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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
- Subject: Re: About arcana VI...
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 23:11:30 GMT
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- In article <Bxn5y0.nx@DMI.USherb.CA>, saucc00@DMI.USherb.CA writes:
- > I have a question about the arcana VI, the lovers.
- [...]
- > So I'd like to know what people think or how you see this arcana.
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- Here's my take on it. Make of it what you will.
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- The Lovers means choice. Discrimination. A man stands
- between an older woman (his mother?) and a younger woman
- (his lover?). He must decide.
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- The imagery, for me, evokes the apple and the Garden of Eden.
- The Querent must choose: do you eat the apple? I take a
- decidedly non-Xtian approach. The apple (the younger woman) is
- experience, action, questioning, self-awareness-- the dangerous
- course that leads to greater rewards. Refusing the apple
- (choosing the older woman) is a safe course, but you never get
- to learn the difference between good & evil. It is obedience,
- safety, innocence. You don't grow.
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- Some decks omit the older woman. The Aquarian deck & the Robin
- Wood deck are examples. This imagery is slightly different.
- The implications are of dualities that must be united, opposites
- that must be reconciled... or that you must choose between. The
- Norse tarot deck makes it more explicit: Odin's wife chooses
- between her husband & a magical necklace.
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- c j silverio cj@sgi.com ceej@well.sf.ca.us
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