Tarot University ArkLetters

ArkLetter 17

ArkLetter 17
This NewMoon issue of Christine Payne-Towler's
"Tarot University ArkLetters" is online August 23, 2006, NewMoon high-noon to mid afternoon, PST

IN THIS ISSUE:
I. The Continental Tarots, Part 1 ... [Originally published in July of 1999; abridged and revised for TarotUniversity in August 2006]...The sequence currently employed to govern the Trump appears to be quite old. The oldest pack which shows this ordering is the French set by Catelin Geofroy, from 1557 (Kaplan, Vol. 1, p. 65). We can see the continuance of this sequence in the Anonymous French Tarot, made in the first half of the 1600's...... http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2006/08/continental_tar.html

II. August 23, 2006 -   World Servers' Spread; a 3-Card Reading for the Now ... This ArkLetter's lead article has brought home to me the transformative power of a shared idea.  Whether the idea refers to a literal or a merely metaphorical truth doesn't seem to be as important as the charisma the idea generates in the minds of its holders... http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2006/08/world_server.html

III.  New Moon Notes - August 23, 2006  ...  This month's NewMoon is big on privacy and modesty.  Placing itself right at the cusp between Leo and Virgo (becoming critical at zero degrees, thirty minutes of Virgo), this lunation is nitched into a slot that makes no close aspects to any of the planets, according to my very tight orb system. The NewMoon's only close relationship is with the planet it conjuncts, Mercury....  http://noreah.typepad.com/tarot_arkletters/2006/08/new_moon_notes.html

The Continental Tarots, Part 1

By Christine Payne-Towler
[Originally published in July of 1999; abridged and revised for TarotUniversity in August 2006]

The sequence currently employed to govern the Trump appears to be quite old. The oldest pack which shows this ordering is the French set by Catelin Geofroy, from 1557 (Kaplan, Vol. 1, p. 65). We can see the continuance of this sequence in the Anonymous French Tarot, made in the first half of the 1600's...

World Server's Spread - August, 2006

A 3-Card Reading for the Now
By Christine Payne-Towler
For an introduction to the World Servers' Spread, see Arkletter 5
August 23, 2006

This ArkLetter's lead article has brought home to me the transformative power of a shared idea.  Whether the idea refers to a literal or a merely metaphorical truth doesn't seem to be as important as the charisma the idea generates in the minds of its holders...

NewMoon Notes - August 23, 2006

By Christine Payne-Towler
NewMoon August 23, 2006

Hello again dear readers! Sorry for the unannounced hiatus last month. Mercury Retrograde exposed the need for me to relocate, so my energy has been going into processes attendant upon that project....

This month's NewMoon is big on privacy and modesty.  Placing itself right at the cusp between Leo and Virgo (becoming critical at zero degrees, thirty minutes of Virgo), this lunation is nitched into a slot that makes no close aspects to any of the planets, according to my very tight orb system. The NewMoon's only close relationship is with the planet it conjuncts, Mercury.