From: dwjorgen@b30news.b30.ingr.com (David Jorgensen)
Newsgroups: alt.divination
Subject: Re: ace/pentacles
Date: 20 Dec 1994 17:20:29 -0600


Ray says:
> Heather, your TRW information is certainly wrong.  It is the tens of
> the suit that could be summed up as fulfillment or something like
> that.  Aces are seeds, or the essence of the suit's powers. i.e. Ace
> of Pentacles is new money.  I sets up a new financial situation,
> that can be dealt with in many ways (see other cards int he spread).

Could someone verify or otherwise comment on this interpretation scheme for
the minor arcana:

Ace: beginning/end (seed, above)
2: Antithesis
3: Synthesis
4: Completion
5: Conflict
6: Resolution/Reconciliation
7: Limitation
8: Expansion
9: Integration
10: Culmination (fulfillment, above)

Of course, each applies to the particular suit to get a more specific meaning.

Am I way off base here?

Thanks,
Dave Jorgensen -=- dwjorgen@ingr.com
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Newsgroups: alt.divination
From: at373@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Roger Lowe)
Subject: Re: ace/pentacles
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 16:53:44 GMT

I think your scheme is pretty good overall but I shy away from
any system that gives only one concept for anything. Thus for 
ace I would say beginning, seed, anticipation, source. For two
I don't think antithesis is very appropriate except as a special
meaning. For example, twos seem to indicate duality, polarity,
pregnancy, fertility, nascent creativity. While antithesis could
in some sense relate to these concepts, it does not generally fit
them. For threes I would say synthesis but also life, birth, 
fruits, expression or self-expression. 
These are senses of the numbered cards I have gleaned from various
sources and through my own experiences. Generally, I don't have
an easy time of the minor arcana as the meanings in books seem 
arbitrary and unrelated. Does anyone know an alternative? I am
beginning to try to divine what the minor cards mean to me as
opposed to what they mean to someone else. Any help in this area?

Peace.
Roger