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The MINOR ARCANA, or the SUITS are the 40 cards (Ace through ten) which further represent archetypal connections between Ulysses and the tarot, and the novel's claims on time which are universal, expansive and yet quotidien in approach.
Traditionally, the suits are Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. Much of my research and training adopts the Crowley-Thoth deck's adaptations, refiguring, and renaming. Embellishing on this Golden Dawn-Yeats-influenced viewpoint, not only have I substituted "disks" for "pentacles", I have incorporated many of the meanings imparted by personal images, Feng Shui, Crowley, Yeats, Joyce, Papus, playing card, and traditional tarot.
ACE of DISKS
Notes on the SUITS:
WANDS (Dynamism)- Yang
Associations in this deck: Gnostic Psychic, Energy, Wizardry, Cigarettes, Lights, Torches, Unicorns, Power, Chapter 12, Chapter 5, Lotus Eaters "He won't grow"; Bloom's cigars in chapter 11 ('Smokeless Mermaid, the coolest whiff...'), Chapter 15 Stephen's smoking "Lucifer", Giganticism, Technology
Playing Card: Club
Element: FIRE
Vice: Tobacco, Smoking
Colours: Red, Yellow, Smouldering Brown, Black, Sepia, Gold, Bronze
CUPS (Emotion)- Yin
Associations: Gnostic Psychic, Emotion, Delerium, Sympathy, Reverie, Chapter 6 "Incubism", pregnancy, motherhood, cancer, the sea, ablution, Bacchic, Maenads, vessel, overwhelming
Playing Card: Hearts
Element: WATER
Vice: Alcohol
Colours: blues, pastels, reds, green, silver, bronze, green bile
SWORDS (Intellect) - Yang
Associations: Gnostic Pneumatic, anxiety, madness, futility, (Sargent Chapter 2, Dilly Chapter 10), music, instrumentation, study, windows
Playing Card: Diamond
Element: AIR
Vice: Mania
Colours: blues, greens, white, silver, yellow, purple
DISKS (Material)- Yin
Associations: Hylic, Wood, Home, Wealth, Forest, Houses, Coins, Pecuniary Imagery (See Mr Deasy), books, circles, os, material, matter, stuff, belly
Playing Card: Spade
Element: EARTH
Vice: Gluttony
Colours: browns, red jasper, gold, bronze
From Biddytarot.com:
- The Suit of Cups represents your feelings, emotions, intuition and creativity. The Cups cards often appear in Tarot readings about relationships and your emotional connection with yourself and others.
- The Suit of Pentacles represents your finances, work and material possessions. The Pentacles cards often appear in Tarot readings about career and financial wealth.
- The Suit of Swords represents your thoughts, words and actions. The Swords cards often appear in Tarot readings about communicating your ideas, making decisions, and asserting your power.
- The Suit of Wands represents your energy, motivation and passion. The Wands cards often appear in Tarot readings about life purpose, spirituality and new ideas.
ACE of CUPS
ACE of WANDS
ACE of DISKS
ACE of SWORDS
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