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To be clear, a brief blurb about myself, I've jumped between Charismatic Christianity and the Occult at least once a decade.
I started as a Witch using Wicca by Scott Cunningham and Bucklands Complete Book of Witchcraft after a brief Anton Lavey obsession and psychological effects from doing so. Next was a slight dip into hoodoo/voudoo. Next was a start into the Golden Dawn, then Builders of the Adytum, Fraternity of the Hidden Light, then a decade of membership on BALG.
So on Tarot, I started with a gifted Rider Waite tarot deck and used the interpretation booklet, which had more interpretation detail then than what you find in the booklets now. This was early 90's. 2000, a wild ride, and an initiation into solitary witchcraft. I drew down a cone of power. I know because of the unexpected effects. 2020 back into the occult, mainly gray magic. Mostly taught by BOTA/FLO beliefs and methods, and then GD beliefs and methods.
Example of Differences:
BOTA/FLO: Based primarily off of Paul Foster Case, and then the Reverend Ann Davies. A mixture of Qabalah and Tarot with sound and color. Beliefs of three ranged of seven cards each, each row representing different things. The meanings are far different than Waite, these are based on Occult and Mystical agencies of spiritual energy, and is tied into gematria as well.
Waite: Very mideivel character representations, not as much drill into symbolism as PFC, but mores face value of the card, this card looks like this, so it is.
Golden Dawn: Very technical methods, such as the opening of the key and the circular wheel of cards that goes every which way based on certain critically place cards.
Other: Authors religious beliefs are rather prominent in their art and interpretation. Some say you knock on the deck once and cut once, one person says charismatically that it is done in three knocks and three piles, while the GD school of thought is four piles answering to the name YHVH. Im not even getting into differences of LHP vs RHP decks, but just the school of thought, the method of interpretation.
Some say it is based off of numerology at the heart of tarot interpretation, as this is also false as not every author of a book on numerology is in one accord with other books and the authors on numerology. Why would they write a book if that was so?
Some interpretations and spreads Ive encountered in the wild have no logical sense to me, one came close from a guy named Shade.
I started as a Witch using Wicca by Scott Cunningham and Bucklands Complete Book of Witchcraft after a brief Anton Lavey obsession and psychological effects from doing so. Next was a slight dip into hoodoo/voudoo. Next was a start into the Golden Dawn, then Builders of the Adytum, Fraternity of the Hidden Light, then a decade of membership on BALG.
So on Tarot, I started with a gifted Rider Waite tarot deck and used the interpretation booklet, which had more interpretation detail then than what you find in the booklets now. This was early 90's. 2000, a wild ride, and an initiation into solitary witchcraft. I drew down a cone of power. I know because of the unexpected effects. 2020 back into the occult, mainly gray magic. Mostly taught by BOTA/FLO beliefs and methods, and then GD beliefs and methods.
Example of Differences:
BOTA/FLO: Based primarily off of Paul Foster Case, and then the Reverend Ann Davies. A mixture of Qabalah and Tarot with sound and color. Beliefs of three ranged of seven cards each, each row representing different things. The meanings are far different than Waite, these are based on Occult and Mystical agencies of spiritual energy, and is tied into gematria as well.
Waite: Very mideivel character representations, not as much drill into symbolism as PFC, but mores face value of the card, this card looks like this, so it is.
Golden Dawn: Very technical methods, such as the opening of the key and the circular wheel of cards that goes every which way based on certain critically place cards.
Other: Authors religious beliefs are rather prominent in their art and interpretation. Some say you knock on the deck once and cut once, one person says charismatically that it is done in three knocks and three piles, while the GD school of thought is four piles answering to the name YHVH. Im not even getting into differences of LHP vs RHP decks, but just the school of thought, the method of interpretation.
Some say it is based off of numerology at the heart of tarot interpretation, as this is also false as not every author of a book on numerology is in one accord with other books and the authors on numerology. Why would they write a book if that was so?
Some interpretations and spreads Ive encountered in the wild have no logical sense to me, one came close from a guy named Shade.