(Spoiler) Thanks, Bekah! Welcome, Peter 186. 1-19

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

robinlandseadel wrote:
much good Tarot stuff...
> ... in the modern tarot deck, there are 
> 56 + 22 cards: 1-10 in four suits; cups, swords, pentacles, wands, plus face 
> cards of Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings. The twenty-two "Trumps" or Major 
> Arcana have specific, non-mooshy meanings

also, don't all the cards take on different meanings when they are
reversed - ie in the shuffle, top-to-bottomness isn't preserved,
which I guess is influenced (along with order) by the way 
you cut the deck each time you shuffle?

so the partition of labor is interesting - the questioner
gets to cut, at least the 1st time, I think, while
the reader does the actual shuffling.

and then the dealing is, like, predestined by the shuffling
that went before ... inexact mapping, but it does remind
me of what one of the Chums said about the fireworks...

I think number and (x)abbalah are all intertwined in
creating the meanings of the cards (zodiac as well)