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IronSides's Method for reading the Medieval Scapini Tarot Deck.

I have been inspired for many years by Mary K. Greer's books, that through her personal wisdom has taught me so much more with understanding the Tarot. These are Mary K, Greer's books that have help me decode Scapini's symbols, 21 ways to Read a Tarot - Step 13, pg 129; Tarot Reversals - Traditional meanings that help me put keywords to the symbols. Tarot for yourself - helped me work through reader block, which guided me to finding my method on how to read the cards, simple and easy. Without these books over the past 7 yrs I would have been lost to ever understanding or ability to even read this deck. I strongly feel that Mary k. Greer deserves some credit here, and that I will give her. you will find that I will be posting quotes through out this blog from her books for reference only to help you understand the Scapini's deck.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Medieval Scapini - Major and Minor Association tables

Scapini's Major Arcana Association Table


Note: I will keep adding to the table as my time allows it. it is currently incomplete, my apologies.

Card Astrological
"O. Wirth"
Hebrew "Levi"
Alphabet
Planetary
Magician Taurus Aleph (One) and Kether (Crown, the Infinite). The swords blade forms the letter's diagonal, and the Magician's hands
supply its appendages
(letterYOD)
Popess Beth - (Two) and Chokmah (Wisdom)
The woman's book and the Veil that shields her sanctuary from the profane.
Moon
Empress Virgo Gimel - (Three) and Binah (Understanding)
Base of her dais are 10 allegorical images that indicate her command of all learning. 7 liberal Arts, supplemented by 3 other disciplines: grammar, logic, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, music, poetry, philosophy, astronomy, and theology.
Venus
Emperor
Daleth - (four) and Chesed (Mercy, Kindness)
foresees the his 4 elements will evolve into life, his orb is green symbolize the life force.
Jupiter
Pope Aries Heh - (Five) and Din (Judgment) or Geburah (Severity)
Face express Kindness.
Severity: Looking at the 7 deady sins
The Lovers Sagittarius Vau
The Chariot Zain -
Justice Libra Cheth -(Eight) and HOD (Majesty, splendor) Justice as a fertility goddess, Fertility is subliminally present in the chariot. generating prosperity
Hermit Teth - (Nine) and YESOD (Foundatiion)
Hermit stands at the limit of his temporal life. a boundary for the sea, a barrier for all time, the seascape in this card.
The Wheel of Fortune Capricorn Yod - (Ten) and Malkuth (Kingdom)

Crowns: Kingdom = Kether.

The Wheel rides on unstable waters, instability is a quality of fortune but also of Malkuth, the sphere of change, insecurity, and chaos.
Strength Leo Kaph Mars
The Hanged Man Lamed
Death Mem
Temperance Aquarius Nun
Devil
Samekh
Tower Scorpio Ayin
Star Pisces Pe Mercury
Moon Cancer Tzaddi
Sun Gemini Qoph
Judgement
Resh Saturn
Fool Shin
World Tau Sun


Table 2: Major Arcana


Card
Astral Light Symbols
"Levi"
Currents, waves, and undulations in all the trumps
Alchemical Symbols Decads
Magician
The Candidate - 4 Sciences: Cabalism, Magic, alchemy, Occult healing.
HAT: infinity sign as an orbit of energy.
Hat and Hair: processes revolving the brain.
Monad
wholeness,integrity,
the beginning,
the mind.. Infinity sign, brim of the hat twists most tightly (center )
Popess
The Pillars of the Temple -  2 pillars:
Right Pillar - of red flames supporting a lion, a fiery creature, next to the Sun.
Left Pillar - of Blue droplets supporting a melusine ( 2 tailed Mermaid ), a serpent, next to the Moon.
Dyad - cooperation / conflict. (fire with water, Sun with Moon, Gold with silver, Black with White, reason with intuition).
The two columns red and  blue, fire and Water. Scapini - contrast day and night
Empress
The Triangle of Solomon - Empress and Throne - decorated with triplex motifs.
3 = the soul
The diaphane - Empress has a disguised halo
Empress's left earring.
Triad - manifestations, all processes, completion, intelligence.
"intelligible world"
1st completion.
Details of her dress
three-pronged crowns
Triple rings

