

Poets?? Composers?

CERE- BRAL?

Cap- ricorn [22/12-20/1]

(Schizo- phrenics Jan-Mar)

Water. (Human?) Cup. (Hearts)

xS

II High Priestess

XII Death. Simp- lific- ation.

XIV Temper-ance. Love.

Aquar-ius. [21/1-19/2]

(Schizo phrenics Jan-Mar) Musicians, Comedians.

A

Child-hood

Musicians, Comedians; Actors.

< INTUITIVE >

Pisces. [20/2-20/3]

(Schizo phrenics Jan-Mar)

Red Divider.

+K (G~)

XII Hanged Man. Revol- ution.

XV Devil. Revel- ation.

INSPIR- ATION- AL?

Aries. [21/3-20/4]

Current leading <880806> MPs? (1987). (cf. IV.36)

Teachers?# Fiction-writers? (Radical?) <880805> political workers? <880307> Social workers?

Horned Beast. Fire.

xP

II Empress.

XI Fort- itude. Frag- ment- ation.

XVI Tower. Creat-ion.

Taurus. [21/4-21/5]

(Anxi- ous dispos- itions.) Artists, (Intro- verts.)

A

Youth.

Artists. ((Students?)) Media & Advertising? (Ugh!)

< INNOV-ATIVE >

Gemini. [22/5-21/6]

Craftsmen? Industrial-ists? Manufact-urers? Small Business-men? Industrial workers?? Traders? Bankers?

Rod. (Clubs) Black. Famine.Human.

+Mk. (A~)

I Magic- ian.

X Wheel of Fortune. Distr-action.

XVII Star. Divers-ity.

MANU-FACT-URAL?

Cancer. [22/6-22/7]

Farmers?

Earth. Lion.

xL

IV Emperor

IX Hermit. Complic-ation.

XVIII Moon. Evolut-ion.

Leo. [23/7-22/8]

Y

Adult-hood?

< IMPLE-MENT-ATIVE>

Virgo. [23/8-23/9]

Army Officers.

Soldiers; Police? Merchant traders? Bankers? Craftsmen & Techno-logists??

White Conquer-or. Plate. (Dia-monds)

+M

VIII Justice. Outer Action.

XIX Sun. Inner Action.

ANALY-TICAL ?

Libra. [24/9-23/10]

Doctors, Lawyers.

Doctors, Lawyers, Intellectuals? Research Scientists?

Air

xA

V High Priest

VII Chariot. Ordin-ation.

XX Judge-ment. Harm- ony.

Scorpio. [24/10-22/11]

Army Officers.

C

Age

Generals? & Leaders?

< INTELLECT-UAL >

Sagittar-ius. [23/11-21/12]

(Extra-verts.)

Leaders?

Eagle. Pale Death. Sword. (Spades)

+C(+)

0 Fool

(VI Lover) (Attract-ion)

XXI World. Unity.

B

Death.

Philo-sophers? Clergymen?

CERE- BRAL?

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←A wrong life could do this in re-verse? <0410>

(This column is highly specu-lative) <0410>

<per Times, Dr. David Lewis, “Mind Skills” (sou-venir [sic?]) < 870413> {ref p182}

{See p182}

# --More likely now to be exam-passers, i.e. on Analytic side. <880806>

#*[Statistical survey results are underlined in columns (not column headings).]

This is obviously highly speculative as to occupations, but I have tried tentatively to fit them into the general pattern of qualities etc. as well as the results of statistical surveys. The reason for the swapover [indicated by text struck through]#** between Mk and M type occupations is that once this was done, two polarities seemed to appear: in a general sense, in Circle terms, between top (i.e. +C semicircle) which is cerebral, and bottom (i.e. Mk+ semicircle) which is 'manual' or manufactory; and between (say) left (+K semicircle) which is creative or inspirational#***; and (say) right (+M semicircle) which is analytical or judgemental#**** (Doing this also seems to reduce the slight feeling of dissatisfaction one gets at the end when something seems to be not quite right).

In a very broad sense, these occupations also fit the image-age, i.e. the mental image one might have of the age (or mental age) of the typical practitioner, as one might wish to see him (Yuppies are irrelevant – we don't wish to see them). This is why I have made the distinction between the two## kinds of Army Officer (I don't know where Navy and Air Force fit in, “[2]” notwithstanding##*. There are many other occupations omitted, of course.).

*?e.g. Poets/Philosophers

Warriors

Merchants

Farmers***

**(ha, ha.)

***[See footnote table at *** below.]

****[See footnote to table at **** below.]

#**[ As shown by the words struck through (which in the ms. are linked by a double-ended arrow question-marked, ticked and then all struck through); the final decision here did not remain final, at least in this exact form.]

#***vocational?

#****These are in fact long-standing polarities between the four Cardinal Archetypes; but the Mk/M split [i.e. the subject of the swapover referred to] is slightly different, I think.

These polarities are centred approximately where the [Tarot] Suits are located, i.e. on the Cardinal points, as follows:

(Relationship of TII-TV and Numbered Suits still unclear)

+C – Spades – Cerebral

+Mk – Clubs – Manu(factor)al

+M – Diamonds – Archetypal

+K – Hearts - Vocational

##[Army Officers appear twice in the statistical results, without distinction; the distinction here is speculative.]

##*[Early draft; episode subsequently removed but possibly to be used in a later fiction.]

***:

(Plato:)	Pythagoras:		(per Schuré)****
	(Adepts:		Archetypal men, Great Initiates, having dominion over all their being.)
(Guardians)	Intellectuals:	Intellect;	Hero-Martyrs, 1st rank Poets, true philosophers and sages.
(Soldiers)	Spirited or Passionate:	Soul (Sensitivity);	Soldiers, Artists, Poets, Literati, Scientists.
(Common People)	Instinctive:	Body and Intelligence;	Commerce and Industry.
(per Russell)

I am not sure that other authorities (cf. Russell?) agree with this analysis of Pythagoras' view (or this view of Pythagoras' analysis). <870816>[including table]

****[Probably Édouard Schuré, Les Grands Initiés (The Great Initiates, A Study of the Secret History of Religions) (1889).]

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