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.
