ouinon wrote:
Connecting with tarot cards totally depends for me on which set it is. I loathe the drawing and colours on the traditional basic pack. But I found a set with drawings/delicate paintings of english landscape on it, called "The Arthurian Tarot" with characters from the Arthurian legends for the major arcana. I love it. ( The Arthurian myth was one of my teenage obsessions). And it helps me "think" things in response to it.
I did buy a deck many years ago, mostly just for aesthetic reasons-I adore the illustrations. The Aquarian tarot, illustrated by David Palladini (copyright date says 1970, but it was newly printed/packaged when I got it back in early 90's). The images of people & things are closest to Art Deco style. But I can't "do" anything with them, despite the handy-dandy little booklet enclosed.
In local freepaper I read "Free Will" astrology column by Rob Brezny, though I don't have much reaction to the material. It's mostly informational nuggets rather than tailored for each sign-that's in my opinion, not necessarily how author intends/sees his work.
ouinon wrote:
Was suddenly thinking, I sometimes get a similar feeling reading certain neuroscience/psychology etc books/articles as when am looking at saturn cycles, of seeing things ( in me or my life) that I hadn't noticed/understood before. Simply by connecting them in my mind as a result of the ideas in book, or in the lines drawn by planetary position etc.
I don't find the science books/articles as meditative though; it's less free-flow associative.
I do consider things in terms of "archetypes", or that many dissimilar events seem to me being basically the same kind of story/principle/dynamic. For what you may call meditative/free association, I draw patterns-abstract symmetrical geometric designs & also mazes.
Reading science books gives me frequent "aha" moments, but I am choosy about the books I go for-not just any ones will do. I select the ones that, from cursory skimming, are obviously "up my alley", in alignment with my worldview/perceptual interpretations.
In general, the future is wholly impenetrable to my brain: beyond the obvious entropy & decay, I cannot project forward in time.
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20 May 2008, 6:07 pm
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