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- From: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews)
- Subject: Re: About arcana VI...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.003047.20764@cs.sfu.ca>
- Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <Bxn5y0.nx@DMI.USherb.CA> <1992Nov16.160259.10741@axion.bt.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:30:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.160259.10741@axion.bt.co.uk> agray@axion.bt.co.uk (Andy Gray) writes:
- >As I see it, mainly based on the Mythic Tarot, the 'Lovers' represents a choice
- >that is available.
-
- I would agree most with this interpretation. Many early
- packs represented it as a choice which a man has to make between
- staying with his mother and going with his wife-to-be. I think
- it's mainly about the fact that just about everyone has to make
- the decision to stop being primarily someone's child, and start
- being primarily someone's spouse and/or someone's parent,
- sometime in their life. This could be generalized to leaving a
- safe situation for one in which one has more responsibility.
-
- > I haven't worked with my
- >cards closely for a couple of months, so they are not with me, but if memory
- >serves me right the three choices are Aphrodite, Demeter, and Athene.
-
- You're speaking of the Judgement of Paris from classical
- Greek/Roman mythology. The Lovers could be depicted in this
- way, though that could change the meaning a bit. I think it's
- usually depicted as the (male) Lover between the mother and the
- sweetheart, with Eros aiming an arrow above; or as some variant
- of this scene with Mother and/or Eros missing.
-
- The Three of Cups is sometimes represented by Paris's three
- choices, or by the (related) Christian Three Graces (Faith,
- Hope, and Charity). In particular, the Pamela Colman Smith art
- on the Three of Cups in the Rider/Waite deck recalls Renaissance
- depictions of the Three Graces.
-
- --Jamie.
- jamie@cs.sfu.ca
- "The Tao's net encompasses the whole universe." - tao te ching
-