brief note on attributions

so what i get when i look deeper into the hebrew letter attributions from the qabala is that mathers and crowley and case probably got it wrong.

certainly their systems are arbitrary. the fool cannot be twenty-one therefore it is zero, but the hebrew letter is alef, which numerically is one. and then all the following cards are offset by one, until you get to the tens and hundreds, when the whole thing breaks down anyway.

and the planetary attributions are all out of sequence. and so on.

and what are the arabic numbers even for? back in the fourteenth century or whenever, the trumps were not numbered at all.

excellent discussion of all this on psyche.com explicating the work of carlo suares. if you want to go deep. and suares' explanation of the cube of space makes infinitely more sense to me than that given by case.

bottom line for me is to adopt the suares attributions and leave the majors unnumbered.