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(Well, I'm on a roll tonight, thanks to your kind encouragement - You know who you are!)

Here is another Major Arcanum. Oh look it's me: Hai!

Flying Crooked

The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight,
Yet has -- who knows so well as I? --
A just sense of how not to fly:
He lurches here and there by guess
And God and hope and hopelessness.
Even the aerobatic swift
Has not his flying-crooked gift.

By Robert Graves

I have spent a few hours laboriously typing the chapter on getting acquainted with the tarot cards from Mary K. Greer's book Tarot for Yourself (yuck, I felt like a scribe! I'm glad that's over..) because of the high level of interest in it. I think she explains the method and rationale a lot more succinctly than I can, so the following information is all verbatim from the book. This is not my writing - I just copied it here for you and bolded the sections so you aren't assaulted by too much text. This is a very long post, so maybe you want to add it to your journal memories and come back later if you don't have time for it now. X-posted to my journal and the tarot community. My voice is in this colour. Everything else is quoted from the book.

( Here is how you create your tarot profile )

... if you like this sort of thing, buy the book. There's a lot more!

I have a book by Mary K. Greer which describes how tarot practitioners have devised a method of adding the day, month and year of your birth together and reducing the numbers to correspond to cards in the major arcana. I would really love to know what your cards are! Everyone has a Personality Card and Soul Card.

This is the method for figuring it out:

Add together the digits of your birth date, to get the lowest number you can. For me, born the first of march 1980, I add: 1 + 3 + 1 + 9 + 8 = 22 -- which is the number of the fool, and combines to give the number four which is the number of the emporer. What is your number? Tell me and I'll give you your tarot correspondence! It's as valid as astrology, if you think about it. And it probably works in the same way by giving you a focus on something self-defining. Be prepared for a self-fulfilling prophecy! lol. Seriously though, please let me know your numbers!

I've also uploaded 26 pages of graphic novel scrumminess by Alan Moore which explains all. Behold and enjoy - PROMETHEA - a graphic novel story of the tarot majors: