current playing card decks are a primitive version of the original tarot. the tarot deck is like a book of memes based on astrotheology, a kind of torah for kids, designed to be closely studied with kabbalah (hebrew for "reception" [of knowledge]).
13 diamonds - earth - pentacles (spring-taurus) 13 spades - air - swords (winter-aquarius) 13 hearts - water - cups (fall-scorpio) 13 clubs - fire - wands (summer-leo)
56 cards of minor arcana (13 + paige)
22 cards of major arcana (11 for microcosmic tree of life, of the individual. 11 for macrocosmic tree of life, of the collective.)
earth - material realm (what we got/know) air - intellectual realm (how we think) water - emotional realm (how we feel) fire - realm of action (what we do)
inherent properties -> think -> care/feel -> act feet on the ground <---> head in the cosmos
current playing card decks are a primitive version of the original tarot. the tarot deck is like a book of memes based on astrotheology, a kind of torah for kids, designed to be closely studied with kabbalah (hebrew for "reception" [of knowledge]).
13 diamonds - earth - pentacles (spring-taurus)
13 spades - air - swords (winter-aquarius)
13 hearts - water - cups (fall-scorpio)
13 clubs - fire - wands (summer-leo)
earth - material realm (what we got/know)
air - intellectual realm (how we think)
water - emotional realm (how we feel)
fire - realm of action (what we do)
inherent properties -> think -> care/feel -> act
feet on the ground <---> head in the cosmos