For as complex the Trump Description will be, at least it is relatively ‘linear’, in that it is a Definite Series of Stages in an adventure.
The Pip Description is dealing with Tables. The Suite has to be consistent, meaning that the Numbers between the Suites have to be consistent. (The Court Table is no problem.)
The Numbers operate like a 3D Tablet: the Suite is a Plane, and then there are Four Planes in Numeric Alignment.
This stacking is based upon old thinking in terms of the relations of the Elements. I prefer another way of seeing the stacking order.
In this manner The Fire burns ‘beneath’ The Kindling, the Sacred Temple. Twin to the Sacred Temple is the Sacred Behavior, Adoring what surrounds your Sacred Temple. What presides ‘above’ that is Attending to those surroundings.
Unfortunately these renderings are Rectilinear Rigid. They imitate primitive 3D Chess.
The ‘preferred’ arrangement is simply to place The Wands in relation to The Discs, then The Discs are The Main Operation. My reason for the stratification of Cups and Swords therefrom is for technical reasons. Those layers could be interchanged depending on one’s emphasis upon Consciousness or Conscience.
It was major damage to Tarot Instruction when people were taught to read the Number Images in an Entirely Serial fashion, where one Ace somehow magically jumps from a previous 10. Four relatively Parallel Planes, each with 10 Alignments between them. Pretty much that simple.
I decided to render this first primitive diagram of “The Tree of Life” enfolded into a ‘sphere’.
The key is that 1 is “tucked under” or “underlying” 10. It just so happens that 6 is “tucked over” or “overlying” 10. The 9 remains key to Ascension, yet retains its relation to Da’ath.
The 10 is The Primary Consideration, because that is where All Of Us Begin. We are born, and then have to figure out how to navigate our mind-body vehicle. There are self-imposed rules as to how to navigate your vehicle. This is a given. “Adulthood” involves potentially seeing beyond the rules necessary for “childhood”.
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