| From: | Alfredo B Alves <dghost@****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: RM Tarot Mage in SR |
| Date: | Wed, 13 May 1998 12:49:07 -0500 |
<evamarie@**********.net> writes:
>>
>> Re: RM Tarot Mage in SR (Alfredo B Alves , Tue 20:14)
>> Hmmm.... why make the Major Arcana Health? and what about the Minor
>> Arcana? How would you reccommend matching suits with elements / spell
>> categories? Also, I was thinking of requiring that Tarot Mages have
Hard
>> Copy Libraries ... do you think that makes sense or should I just
leave
>> it be?
> The suits ARE the minor arcana, and each minor arcana is tied to
an
>element, tradtionally, and hemetic elements are tied to spell types;
>Cups- water - illusion (emptions and perceptions in readings)
>rods - earth - manipulation (power and change in readings)
>coins / pentacles- air - detection (wealth and knowledge in readings)
>swords - fire - combat (conflict in readings)
> Health has no element, and the major arcana represent, among
other
>things, the "state of man" in readings, so are good for health and
metamagic.
> I'm no authorataive source- I've always prefered some "hard"
>astrology-now THERE'S a hermetic pursuit! You could get tons of this
from any
>book on tarot, I'd guess, at least any book on the HISTORY of tarot, not
>those cheasy "how to" books.
Right now, I've only got the RM book to go on and the original Spell
Lists were 1 list for each of the suits (rods, swords, cups, pentacles)
plus Major and Minor Arcana each had their own spell lists... btw, Cups
in the RM was clearly health oriented... Swords should be changed to go
with Combat enhancing Spells / Wind elementals / elemental effects ...
Rods or pentacles would be manipulations ... Rods associated with
elemental Fire, Pentacles with earth and cups with water ... :/ oh
well...
> As for the hard copy libraries, ETC, I also think that the
"tarot >mage" is best made a normal hermetic- historically, thathas been
the tarots
>use. They would have some role-played choices as to fetishes ETC, which
>could maybe also be used as geas from magic loss or intitation ordeals
>(I also think Geas make a good "flaw", if you use those).
>
>-Mongoose
??? what do you mean good flaw? Do you mean take a geasa and get x build
points? ... if so I agree ... :/
D.Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum)
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