Emperor The Tetragram - four part system - 4 elements, beneath the throne, Scapini imagines them in fluid state.Lily, an emblem of purity - 3 petals
Tetrad - the elements, cardinal directions, order, stability.
Scepter - fleur-de-lis, recalls the Empress's Lily
Arches - framing the four elements
Pope The Pentagram - The mysterious cross
Pentad - life, spirit, quintessence.
Roman Numeral V Pope's dais and the unusual " arrowhead" at the lower tip of his cross
The Lovers
Magical Equilibrium -  fluidity occurs as a fountain as a heraldic embroidery on the man's jacket.
Fountain ( lunar symbol ) from woman
Headband (Solar symbol)from man
Hexad - interpenetration, marriage. 2nd completion.
Symbolizes the union between sexes.
Triangular cleft, pointing upward and dividing the couple, along with a arrowhead, pointing downward and uniting the couple, Chiron's anatomy "marries" the instinctive horse with the reasoning human.
Chariot The Fiery Swords - Zain = Weapon - Lingam and Yoni = life/seed, the yellow green arabesque formed between the flowing tails of the horses (fertility symbols)
Heptad - incarnate soul. "the vehicle"
The rider has a crown of 3 stars and a vehicle with 4 sides, resembles activity, he holds a gold ring, which attaches to the reins of 2 horses.
Charioteer (the Intellect) who endures the discord of his horses (the emotions) one tending toward heavenly things and one towards earthy things
Justice Realization - Scapini enhanced the standard Virtue and transformed her into a fertility goddess
The Octad - even-handedness, equilibrium, judgment.
Scapini - torso of Justice thin and rigid, taken together with the belt, the H is evoked. 8 forms of life: mollusk, horse, human, pomegranate, flower, grain, pig, and grape.
Hermit
Initiation - Ocean beneath the man's feet.
related to Yesod ( fountain )
The Ennead - 3rd completions, end of a cycle.
Hermit with his snake ( 3 loops ), the left hand ( 3 folded fingers ), and the lantern ( 3 chambers ) denoting past, present, and future.
Wheel
of
Fortune
The Cabala - The serpents, are currents of life circulating between heaven and earth
The entire Decad - containment, summary, transition.

Fortune influences everything, as the Pythagorean Decad embraces everything.
Wheel - 12 Zodiac signs. Circular = circularity is the arithmetic property whereby systematic multiplication periodically brings back the same number.
Strength The Magic Chain - Twisting Chain at the neck of lady force, the lady herself embodies the "Chain" by which the adept at the exertion of his or her trained will can bind others. "animal magnetism" Lion - another aspect of the astral light
The
Hanged
Man
The Great Work - A spiral = symbol of life: Planetary, human, elemental, all of life
Death
Necromancy - reading of signs in the astral realm.
Gestures and artifacts embedded in a crystalline lattice
Temperance
Transmutations -  the central current descends from a moon shaped pitcher to a lion shaped pitcher. the shift signifies the transmutation of life.
Silver - Lunar, Moon
Gold - Solar< Sun
Devil
Black Magic -  4 elements
Hooves - earth
Scales - water
Wings - air
Radiant implements - Fire
Green Fluid ( Cistern ) - Physical World is an illusion and can be resolved back into the astral current
Tower The Bewitchment - Lightning bolt - Punishing energy from the astral plane
Star
Astrology - Star Maidens Hair - touching the earth.
Hair - thoughts, feelings, and fantasies. all emanations from the head ( Mind ) mental state protects her from the influences of the stars
Moon
Charms and Philtres -  Moon glowers above airborne droplets.
Astral light - mist, dew, frost.
Sun The Philosophers Stone - The horses shaggy hair evolves into the humans tousled hair which evolves into the Sun's orderly hair.
Judgement The Universal Medicine - The angel's aura descends in response to a man's prayers.  On contact, his feeble body will be newly energized.
Fool
Divination -  unconscious divination, as in dreams and involuntary trances. Unconscious Fool.
the Oceanic expanse
The World
Summary and the four secret Sciences - Scapini has entwined the wreath with a tail biting serpent (ouroboros) = cosmos
the serpent surrounds sacred names and images.


The Minor Arcana Association Table

Coins

Element
Astral Light Symbols
"Levi"
Ace
Two Lotus Flower with Halo - astral current,
separating and attracting the
" 2 polaric seats "
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Page
Knight
Queen
King

Wands

Element
Astral Light Symbols
"Levi"
Ace
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Page
Knight
Queen
King

Swords

Element
Astral Light Symbols
"Levi"
Ace
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Page
Knight
Queen
King

Cups

Element
Astral Light Symbols
"Levi"
Ace
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Page
Knight
Queen
King

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