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

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

         mikebailey:
         robinlandseadel wrote:
         much good Tarot stuff...

Thanks! Wanted to avoid making up a post consisting of too 
many links, didn't want to be so lazy this time. Plenty I could
draw off of memory.

         mikebailey:
         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?

Z. Budapest:

http://www.zbudapest.com/index.shtml

. . . . who I just adore, uses the Crowley deck. It's non-reversable. She's 
flat-out the best reader I've encountered. Yes, there's a whole subset of 
reversals---Pynchon makes a meal out of that in GR, in fact, he makes 
a meal out of the Tarot in GR, nowhere moreso than in Weissmann's 
Tarot. Read it. It's on 761 in my version, 746 in everybody else's:

http://tinyurl.com/2et8wn

         mikebailey:
         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.

As I was instructed, the querent is supposed to cut the deck three times. 
But this is not absolutely fixed, and I've had readings using different 
shuffling systems.

         mikebailey
         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...

"Chinese Talk?" It think of it as a map of the "now", and a weather report of 
sorts, one anticipating future alterations in the psychic climate.

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

Boy Howdy!!!!

         But each of the Sephiroth is also haunted by its proper 
         demons or Qlippoth, Netzach by the Ghorab Tzerek, 
         the Ravens of Death, and Hod by Samael, the Poison 
         of God. No one has asked the demons at either level, 
         but there may be just the wee vulnerability here to a 
         sensation of falling, the kind of very steep and 
         out-of-scale fall we find in dreams, a falling more 
         through space than among objects. Though the 
         different Qlippoth can only work each to his own sort 
         of evil, activity on the path of The Tower, from Netzach 
         to Hod, seems to've resulted in the emergence of a 
         new kind of demon (what, a dilectical Tarot? Yes 
         indeedyfoax! A-and if you don't think there 
         Marxist-Leninist magicians around, well you better 
         think again!). . . .GR, 762/763 or perhaps somewhere else

I can vouch for that, though most of the Witches I've known tend to 
be Anarchists, somehow that fits into their lifestyles better. . . .

Mind you, you do run into a few Republicans from time to time, 
but they usually tend to be more into Masonry and S&M ;>)

         "Behind the intials was a metaphor, a delirium tremens, 
         a trembling unfurrowing of the mind's plowshare. The 
         saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant 
         whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true 
         paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or 
         threatening about the central pulse of himself, the 
         dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and 
         tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance 
         to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, 
         to protect us from."  
         The Crying of Lot 49, and it's freakin' time to look up the page # 
yourself, dammit---looking for a little Qabalistic Quonformation, 
are we you old 
                         perv? [C]  Some sense of that  
                       underlying McGuffin [C#] you've been persuing, [D] 
hm?, the 
               sense of a guiding, clear conspiritorial thread. . . . 
                          [E] running through all 
the mans novels, eh? 
     [F] Some. . . . [F#] notion of an Invisible 

            Illumanati. . . .  [G] controlling World 

Resources. . . .

 [A] and perhaps 

            your 

                   brain, 
                             [B] eh?

What's that again Brian, thirty---Oh My Heavens, are you saying you've been 
studying this arcane nonsense for thirty, omifreekingawd you must have a lot 
of time on your hands, or should I say paws? Really now, Brian, about that 
Novel you're working on, how could you possibly type with those paws. . . .

[gad, I hate it when Stewie takes over, guess it's time for my meds, eh?]

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