Thursday 17 August 2017

{Tarot of the Angels}[2nd January 1988]

[Redbook4:280-281][19880102:2012c]{Tarot of the Angels}[2nd January 1988]

19880102.2012
[continued]

Some Tarot cards may seem particularly relevant to the Angelic Order:*




(Outer Circle)
(Inner Circle)



Knaves
Knights
Queens
Kings
+CI~
Seraphim
(0 The Fool)


0 The Fool



VI The Lover {– Angel flying overhead}






XXI World

S~
Cherubim
V High Priest






VII Chariot {– Wheels (cf. Ezekiel)}{(NB 2 faces on shoulders – unrealised aspects?)}






XX Judgement { – winged angel over}

M~
Thrones







VIII {– the only throned card of K[nigh]ts and Q[ueen]s}






XVIIII Sun

U~
Dominions
IV Emperor {– over Dominions?}






IX Hermit






XVIII Moon

A~
Principalities
I Magician {(& Prince of Darkness?)}






X Wheel of Fortune






XVII Star

J~
Powers
III Empress {(suggestion of wings?)}






XI Fortitude/Force






XVI Tower { – Fire/lightning from Sky}

G~
Virtues







XII Hanged Man {– Martyrdom}






XV Devil {( NB is the Devil/Horned one about to cut them free? (e.g. from Worldly ties?)

R~
Archangels
II High Priestess {( – suggestion of wings?}






XIII Death { – an Archangel}






XIV Temperance { – the only angelically-winged ground-based person.}

+CI~
Angels
(0 The Fool) {The Individual?}


0 The Fool



VI The Lover






XXI World



Note that all overtly angelically-winged figures appear in the top quarter (TVI, TXIV, TXX) in a balancing pattern:


[TVI]

[TXIV]
**
[TXX]


Note also that in TX, Wheel of Fortune, the top (dominating) figure seems to have covert wings.

{The only other cards after TII – [T]III/V to have these strange or hinted wings*** seem to be TVIII, TX, and TXV – in the pattern[:]
TXV

TVIII

TX


*or hierarchy

**{(also in TXXI)}

***{(ref [last previous entry, [Redbook4:279][19880102:2012b][{Balance}][2nd January 1988]] p279)}



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