I would like to add, additionally, that you can see the entire progression of the tarot as one becoming progressively more abstract and universal.
The Mind cards are all relatively concrete names of physical people, additionally, except for The Lovers and the Chariot, the card's genders are all essentially indicated in the name of the card itself (and none of the later cards do this).
The Body cards have the Three Virtues, and the Three Fates, which are represented as anthropomorphized forces/Gods.
The Spirit cards, of course, are all phenomenon of light, except for Judgement and The World, which are even more abstract and universal than the previous ones. (Additionally, the entire set of spirit cards can be seen as the process of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Perhaps more on this later)
And of course it ends very universal... with the universe.
This is quite like the astrological signs by the way, which has the 4 personal, than the 4 interpersonal or social, then 4 universal. That is in addition to the more commonly used 4 elements and 3 cardinality. Both of these archetypal systems share the ability to be logically grouped in a variety of ways.
The main difference between these two systems is that the number 12 is more homogeneously divisible and group able, divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, and all the signs are nominally co-equal, 22 is nearly a prime number and only divisible by 2, representing the two paths the appear when the fool is added. So while the 21 other cards may, like the Astrological signs, be considered nominally co-equal, these, as a whole, can be seen as entirely leading up to, and spinning around the Choice, which is the entire purpose of Third Density, and in fact "The Axis upon which the Creation Spins".
And spin it does. 22/7 is an extremely close rational approximation for Pi that has been used for a very long time. And in fact, Proofs that 22/7 exceeds PI have a very long and famous history, going to back to Archimedes, to being the winner of a 1968 Putnam prize, to still being used in IIT entrance exams.
The Mind cards are all relatively concrete names of physical people, additionally, except for The Lovers and the Chariot, the card's genders are all essentially indicated in the name of the card itself (and none of the later cards do this).
The Body cards have the Three Virtues, and the Three Fates, which are represented as anthropomorphized forces/Gods.
The Spirit cards, of course, are all phenomenon of light, except for Judgement and The World, which are even more abstract and universal than the previous ones. (Additionally, the entire set of spirit cards can be seen as the process of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Perhaps more on this later)
And of course it ends very universal... with the universe.
This is quite like the astrological signs by the way, which has the 4 personal, than the 4 interpersonal or social, then 4 universal. That is in addition to the more commonly used 4 elements and 3 cardinality. Both of these archetypal systems share the ability to be logically grouped in a variety of ways.
The main difference between these two systems is that the number 12 is more homogeneously divisible and group able, divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, and all the signs are nominally co-equal, 22 is nearly a prime number and only divisible by 2, representing the two paths the appear when the fool is added. So while the 21 other cards may, like the Astrological signs, be considered nominally co-equal, these, as a whole, can be seen as entirely leading up to, and spinning around the Choice, which is the entire purpose of Third Density, and in fact "The Axis upon which the Creation Spins".
And spin it does. 22/7 is an extremely close rational approximation for Pi that has been used for a very long time. And in fact, Proofs that 22/7 exceeds PI have a very long and famous history, going to back to Archimedes, to being the winner of a 1968 Putnam prize, to still being used in IIT entrance exams.