I'm a bit confused about the suits in your tarot. Your interpretation of the 6 of daggers relates more to the 6 of wands in traditional tarot decks. What do the labryses and horns relate in terms of elements?
Daggers is the Fire suit in this deck - the hint is the red on all the cards. The Air suit in this deck is Labryses. Rhytons (pitchers) is the Water suit, and Horns (the Minoan sacred horns) is the Earth suit. You can see images of all the cards here: https://www.minoantarot.com/ The suits are all coded to their element by color (red, blue, yellow, green). It helps to have a general familiarity with the deck before venturing into the readings, since this is not a beginner deck - in other words, it doesn't conform exactly to the Waite-Smith.
While the overall framework of this deck is based on the Waite-Smith Tarot, with the face cards structured like the Cary-Yale Visconti Tarocchi, I deconstructed the concepts of each card down to the basics in order to divorce the artwork from any Christian-era symbology (the Minoans lived two-plus millennia before the advent of Christianity) and instead chose only images and symbols that are attested in Minoan art, as well as using a purely Minoan color palette. Then I used directed dreaming and meditation to further refine the meaning of each card for this specific deck, hence the expanded explanations in the 176-page companion book.
Thank you! I recognize that some of the cards can be a little confusing for people who aren't familiar with the deck. I do my best to explain as we go along, but it's hard to remember what I've given details on in each different place I post.
YAS! This is perfect. As perfect as it can get is fine with us. Judgement being about knowing when to move on and just do it, too -- never looked at it quite like that before, nice!
Coming in my first week of retirement… timely ✨
I'm a bit confused about the suits in your tarot. Your interpretation of the 6 of daggers relates more to the 6 of wands in traditional tarot decks. What do the labryses and horns relate in terms of elements?
Daggers is the Fire suit in this deck - the hint is the red on all the cards. The Air suit in this deck is Labryses. Rhytons (pitchers) is the Water suit, and Horns (the Minoan sacred horns) is the Earth suit. You can see images of all the cards here: https://www.minoantarot.com/ The suits are all coded to their element by color (red, blue, yellow, green). It helps to have a general familiarity with the deck before venturing into the readings, since this is not a beginner deck - in other words, it doesn't conform exactly to the Waite-Smith.
While the overall framework of this deck is based on the Waite-Smith Tarot, with the face cards structured like the Cary-Yale Visconti Tarocchi, I deconstructed the concepts of each card down to the basics in order to divorce the artwork from any Christian-era symbology (the Minoans lived two-plus millennia before the advent of Christianity) and instead chose only images and symbols that are attested in Minoan art, as well as using a purely Minoan color palette. Then I used directed dreaming and meditation to further refine the meaning of each card for this specific deck, hence the expanded explanations in the 176-page companion book.
The images are beautiful! You've done a great job.
Thank you! I recognize that some of the cards can be a little confusing for people who aren't familiar with the deck. I do my best to explain as we go along, but it's hard to remember what I've given details on in each different place I post.
YAS! This is perfect. As perfect as it can get is fine with us. Judgement being about knowing when to move on and just do it, too -- never looked at it quite like that before, nice!
Timely!
feeling this!